Project - Purdue University

Purdue University has a rich American history dating back to July 2 1862, when President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act. By signing this act, the United States government proposed to deed over public lands to any state that would use the earnings from their sale to provide and support a college to teach agriculture and mechanic arts. Thanks to a local Lafayette businessman, visionary John Purdue, who many consider the founder, because of his generous $150,000.00 donation and honoring him by titling the university, Purdue University.

Today, Purdue University is world renowned for agriculture, engineering but all so its great astronauts, Nobel Prize winners, alma mater of college and corporation presidents. Many bright eyed, degree minded young men and women continually pass through the same doorways with diploma in hand, since its inception.