Finalists for dean of the College of Science to make on-campus presentations

Five finalists for the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science position will be on Purdue's West Lafayette campus for two-day interviews in March and April, the search committee announced today (March 10).  

Search committee co-chairs Jay Akridge, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of the College of Agriculture, and Ei-ichi Negishi, the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, said that as part of the process, finalists will make a 35- to 40-minute public presentation and then take questions from the audience.

“We have five outstanding candidates -- one from Purdue and four from other institutions with excellent reputations,” Akridge says. “I hope faculty, staff and students will take this opportunity to hear from each candidate."

Feedback on the candidates is requested, and the search website contains an online tool for providing feedback. In addition, the full curriculum vitae for each candidate can be found on the site.

Purdue’s next dean of the College of Science will succeed Craig Svensson, interim dean and dean of the College of Pharmacy, who will step down at the end of the academic year in order to transition to full-time faculty duties.

Finalists and their presentation times are listed below:

* March 22 (W) -- Thomas O’Halloran, founding director of the Chemistry of Life Processes Institute and Charles E. & Emma H. Morrison Professor of Chemistry, Northwestern University. 9 a.m. Stewart Center, Room 218.

* March 27 (M) -- Dietmar Bisch, director of the Center for Noncommutative Geometry and Operator Algebras and professor of mathematics and former Department of Mathematics chair, Vanderbilt University. 9 a.m. Pfendler Hall, Deans Auditorium (Room 241).

* April 3 (M) -- Sunil Prabhakar, department head and professor of the Department of Computer Science, Purdue. 9 a.m. Pfendler Hall, Deans Auditorium (Room 241).

* April 11 (Tu) -- Katherine Ensor, professor of statistics, director of the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems and former Department of Statistics chair, Rice University. 9 a.m. Pfendler Hall, Deans Auditorium (Room 241).

* April 13 (Th) -- Patrick Wolfe, professor, Royal Society Research Fellow, EPSRC Mathematical Sciences Established Career Fellow, University College London. 9 a.m. Stewart Center, Room 218.