Trustees honor 3 profs, approve degrees, program
name change
David Denis, professor of finance, was named to the
Burton D. Morgan Chair of Private Enterprise. More
on this story from Purdue
News Service.
Purdue Board of Trustees recognizes 3 professors
Charalambos (Roko) Aliprantis was named the Distinguished
Professor of Economics in the Krannert School of Management. Dan
E. Schendel, also of the Krannert School, was honored as the Blake Family
Endowed Chair
in Strategic Management. More on this story.
Susan B. Butler,
BSIM '65, HDR '99, has made a gift of $750,000 to endow the Susan Bulkeley
Butler Chair in Operations Management at Krannert. Butler is managing partner in
the office of the CEO of Accenture in Irving, Texas.
"We are fortunate to
have successful alumni, such as Susan Butler, who help us move toward our goal
of preeminence in business education," said Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School
dean and Leeds Professor of Management. "Now that our new facility, Rawls Hall,
is fully funded, the Krannert School's fundraising priority has
Susan B. Butler
shifted to
endowed professorial chairs and scholarships."
Butler's contribution came in response to a challenge gift from Krannert alum
Harold Greenberg and Purdue graduate Al Schleicher. The gift totals $1.5 million
and will help fund the salary of the professor who holds the new chair. The
gift's principal will remain intact in perpetuity.
"I am where I am in
large part because of what Krannert has given me," Butler said. "From my
success, I am honored to be able to 'give forward' for the future of Krannert:
its preeminent faculty, its innovative students, and its supportive
environment."
In today's competitive academic environment,
universities use endowed academic chairs and professorships - the ultimate peer
recognition for faculty - to reward, retain, and recruit top scholars for
exceptional performance in teaching, research and service.
Purdue has 68
distinguished and named professorships that are either fully endowed, partially
endowed, or annually funded. By contrast, Indiana University has 347. The
University of Illinois has 219; the University of Michigan, 245; Penn State
University, 208; Georgia Institute of Technology, 76.
Prabuddha De, who will join the Krannert
School of Management faculty in the fall as a tenured full professor
of management, will be the Accenture Professor of Information Technology.
"Endowed faculty positions, such as these, are important in Purdue's reaching
the next level of academic excellence," said Purdue Provost Sally Frost Mason.
"The interest, dividends and earnings of these gifts, given by alumni and
friends, provide funding for professors to advance their work."
Prabuddha De
De, who currently holds the Sherman-Standard Register
Chair in Management
Information Systems at the University of Dayton, was previously on the faculty
of Ohio State University. He earned his bachelor's degree in physics from the
University of Calcutta, his master's degree in computer science from
Pennsylvania State University and his doctorate in industrial administration
from Carnegie-Mellon University in 1979.
De has published more than 50 articles in scholarly journals, received
research funding from the National Science Foundation and a number of
corporations, and serves on the advisory boards or editorial boards of six
scholarly journals in his area. He also has played key roles in major academic
organizations and conferences. His research involves database systems, human
factors, software engineering, e-business and a number of other computer-related
areas.
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