Author: Purdue UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 652
Book Description
Purdue University Alumni Record and Campus Encyclopedia
Author: Purdue UniversityEver True
Author: John NorbergPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612495443
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education institutions in the world. Its halls have been home to Nobel Prize- and World Food Prize-winning faculty, record-setting astronauts, laureled humanists, researchers, and leaders of industry. Its thirteen colleges and schools span the sciences, liberal arts, management, and veterinary medicine, boasting more than 450,000 living alumni. Ever True: 150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University by John Norberg captures the essence of this great university. In this volume, Norberg takes readers beyond the iconic redbrick walls of Purdue University’s West Lafayette campus to delve into the stories of the faculty, alumni, and leaders who make up this remarkable institution’s distinguished history. Written to commemorate Purdue University’s sesquicentennial celebrations, Ever True picks up where prior histories leave off, bringing the intricacies of historic tales to the forefront, updating the Purdue story to the present, and looking to the future.
Wings of Their Dreams
Author: John NorbergPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1612496105
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 626
Book Description
Throughout 100-plus years of flight, Purdue University has propelled unique contributions from pioneer educators, aviators, and engineers who flew balloons into the stratosphere, barnstormed the countryside, helped break the sound barrier, and left footprints in lunar soil. Wings of Their Dreams follows the flight plans and footsteps of aviation's pioneers and trailblazers across the twentieth century, a path from Kitty Hawk to the Sea of Tranquility and beyond. The book reminds readers that the first and last men to land on the moon first trekked across the West Lafayette, Indiana, campus on their journeys into the heavens and history. This is the story of an aeronautic odyssey of imagination, science, engineering, technology, adventure, courage, danger, and promise. It is the story of the human spirit taking flight, entwined with Purdue's legacy in aviation's history.
Campus Traditions
Author: Simon J. BronnerPublisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN: 1617036161
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 497
Book Description
How American campus life shapes students, and how students shape campus lore
Edward Charles Elliott, Educator
Author: Frank K. BurrinPublisher: Purdue University Press
ISBN: 1557539545
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 310
Book Description
A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of change in American attitudes toward public schooling and rapid growth in education institutions. As president of Purdue University from 1922 to 1945, Elliott steered the school through years of expansion in size, prestige, and service. Student enrollment, staff, course offerings, buildings, and campus acreage more than doubled; the total value of the physical plant increased more than five-fold, and the schools of pharmacy, home economics, and graduate study were opened under Elliott’s leadership. This book shows not only how Elliott helped make Purdue University what it is today, but documents educational trends from 1900 to 1950 and includes a lengthy bibliography of Elliott’s writings to assist the student of higher education.
The Semi-centennial Alumni Record of Purdue University
Author: Purdue UniversityR.B. Stewart and Purdue University
Author: Ruth W. FreehaferPublisher:
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
Midwest Folklore
Author: Who's who in America
Author: The New International Encyclopaedia
Author: Frank Moore ColbyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 878
Book Description