As senior manager of engineering services at a major park within the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Florida, Angel Price (T’07) takes small steps every day to make giant leaps in imagination possible at one of the resort’s most popular attractions.

A Purdue University program created to provide Ukrainian scholars an opportunity to continue their academic pursuits here during the ongoing Russian invasion of their home country has received a $270,000 grant from Indianapolis-based Heritage Group to extend the initiative into May 2024.

In the largest gift in the history of Purdue University’s College of Liberal Arts, the university has accepted a collection of 74 sculptures by prominent French impressionist artist Edgar Degas as a donation from Chicago businessman Avrum Gray (ME’56). The collection is valued at more than $21 million with a market value of as much as $52 million.

In the largest monetary contribution ever made to Purdue’s School of Management/Business, the Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation has committed $50 million to Purdue to name the undergraduate institute in the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business. The institute will be named the Bruce White Undergraduate Institute.