Purdue’s Excellence in Research Award Lectures held

The Office of Research held the 2024 Excellence in Research Award Lectures event on May 5.

Each year Karen Plaut, executive vice president for research, hosts this event, which features lectures by winners of the Herbert Newby McCoy Award, Arden L. Bement Jr. Award and Lu Ann Aday Award, Purdue’s three most prestigious research awards.

Pictured (left to right) are David Purpura, the Lu Ann Aday Award winner and professor of human development and family science; Karen Plaut; and Dongyan Xu, recipient of the Arden L. Bement Jr. Award and the Samuel D. Conte Professor of Computer Science and director of CERIAS.

Roger Wiens, the Herbert Newby McCoy Award winner and professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences, will present a lecture on his research during the Westwood Lecture Series in September.

Writer: Peter Shelby, pwshelby@purdue.edu