A trio of Purdue alumni, by coincidence, join to make the world a little brighter for kids in need Amy O’Shea wanted to change the world. Unbeknownst to her, all it took was the help of a couple of fellow Boilermakers to make it happen. Back in 2009, when O’Shea (LA’09) was an undergraduate reporter […]
What could be more renewing than a few days at a lakeside cabin in the Blue Ridge Mountains, part of it spent fly fishing? “It was a peaceful setting,” Ann Camden (A’93) says of her April visit to South Carolina’s Oconee State Park. Yet it was so much more. Diagnosed with stage IV breast cancer, […]
For Kara Ford (M’12) — or, as she’s more commonly known, DJ Kara — music is the heartbeat of her life. Although she majored in management at Purdue, Ford’s lifelong creative passion led her to Los Angeles, California where she found her calling as a DJ. “Sharing music is something I’ve done naturally ever since […]
While much of Jung Eun (Jen) Oh’s (MS M’07, PhD CE’08) commitments at World Bank Group focus on transportation projects, the crux of her work involves sustainable development. “It’s finding the best way of using public resources equitably to increase the overall output of an economy, ensure sustainability, and support economic growth,” she says. “It […]
According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the earth is currently experiencing a mass extinction of thousands of plant and animal species. If it goes unchecked, 30 to 50 percent of current species could disappear by 2050. Such a loss would devastate the planetary ecosystem. While mass extinctions occurred in prehistoric ages, this one differs […]
Beth Elzer (LA’93) has never been one to limit herself. She chose three majors over one (visual communication design, art history, and interdisciplinary film), decided she wanted to live in Europe a few years out of college and pitched a nonexistent job to a university (she was hired), and has merged her design skills and […]
Asta (Baskauskas) Baškauskaitė (S’80) oversees a global custom architectural hardware business based in Vilnius, Lithuania, that brings old-world craftsmanship into the modern realm. Baškauskaitė has merged her love of quality design with her passion to support and contribute to Lithuania. The daughter of refugees, Baškauskaitė grew up living a dual cultural life. When her parents […]
Times are changing on traditional family farms and within the agriculture industry at large. There’s certainly nothing new about the presence of hardworking women in an agricultural setting. On the farm, perhaps the quintessential family business, women and girls have long shared in the chores of planting, harvesting, and livestock management. They also may have […]
The road to a college presidency can take many routes. For Janice Cervelli (A’79), an early turn came through meeting famed Purdue professor Harrison Flint. “He was a leader in the Department of Horticulture, and he was not only terrific as an instructor but as a teacher of teachers,” she says. “I was a teaching […]
Emily Smith (HHS’10) enrolled at Purdue planning to become a kindergarten teacher. But in a big world, she found an even grander calling. Smith serves as chief of staff for Family Planning 2020 (FP2020), a global partnership hosted by the United Nations Foundation that supports the rights of women and girls to decide — freely […]
