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After 12 years of planning, the dream of a new Purdue veterinary teaching hospital is close to coming true.
After 12 years of planning, the dream of a new Purdue veterinary teaching hospital is close to coming true.
You could argue that Joanne Troutner has long been a pacesetter for Purdue University. Now, she’s setting the pace for a “pet project” dear to her heart.
Members of Purdue’s American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE) Quarter Scale Tractor Student Design Competition team know what it means to pull together.
A breakthrough moment for Purdue’s Discovery Park District took place with the groundbreaking of Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories’ (SEL) facility.
High-achieving business students are being offered transformational opportunities, thanks to the generosity of Krannert alumnus Marshall Larsen and his wife, Susan.
Purdue College of Liberal Arts alumni Chris and Michelle White are giving back to the college that played such a transformative role in their successful lives together.
What began as a romance at Purdue two decades ago has come home to the heartland as an alumni couple’s labor of love—The Whittaker Inn.
The doors of opportunity are opening wider for minority engineering students thanks to a gift from a grateful couple with long ties to Purdue.
Patsy earned a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition in business from Purdue in 1969, in addition to an MBA in food marketing from Michigan State University in 1970. She retired from Kraft Foods in 2006 after 36 years in corporate food marketing and marketing communications management.
A community volunteer, Patsy serves on the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana Advisory Board and the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Dean’s Leadership Council, in addition to the President’s Council Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Health and Human Sciences Alumni Board. Patsy held several offices from 2006 through 2013, including president and treasurer. She serves her community’s Discover Indianapolis Club in Fishers, holding several leadership roles for over 10 years.
Patsy has received several honors, including the Purdue University Nutrition Science Department Hall of Fame recipient in 2009 and the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. She also received the college’s Gold and Black Award in 2016, an honor reserved for donors who have moved the college forward by committing exceptional financial resources.
In addition to endowing two scholarships, the Patsy J. Mellott Scholarship and Patsy J. Mellott HHS Scholarship, she established the Patsy J. Mellott Teaching Innovation Award in the College of Health and Human Sciences in 2013. In 2015, she endowed the Patsy J. Mellott Women’s Tennis Coach Performance Award. She is a lead donor in the Christine M. Ladisch Faculty Leadership Award and the Purdue Women’s Network Virginia C. Meredith Scholarship for the College of Health and Human Sciences.