Committee chair

Lucy Flesch, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science and professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences

Committee members

• Andrew Bean, associate vice president of finance and accounting
• Brooke Beier, senior vice president of Purdue Innovates, Purdue Research Foundation
• Alexandra Boltasseva, the Ron and Dotty Garvin Tonjes Distinguished Professor in Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Daniel Castro, dean of Purdue Polytechnic Institute
• Clint Chapple, Distinguished Professor of Biochemistry
• Zhihong Chen, the Reilly Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering; the Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center
• Gebisa Ejeta, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Agronomy
• (Chair) Lucy Flesch, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science; professor of earth, atmospheric, and planetary sciences
• Richard Kuhn, the Trent and Judith Anderson Distinguished Professor of Science
• Philip Low, the Ralph C. Corley Distinguished Professor of Chemistry and Purdue University’s Presidential Scholar for Drug Discovery
• Sorin Matei, associate dean for research and graduate education, College of Liberal Arts; professor of communication, Brian Lamb School of Communication
• Catherine (Cammie) McBride, associate dean for research, College of Health and Human Sciences; Distinguished Professor of Human Development and Family Science
• Sunil Prabhakar, vice provost for faculty affairs; professor of computer science; interim dean of Purdue Libraries and School of Information Studies
• J. George Shanthikumar, the Richard E. Dauch Chair in Manufacturing and Operations Management; Distinguished Professor of Management
• Joey Wallace, associate vice president for research development; professor of biomedical engineering