Once the consolidation of Purdue University Calumet and Purdue University North Central is complete, there will be a new nickname and athletics mascot for the emerging Purdue University Northwest.

The entire university found out on the men’s basketball team’s Senior Night what most of his family and close friends already knew. Purdue Pete, the beloved mascot of the Purdue Boilermakers ...

Michael Hickey/Getty Images(WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.) -- One person is dead and two others injured after Purdue University's Boilermaker Special mascot collided with a vehicle on a highway in Indiana ...

One person is dead and two people have been sent to the hospital following a serious crash involving the Purdue Boilermakers' mascot. According to WLFI via WKRC, the Purdue University train mascot ...

Mascot Is Off Rose Bowl Track. Purdue's Locomotive Reproduction Banned at Parade, Game. By Bob Pool. December 30, 2000 at 7:00 p.m. EST. PASADENA, Calif. -- Its band will march in the Rose Parade.

Purdue Pete has been Purdue's live-person mascot since 1956. However, he began as a logo drawn by the University Book Store, which hired California artist Art Evans in 1940.