Impact

Seven-year-old Valerie jumps from rock to rock around Sinninger Pond—smiling as she counts each step and assuring her grandparents that she won’t fall in. Sitting

Over four days in July, the Purdue for Life Foundation hosted a total of 1,000 grandparents and grandchildren in West Lafayette for Grandparents University. A

Volunteering has always been a passion for Juli Miller (HHS’03). It was this deep desire to make a difference that led her to what is

When Pat Bishara was first diagnosed with Alzheimer’s in December 2017, she immediately thought of her family. She feared that one day she would forget

Honoring one educator’s sweeping mission to shape futures.

Steve Meehan (ECE’71, MS IUPUI’85) never had a grand scheme to build upon his family’s legacy, but he has done so just the same. Rooted in a love of Purdue and a passion for the Indianapolis 500—both inherited from his parents, who graduated from the university—Steve has quietly turned simple family traditions into something more: a twin-engined Boilermaker dynasty of sorts.

In honor of Earth Week, 84 volunteers gathered at Purdue’s West Lafayette location for the spring 2025 Purdue Day of Service on Friday, April 25.

An accomplished biologist and esteemed professor at Purdue University, Stephen Lindemann (S’04) has built a career that has been shaped by gut instinct.

Charlie Paddock, who brings more than 15 years of leadership experience within the U.S. Olympic and Paralympic movement, has been named chief operating officer for the Purdue for Life Foundation.

Ben Oxley wants to start a revolution—and he’s doing it via fermentation. Oxley (S’19) and his partner, Shobhana Panuganti, are in the process of opening a unique business known as a fermentory in Chicago. Their goal? To bring back third spaces.