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PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL

President’s Council Virtual Programming Archive

Here you’ll find content from prior month’s virtual programming. Can’t find what you’re looking for? Reach out to us at pc@purdueforlife.org or call 765-494-9290. 

Chaney-Hall Dedication

Chaney-Hale Hall of Science Dedication

This interdisciplinary STEM teaching facility houses 33 teaching labs and offers lab-of-thefuture learning space for science and engineering courses, providing a flexible, highly visible, and technology-rich environment that encourages new modes of peer-to-peer engagement.

Safe Food Supply

Back to Class: Building International Capacity for a Safe Food Supply

Haley Oliver, professor of food science, discusses international food safety challenges with a brief look at Purdue’s international food safety research portfolio, explores food safety’s role in the COVID-19 pandemic, and discusses the impact of international investment on domestic food safety.

Final beam

The Final Beam – Hagle Hall

The Topping Out ceremony for Hagle Hall was held on July 7, 2021. It marked the placement of the new facility’s final beam after being signed by the students, faculty, and Purdue Bands & Orchestras staff during the spring semester.

Purdue Newsreels from the Past

Purdue Newsreels from the Past

Decades of Purdue history can now be seen and heard on our new YouTube playlist! The changing campus landscape, Homecomings, musical performances, athletic events, scenes of student life, and more fill these annual newsreels dating back to the 1940s.

Chaney Hall of Science

Look inside Chaney-Hale Hall of Science

Get a look inside and learn more about the 33 laboratories and support spaces inside the new Chaney-Hale Hall of Science. Opened in Fall 2020, the building supports chemistry and biology disciplines for first- and second-year undergraduates.

Purdue Engagement: Changing Lives

Purdue Engagement: Changing Lives

Steve Abel, associate provost for engagement, explores why Purdue extends its land-grant mission beyond learning and discovery, to connect with communities, schools, governments, businesses, and individuals to improve prosperity and quality of life. From enabling a quadriplegic child to sail a boat, to solving world hunger for millions, find out how and why Purdue is a leader in engagement.

Back to Class // Diversity & Equity: The Boilermaker Way video

Back to Class // Diversity & Equity: The Boilermaker Way

John Gates, vice provost for diversity and inclusion and clinical professor in Krannert School of Management, discusses Purdue’s ongoing commitment to energize and expand support to recruit and retain underrepresented minority students, faculty, and staff, as well as initiatives aimed at improving the experience for these individuals on the Purdue campus.

fountain on purdue's campus

Purdue University 360 Degree Tour

This new interactive self-guided campus tour will allow you to explore parts of campus and student life. See what has changed since your last trip to West Lafayette and check out the proclaimed selfie spots so you know where to go during your next visit.

Patsy J. Mellott

BS College of Health and Human Sciences, 1969
Fishers, IN

Patsy earned a bachelor’s degree in food and nutrition in business from Purdue in 1969, in addition to an MBA in food marketing from Michigan State University in 1970. She retired from Kraft Foods in 2006 after 36 years in corporate food marketing and marketing communications management.

A community volunteer, Patsy serves on the Women’s Fund of Central Indiana Advisory Board and the Purdue College of Health and Human Sciences Dean’s Leadership Council, in addition to the President’s Council Advisory Board. She is a former member of the Health and Human Sciences Alumni Board. Patsy held several offices from 2006 through 2013, including president and treasurer. She serves her community’s Discover Indianapolis Club in Fishers, holding several leadership roles for over 10 years.

Patsy has received several honors, including the Purdue University Nutrition Science Department Hall of Fame recipient in 2009 and the Purdue University College of Health and Human Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award in 2016. She also received the college’s Gold and Black Award in 2016, an honor reserved for donors who have moved the college forward by committing exceptional financial resources.

In addition to endowing two scholarships, the Patsy J. Mellott Scholarship and Patsy J. Mellott HHS Scholarship, she established the Patsy J. Mellott Teaching Innovation Award in the College of Health and Human Sciences in 2013. In 2015, she endowed the Patsy J. Mellott Women’s Tennis Coach Performance Award. She is a lead donor in the Christine M. Ladisch Faculty Leadership Award and the Purdue Women’s Network Virginia C. Meredith Scholarship for the College of Health and Human Sciences.