2024-2025 Events
Dia de los Muertos
Friday, November 1| 6PM-8PM | North & South Ballrooms, Purdue Memorial Union, 101 Grant Street West Lafayette, IN 47906
Each year the Purdue University Latino Cultural Center gathers to call upon our ancestors who have passed, and to celebrate their life and death. In 2008, UNESCO recognized the importance of Día de los muertos by adding the holiday to its list of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. Day of the Dead originated several thousand years ago with the Aztec, Toltec, and other Nahua people. For these pre-Hispanic cultures, death was a natural phase in life’s long continuum. The dead were still members of the community, kept alive in memory and spirit—and during Día de los Muertos, they temporarily returned to Earth.
The evening will also feature crafts, live performances, and traditional food enjoyed on Dia de los muertos.
Co-sponsored with PSUB
Excelencia Graduation Ceremony
Friday, May 16, 2025| 11AM-1PM | Beck Agricultural Center, 4550 US-52, West Lafayette, IN 47906
Excelencia celebrates the graduating class of 2024 in a ceremony where all graduating students are welcome. Faculty, staff, and students' loved ones are encouraged to attend as we also recognize the efforts of their family and friends and the impact they've had on their academic career. We integrate students' loved ones into the ceremony which is held in English, Spanish and Portuguese.
Graduating students should dress to impress. They are not required to wear regalia but may do so.
2025 Registration coming March 2025.
More Events and Programs
The Latino Cutural Center hosts campus partner resource hours with units such as the Purdue Writing Center, the Center for Career Opportunties and Counseling and Psychological Services, to name a few. We also host Faculty Chats, a program for graduate students. Click below to learn about these programs.
CLICK FOR RESOURCE HOURS SCHEDULE
CLICK FOR FACULTY CHAT SCHEDULE
CLICK FOR GRAD SCHOOL 101 SCHEDULE