WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. \u2014 The Presidential Lecture Series event next week, featuring a conversation between Wabash CEO Brent Yeagy and Purdue President Mung Chiang, is being moved to the Convergence Center in Discovery Park District at Purdue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Yeagy, a Purdue alum who has been Wabash<\/a> CEO since 2018, will join Chiang for the PLS event at 6 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 6, at the Convergence Center for Innovation and Collaboration, 101 Foundry Drive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Presidential Lecture Series<\/a> event, titled \u201cFrom Lab to Market: Unlocking Innovation Through Partnership,\u201d is free and open to the public but a ticket is required. Parking in the nearby gated lot also will be free. Existing Yeagy tickets for Loeb Playhouse will be honored for Convergence, so there\u2019s no need to reregister. For tickets and more information, go here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeagy is a manufacturing leader with more than 30 years of experience in the automotive and commercial transportation industries. As president and CEO of Wabash, a publicly traded company and leading provider of transportation and logistics solutions, he is responsible for setting the company\u2019s strategic direction and overseeing its operations across North America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yeagy holds a bachelor\u2019s degree (1995) and master\u2019s degree (1999) from Purdue\u2019s College of Health and Human Sciences with an industry focus on environmental engineering science and safety engineering, and an MBA in business management from Anderson University. He has also attended executive programs at the University of Michigan\u2019s Ross School of Business and Stanford\u2019s Graduate School of Business.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Previous news release announcing Yeagy\u2019s PLS appearance.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Launched in 2014 by then-Purdue President Mitch Daniels and continued by President Mung Chiang, the Presidential Lecture Series exposes Purdue students and the broader community to inspiring ideas, courageous leadership, and models of civic engagement and civil discourse. The Presidential Lecture Series has had over 40 guests of many viewpoints and perspectives and hosted some of the great intellectual, business<\/a> and civic leaders of our time. As one of the world\u2019s premier centers of scholarly leadership, Purdue is \u2014 appropriately and necessarily \u2014 a regular venue for great thinkers across a wide variety of disciplines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Purdue University is a public research university leading with excellence at scale. Ranked among top 10 public universities in the United States, Purdue discovers, disseminates and deploys knowledge with a quality and at a scale second to none. More than 106,000 students study at Purdue across multiple campuses, locations and modalities, including more than 57,000 at our main campus locations in West Lafayette and Indianapolis. Committed to affordability and accessibility, Purdue\u2019s main campus has frozen tuition 14 years in a row. See how Purdue never stops in the persistent pursuit of the next giant leap \u2014 including its integrated, comprehensive Indianapolis urban expansion; the Mitch Daniels School of Business; Purdue Computes; and the One Health initiative \u2014 at https:\/\/www.purdue.edu\/president\/strategic-initiatives<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\nAbout the Presidential Lecture Series<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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