| VIDEO |
e-mailed to Rabindra Mukerjea, director of strategic planning and assessment, at mmukerjea@purdue.edu |
 * Camilla Persson Benbow's presentation (58 minutes 24 seconds) |
 * William R. "Randy" Woodson's presentation (59 minutes 21 seconds) |
 * Don P. Giddens' presentation (1 hour 15 seconds) |
| RELATED INFO |
| * Letter from Purdue president France A. Córdova |
March 19, 2008
Provost finalists take part in open forums
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Public forums for the three finalists for the Purdue University provost position concluded on Wednesday (March 19).All of the forums, which took place in the Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom, lasted approximately one hour. Each candidate was asked to make a presentation of roughly 15 minutes, which was followed by an opportunity for audience members to ask questions.
"Having three outstanding candidates is an exciting opportunity for Purdue," said university President France A. Córdova. "Other institutions recognize the stature of our candidates; we know that we are competing with other major universities for highly sought after candidates."
Candidates and their open forum dates were:
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- March 17. Don P. Giddens, dean of the College of Engineering and Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr. Chair of Biomedical Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. He also serves as a professor of biomedical engineering at Emory University School of Medicine. Prior to his current posts, Giddens served as professor and chair of the Georgia Tech/Emory Department of Biomedical Engineering, dean of the Whiting School of Engineering at Johns Hopkins University, director of aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech, and co-director of the Emory/Georgia Tech Biomedical Technology Research Center and Georgia Tech Bioengineering Research Center.
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- March 18. William R. "Randy" Woodson, Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture at Purdue. Prior to being named dean of Purdue Agriculture in 2004, Woodson served as associate dean of agriculture and director of the Office of Agricultural Research Programs. He also has served as head of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, director of the plant biology program, and as professor, associate professor and assistant professor of horticulture at Purdue. Woodson also served as assistant professor at Louisiana State University and visiting professor at the Ecole Nationale Superieure Agronomique d'Toulouse in Toulouse, France.
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- March 19. Camilla Persson Benbow, dean of the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and professor in the Department of Psychology and Human Development at Vanderbilt University since 1998. Prior to that, she served as interim dean of the College of Education and chair of the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University. She also has served as a distinguished professor, professor and associate professor in the Department of Psychology at Iowa State University and as an assistant professor in the Department of Sociology at Johns Hopkins University.
Writer: Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu
Source: Rabindra N. Mukerjea, director of strategic planning and assessment, (765) 494-9708, mmukerjea@purdue.edu
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