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A woman who reached for the sky helped women reach for the stars
Amelia Earhart has long inspired young women to pursue their dreams, even if they face obstacles to their goals and especially if those dreams will take them beyond traditional careers. Still, in 2006, women held 1.3 million jobs in science and engineering, a third of the 3.7 million held by men. That means plenty of opportunity for women in these fields. Science and engineering careers offer the chance to make new discoveries and to make a difference in the world.
My View: How our economic garden grows
"The recently announced new crop of 50 Indiana Companies to Watch reflects not only the vision of their founding entrepreneurs, but also the future of Indiana."
U.S.News & World Report
July 2009
40 Years After Moon Landing, Time to Launch the Next 'Giant Leap for Mankind'
The Apollo program was a booster rocket for American science. That innovation must be rekindled.
American Executive
March 2008
Purdue University: Discovery Space
"At a time when research dollars are drying up and public universities face growing funding constraints and rising costs, Purdue has established itself as a major regional engine of economic growth, business incubation, and breakthrough research."
LATINA Style
Vol. 14, No. 1, 2008
"I never forgot my dreams of science, and in 1969, shortly after I graduated from Stanford University I was inspired by two events."
The Presidency
Spring 2006
Losing Sleep Over Student Success?
"Whether our concerns are about the future of an individual student, our nation’s competitiveness, or the health and security of the world’s people, the underlying issue is the challenge of making our students' college experience successful."
Hispanic Business
September 2007
2007 Special Report on Diversity: It's Not Rocket Science
France Córdova Blazes Trail for Diversity at the University Level
Woman
Summer 1997
Head in the Clouds, Feet on the Ground
"We don’t have any idea what our limits are. When you’re out on some of these frontiers, people sometimes don’t understand where you’re going. I want people to feel comfortable with the leading edge."
Mercury
January/February 1992
Women in Astronomy, A Sampler of Issues and Ideas
"Women need encouragement, and this encouragement has to start at home; parents need to value a science career for their daughters."
Science Digest
December 1984
America's Top 100 Young Scientists
"The implications of their work over the next decades will be more profound than we can imagine."
Gerard McCartney
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Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer
Gerry McCartney was appointed Purdue's vice president for information technology and chief information officer in July 2007. He had served as the University's top information technology administrator in an interim capacity since July 2006.
As CIO, McCartney is responsible for overseeing Information Technology at Purdue, informally known as ITaP, and reports jointly to Randy Woodson, provost, and Alphonso Diaz, executive vice president for business and finance and treasurer. ITaP is responsible for the planning and coordination of central computing and telecommunications systems on the West Lafayette campus, along with media production and distance-learning services. The organization consists of five business units and has over 450 staff members and an annual budget of more than $63 million.
In May 2009, McCartney was appointed as the first Olga Oesterle England professor of information technology. He also is an associate professor in Purdue's College of Technology.
Prior to his interim appointment, McCartney served two years as assistant dean for technology at Purdue's Krannert School of Management, where he taught in the Krannert MBA, executive education, and engineering management programs; he is the principal investigator of the Northwest Indiana Grid Computational Partnership.
From 1993 until 2004, McCartney was associate dean and chief information officer at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School. He was director of the Krannert Computing Center from 1990 to 1993 and was manager of user services at the Purdue Computing Center from 1988 to 1990. He has also held managerial positions in the computing centers at both the University of Notre Dame and Maynooth College in Ireland. He holds a patent, was awarded the CIO Enterprise Value Award in 2003, and is a member of the CIO Executive Council. He speaks and comments frequently on the entrepreneurial management of technology and is a contributor to CrankyGeeks.
McCartney earned his doctorate in sociology and anthropology from Purdue in 1995 and diplomas in advanced computer programming and systems analysis from the Graduate School of Engineering at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland, in 1982 and 1984. He took First Class Honors in both his bachelor's and master's degrees in 1981 and 1984, respectively, from Maynooth College.
Gerry and his wife Dr. Kitti Carriker have two sons, one is a student at West Lafayette High School and the other is a student at Purdue University.