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16 unusual facts about Purdue University


Aldo Giorgini

There, Giorgini earned a second doctorate, this time a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering from Colorado State University, and accepted a professorial position in the School of Civil Engineering at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana.

Andrew H. Bobeck

Bobeck was born in Tower Hill, Pennsylvania, received his B.S. (1948) and M.S. (1949) degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University, and in 1949 joined Bell Laboratories where he helped design communication and pulse transformers, and then one of the first solid-state digital computers.

Anissa Jones

At the time of her birth, father John Paul Jones was an engineering graduate & faculty board member at Purdue University and mother Mary Paula Jones (née Tweel) was a zoology student there.

Aryeh Dvoretzky

Dvoretzky had visiting appointments at a number of universities, including Collège de France, Columbia University, Purdue University, Stanford University, and the University of California, Berkeley.

Eon Mountain

The first ascent of Mount Eon was in 1921 by Winthrop E. Stone, then President of Purdue University, who fell to his death shortly after reaching the summit.

Federico Otero

He then moved to the U.S. and continued his studies at Purdue University.

Jean-Lou Chameau

In 1980 he joined Purdue University, where he became full professor in civil engineering and Head of the geotechnical engineering program.

Karl Lark-Horovitz

He brought the previously neglected Physics Department at Purdue University to prominence during his tenure there as department head from 1929 until his death in 1958.

Lysergic acid 2,4-dimethylazetidide

Lysergic acid 2,4-dimethylazetidide (LA-SS-Az, LSZ) is an analog of LSD developed by the team led by David E. Nichols at Purdue University.

M. Ct. Pethachi

Pethachi had his early education in India and graduated from Purdue University.

Purdue Big Bass Drum

The Purdue Big Bass Drum is a percussion instrument played by the All-American Marching Band of Purdue University.

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.

Purdue University College of Liberal Arts

The Purdue University College of Liberal Arts is one of eight colleges (major academic divisions) of Purdue University.

Shiv Kapur

Kapur went to Purdue University and played the amateur circuit in the United States.

Sigmar Wittig

Professor Wittig was instrumental in starting an exchange program between Purdue University and the University of Karlsruhe called the Global Engineering Alliance for Research and Education (GEARE).

UFC 76

Welterweight Diego Sanchez returned after his decision loss at UFC 69 to Josh Koscheck when he faced Jon Fitch, a training partner of Koscheck and a former Purdue University wrestler who was in the midst of a thirteen-fight win streak.


25I-NBMD

25I-NBMD (NBMD-2C-I, Cimbi-29) is a derivative of the phenethylamine hallucinogen 2C-I, discovered in 2006 by a team at Purdue University led by David Nichols.

2CBCB-NBOMe

2CBCB-NBOMe (NBOMe-TCB-2) is a compound indirectly derived from the phenethylamine series of hallucinogens, which was discovered in 2007 at Purdue University as part of the ongoing research program of the team led by David Nichols focusing on the mapping of the specific amino acid residues responsible for ligand binding to the receptor.

Abu Dhabi Indian School

Its alumni have gone on to join some of the top colleges in India like the Indian Institutes of Technology, National Institutes of Technology, Anna University, Delhi Technological University, AIIMS, BIT Mesra, Loyola College, Chennai, Christ University, etc. and abroad like NUS, Nanyang Technological University, Georgia Tech, UCLA, Caltech, Cornell, Purdue University, etc.

Arvind Varma

Arvind Varma (born in Firozabad, India on October 13, 1947) is the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor and Head, School of Chemical Engineering at Purdue University.

Association of Religion Data Archives

Roger Finke, then professor of sociology at Purdue University, founded the American Religion Data Archive in 1996 on a grant from the Lilly Endowment .

Bulbs Ehlers

Bulbs Ehlers was the father of NFL player Tom Ehlers; his granddaughters, Emily and Jessican played intercollegiate volleyball at Purdue University and Campbell University respectively.

Callie Khouri

Following her graduation from St. Mary's High School in Paducah, Kentucky, she studied landscape architecture at Purdue University before changing her major to drama.

Douglas DC-6

In the 1960s two DC-6s were used as transmitter platforms for educational television, based at Purdue University, in a program called MPATI (Midwest Program on Airborne Television Instruction).

Echinococcus multilocularis

A study by veterinary parasitologists from Purdue University indicated that the disease is spreading throughout the Midwestern United States, where it was previously rare or nonexistent.

Engineers for a Sustainable World

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.

Fort Wayne Friars

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.

Franz Thomas Bruss

He held visiting positions at the Universities of University of Strathclyde, Zaire, University of Antwerp, Purdue University, and the Université Catholique de Louvain.

Frasca International

Frasca manufactured training devices are used in all segments of the aviation industry, but are perhaps best known for their extensive use in many prominent college aviation programs, including Purdue University, Indiana State University, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, University of North Dakota, Louisiana Tech University, University of Illinois, and Western Michigan University.

Jesse E. Hobson

Hobson received bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Purdue University and a PhD in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology.

Juncosamine

Juncosamine is an analog of the hallucinogenic N-benzylphenethylamine 25B-NBOMe and was discovered in 2011 by Jose Juncosa in the group of David E. Nichols at Purdue University.

Karl B. McEachron

McEachron received his B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mechanical Engineering from Ohio Northern University in 1913 and M.S. from Purdue University in 1920,

Kyle Kingsbury

He was a walk-on for the football team where he was a scout team member in the 2003 season and saw playing time in the 2004 season, including in ASU's 2004 Sun Bowl victory over Purdue University.

Lonnie Palelei

Palelei transferred to UNLV from Purdue University where he signed out of Blue Springs High School in Blue Springs, Missouri.

Merrillville, Indiana

The development is designated an Indiana Certified Technology Park and includes two Purdue University related facilities: Purdue University Calumet's Academic Learning Center and a business incubator/technology center operated by the Purdue Research Foundation.

Mountain Vista Governor's School

Top acceptances for the Class of 2011 have included Yale University, Johns Hopkins University, Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt University, University of California, Berkeley, Tufts University, and Purdue University.

NIPTE

NIPTE’s current membership includes 12 leading schools and colleges of pharmacy and chemical engineering from the following universities: Duquesne University, Illinois Institute of Technology, Purdue University, Rutgers University, University of Puerto Rico, University of Connecticut, University of Iowa, University of Kentucky, University of Maryland, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

Philip B. Coulter

At the Department of Political Science of the College of Liberal Arts of the Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, he was professor of Political Science (1976–1978).

Polytron

The PolyMake product was followed in 1985 by the Polytron Version Control System (PVCS) (also written by Kinzer), that was loosely based on the RCS change control system authored by Walt Tichy while at Purdue University.

Project Vulcan

In addition to the data release, establishment of the Vulcan website and a press release, a video of various aspects of atmospheric transport was released on Purdue University’s YouTube website and portions of the Vulcan inventory are available on Google Earth.

R. Norris Shreve

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.

Ralph E. Updike

Born in Brookville, Indiana, Updike attended the public schools of Whitcomb and Brookville, Dodds Army and Navy Academy, Washington, D.C., Columbia University, New York City, and Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana.

Revision Control System

by Walter F. Tichy while he was at Purdue University as a free and more evolved alternative to the then-popular Source Code Control System (SCCS).

Richard A. Cosier

Richard A. Cosier (born May 18, 1947 in Jackson, Michigan) is the former Dean of the Krannert School of Management at Purdue University, having served August 1, 1999 through June 30, 2010.

Robert Owen Hutchins

Born in Danville, Illinois, Hutchins earned a B.S. degree from the University of California at Berkeley in 1961, an M.A. degree in phytochemistry from California State University, Long Beach in 1962, and a Ph.D. degree in organic chemistry from Purdue University under Joseph Wolinsky in 1967 .

Ryan Baker

About seven weeks following the incident, Baker committed to joining the Purdue University football program, under head coach Joe Tiller, by submitting formal commitment papers to Purdue University.

Samuel Woodworth

The Old Oaken Bucket trophy has been awarded every year since 1925 to the winner of the Big Ten Conference college football game between Purdue University and Indiana University.

Shreve Hall

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.

Terence Moore

Prior to going to San Francisco, Terence spent three years at the Cincinnati Enquirer, where he covered Indiana University and Purdue University sports, the Cincinnati Reds and Xavier University basketball.

Travis Dorsch

While attending Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, Dorsch played for both the Purdue Boilermakers football team and the Boilermakers baseball team.

Treaty of Tripoli

According to Frank Lambert, Professor of History at Purdue University, the assurances in Article 11 were "intended to allay the fears of the Muslim state by insisting that religion would not govern how the treaty was interpreted and enforced. John Adams and the Senate made clear that the pact was between two sovereign states, not between two religious powers."

Ulrich Hommel

In the past, he has held visiting appointments at Bordeaux École de Management, Krannert School of Management of Purdue University and the Stephen M. Ross School of Business of The University of Michigan.

University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

UESTC has co-training agreements in place with over 40 overseas institutions, such as Purdue University, University of Glasgow and University of Minnesota in the World Top 100 University League.

Xinu

Xinu ("Xinu Is Not Unix", a recursive acronym) is a Unix-like operating system originally developed by Douglas Comer for instructional purposes at Purdue University in the 1980s.