Author: Joel Romero-Meredith

Ciearra Anderson, sophomore, visual arts and design education ’24, is one of five Purdue women to be part of the 2022 500 Festival Princess program.

article | Experience

Building and celebrating a passion for community

Being from a small town, there’s not a whole lot of diversity. There wasn’t anybody that looked like me. I got pointed out a lot, and I just knew from a very early age I was not the same as everybody else.
Joanne Troutner, k12 educator

article | Education

Strengthening The Next Giant Leap

For Joanne Troutner, Purdue University is more than her alma mater. It’s a family. She describes Purdue as a launchpad — “A place where I was allowed to be excellent.”
“How could I not want to give back?” she asks, voice ripe with sincerity.

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A Collaborative Living-Learning Community: Data, friendship and unexpected opportunity

When Kali Lacy, an electrical engineering graduate, first considered the statistics learning community at Purdue, a predecessor to The Data Mine, she hesitated. “There were people that were like, ‘Oh, don’t do statistics — that’s way off course from your...

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Driving Progress through a Data-Fluent Generation

Purdue University and engine manufacturing powerhouse Cummins Inc. share a lot in common.  Dan Hirleman, executive director for international advancement and professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue, puts it this way: “Purdue and Cummins have the same philosophy, I think — the...