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Britney Ho sits at a study table with laptop, smiling

article | Education

Living in a professional learning community

Cambria McClelland says she was working on her housing application when her dad encouraged her to look into a learning community. She was surprised to find not only built-in study partners, but a community that turned out to be foundational to her social life at Purdue.

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Podcast Ep. 52: Aviation Alum, Philanthropist Scott Niswonger on Purdue’s Lifelong Impact

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Scott Niswonger, founder and chair of the Niswonger Foundation, which was established to make a positive and sustainable difference in education in Northeast Tennessee. After graduating from Purdue, Scott (associate…
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video | Education

Building a Pipeline: PPHS Origins Story | A Documentary

With the backing of Purdue University, Purdue Polytechnic High School (PPHS) is revolutionizing education and changing students’ lives. After recognizing that too few minority high school students were academically prepared for the challenge of postsecondary education at Purdue University, President…
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article | Education

Pearl at Purdue: Marion Blalock offered mentorship, motivation that helped minority engineering students succeed

In three decades leading Purdue’s Minority Engineering Program, Marion Blalock created recruitment, retention and graduation initiatives for underrepresented minority students that were so successful that the MEP became a model for universities across the nation.

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article | Education

Respected for its prestige. Known for its community.

What brings a student from the West Coast to a university in the heart of the Midwest? Purdue’s global reputation enables a worldwide demonstration of its community. In fact, it’s Brynne Hunt’s favorite part of being a student at Purdue.

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Harry ‘Snowy’ Clark and the 1902-03 Purdue track team

article | Education

After missing football team’s disastrous train ride, Harry ‘Snowy’ Clark became an athletic training pioneer at Purdue

Hired as Boilermakers’ first Black athletic trainer in 1900, Clark brought creativity, stability to emerging athletics programs Purdue’s Felix Haas Hall, originally known as Memorial Gymnasium, has 17 steps — one for each person who died in the 1903 train…
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Podcast Ep. 51: In-depth with Purdue Women’s Basketball Head Coach Katie Gearlds

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re talking to Katie Gearlds, the first-year Purdue women’s basketball head coach. As an Indiana native and former Purdue player, Coach Gearlds describes what it feels like to have her dream job and…
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article | Experience

Purdue alumna, a U.S. athletic trainer, savors second chance to participate in her first Olympics

Anne Hinley landed her current job with US Speedskating in 2021 after working with the Chinese team prior to the COVID-19 pandemic As a Purdue student, Anne Hinley felt awkward about revealing to athletic training classmates and colleagues that her…
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Purdue baseball team hopes Intel partnership will help Boilermakers become ‘the fastest show on dirt’

Purdue is nation’s first college baseball program to make use of Intel’s innovative 3DAT human performance technology Purdue’s baseball team aims to be “the fastest show on dirt.” A partnership with Intel is helping the Boilermakers turn that aspirational motto…
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An original copy of ‘Hail Purdue’ donated to the University by the songwriters.

article | Experience

Boilermakers have played and sung ‘Hail Purdue’ across the globe — and even in space

Beloved fight song, celebrating its 110th anniversary in 2022, and school song ‘Purdue Hymn’ are the centerpiece numbers in the Purdue musical catalog Wherever and whenever Purdue Boilermakers cross paths, there exists the distinct possibility that they might break into…
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Sharita Ware, Indiana’s 2022 choice for Teacher of the Year, poses in her classroom at East Tipp Middle School. (Purdue University photo/Rebecca McElhoe)

article | Education

Carrying the torch: Q&A with Sharita Ware, 2022 Indiana Teacher of the Year

Purdue graduate, engineer and teacher inspires students to show up and be heard  Sharita Ware’s seventh graders at East Tipp Middle School near Lafayette spend their class time designing prosthetic legs for Barbie dolls. Her eighth graders are building and…
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Podcast Ep. 50: Purdue Celebrates Black History Month

In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” we’re celebrating Black Boilermaker excellence with stories from three Purdue University alumni who have made significant giant leaps.   Amber Johnson (above, PhD computer science ’19), Sydney Simone (BA communication ’19), and Curtis Baylor…
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