CHE Distinguished and Named Professors, various updates in reverse chronological order. 1. Alina Alexeenko/AAE action to nominate for Riley Professorship - straw poll; I have heard from 5 members of the CHE-DNP, all in support. We will have a formal vote at our meeting today, right after the CHE Faculty meeting. 2. Outside letters for Named Professorship nominations (update) * Steve Beaudoin; based on feedback from the CHE-DNP and after consultation with the donor and Steve Beaudoin, this has been changed from a limited-term named professorship to a limited-term named directorship (for PERC). Given the history of successes leading PERC including the recent breakthrough with ACMI's massive investment in Indiana, I believe it will be straightforward to get very strong external letters of support for Steve. * Vilas Pol; we will go for outside letters after the positive impact of the Jaker Technology contract and gifts have been incorporated into Purdue (still waiting for these action items to finalize). * Liz Topp and John Morgan; proceed with outside letters for the Nichols and Swanson chairs. --- Sang Sangtae Kim Distinguished Professor Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head Davidson School of Chemical Engineering Purdue University