List of Purdue University Faculty (158 items)report

• Gebisa Ejeta – Professor of Agronomy, winner of World Food Prize
  
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• Philip E. Nelson – food scientist, winner of the World Food Prize
  
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• Rakesh Agrawal (Professor of Chemical Engineering) – a winner of National Medal of Technology
  
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• Arden L. Bement Jr. (Professor of Nuclear Engineering) – Director of the National Science Foundation, former Director of NIST
  
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• Lonnie D. Bentley – professor of computer and information technology
  
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• Sabine Brunswicker – associate professor and director of Research Center for Open Digital Innovation (RCODI)
  
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• Jean-Lou Chameau (Professor of Civil Engineering) – President of California Institute of Technology
  
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• Clarence L. "Ben" Coates (Head of the School of Electrical Engineering) – computer scientist and engineer known for his work on waveform recognition devices, circuit gates and accumulators
  
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• Supriyo Datta (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – researcher of nanoelectronics
  
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• Rui de Figueiredo (Professor of Electrical Engineering)
  
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• Charles Alton Ellis (Professor of Structural Engineering) – designer of the Golden Gate Bridge
  
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• Reginald Fessenden (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – first wireless voice transmission
  
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• W. Kent Fuchs (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – Provost of Cornell University
  
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• Leslie Geddes (Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Biomedical Engineering) – National Medal of Technology recipient
  
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• Frank Bunker Gilbreth, Sr. (lecturer) – industrial engineer
  
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• Lillian Gilbreth (Professor of Industrial Engineering) – efficiency expert, first female member of U.S. National Academy of Engineering
  
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• F.W. Hutchinson – engineer and researcher of heating, ventilation, and air conditioning
  
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• Kathleen Howell - astrodynamist known for deep space spacecraft mission design using halo orbits
  
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• Frank P. Incropera (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – ISI highly cited researcher on heat transfer
  
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• Leah Jamieson (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – a winner of Gordon Prize
  
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• Avinash Kak (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering) – researcher of information processing
  
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• Rangasami L. Kashyap (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – applied mathematician
  
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• Linda Katehi (Professor of Electrical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of University of California, Davis
  
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• Daniel B. Luten (Instructor in architectural and sanitary engineering) – bridge builder who patented the Luten arch
  
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• Robert E. Machol (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – early writer on systems engineering
  
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• Shimon Y. Nof (Professor of Industrial Engineering)
  
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• Nicholas A. Peppas (Professor of Chemical Engineering) – biochemist and engineer best known for his research in hydrogels for drug delivery
  
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• R. Byron Pipes (Professor of Engineering) – former President of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
  
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• A. Alan Pritsker (Professor of Industrial Engineering) – pioneer in simulation modeling, creator of GERT and SLAM programs
  
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• Vladimir Shalaev (Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and of Biomedical Engineering) – researcher of metamaterials, transformation optics, nanophotonics and plasmonics
  
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• R. Norris Shreve (Professor of Chemical Engineering)
  
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• Shu Shien-Siu (Professor of Engineering Science)
  
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• Mete Sozen (Professor of Structural Engineering)
  
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• Rusi Taleyarkhan (Professor of Nuclear Engineering)
  
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• Yeram S. Touloukian (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – founder of the Thermophysical Properties Research Center
  
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• Raymond Viskanta – ISI Highly Cited researcher in the field of heat transfer
  
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• Steve Wereley (Professor of Mechanical Engineering) – co-inventor of micro-particle image velocimetry
  
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• Jerry Woodall (Professor of Electrical Engineering) – inventor of first commercially viable red LEDs, a winner of National Medal of Technology
  
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• Henry T. Yang (Professor of Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Dean of Engineering) – Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Barbara
  
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• Dorsey Armstrong – editor-in-chief of Arthuriana
  
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• Louis René Beres – Professor of Political Science
  
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• James A. Berlin – theorist in the field of composition studies and the history of rhetoric and composition theory
  
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• Marianne Boruch – poet and essayist
  
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• Robert X. Browning – Professor of Political Science
  
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• Ronald Verlin Cassill – novelist, short story writer, reviewer, editor, painter, and lithographer
  
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• Philip B. Coulter – political scientist
  
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• Paul Draper – philosopher of religion, editor of the journal Philo
  
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• William H. Gass – novelist and short story writer
  
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• Mark Harris – novelist and biographer
  
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• Djelal Kadir – literature academic
  
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• Brigit Pegeen Kelly – poet
  
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• Emma Montgomery McRae – Professor of Literature, Dean of Women
  
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• Robert Melson – political scientist specializing in ethnic conflict and genocide
  
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• Cheryl Mendelson – professor of philosophy, novelist, non-fiction writer
  
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• Alan H. Monroe – creator of Monroe's motivated sequence
  
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• Annie Smith Peck – professor of archaeology and Latin, mountaineer
  
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• Victor Raskin – Professor of Linguistics, founding editor of Humor: International Journal of Humor Research
  
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• W. Charles Redding – professor of communication, "father" of organizational communication
  
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• Gunther E. Rothenberg – military historian
  
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• Kermit Scott – professor of philosophy, advocate for the poor, previously thought to be the namesake of Kermit the Frog
  
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• Michael Stohl – political scientist
  
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• Charalambos D. Aliprantis – economist who introduced Banach space and Riesz space methods in economic theory
  
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• Frank Bass – Professor of Industrial Administration, a founder of marketing science who developed the Bass diffusion model
  
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• Michael A. Campion – Professor of Management, psychologist
  
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• Alok R. Chaturvedi – Professor of MIS, Founder and the Director of SEAS Laboratory of Krannert School of Management
  
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• Elizabeth Hoffman – economist, now Provost of Iowa State University
  
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• Raghavendra Rau – Rothschild Professorship of Finance at the University of Cambridge
  
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• Stanley Reiter – economist
  
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• Vernon L. Smith – Nobel Laureate in Economics in 2002
  
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• Shailendra Raj Mehta - President & Director of MICA
  
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• Sugato Chakravarty – professor of consumer science, Associate Editor of the Journal of Financial Markets
  
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• Lisa Hopp – nursing educator
  
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• Henry L. Roediger III – researcher of psychology and the human memory
  
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• Peter Schönemann – professor of Psychological Sciences
  
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• William H. Starbuck – researcher of cognitive psychology, organizational behavior, and organization theory
  
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• Wei Zheng – pharmaceutical scientist
  
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• Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar – Professor of Mathematics, known for his contributions to singularity theory
  
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• Ross H. Arnett, Jr. – entomologist and beetle researcher
  
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• Struther Arnott – molecular biologist and cancer researcher
  
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• Mikhail Atallah – computer scientist, researcher on algorithms and computer security
  
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• Louis Auslander – mathematician
  
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• David Avison – physicist and photographer
  
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• John D. Axtell – chemist, agronomist, a discoverer of high-lysine sorghum
  
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• Harry Beevers – plant physiologist
  
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• Jeffrey Bennetzen – Professor of Genetics
  
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• Elisa Bertino – computer scientist, director of CERIAS
  
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• Dale L. Boger – medicinal and organic chemist
  
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• Carl R. de Boor – assistant professor at Purdue University, won the John von Neumann Prize from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 1996
  
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• Louis de Branges de Bourcia – Professor of Mathematics, proved the Bieberbach conjecture
  
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• Herbert C. Brown – Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 1979
  
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• Alok R. Chaturvedi – professor in the Department of Computer Sciences; the Director of Purdue Homeland Security Institute; technical lead for the Sentient World Simulation project
  
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• Douglas Comer – computer scientist, Internet pioneer
  
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• R. Graham Cooks – chemist, mass spectrometrist
  
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• Ronald DeVore – mathematician known for approximation theory, wavelet theory, compressive sensing
  
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• Richard Duffin – physicist
  
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• Ahmed K. Elmagarmid – computer scientist, Executive Director of the Qatar Computing Research Institute
  
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• Paul Erdős – Professor of Mathematics, winner of the Wolf Prize in Mathematics in 1983/4
  
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• Harley Flanders – mathematician and textbook author
  
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• Joseph Francisco – atmospheric chemist, President of the American Chemical Society
  
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• Walter Gautschi – mathematician, contributor to numerical analysis
  
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• Jayanta Kumar Ghosh – statistician
  
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• Melvin Hochster – commutative algebraist
  
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• Otto F. Hunziker – early head of Dairy department, supervised construction of Smith Hall
  
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• Meyer Jerison – mathematician known for his work in functional analysis and rings
  
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• Minhyong Kim – mathematician
  
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• Robert R. Korfhage – computer scientist who contributed to information retrieval
  
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• Karl Lark-Horovitz – pioneer in solid state physics, contributed to the invention of the first transistor
  
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• Chris J. Leaver – botanist, now at the University of Oxford
  
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• László Lempert, professor of mathematics, winner of Stefan Bergman Prize, 2001
  
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• Bernard J. Liska – food scientist
  
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• Fred McLafferty – chemist who described the McLafferty rearrangement in mass spectrometry
  
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• Edwin T. Mertz – chemist and biochemist who co-discovered high-lysine corn
  
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• Dan Milisavljevic - astronomer and physicist
  
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• David S. Moore – statistician
  
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• John Ulric Nef – chemist who discovered the Nef reaction
  
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• Ei-ichi Negishi – Professor of Chemistry, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry in 2010
  
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• Albert Overhauser – Professor of Physics, discovered the Overhauser Effect
  
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• Alan Perlis – Professor of Mathematics, the first person to win the Turing Award in 1966
  
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• Justin Jesse Price – mathematician
  
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• John R. Rice – Professor of Computer Science, founding editor of ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  
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• Arthur Rosenthal – mathematician, proved the Hartogs–Rosenthal theorem
  
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• Michael G. Rossmann – Professor of Biological Sciences, Member of National Academy of Sciences, mapped human common cold virus, pointed out the Rossmann fold
  
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• Robert G. Sachs – theoretical physicist, director of Argonne National Laboratory
  
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• David Sanders – Professor of Biological Sciences
  
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• Otto Schilling – algebraist
  
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• Julian Schwinger – Nobel Laureate in Physics in 1965
  
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• Freydoon Shahidi – mathematician, a namesake of the Langlands–Shahidi method
  
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• Shen Chun-shan – physicist, president of National Tsing Hua University
  
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• Yum-Tong Siu – professor of mathematics
  
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• Jeffrey H. Smith – algebraic topologist
  
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• Eugene Spafford – Professor of Computer Science and Director of CERIAS, computer security expert
  
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• Lonnie Lee VanZandt – Professor of Physics, formed the molecular biological physics group at Purdue
  
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• Jeffrey Vitter (Professor of Computer Science and Dean of Science, 2002–2008) – computer scientist known for his work on external memory algorithms, provost of University of Kansas
  
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• Clarence Abiathar Waldo – Professor of Mathematics, noted for his role in defeating the Indiana Pi Bill of 1897
  
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• George W. Whitehead – algebraic topologist who defined the J-homomorphism
  
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• Harvey Washington Wiley – Professor of Chemistry, first FDA commissioner and advocate for the Pure Food and Drug Act of 1906
  
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• Arthur Winfree – theoretical biologist, MacArthur Fellow, winner of the Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics
  
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• Myron E. Witham – Professor of Mathematics, college football coach
  
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• Arif Zaman – Professor of Statistics, researcher of pseudo-random number generation and computer science
  
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• Jian-Kang Zhu - Distinguished Professor of Plant Biology
  
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• Richard Blanton – anthropologist and archaeologist
  
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• David A. Caputo – former Dean of the School of Liberal Arts, later president of Pace University
  
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• Amelia Earhart – women's career counselor, aviator
  
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• Joel Fink – Purdue University Theatre, currently Associate Dean of Roosevelt University
  
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• Benjamin Harrison – trustee, President of the United States
  
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• Ruth Lawanson – volleyball assistant coach, Olympic bronze medal in volleyball (1992).
  
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• Charles Major – trustee, novelist
  
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• Gary Lee Nelson – composer
  
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• Jay Nunamaker – researcher of information systems
  
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• Lynn Okagaki – Commissioner of the National Center for Education Research
  
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• John Purdue – founder and namesake
  
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• Timothy Sands – provost, former acting president, materials engineer, President of Virginia Tech
  
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• Mark Smith – Dean of Graduate School, 1984 Olympic fencer.
  
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• Dorothy C. Stratton – first full-time dean of women (1933–1942), Director of the SPARS during World War II
  
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• Lee Watson – Broadway and television lighting designer
  
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• Randy Woodson – former provost, now chancellor of North Carolina State University
  
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• Al G. Wright – former Director of Bands, now Chairman of the Board of the John Philip Sousa Foundation
  
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• Rolv Yttrehus – contemporary classical music composer
  
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