2018 Purdue Distinguished Research Lectures

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October 29, 2018

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MEET KENNETH FERRARO

"FRONTIERS IN THE SCIENCE OF AGING”

Kenneth Ferraro is the Distinguished Professor of Sociology and the founding

director of the Center on Aging and the Life Course at Purdue University.

Ferraro earned his PhD in sociology at the University of Akron and joined

Purdue in 1990. He is the author of 120 peer-reviewed articles on health and

aging, and his research has been supported by multiple grants from the National

Institute on Aging. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America and

the former editor of the Journal of Gerontology: Social Sciences.

In 2018, Ferraro published “The Gerontological Imagination: An Integrative

Paradigm of Aging.” Considered the first book of its kind to identify intellectual

The Lu Ann Aday Award was established in 2017 by Purdue alumna Lu Ann Aday,

the Lorne D. Bain Distinguished Professor Emerita in Public Health and Medicine

at the University of Texas School of Public Health-Houston.

The annual award recognizes a member of the Purdue University faculty who has made a

major impact on his or her field in the humanities and social sciences.

Aday has served on multinational, federal, and state boards and on commissions,

and committees — including the National Institute of Medicine, the National Cancer

Institute, and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality — to advance public

health access. She is the author of 16 books dealing with conceptual or empirical aspects

of research addressing access to health and health care for vulnerable populations.

Aday received an honorary doctorate of social sciences from Purdue. She came to

Purdue for a master’s and doctoral degree in sociology after receiving a bachelor’s

degree in agricultural economics from Texas Tech University. She has received

numerous awards for scholarship, teaching, and mentoring and is a member of the

National Academy of Medicine.

Nominations for the Lu Ann Aday Award are invited from all faculty members. The

recipient is selected by faculty representatives from the humanities and social sciences

and is approved by the Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships and the

President of the University.

The Lu Ann Aday Distinguished Lecture has been established to honor the award winner

and to present to the Purdue community the nature of the research and its contribution

to the humanities and social sciences.

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common ground among different

disciplines studying aging, reviewers

have called it a “signal contribution

to the field.” The book won the 2018

Richard Kalish Innovative Publication

Award from the Gerontological Society

of America.

While at Purdue, Ferraro served

15 months as interim head of the

Department of Sociology and four years

as a resident scientist with the National

Archive of Computerized Data on Aging, part of the Inter-University Consortium

for Political and Social Research at the University of Michigan.

His mentorship of graduate students was recognized by the Gerontological

Society of America with the 2011 Distinguished Mentor Award and by Purdue

with the 2016 Provost’s Award for Outstanding Graduate Mentor. In 2014,

he received the Matilda White Riley Distinguished Scholar Award from the

American Sociological Association.

ABSTRACT OF LECTUR E

Recent breakthrough discoveries in the science of aging are transforming the

way we think about growing older and are stimulating cross-disciplinary

research to make the most effective use of the aging process.

In his talk, Ferraro will identify two notable discoveries:

■ Early origins of adult health — how exposures during childhood have

long-term consequences on adult health.

■ Multidirectional change, including the possibility of reversing functional

trajectories associated with growing older.

Both discoveries highlight the modifiability of the aging process and are core to the

integrative paradigm he discusses in his book, “The Gerontological Imagination.”

“Kenneth Ferraro is a

deeply worthy recipient

of this award, with a long

and continuous record

of health and health-

services research that can

make a difference.”

— Excerpt from Nomination

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RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTSFOR INNOVATIVE WORK AND IMPACTFUL CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE

FIELDS OF SOCIOLOGY AND GERONTOLOGY.

Ferraro is considered a pioneer in evidence-based research showing that

misfortunes during childhood and adolescence substantially increase the risk

of disease in later life, including heart disease and cancer. He also has theorized how

social stratification unfolds over the life course. His cumulative inequality theory,

which he has tested empirically, describes how developmental and demographic

processes stratify life chances and choices.

Over the past decade, Ferraro and his collaborators have:

■ Provided compelling evidence that negative exposures during childhood are

pluripotent on adult health, raising the risk of multiple diseases, including

cancer, stroke and osteoarthritis.

■ Identified that the racial gap in health emerges early in life and persists,

in part, due to differences in medical care during adulthood.

■ Developed cumulative inequality theory to explicate how social stratification

unfolds over the life course and influences health.

■ Created an integrative paradigm for cross-disciplinary studies of aging, which

are discussed in “The Gerontological Imagination.”

Evidence reveals that insults during childhood and adolescence substantially

increase the risk of disease later in life. With support from the National Institute on

Aging, Ferraro has shown the health consequences of early negative exposures, such

as poverty and child abuse, and has demonstrated their influence decades later.

“His research has consistently focused on aging and health,

especially in its differences by race, and he has been a pioneer

in applying longitudinal methods for understanding trajectories

of aging over time.”


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MEET PEIDE “PETER” YE

“MOORE’S LAW EXTENSION AND BEYOND”

Peide Ye is the Richard J. and Mary Jo Schwartz Professor of Electrical and

Computer Engineering in the College of Engineering. He received his Bachelor

of Science in electrical engineering in 1988 from Fudan University, Shanghai,

China. Ye earned his PhD in condensed matter physics in 1996 from Max Planck

Institute for Solid State Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

After working for NTT Basic Research Laboratories, the National High Magnetic

Field Laboratory and Princeton University, and Bell Labs/Lucent Technologies/

Agere Systems, Ye joined Purdue in 2005 as an associate professor. He became a

full professor in 2010 and a named professor in 2016.

A R D E N L .

Bement jr. A W A R D

The Arden L. Bement Jr. Award was established in 2015 by Distinguished

Professor Emeritus Arden Bement and his wife, Mrs. Louise Bement,

to annually recognize a Purdue faculty member for recent outstanding

accomplishments in pure and applied sciences and engineering.

Bement achieved international recognition as director of the National Science

Foundation and director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

He has a long and distinguished career with Purdue, having served as the Basil S.

Turner Distinguished Professor of Electroceramics, the David A. Ross Distinguished

Professor of Nuclear Engineering, the Chief Global Affairs Officer and the inaugural

director of the Global Policy Research Institute.

Bement received his doctoral degree in metallurgical engineering from the

University of Michigan. He has been commended by receiving seven honorary

degrees in science and engineering from universities in the U.S. and abroad. He is

a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a fellow in the American

Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Nominations for the Arden L. Bement Jr. Award are invited from all faculty

members. The recipient is selected by faculty representatives from the pure and

applied sciences and engineering and is approved by the Executive Vice President for

Research and Partnerships and the President of the University.

The Arden L. Bement Jr. Lecture has been established to honor the award winner

and to present to the Purdue community the nature of the research and its

contribution to the pure and applied sciences and engineering.

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His current research includes

atomic semiconductor and physics

devices, nanostructures and

nanofabrications among other

areas. Ye’s work in semiconductor

technologies is recognized

nationally and internationally, and

he has been credited with a series of

research breakthroughs. Each one

was significant enough to be deemed “field-defining.”

Ye has authored and co-authored eight book chapters, more than 200 peer-

reviewed articles and made 350 conference presentations, including many

invited, keynote and plenary talks. He has been awarded five U.S. patents.

Ye has been the recipient of the Volkswagen Fellowship, the Max Planck Society

Fellowship, the NTT Fellowship, the IBM Faculty Award, the Purdue College of

Engineering Faculty Award of Excellence in Research and the Sigma Xi Research

Award. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and

the American Physical Society.


Moore’s Law became the “golden rule” for the microelectronics industry

and a springboard for innovation. Gordon Moore paved the path for

Intel and others to make faster, smaller and more affordable transistors for our

modern tools and toys.

In his talk, Ye will review his research efforts at Purdue on materials, structures

and device architecture to support the microelectronic industry and extend

Moore’s Law. The goal of the research is that it will lead to smarter, ubiquitous

computing technology and keep us healthier, safer and more productive.

“He is unmatched in his

ability to synthesize novel

electronic materials and

use them to achieve record

device performance.”


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RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTSFOR FIELD-DEFINING WORK IN SYNTHESIZING AND APPLYING NOVEL

ELECTRONIC MATERIALS TO ACHIEVE RECORD DEVICE PERFORMANCE.

Ye has made fundamental contributions to novel electronic materials and

devices in recent years. He has an ability to enter a field, see where the

roadblocks are, devise creative solutions and produce results.

Among many research accomplishments in applied science and engineering, Ye

and his collaborators have:

■ Pioneered atomic layer deposited high-k dielectrics on III-V compound

semiconductors and achieved record device performance in III-V metal-

oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs).

■ Developed a new contact engineering process on n-type Ge material to

achieve record device performance on Ge N-type MOSFETs and

demonstrated the first Ge complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor

(CMOS) devices and circuitry.

■ Discovered a new doping technique on 2D material channels and

demonstrated record device performance on MoS2 and WS2.

■ Pioneered phosphorene and black phosphorus 2D research and

systematically explored their anisotropic electrical, optical, thermal

and mechanical properties.

“The breadth of Professor Ye’s research is mesmerizing.

His keen ability to be there first, ahead of anybody else, is

something that he has demonstrated over and over again.

The diversity of structures that he can fabricate and the

range of materials that he brings to bear go far beyond what

anybody else in our field has been able to manage.”


H E R B E R T N E W B Y

McCoyA W A R D

The Herbert Newby McCoy Award was established in 1964 by Mrs. Ethel Terry

McCoy in honor of her husband, a distinguished Purdue University alumnus. A

native of Richmond, Indiana, Herbert Newby McCoy studied chemistry at Purdue,

earning a BS degree in 1892 and an MS degree in 1893. He received his PhD from the

University of Chicago in 1898.

McCoy spent the early part of his career as a professor of chemistry, teaching at Fargo

College, the University of Utah and the University of Chicago. He was awarded the

Willard Gibbs Medal in 1937 for his contributions to the field of chemistry. During the

latter part of his career, he was president of Carnotite Reduction Co. in Chicago, and

vice president of Lindsay Light and Chemical Co., also in Chicago. He died in 1945 in

Los Angeles.

To support her husband’s lifelong interest in science, Mrs. McCoy designated that

the Herbert Newby McCoy annual award go to a Purdue student or faculty member

making the greatest contribution of the year to the natural sciences.

Nominations are invited from all faculty members. The recipient is selected by faculty

representatives from the natural sciences and is approved by the Executive Vice

President for Research and Partnerships and the President of the University.

The Herbert Newby McCoy Lecture has been established to honor the award

winner and to present to the Purdue community the nature of the research and its

contribution to the field of natural sciences.

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MEET NATALIA DUDAREVA

“LOOK WHO’S TALKING: CHEMICAL LANGUAGE OF PLANTS”

Natalia Dudareva is a Distinguished Professor and teaches in the departments

of Biochemistry and Horticulture and Landscape Architecture at Purdue. She

earned her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in biochemistry from Novosibirsk State

University in Russia. She received a PhD in biochemistry and molecular biology

from the O.V. Palladin Institute of Biochemistry, Kiev, Ukraine, and a second PhD

in plant molecular biology from the Louis Pasteur University, Strasbourg, France.

Dudareva came to Purdue in 1997 and was named a distinguished professor in 2010.

She joined the Department of Biochemistry in 2013.

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Dudareva has published 116 papers,

25 book chapters and two books,

and has given 200 invited lectures at

conferences and other universities.

She has received recognition for

her research as a Purdue University

Faculty Scholar and the Wickersham

Chair of Excellence in Agricultural

Research. She has been awarded

the Purdue University Agricultural

Research Award, the Sigma Xi

Faculty Research Award, and the

Alexander von Humboldt Research

Award (Germany). She is a fellow of

the American Association for the

Advancement of Science.


Plants have exploited the language of small chemicals for interacting with

their environment more extensively than any other living organism. A

diversity of volatile molecules released by plants plays essential roles in their

growth, development, reproduction, defense and communication. They also

influence atmospheric chemistry and climate, and humans use them as flavors,

fragrances, biofuels, insecticides and pharmaceuticals.

Dudareva will discuss different aspects of volatile emission: from volatiles’

function and their perception by insects, to biosynthesis, regulation and how

plants deploy these compounds into the atmosphere. In addition, she will talk

about what limits volatile trait modification and will outline biotechnological

approaches for improving crop productivity and defense, as well as improving

flavor and aroma.

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“By almost every criterion,

Natalia Dudareva’s

research has had a major

impact on plant biology

and chemical ecology. Her

principal findings have

entered basic textbooks,

and she has written over a

dozen influential reviews

on floral scents and other

plant volatiles.”


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RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTSFOR PIONEERING CONTRIBUTIONS TO PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY.

Over the past 20 years, Dudareva has explored the molecular mechanisms of

plant metabolism and how plants produce volatile compounds, scent and

taste components that are essential for successful pollination, fruit development

and plant defense.

Using biochemical, genetic and molecular approaches, Dudareva has provided

insights into fundamental plant biology. She also has pioneered research into the

biosynthetic pathways that underpin plants’ strategies for attracting pollinators;

communicating with other plants; and defending themselves from pathogens,

parasites and herbivores.

Dudareva’s research has led to the discovery of a microbial-like pathway in

plants to produce phenylalanine, an amino acid that is a vital component of

proteins. She also showed that active biological mechanisms are involved in

transporting plant volatiles from plant cells to the atmosphere, a finding that

could overturn the prevailing model of volatile emission as a process that occurs

solely by diffusion.

Other research by Dudareva and her collaborators includes:

■ Elucidating the molecular architecture and dynamics of phenylalanine

biosynthesis in plants.

■ Deciphering the complex terpenoid metabolic network and its regulation.

■ Discovering the biochemical pathways leading to benzoic acid formation.

■ Identifying biomolecular processes involved in the release of plant volatiles

into the atmosphere.

“Professor Dudareva transformed the field of how flowers

make scents. … There are not many researchers who can

claim to span the scales from molecules to ecosystems.

Natalia, however, can.”


2019

McCoy Award Winners2017 JEAN A. CHMIELEWSKI Chemistry For impact on the fields of chemical biology and drug discovery

2016 JIAN-KANG ZHU Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, and Biochemistry For groundbreaking contributions to our understanding of the mechanisms and role of epigenetics in stress biology

2015 ARUN K. GHOSH Chemistry and Medicinal Chemistry For contributions in broad areas of organic, bioorganic and medicinal chemistry, and his extensive work in the field of structure-based molecular design

2014 H.J. MELOSH Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences For pioneering work on the subject of meteorite impact cratering, planetary tectonics, and the physics of earthquakes and landslides

2013 ANDREW M. WEINER Electrical and Computer Engineering For advancements in the programmable generation of arbitrary ultrashort pulse waveforms, which has found application both in fiber-optic networks and in ultrafast optical science laboratories around the world

2012 CONNIE M. WEAVER Nutrition Science For defining the factors in food that influence calcium bioavailability and for work on calcium metabolism in adolescents and the impact of race on calcium utilization

2011 CLINT C. CHAPPLE Biochemistry Worldwide recognition as a trailblazer in the mapping of the metabolic pathways that drive plant biomass production as a result of his innovative and prolific research program

2010 DAVID E. SALT Horticulture and Landscape Architecture Pioneering and innovative efforts in the use of genome- scale biological approaches and information technologies to define and drive the field of ionomics

2009 VLADIMIR M. SHALAEV Electrical and Computer Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Seminal contributions to both the theoretical framework and experimental realization of optical metamaterials with strong magnetic response and negative refractive index at optical frequencies

2008 RICHARD J. KUHN Biological Sciences Contributions to the molecular and structural understanding of the viral infection process

2008 SCOTT A. McLUCKEY Chemistry Development of ion/ion reactions that greatly simplify and extend the use of mass spectrometry in proteomics

2007 JOSEPH S. FRANCISCO Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry Contributions to the application of new tools from theoretical and experimental physical chemistry to atmospheric chemical problems to bring about an understanding of the various chemical processes in the atmosphere at a molecular level

2006 SUPRIYO DATTA Electrical and Computer Engineering Contributions to the theory of quantum transport in nanoscale electronic devices and molecular electronics

2005 DAVID D. NOLTE Physics Pioneering contributions in the field of photorefractive effects in semiconductors and their heterostructures that have led to the development of the most sensitive dynamic holographic recording materials documented to date

2004 STANTON B. GELVIN Biological Sciences Outstanding achievements regarding the biology of DNA transfer from the soil bacterium Agrobacterium tumefaciens to plant genomes

2003 PHILIP L. FUCHS Chemistry Outstanding achievements in the field of synthetic organic chemistry

2002 ROBERTO COLELLA Physics Outstanding achievements in structural, electronic and vibrational properties of condensed matter, exploiting X-ray, electron and neutron diffraction techniques

2002 ALEXANDRE EREMENKO Mathematics Contributions in geometric function theory

2001 JANET L. SMITH Biological Sciences Outstanding achievements in the field of protein X-ray crystallography and its application to elucidate the structure and function of enzymes

2000 NICHOLAS A. PEPPAS Chemical Engineering and Biomedical Engineering Many research contributions in mass transfer, kinetics and reaction engineering, polymers, biomedical engineering, biomaterials, pharmaceutical engineering and drug delivery

1999 RAY A. BRESSAN Horticulture Many research accomplishments relating to disease resistance in plants

1998 EI-ICHI NEGISHI Chemistry Significant research contributions toward the development of new metallic catalysts with broad application in synthetic organic chemistry

1997 GREGORY B. MARTIN Agronomy Landmark contributions toward understanding the molecular genetic basis of disease resistance in plants

1996 TIMOTHY S. BAKER Biological Sciences Contributions to the field of structural virology

1996 BEN S. FREISER Chemistry Contributions to gas-phase metal ion chemistry and Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry

1995 JOHN H. CUSHMAN Agronomy and Mathematics Contributions toward the fundamentals of the physics of fluids in porous media

1994 ANANT K. RAMDAS Physics Contributions, along with Professor Sergio Rodriguez, toward the fundamentals of the electrical properties of semiconductor

1994 SERGIO RODRIGUEZ Physics Contributions, along with Professor Anant K. Ramdas, toward the fundamentals of the electrical properties of semiconductors

1993 PHILIP S. LOW Chemistry Contributions in folate-assisted transfer of macromolecules into living cells

1992 NICHOLAS J. GIORDANO Physics Contributions in understanding the behavior of mesoscopic systems

1991 WILLIAM J. RAY JR. Biological Sciences Contributions to modern enzymology

1990 R. GRAHAM COOKS Chemistry Contributions in fundamentals, instrumentation and applications of mass spectrometry

1989 THOMAS K. HODGES Botany and Plant Pathology Contributions in transferring recombinant genetic information into plants

1988 WILLIAM A. CRAMER Biological Sciences Contributions to understanding the relation between structure and function in biological membranes

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2015 WOJCIECH SZPANKOWSKI Computer Science For development of innovative analytic methods for the Shannon information theory, leading to solutions for open problems in analytical information

Aday Award Winners2017 MICHELE R. BUZON Anthropology For pioneering work in bioarchaeology

Research and Scholarship Distinction Award Winners 2013-20152015 RONNIE WILBUR Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences For pioneering research in the area of sign language and linguistics

2014 MARIANNE BORUCH English For contributions to American poetry and for advancing poetry as an artistic, philosophical and spiritual force

2013 THOMAS W. HERTEL Agricultural Economics For unique contributions to the quantitative analysis of global economic and environmental conditions

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McCoy Award Winners, continued

1987 C. AUSTEN ANGELL Chemistry Contributions to the fundamental chemistry of glassy substances

1986 STANLEY A. BARBER Agronomy Contributions to soil chemistry and plant nutrition

1985 LOUIS de BRANGES Mathematics Contributions in the field of functional analysis

1984 ROLF P. SCHARENBERG Physics Combined contributions, with Professor Lazlo J. Gutay, in the fields of nuclear and particle physics

1984 LASZLO J. GUTAY Physics Combined contributions, with Professor Rolf P. Scharenberg, in the fields of nuclear and particle physics

1983 DALE W. MARGERUM Chemistry Contributions to our knowledge of the kinetics and mechanisms of metal ion interactions

1982 WILLIAM L. PAK Biological Sciences Pioneered use of a unique combination of genetics, physiology and biochemistry to analyze mechanisms of a visual photoreceptor — a sensor that transforms light into electrical signals

1981 HEINZ G. FLOSS Medicinal Chemistry Contributions to the biochemistry of natural products

1980 PHILIP F. LOW Agronomy Contributions to the understanding of the nature and properties of water on mineral surfaces

1979 LEONARD E. MORTENSON Biological Sciences Outstanding authority in the area of the biochemistry of nitrogen fixation

1978 ALBERT W. OVERHAUSER Physics Significant achievements in solid state physics

1977 R. STUART TOBIAS Chemistry Contributions to the field of organometallic chemistry and achievements in developing Raman methods and their application to problems of inorganic biochemistry

1976 KING-SUN FU Electrical Engineering Contributions to the area of pattern recognition and his pioneering work in applying these techniques to the medical sciences

1975 MICHAEL LASKOWSKI JR. Chemistry Contributions to the world of chemistry

1974 MICHAEL G. ROSSMANN Biological Sciences Significant accomplishments in molecular biology, and, in turn, bringing great credit to Purdue University

1973 SHREERAM S. ABHYANKAR Mathematics National and international standing in the area of algebraic geometry

1972 ROBERT A. BENKESER Chemistry Contributions to the world of chemistry

1972 HUBERT M. JAMES Physics Contributions to the world of physics

1971 JOHN B. BANCROFT Botany and Plant Pathology Bringing about a better understanding of the structural organization of viruses and their self-replicating functions

1970 H. EDWIN UMBARGER Biological Sciences International recognition as a distinguished biologist

1969 HSU Y. FAN Physics Achievements in solid state physics

1968 HARRY BEEVERS Biological Sciences Contributions in plant physiology

1967 EDWIN T. MERTZ Biochemistry Combined research discovery, with Professor Oliver E. Nelson Jr., of the genetic regulation of the lysine composition of corn

1967 OLIVER E. NELSON JR. Botany and Plant Pathology Combined research discovery, with Professor Edwin T. Mertz, of the genetic regulation of the lysine composition of corn

1966 HERBERT C. BROWN Chemistry Contributions to the world of chemistry

1965 SEYMOUR BENZER Biophysics Contributions in molecular biology and genetics

Bement Award Winners2017 MIKHAIL J. ATALLAH Computer Science For significant contributions in the design and implementation of efficient processing and security technologies

2016 ARVIND VARMAMA

Chemical Engineering For pioneering contributions to the discipline of chemical-reaction engineering

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