{"id":4514,"date":"2024-02-02T14:03:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T14:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/?p=4514"},"modified":"2024-07-05T14:05:47","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T14:05:47","slug":"purdue-trustees-approve-naming-of-amelia-earhart-terminal-at-purdue-university-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/2024\/Q1\/purdue-trustees-approve-naming-of-amelia-earhart-terminal-at-purdue-university-airport","title":{"rendered":"Purdue trustees approve naming of Amelia Earhart Terminal at Purdue University Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"purdue-initial-words-wrap\"><p class=\"purdue-initial-words wp-block-paragraph\">WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash;<\/p> \n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/purdue.edu\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Purdue University<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/bot\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Board of Trustees<\/a>&nbsp;on Friday (Feb. 2) gave approval to name the to-be-constructed terminal at Purdue University Airport for Amelia Earhart, in recognition of her&nbsp;connection to Purdue University and its renowned history in aviation.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The board also ratified a faculty position and approved a new degree program and resolutions of appreciation, among its actions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In addition, President&nbsp;Mung Chiang led a discussion updating the board on Purdue University in Indianapolis and shared key findings and next steps from the Purdue West Lafayette transportation and pedestrian safety study.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>New terminal at Purdue University Airport to be named for Amelia Earhart<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Purdue trustees ratify faculty position; approve new degree program, resolutions of appreciation and work related to new Daniels School building<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Trustees approve winter recess for 2024<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See the stories on each in&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/uns\/PurdueToday\/archive\/2024\/02-February\/240202PurdueTodayTrusteesIssue.htm\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Purdue Today<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. &mdash; The&nbsp;Purdue University&nbsp;Board of Trustees&nbsp;on Friday (Feb. 2) gave approval to name the to-be-constructed terminal at Purdue University Airport for Amelia Earhart, in recognition of her&nbsp;connection to Purdue University and its renowned history in aviation. The board<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":263,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"department":[],"source":[29],"purdue_today_topic":[],"coauthors":[10],"class_list":["post-4514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","source-purdue-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4514"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4519,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4514\/revisions\/4519"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"department","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/department?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/source?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"purdue_today_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/purdue_today_topic?post=4514"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=4514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}