{"id":2215,"date":"2024-02-13T12:53:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-13T17:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/home\/?page_id=2215"},"modified":"2024-09-16T12:14:26","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T16:14:26","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/home\/about\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n    <div  class=\"purdue-home-diagonal-hero has-gray-background\">\n        <div class=\"section has-padding-top-large has-padding-bottom-large\">\n            <div class=\"purdue-home-diagonal-hero__content\">\n                \n                                                        <h1 class=\"second-level-page-heading purdue-home-diagonal-hero__header\">Purdue History<\/h1>\n                \n                \n                                    <ul class=\"purdue-home-button-list\">\n                                                                                <li class=\"\"><a class=\"purdue-home-button\" href=\"\/home\/about\/history\/presidents\/\" target=\"_self\">Past Presidents<\/a><\/li>\n                                                                                <li class=\"\"><a class=\"purdue-home-button\" href=\"\/home\/about\/history\/innovators\/\" target=\"_self\">Inventors &amp; Innovators<\/a><\/li>\n                                            <\/ul>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n        <div class=\"image\">\n                            <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aerial of Purdue University West Lafayette campus in 1949.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/home\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/1949-Purdue-WL-campus-aerial-photo.jpg\"\/>\n                    <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n\n<div class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid has-none-background \">\n        <div class=\"section\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n                            <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__cards align-left\">\n                    <div class=\"columns is-multiline\">\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1862<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">President Abraham Lincoln signs the Morrill Act, which granted public lands to any state that agreed to use the land sale proceeds to maintain a college teaching \u201cagriculture and the mechanic arts.\u201d<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1865<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Indiana General Assembly votes to participate in the Morill Act plan and takes steps to establish an institution.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1869<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Indiana General Assembly chooses the Lafayette area for the new institution and accepts a $150,000 gift from John Purdue, as well as $50,000 from Tippecanoe County and 100 acres from local residents. The legislature names the new school Purdue University.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1871<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Groundbreaking for the first campus buildings.\n<br>&nbsp;<br>\nThe first buildings on campus include the Boiler and Gas House, Military Hall and Gymnasium, Ladies Hall, Purdue Hall and the Pharmacy Building. All of these building were completed by 1874, and none of them remain today.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1872<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Purdue&#8217;s first president, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/purduetoday\/didyouknow\/2014\/Q3\/did-you-know-purdues-first-president.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Owen<\/a>, starts his term.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1874<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Classes begin with six instructors and 39 students.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1875<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/purduetoday\/didyouknow\/2013\/Q1\/did-you-know-purdues-first-graduate.html\" target=\"_blank\">John Bradford Harper<\/a> earns the first Purdue University degree.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1877<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">University Hall (known as the Main Building) is completed, becoming the central building on the Purdue campus. Today, it remains the oldest building on campus.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1879<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The first telephone is installed on campus.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1886<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The University Band is established.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1887<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Old Gold and Black are adopted as the university\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/purduetoday\/didyouknow\/2013\/Q3\/did-you-know-old-gold-and-black.html\" target=\"_blank\">official colors<\/a>.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1889<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Purdue yearbook, the Debris, is first issued.\n<br>&nbsp;<br>\nThe first issue of the student newspaper, The Exponent, is published.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1890<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Purdue&#8217;s first seal is created by Bruce Rogers, but it is never officially recognized by the university.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1891<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Under accusations of recruiting athletes from boiler shops, the &#8220;Boilermakers&#8221; name is adopted for Purdue&#8217;s athletic teams. An 85,000-pound Schenectady No. 1 Locomotive engine is purchased.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1894<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Varsity Glee Club is formed.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1895<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Big Ten Conference is established under the leadership of Purdue President James Smart.\n<br>&nbsp;<br>\nAbby Phelps Lytle, head of the Purdue art department, designs a new, official seal for the university. Lytle&#8217;s design incorporates three motifs still seen in the seal today: the shield, the griffin and the Uncial typeface.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1897<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The first doctorate of philosophy (PhD) from Purdue is awarded, in agriculture.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1912<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Purdue fight song, &#8220;Hail Purdue,&#8221; is written.\n<br>&nbsp;<br>\nThe Purdue Alumni Association is formed.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1922<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Purdue radio station, WBAA, is licensed as the first radio station in Indiana.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1924<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Purdue Memorial Union and Ross-Ade Stadium open.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1925<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Old Oaken Bucket football trophy is introduced.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1929<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Graduate School is officially established.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1930<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Purdue Research Foundation is incorporated.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1934<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/purduetoday\/didyouknow\/2013\/Q3\/did-you-know-the-purdue-airport.html\">Purdue University Airport<\/a> is established as the first university-owned airport in the nation.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1940<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Boilermaker Special (the official Purdue mascot in the form of a locomotive mounted on an automobile chassis) is presented to the student body at a convocation ceremony.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1944<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Debris yearbook first uses the image of a barrel-chested, mallet-wielding boilermaker called &#8220;Pete.&#8221;<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1959<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Bachelor of Arts degree is first offered.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1967<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Boilermakers defeat USC Trojans by a score of 14-13 in Purdue&#8217;s first Rose Bowl appearance.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1979<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Purdue chemistry professor Herbert C. Brown is awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work with boron compounds, which has revolutionized synthetic organic chemistry.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1988<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Rube Goldberg Machine Contest goes national.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1989<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Class of 1939 Water Sculpture, standing at the center of Purdue Mall, is dedicated. It is also known as the Purdue Mall Fountain or, less accurately, as the Engineering Fountain.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1990<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Class of 1950 Lecture Hall opens for classes.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1992<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">A power plant\u2019s brick smokestack that acted as a common campus landmark for students is razed. The power plant was going out of service, meaning the smokestack would have rapidly deteriorated. Plans for another soaring structure \u2014 the Purdue Bell Tower \u2014 are made.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">1995<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The bells from the second Heavilon Hall are used in the construction of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/purduetoday\/didyouknow\/2013\/Q4\/did-you-know-bells-in-the-purdue-bell-tower.html\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue Bell Tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2001<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Discovery Park at Purdue is founded.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2005<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Boilermaker statue, sculpted to celebrate the lore and legend of the Purdue Boilermakers, is dedicated.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2007<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Neil Armstrong statue is unveiled in front of Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. It depicts Neil Armstrong as an undergraduate student, holding a slide rule ready for use.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2008<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The Unfinished Block P sculpture, which symbolizes that all students, alumni, community members and friends of Purdue University are a work in progress, is dedicated.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2009<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">The life-size Amelia Earhart statue, meant to inspire students to pursue their dreams, is unveiled, connecting the campus to its early history in flight.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2010<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Professor Ei-ichi Negishi wins the Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing palladium-catalyzed cross-coupling, which has applications for medicine, agriculture and electronics.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2013<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">President Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. unveils the university&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/purduemoves\/\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue Moves<\/a> initiatives, aimed at helping Purdue deliver higher education at the highest proven value.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2014<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Purdue\u2019s international student enrollment becomes tops among U.S. public universities.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2023<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\">Purdue reaches a record high level of external research funding, securing $613 million in fiscal year 2023.<\/p>\n                                                                            <\/div>\n                                <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n                                                    <div class=\"column is-half-tablet is-3-desktop\">\n                                                                <div class=\"purdue-home-cta-card purdue-home-cta-card--stack has-decoration-line\">\n                                                                    <div class=\"flex-container flex-container--align-center\">\n                                                                                <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-title\">2024<\/p>\n                                                                                    <p class=\"purdue-home-cta-grid__card-subtext\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/campuses\/indianapolis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue University in 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