“Oh, I chose Purdue because of 4-H. My first trip to Purdue was the 4-H Roundup. I decided then I had to go to college, ‘cause I wanted to be just like my home demonstration agent, Virginia Brown.” -Mary Louise Foster, academic advisor in the Department of Consumer Sciences and Retailing and recipient of the Helen B. Schleman Gold Medallion Award |
“To win a reward, you have to do three simple things. You have to do something someone thinks is important, even if you don’t agree. You can’t make too many enemies in the process. And you have to live long enough.”
-Leslie A. Geddes, Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering and 2006 National Medal of Technology recipient
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“I started off being an Agricultural Nematologist. In other words, I would go out and find out what was the matter with somebody’s crop and if nematodes were involved. But soon thereafter, I moved into the field of ecology because we became very interested in why certain nematodes are some places and not others. So we would collect in stream areas." -Virginia Ferris, Professor of Entomology |