Category: Residence Halls

Mollie Parker stands with the Windsor Racing Grand Prix kart outside Windsor Hall

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Grand Prix experience reveals a new career path for Purdue student

As a sophomore living in Windsor Hall, Mollie Parker saw the flyer that changed her life.
Justin Scott

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DSS special agent Justin Scott: From Purdue to the U.S. Department of State

Justin Scott’s globe-spanning career packs more action in a day than seems possible.

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Experiencing The Data Mine at Purdue University

If you talk to students from The Data Mine, it’s clear that this is far from your average learning community.

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Purdue Names Residence Halls for Parker Sisters: A Documentary

While it feels like distant history to some, it wasn't long ago that university experiences were not integrated. By acknowledging the history of Purdue University, we know the students whose early actions for equity and access to education impacted the...

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Purdue pioneers: Frieda and Winifred Parker

Purdue student housing was totally segregated when sisters Frieda and Winifred Parker enrolled in 1946, but their family successfully fought to change the University’s housing policies. When they moved into the Bunker Hill residences in January 1947, the Parkers were...

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Why you should choose University Residences over off-campus housing

For Navneet Rangarajan, living in University Residences has been a significant factor in how his college experience has played out. “I’ve lived in three different halls over a span of three years, and those experiences have included some of the best highlights...

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This is why most Purdue students choose to live on campus

Esther Kayonga says her college experience would have been incomplete if she hadn’t chosen to live in University Residences. Here are three of the reasons she encourages new students to live on campus. It’s safe. “I feel very safe in my residence...