Preeti Sivasankar has been appointed vice president for research innovation and will head the division of Strategic Interdisciplinary Research in the Office of Research, effective May 1. Sivasankar joined Purdue as an assistant professor in 2005 and was promoted to professor in 2014. She has led the Department of Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences since 2019, having served in an interim capacity in 2018.
Several years after earning her undergraduate engineering degree, Hannah Taggart felt the need to refresh her knowledge and skills. Purdue’s online Master of Science in biomedical engineering gave her that opportunity and focused Taggart on a new career in medical devices and regulatory affairs.
The American Lung Association in Indiana will honor Purdue researcher Philip Low on April 13 at its annual gala in Indianapolis for his invention of CYTALUX, which helps in the fight against lung cancer. Low, Purdue’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery and the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry in the College of Science, developed CYTALUX, an FDA-approved fluorescent marker that Illuminates lung cancer cells during surgery.
In this episode of “This Is Purdue,” Jennifer Rumsey, chair and CEO of Cummins Inc., discusses her experience as a Purdue mechanical engineering student and how that led to four internships with Cummins. Her story is unique because not many people can say they interned for a company and later served in the most senior role — CEO.
Meet Josef Vice, a Purdue Global professor who has devoted his life to LGBTQ+ advocacy and providing everyone in his classes with the safety and support he didn’t have when he was a student.
