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In the fall of 2021, the Natural Resources and Environmental Science program commemorated a half-century of making the earth a better place during its 50th anniversary celebration. One of the program’s earliest graduates became an award-winning professor in the College of Agriculture, and one of its most recent graduates now works as an environmental planner. Read on to find out how the program led them down different paths.

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Alumni Close-Up: A Home Field Advantage

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The thing about being an entrepreneur, or a visionary of any sort, is that sometimes your ideas will seem ridiculous. At first.

Neil Mylet (BS ’08, ag econ) is used to that. As an entrepreneur, he says, “You have to want to go against everything you’ve been taught but also utilize everything you’ve been taught.”

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Senior Jaden King and alumna Adrienne Gorny both grew from bewildered to confident in the lab while doing undergraduate research at Purdue. They credit the experience with showing them the value of research, training them as future scientists and enhancing their academic experience.

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