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Four days before the Wolverines lost to Purdue, the team's most famous alumnus lost the 1976 presidential election to Jimmy Carter.
Brian Alford received numerous post-season accolades including First Team All-Big Ten honors by both the coaches and the media, as well as breaking Purdue record for most receiving touchdowns in a single season.
Purdue responded with an 18 yard touchdown pass from Billy Dicken, to take a 7-3 lead.
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In the second half, quarterback Billy Dicken rushed 1 yard for a touchdown increasing Purdue's lead to 17-6.
Despite being dominated, Purdue had a chance to seize momentum late in the first half when the Boilers recovered a fumble from a Shaun Phillips sack of Michigan QB John Navarre.
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Notwithstanding the late rally, Purdue's defense had another fine performance, as it held terrific Iowa RB Fred Russell to 35 yards rushing on 18 carries, and sacked Chandler 4 times.
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Purdue's senior-laden defense battered freshman QB Brady Quinn in his first college start with many QB ppressures, knockdowns, and forcing 4 interceptions (FS Stuart Schweigert had 2 picks).
Purdue beat Miami by a score of 38-31 when the RedHawks failed score a touchdown in overtime after the Boilermaker’s Kory Sheets scored the game-winning touchdowns in their overtime possession.
He received an honorary Doctor of Engineering degree from Purdue in 1972, the 1971 Baker Prize, the Franklin Institute's 1973 Stuart Ballantine Medal, the 1975 IEEE Morris N. Liebmann Memorial Award, and the 1987 IEEE Magnetics Society Achievement Award.
A Purdue study in 2009 examined the effect of aquariums on the nutritional intake of patients diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.
Bernd Jürgen Fischer, Albania at War, 1939-1945 (Purdue University Press, West Lafayette 1999), ISBN 1-55753-141-2.
Bernd Jürgen Fischer, historian and professor of history at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
The other nine players were Ron Beagle, Navy; Chuck Bednarik, Pennsylvania: Carl Diehl, Dartmouth; Bill Fisher, Notre Dame; Leroy Keyes, Purdue; Tommy Nobis, Texas; Greg Pruitt, Oklahoma; Joe Romig, Colorado; and Charles "Bubba" Smith, Michigan State.
With Joe Tiller taking over as Purdue's head coach in 1997, he set career highs in catches (67) and yards (1,228).
The couple is currently involved with donations to the Purdue University athletics, along with former Purdue quarterback Drew Brees.
Penberthy has taught at Purdue University, at the Charleston Air Force Base through the City Colleges of Chicago’s Programs for the Military, Trident Technical College, and Summerville High School.
2006 - IU Health-Pathology Laboratory, Purdue University-“Martin C. Jischke Hall of Biomedical Engineering”,
At the end of this season, Fortner was offered the position of head coach of the USA Women's basketball team for the 2000 Summer Olympics and was leaving Purdue.
He will be succeeded on June 1st, 2014 by Timothy D. Sands, Executive Vice President for Academic Affairs and Provost at Purdue University.
Shondell is the father of Dave Shondell, the present head Women's Volleyball coach at Purdue University, John, who is Dave's assistant at Purdue University, and Steve, who is the former Girls Volleyball coach at Muncie Burris High School where he had accumulated over 1,000 wins.
The ceremony occurred prior to the football game between Ohio State and Purdue at Ohio Stadium, where Laaksonen was recognized on the field at the 50-yard line.
In fall 2008, Dr. E. Daniel Hirleman (then the chair of the mechanical engineering department at Purdue) traveled to Rwanda to meet with the Dean of Applied Sciences and Agriculture at the National University of Rwanda (NUR) in Butare, Rwanda.
In 1915 Friars coach Samuel Byroades brought together a line-up that consisted of at least 5 players who had previously played for Notre Dame, 3 players from University of Indiana and D.C. Smith from Purdue.
Franklin T. Lambert, author and a Professor of History at the at Purdue University
Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law (IU McKinney), located on the campus of Indiana University – Purdue University Indianapolis
After the Emerald Bowl in late December, Marve transferred to Purdue, effectively making Harris the undisputed starter for the rest of his career as a Hurricane.
On October 2, 2003, Rawls Hall at Purdue University was also named in honor of Rawls.
Sheets attended Purdue University, where he played for head coach, Joe Tiller.
On March 17, Purdue accepted a CBI bid, where Painter continued the 2013 season at home against Western Illinois, following with a loss to Santa Clara to finish the season with a 16-18 overall record.
Nicknamed "Dorothy," he is regarded as one of Purdue football's best quarterbacks with Bob Griese, Drew Brees and Kyle Orton.
Alstott scored 12 touchdowns as a sophomore, 14 as a junior and 11 as a senior, and held the Purdue rushing touchdown record with 39 until Kory Sheets broke it in 2008.
Najafi, chemistry Nobel Laureate Herbert C. Brown, and Purdue University's Professor Dale Margerum recruited Dr. Lu Wang to NovaBay, where she is now Director of Product Development.
The Purdue Big Bass Drum is a percussion instrument played by the All-American Marching Band of Purdue University.
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In 1961, the University of Texas and Purdue University chapters of Kappa Kappa Psi, an honorary band fraternity, pledged to bring their drums to the national convention in Wichita, Kansas for a direct comparison; however, only Purdue showed up.
The Purdue University College of Liberal Arts is one of eight colleges (major academic divisions) of Purdue University.
Purdue University College of Technology at Kokomo is part of the Purdue College of Technology (CoT) statewide system.
Previous speakers include Michael D. Griffin, former NASA administrator and John Gedmark, co-founder of the Commercial Spaceflight Federation and Purdue alumnus.
After joining the Purdue University faculty in 1930, he helped to build the University’s School of Chemical Engineering, the Purdue-Taiwan Engineering Project, and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan.
Purdue officials reported the following day that Hummel tore his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and would miss the rest of the season.
He received his Ph.D. degree working with Professor Dale L. Boger (then at Purdue), completing the first total synthesis of the antitumor agent CC-1065.
Named for Eleanor Burns Shreve and her husband Randolph Norris Shreve, former Purdue University faculty, Shreve was the first residence hall at Purdue designed to be co-educational, although Shreve was originally built for the purpose of adding a new Women’s hall to Purdue.
Gene Spafford (born 1956), professor of computer science at Purdue University
After graduating in the top 60% of his high school class, Moertel went on to Purdue, where he joined Alpha Gamma Rho fraternity and studied agronomy.
In 2007, Purdue University teaching assistant Vikram Buddhi was convicted of posting messages to Yahoo Finance criticizing the Iraq War and stating, "Call for the assassination of GW Bush" and "Rape and Kill Laura Bush."
The Center was headed by Dr. Leslie A. Geddes and located in Purdue's A.A. Potter Engineering Center.
During his time in Purdue he also collaborated with Buckminster Fuller.