The Center for Career Opportunities empowers Boilermakers through coaching and connection, guiding them in career exploration, professional development and their next giant leaps after they leave Purdue. Boilermakers can utilize several resources at the CCO, including one-on-one meetings, quick chats, career fairs and access to MyCCO, an online career service management system. While a visit to the CCO may include résumé and cover letter review or interview practice, staff strive to facilitate deeper discussions to empower students to make informed and confident career decisions.
In “Ghostly Past, Capitalist Presence,” associate professor of history Tithi Bhattacharya maps the role that Bengali ghosts and ghost stories played in constituting the modern Indian nation, and the religious ideas seeded therein, as it emerged in dialogue with European science. In so doing, Bhattacharya reveals how capitalism necessarily reshaped Bengal as part of the global colonial project.
Purdue is expanding hands-on learning in Indianapolis with new state-of-the-art physics labs, providing students with cutting-edge facilities to enhance hands-on education in STEM fields. Designed to offer immersive, real-world experiences, the new physics labs serve as a hub for experimentation and discovery. The advanced facility equips future scientists, engineers and innovators with the tools to apply physics concepts in meaningful ways, reinforcing Purdue’s commitment to experiential learning in Indianapolis.
What’s in the air we breathe indoors? That’s what Brandon Boor, the Dr. Margery E. Hoffman Associate Professor in Civil Engineering, and Nusrat Jung, assistant professor of civil engineering, are researching in our buildings — at home, school, work and beyond. In the latest episode of “This Is Purdue,” Boor and Jung share their journey from Finland to Purdue’s Lyles School of Civil and Construction Engineering and the early experiences that shaped their passion for research.
