Westwood Lecture Series fall lineup announced

Purdue President Mung Chiang has announced the fall lineup for the Westwood Lecture Series, an opportunity for university faculty to interact with colleagues on scholarly work from a wide range of fields.

Sept. 21: Deborah Knapp – Distinguished Professor of Comparative Oncology; Dolores L. McCall Professor of Comparative Oncology; Director, Evan and Sue Ann Werling Comparative Oncology Research Center. “A New Era in Comparative Medical Research, and Opportunities to Position Purdue as a World Leader.”

Oct. 18: Songlin Fei – Professor and Dean’s Chair of Remote Sensing, Forestry and Natural Resources. “A Digital Revolution in Forestry: AI and Lasers and Digital Twins, Oh My!”

Nov. 16: Ed Delp – Charles William Harrison Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, professor of biomedical engineering, professor of psychological sciences (courtesy). “Deep Fakes and Other Types of Generated and Manipulated Media: It Is Real and Coming for Our Society!”

Dec. 13: Preeti Sivasankar – Professor and head, Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences; assistant vice president for strategic health research, Office of Research; adjunct faculty, IU School of Medicine — West Lafayette. “Can You Protect Your Voice? Physiological Investigations From Rats to Humans.”

The Westwood Lecture Series is one of the actions aimed to continue enhancing the intellectual vibrancy of the Purdue West Lafayette campus.

Each lecture will take place from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue president’s residence.

Space is limited to the first 50 faculty who register online. Registration will be available beginning two weeks prior to each lecture. Look for details in Purdue Today.