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)
1. 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.
2. 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).
3. Liz Topp and John Morgan; proceed with outside letters for the Nichols and Swanson chairs.

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Sangtae Kim

Distinguished Professor

Jay and Cynthia Ihlenfeld Head

Davidson School of Chemical Engineering

Purdue University