JEFFREY GREELEY has contributed to the development of fundamental knowledge in the fields of heterogeneous catalysis, electrocatalysis, and lithium-ion batteries. His efforts have significantly expanded the classes of catalytic systems that can be treated with density function theory and have led to the computationally based discovery of new catalytic materials.

Greeley’s research is broadly focused on enhancing society’s ability to meet critical energy and environmental challenges by understanding, predicting, and controlling the interactions of molecules with solid surfaces. He addresses these needs with a unique combination of detailed focus on surface thermodynamics and distillation of the essence of kinetics from microkinetic analysis and mechanistic reduction.

His work includes research problems with solutions that impact the frontiers of the field, development of new or significantly expanded atomic-level theory that matches the demands of the problem at hand, use of computational screening and other concepts to dramatically increase the scope of the solutions and identify targeted new materials, and close interaction with experimentalists in both materials development and analysis of detailed-reaction kinetics.

JASMINE GONZALVO’s research relates to community health workers, cardiovascular risk reduction in underserved populations, integration of the Spanish language into practice and academic settings, and diabetes self-management education and support in the pharmacy setting. She also provides clinical services in a federally qualified health center for Eskenazi Health in Indianapolis.

Gonzalvo is a clinical professor of pharmacy practice and has served as the director of the Center for Health Equity and Innovation since 2020. From 2018 through 2020, she served on the National Clinical Care Commission, a federal committee charged with evaluating and making recommendations to Congress and the Secretary of Health and Human Services regarding federal activities related to diabetes.

Gonzalvo currently serves on the board of directors for the Diabetes Leadership Council Board. She served as chair for the Certification Board for Diabetes Care and Education in 2019 and has also served on the board of directors for the American Association of Diabetes Educators.

LINDA LEE is a highly regarded environmental chemist with three decades of distinguished research, teaching, mentoring, and service. She is an expert in environmental chemistry, fate, and exposure aspects of legacy contaminants and several emerging compounds of concern.

Known internationally for her basic process-level research, Lee has a reputation for unraveling the complexity of environmental dynamics of a broad spectrum of contaminants. Using these insights, she has provided simplified approaches to predicting chemical fate to improve policy and management strategies.

Lee leads the research on perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the United States. These synthetic chemicals are used in manufacturing processes, heat-stable lubricants, fire-fighting foams, and many consumer products to impart stain, water, or heat resistance. PFAS have been associated with numerous health issues, including cancer, congenital disabilities, and compromised immune systems in both humans and animals. They persist in the environment permanently, and high levels can be found in foods consumed by humans.

Lee’s research focuses on treating PFAS-contaminated soils, water, and biosolids. She investigates remediation technologies for on-site cleanup of groundwater and has received a patent for one of her PFAS-remediation technologies.

In 2005, Lee launched the Ecological Sciences and Engineering Interdisciplinary Graduate Program, which provides students with tools to promote behavior, processes, and policies for a healthy environment, economy, and quality of life.

SIGNE KASTBERG is a valued mentor and an accomplished teacher. Her scholarship focuses on K–12 teaching practices of mathematics, K–12 mathematics teachers’ knowledge, and mathematics teacher education.

Kastberg studies children, prospective teachers, and teacher educators as learners. Her research interests include how teachers reason about mathematics as learners and how teacher-educator practice enables productive teacher learning.

Engaged in teacher education since the beginning of her academic career, Kastberg has authored 49 peer-reviewed papers that have been published in many of the top teacher-education journals, four books, and 13 book chapters. Her publications address various interdisciplinary issues, such as creativity, building learning communities, supporting struggling learners and students with disabilities, equity, and social justice.

Kastberg has redesigned several mathematics-methods courses in the College of Education and has also designed and delivered multi-year professional development projects for practicing teachers. She developed the Purdue Pen Pals program, which provides opportunities for Purdue students to engage in problem-solving activities with local elementary school children.

Beyond her teaching at Purdue, Kastberg partners in local and statewide professional-development efforts.

LYNNE TAYLOR is an internationally recognized leader in pharmaceutical formulations, with expertise in evaluating solid-state stability, developing a new understanding of release mechanisms, translating findings toward in vivo predictability, and improving descriptions of supersaturation in biorelevant fluids.

Taylor’s research focuses on the molecular aspects of drug delivery and formulation, specifically in the areas of phase transformations, solid dispersions and amorphous systems, physical and chemical stability of pharmaceutics, and water-solid interactions. By developing new strategies to enhance the oral delivery of poor water-soluble drugs, her work has significantly impacted the pharmaceutics field.

Collaborating often with other academic groups and scientists working in industry, Taylor and her research team explore the fundamental science underlying the preformulation, formulation, and manufacturing of drugs and drug, nutraceutical, and food products. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, and a variety of pharmaceutical and food companies.

Taylor is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists and the United Kingdom’s Royal Society of Chemistry.

ZOLTAN NAGY has emerged as a global leader in advanced manufacturing technologies for pharmaceuticals. His research focuses on the development and application of process-systems engineering approaches and tools for engineered-product design and optimal-process operation, with applications in pharmaceutical, fine chemical, biotechnology, food, and agrochemical industries.

His research combines modeling, optimization, and advanced-control approaches with experimental investigations using modern measurement techniques to develop theoretically founded and practical methodologies for complex processes, with quantifiable system-performance improvements that can be supported in an industrial environment.

Nagy’s work uses process intensification, digital design, and quality-by-control concepts to help shift pharmaceutical processes from batch to continuous manufacturing mode. This produces great gains in productivity, security, sustainability, and cost, using quality-by-design to develop products with tailor-made properties and the processes to manufacture them. His work includes several pioneering innovations in the field of crystallization control, all of which are examples of the innovative use of computing and systems technologies in the field of particulate processing.

HALEY OLIVER is committed to food safety education, and her accomplishments as a teacher, mentor, and researcher have been recognized with many awards at the college, university, and national levels.

Since joining the faculty of the Department of Food Science in 2010, Oliver has taught courses related to food safety, redesigned and developed new food safety courses, and built a multidisciplinary food safety training pipeline from primary education through graduate study. She has also devoted her efforts to international teaching and capacity building in Afghanistan and Nigeria.

Oliver is director of the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Safety, which is funded by the United States Agency for International Development and jointly managed by Purdue University and Cornell University. Under her direction, the lab leverages extensive experience in international food safety research and education. The lab is also responsible for a portfolio of food-safety and capacity-development projects designed to increase awareness of food safety; enhance capacity to conduct food safety research; develop policies to enable conditions for food safety research, translation, and practice; and accelerate translational-research technologies and practices for households, communities, and the food industry in Asia and Africa.

AMY REIBMAN is a world leader in the fields of image and video processing and transport over wireless communication systems. Her work in digital video compression and streaming has been groundbreaking, particularly for wireless systems. Reibman pioneered a number of methods that allow effective transmission of images and videos over channels where data can be easily lost, including the multiple-description technique.

Reibman has made significant contributions in the area of video-quality assessment. In 2004, she introduced the first method to assess quality loss due to packet loss through a transmission network. Her work has been supported by both federal agencies and industry.

Reibman has published 44 journal papers, 121 conference papers, one edited book, and more than 60 patents. She served as a distinguished lecturer of the IEEE Signal Processing Society from 2008 to 2009.

Reibman serves as the Elmore Family School of Electrical and Computer Engineering’s associate head of faculty mentorship and recognition. She has also served as the chair of the IEEE Fellow Committee and as a member of the IEEE Awards Committee. She served as the associate editor for the peer-reviewed journal IEEE Transactions on Image Processing and as a guest editor for several special issues in leading journals.

MELINDA ZOOK is a specialist in the history of political thought, religion, and women in early modern Britain. She teaches courses on English and medieval history as well as on topics that include Shakespeare’s kings, great books and the search for meaning, and the history of toleration.

As director of Cornerstone Integrated Liberal Arts program through Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts, Zook teaches a course on Transformative Texts: Communication and Critical Thinking. Designed for all undergraduate students, Cornerstone is a 15–credit hour certificate program that offers classes that are complementary to a student’s area of study and fosters the creative thinking that makes good business and industry leaders.

The articles Zook has published cover radical politics, martyrdom, political poetry, women, religion, and teaching. Her book Radical Whigs and Conspiratorial Politics in late Stuart England was published by Penn State Press in 1999 with a paperback edition in 2009. In 2013, she published Protestantism, Politics, and Women in Britain, 1660–1714 through Palgrave MacMillan and was awarded Best Book on Gender for 2013 by the Society for the Study of Early Modern Women.

Zook is the coeditor of Revolutionary Currents: Nation Building in the Transatlantic World (2004), Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural World of Early Modern Women (2014), and Generations of Women Historians: Within and Beyond the Academy (2018).

DAVID UMULIS is regarded as an impactful research leader, a widely respected mentor to young faculty colleagues, and an administrator with a proven track record.

In addition to his position with the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Umulis is also the director of the EMBRIO Institute, a collaboration of faculty members from six universities that combines simulation and artificial intelligence (AI) with cell biology to discover mechanisms of wound repair and cellular defense. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), EMBRIO is an extension of Umulis’s innovative work that uses high performance computing and AI to support biological discovery in organismal development.

Umulis is a leader in the training and support of the next generation of diverse STEM leaders. He has completed NSF-sponsored research in engineering formation to study how computational thinking, when woven into an integrative biological-engineering curriculum, leads to improved self-efficacy and stronger engineering identity formation.

Umulis serves on numerous grant review panels and boards, including the European Science Foundation, and is a standing member on the National Institutes of Health’s Development-1 study section. He has also served on more than 15 government review panels at the NIH. Umulis currently serves as associate editor of the field-leading journal PLOS Computational Biology.