Groundbreaking for the first campus buildings. The first buildings on campus ... Plans for another soaring structure — the Purdue Bell Tower — are made. The Neil Armstrong statue is unveiled in front ...

Purdue University has offered the first look at a 15-floor building that will transform the Indiana Avenue corridor and be the linchpin of its Indianapolis campus when it opens in 2027.

Purdue officials say the 248,000-square-foot building will have 15 floors, including nearly 500 beds for students, a dining court that can fit roughly 400 people, and new classrooms and lab spaces.

Neil A. Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, was born Aug. 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. In 1947, Armstrong enrolled at Purdue University on a Navy scholarship to pursue a degree in ...

Related: Neil Armstrong: First man on the moon He gave testimony before Congress, commemorated past spaceflights on their anniversaries and spoke to students at Purdue, where he had earned a ...