INDIANAPOLIS – Purdue College is becoming a member of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway as presenting sponsor for the Whole Photo voltaic Eclipse viewing occasion April 8, 2024, in entrance of a worldwide viewers, additional deepening the long-standing historical past between the 2 iconic organizations.
The Whole Photo voltaic Eclipse Occasion at IMS Offered by Purdue College shall be one of many nation’s most distinguished viewing occasions for the once-in-a-generation phenomenon. Chosen as considered one of only some NASA broadcast websites that day, IMS will draw all eyes to Indianapolis, positioned within the coronary heart of the trail of totality. The thrilling day of programming and festivities will function Boilermaker consultants, alumni, college students and extra through the in-person occasion and be broadcast the world over.
“Purdue’s assist for this occasion is an ideal match due to its storied, profitable historical past in house exploration, motorsports and engineering schooling,” IMS President J. Douglas Boles mentioned. “‘Boiler Up’ will tackle an entire new which means by this partnership as 1000’s look upward to the sky April 8 for a once-in-a-lifetime occasion.”
The partnership is a pure extension of Purdue’s lengthy historical past in motorsports and house. House to the Cradle of Astronauts and the nation’s solely accredited motorsports engineering program, Purdue places extra graduates in house and Gasoline Alley than another college in Indiana.
“Purdue has a particular place in house exploration and at IMS,” mentioned Purdue College President Mung Chiang. “Whether or not the Worldwide Area Station or the Yard of Bricks, Boilermakers are there, persistently pursing their subsequent big leap. The overall photo voltaic eclipse is the proper occasion to showcase all of it, particularly within the quarter earlier than the delivery of Purdue College in Indianapolis: our capital metropolis’s first high 50 college in America.”
Loral O’Hara grew to become the twenty seventh Purdue astronaut after launching from Baikonur Cosmodrome on Sept. 16 for a six-month keep on the Worldwide Area Station. Greater than 47 house shuttle flights have featured Purdue alumni onboard, and 11 missions have included a number of Boilermakers. Whereas Purdue’s astronauts could also be well-liked, 1000’s of fellow alums allow the following big leaps in house exploration working for NASA or inside the non-public sector.
Between its campuses in Indianapolis and West Lafayette, Purdue has propelled college students and graduates to thrilling motorsports careers on the highest ranges of racing, together with NASCAR, INDYCAR and the Worldwide Motor Sports activities Affiliation, in addition to with producers, most notably Dallara, a distinguished race automotive builder, and Cummins, a world energy expertise chief. Boilermakers are not any stranger to victory lane on the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, as Matt Kuebel and Mike Koenigs (Josef Newgarden, 2023) and Angela Ashmore (Marcus Ericsson, 2022) have been key elements of Indianapolis 500-winning groups the final two years.
“Our partnership with IMS is a really pure extension for our model and presents us the chance to share extra unbelievable tales of Boilermakers taking their subsequent big leaps — in each house and motorsports — as we get nearer to April 8, 2024,” mentioned Katie Ellis, director of selling technique at Purdue College. “Purdue’s legacy in house exploration began a long time in the past, however we’ve got unbelievable college students, school and alumni working day-after-day to make world-changing discoveries, so we can not wait to highlight them by this partnership.”
That is the primary time in 819 years a complete photo voltaic eclipse has been seen in Indianapolis, and one other 129 years will move earlier than it happens once more. For 3 minutes and 46 seconds, Indianapolis will expertise darkness because the moon passes between the solar and Earth, utterly blocking the solar.
Go to IMS.com to buy tickets for the Whole Photo voltaic Eclipse Occasion at IMS offered by Purdue College and for extra data on occasion particulars.
About Purdue College
Purdue College is a public analysis establishment with excellence at scale. Ranked amongst high 10 public universities and with two faculties within the high 4 in the USA, Purdue discovers and disseminates data with a high quality and at a scale second to none. Greater than 105,000 college students examine at Purdue throughout modalities and places, with 50,000 in individual on the West Lafayette campus. Dedicated to affordability and accessibility, Purdue’s major campus has frozen tuition 12 years in a row. See how Purdue by no means stops within the persistent pursuit of the following big leap, together with its first complete city campus in Indianapolis, the brand new Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. Faculty of Enterprise, and Purdue Computes, at https://www.purdue.edu/president/strategic-initiatives.
Author/Media contact:
Purdue: Trevor Peters, peter237@purdue.edu
Indianapolis Motor Speedway: Suzi Elliott, selliott@brickyard.com
Sources: Mung Chiang, @PurduePresident
Katie Ellis, kweismil@purdue.edu
