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UPCOMING LECTURE SERIES SPEAKERS 

Guest speakers and thought leaders will join Purdue President Mung Chiang as part of the lineup for this fall’s Presidential Lecture Series.

Sethuraman Panchanathan director, U.S. National Science Foundation & U.S. Sen. Todd Young R-Indiana

A Conversation with Yo-Yo Ma 

Moderated by Jeffrey Brown, PBS NewsHour Correspondent 

Date: Sunday, Sept. 29
Time: 2 p.m. 
Location: Elliott Hall of Music 
This event is free and open to the public with a general admission ticket. 

Purdue University President Mung Chiang and the Purdue Presidential Lecture Series present the renowned cellist, recording artist and humanitarian leader Yo-Yo Ma in a special engagement moderated by PBS NewsHour correspondent Jeffrey Brown.  

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Vint Cerf and Robert Kahn

Nov. 6 

BETH MOSES 
BSAAE ’92, MSAAE ’94, OAE ’18 

Moses, a Purdue alumna, made history in 2019 with Virgin Galactic by becoming the first female commercial astronaut. Her space career began at NASA’s Johnson Space Center as extravehicular activity system manager. She transitioned to Virgin as chief astronaut instructor and cabin test lead.  

During her test flight on SpaceShipTwo, she became the first human to unbuckle and float around during a suborbital spaceflight. She made history again in 2021, joining fellow Purdue alum Sirisha Bandla on the first ever fully crewed commercial spaceflight. Moses flew again in 2023 as part of Virgin’s first test flight after a two-year hiatus. 

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