Purdue begins preparations for 150th anniversary

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Jerry Cote and Wes Flynn of Purdue's Operations and Maintenance install banners Wednesday (July 25) on MacArthur Drive as Purdue gears up for its sesquicentennial celebration.

Kicking off the observance during Homecoming 2018, Purdue will spend a year taking on some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities the world faces. The year will also be an opportunity to look back on a century and a half of serving as one of the nation’s leading land-grant universities.

Purdue's 150th anniversary theme will be “Giant Leaps,” inspired by Neil Armstrong’s historic statement on the moon, and the centerpiece of the celebration will be a yearlong Ideas Festival, focused on four topics of discussion as Boilermakers everywhere reflect on the past, embrace the present and look to the future.