Violet Haas Award History
The award is named for Violet Haas, an electrical engineering professor from 1962 to 1986, who was instrumental in the early development of the Purdue chapter of the Society of Women Engineers.
The Violet Haas Award was established in 1990 by the Council on the Status of Women (CSW), an organization that sought to provide a voice for all women at Purdue University. In 2011, CSW disbanded and passed the legacy of the Violet Haas award on to the Butler Center, so that Purdue may continue to honor those working to support women in higher education.
2022-2023 Violet Haas Honorees
| Name | Department |
| Dorothy Teegarden | Director, Women's Global Health Institute and Professor, Department of Nutrition Science |
2021-2022 Violet Haas Honorees
| Name | Department |
| Donna Riley | Kamyar Haghighi Head and Professor of Engineering Education |
2019-2020 Violet Haas Honorees
| Name | Department |
| Melissa Remis | Professor and Head of Anthropology |
2018-2019 Violet Haas Honorees
| Name | Department |
| Patricia Davies | Professor, School of Mechanical Engineering |
| Susanne Hambrusch | Professor, Department of Computer Science |
2017-2018 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Levon Esters | Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication |
| Neil Knobloch | Professor, Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication |
| Venetria Patton | Professor and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Studies, College of Liberal Arts |
2016-2017 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Rosie Clawson | Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science |
| Christine M. Ladisch | Professor of Consumer Science, Department of Consumer Science |
2015-2016 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Linda Mason | Professor of Entomology and Associate Dean of the Graduate School The Department of Chemistry, College of Science |
2014-2015 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Kathleen Howell | Distinguished Hsu Lo Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering |
2013-2014 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Barbara Frazee | Executive Director, University Residences |
2011-2012 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| S. Laurel Weldon | Professor, Dept of Political Science |
2010-2011 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Shelley MacDermid Wadsworth | Professor, Director and Associate Dean College of Health and Human Sciences |
2009-2010 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Mary A Sadowski | Professor of Computer Graphics, Associate Dean College of Technology |
2008-2009 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Berenice Carroll | Professor, Political Science & Women Studies |
2007-2008 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Nien-Hwa Linda Wang | Professor, School of Chemical Engineering |
2006-2007 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Sarahelen Thompson | Head and Professor, Department of Agricultural Economics |
| Klod Kokini | Associate Dean, College of Engineering |
2005-2006 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Mary Ellen Bock | Head and Professor, Department of Statistics |
2004-2005 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Barbara S Clark | Director, Science Diversity Office, College of Science |
2003-2004 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Lorraine Kisselburgh | Director, Information Technology, School of Liberal Arts |
2002-2003 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Patrice M. Buzzanell | Associate Professor, Communication |
2000-2001 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Joann Otto | Professor, Biological Sciences |
1999-2000 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Leah H. Jamieson | Professor, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering |
1998-1999 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Martha Chiscon | Associate Dean, School of Science |
1997-1998 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Peggy Sullivan | Director, Span Plan |
1996-1997 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Joan Marshall | Associate Dean, School of Liberal Arts |
1995-1996 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Mara Wasburn | Director, Development and Alumni Relations, School of Nursing |
1994-1995 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Jo A. Brooks | Head, School of Nursing & Associate Dean of Pharmacy, Nursing and Health Sciences |
1993-1994 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Marilyn Haring | Dean, School of Education |
1992-1993 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Dena Targ | Associate Professor, Child Development and Family Studies |
1991-1992 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Margaret Moan Rowe | Head, Department of English |
1990-1991 Violet Haas Honorees |
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| Name | Department |
| Carolyn C. Perrucci | Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology |
