Head’s Welcome
We recently celebrated the end of another successful academic year and are still basking in the glow of this important milestone for our graduates. The hard work and grit of our graduates remind me of the importance of persistence. Celebrated and best-selling author James Patterson cited “persistence” as the defining trait of his career; his first novel was rejected by 31 different publishers before finally being accepted. In many ways, our efforts within the School of Sustainability Engineering and Environmental Engineering (SEE) also reflect persistence. We were launched as a start-up unit in 2006, and last July, after 19 years of patience, perseverance, and effort, the Purdue Board of Trustees established us as a school. We now have an extraordinary opportunity—and responsibility—to use this new status to achieve even greater goals.
