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Amber Brandner

Amber Brandner (NRS’11) builds her life around experiences, traveling frequently and immersing herself in the minds and lives of those whose stories she helps craft. Through social media, video production, live events, and design, she looks for ways to connect people and businesses through thoughtful, experience-based touchpoints.  “Look at the popularity of video storytelling,” Brandner […]

Paul Chestovich

Prior to the beginning of October, Paul Chestovich (ChE’02, A’02) thought the most memorable case he’d seen was a man with a two-by-four piece of wood impaled in his chest. But after October 1, that all changed. Late that night, he and his level I trauma staff at the University Medical Center of Southern Nevada […]

Winter Whisper Dance

Winter Whisper

One of the biggest campus social events for nearly 40 years, Winter Whisper, sometimes referred to as Winter Whispers, took place annually from the late 1950s to the early ’90s. Initially a collaboration between X Hall (now Meredith Hall) and Windsor Halls, the celebration grew to encompass Earhart Hall, Cary Quadrangle, and Graduate House West. […]

Nick Davis

For Nick Davis (LA’83), TV production is a path he was set on since his middle-school days. His uncle ran a summer TV-production program in New York City, which two of his older siblings attended. After hearing their stories, he was hooked for life. “I grew up watching and loving TV,” Davis says. “Production allowed […]

A large painting of Washington Crossing the Delaware hangs on the wall overlooking dozens of students studying

‘Washington Crossing the Delaware’

Visitors to the Mullins Reading Room in the Wilmeth Active Learning Center (WALC) may be taken by surprise when gazing at the study area’s north wall. Quietly imposing, a near life-size replica of Emanuel Leutze’s masterpiece Washington Crossing the Delaware presides over hushed, contemplative students. The authorized copy of the famous work was commissioned in […]

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Adrift

How a Purdue PhD student wound up floating on a wooden raft for several months during World War II — and what happened to the alumna he left behind. They’d been floating on a wooden raft in the South Atlantic Ocean for almost three weeks, surviving on canned milk, crackers, and tiny chocolate squares. Their […]

Tech Titans of Silicon Valley

Innovative Boilermakers whose work impacts the daily lives of millions Keith Krach on Secrets to Success How his father’s advice influenced his career From his fourth-floor home office perched on so-called Billionaires Row, Keith Krach (IE’79) can see the entirety of the San Francisco Bay and the famous Golden Gate Bridge that spans the strait […]

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The Friendly Skies

Alumnae fondly remember their time as student stewardesses during the golden age of flight It would be a few more years before Frank Sinatra crooned, “Come fly with me, we’ll fly, we’ll fly away,” but in the early to mid-1950s, the romance of flight had already won the hearts of Purdue students who signed on to […]

Uplifting Advocacy

Birds on a wire are a fairly common sight; but for Scott Kramer (HHS’00), they represent a turning point in his life. “I was waiting for a bus, and I saw all these birds congregating together on a power line,” he says. “I noticed one bird off by itself, and I wondered if it would […]

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Inspired Design

Urbanscape installation takes top honors at SOFA CONNECT   It was an idea that started with an insect. And from there a masterpiece was born, as that drawing of a dead insect inspired “Urban Nature: A Recycled Sanctuary,” the installation that won first prize at the 2016 SOFA Chicago CONNECT student design competition, which took […]

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