Dr. Ernestine Klotz Cary

Education:

• BS '72, Purdue University
• MA '78, Columbia University
• M.Phil. '80, Columbia University
• PhD '85, Columbia University

1999 Named a Fellow of American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
1996 Elected president of American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing
1985 Elected to Sigma Xi science honorary
1981 Received a Fulbright fellowship to do fieldwork in Kenya for a year

Tina Cary has more than 30 years of experience in remote sensing and geographic information systems (GIS), including research, training, and marketing. She is a past president and a Fellow of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS).

She founded Cary and Associates a decade ago to provide marketing consulting and services in the geotechnologies. As a consultant and keynote speaker, she has worked with senior executives around the world in all sectors of the geotechnology industry from Fortune 100 companies to universities, federal agencies, and non-profits. Before founding her company, she was with Space Imaging EOSAT for 10 years. During that time, she had wide-ranging responsibilities in marketing and ultimately directed the development of new spatial data products in emerging markets. Tina began her career at the Laboratory for Applications of Remote Sensing (LARS) at Purdue University. There, she worked on projects in forestry, water resources, and agriculture, and became involved in presenting training courses. After five years at LARS, she enrolled in graduate school at Columbia University in geography. While at Columbia, she completed fieldwork in Kenya, funded by a Fulbright Hays Fellowship and a grant from the National Geographic Society. During her graduate career, she also had research assistantships at the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies and was the recipient of a fellowship from the Society of Women Geographers. Her dissertation research involved the development of a GIS with soils, elevation, population, and Landsat data in a study of agricultural systems. She joined the faculty of Cook College, Rutgers University, in 1984. Her research focused primarily on environmental monitoring from medium-resolution satellites. While at Rutgers, she also held the position of associate director of the Cook College Remote Sensing Center and was a member of the graduate faculty in Geography. Tina serves the geospatial technology community on various committees in ASPRS, as a Trustee of the ASPRS Foundation, and as a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of Geospatial Solutions.

Dr. David S. Chen

• BS '81, East China Normal University
• MS '83, Purdue University
• PhD '91, University of Michigan
• MS '98, Stanford University

Present Working with key stakeholders in lead Chinese universities, government agencies, and energy industry to develop a comprehensive automotive energy strategy for China to ensure China's automotive industry will have a sustainable future.
2004 Plant manager for the second largest plant for General Motors in China, which built 50,000 cars in its first year of operation.
2003 Responsible for development of a compact passenger car for General Motors in China. The car, Excelle, is the best selling car for Shanghai General Motors.
1990s Responsible for a machine (computer) vision lab at General Motors Advanced Engineering Staff.
1980-1990s Published research works about signal processing, pattern recognition, and neural networks learning algorithms in key IEEE journals.

Since 1984, David Chen has been working with General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, where he has conducted research in the fields of image processing, computer vision, statistical pattern recognition, and factory automation. When he was in research, his interests focused on applying artificial neural networks and statistical exploratory data analysis techniques to manufacturing process control and advanced vehicle control systems. He has published a number of articles in major referred journals on signal processing, computer vision, and artificial neural networks.

David has been working on General Motors programs in China since 1994. He has held positions as managing director of Delphi Shanghai (then General Motors Automotive Component Group), executive director of new business development and planning, executive director of product development, and general manager of Shanghai General Motors Dongyue JV. He is currently the vice president of General Motors China and the general manager of General Motors China Beijing Operation responsible for corporate affairs and advanced technology management. David has played a key role in joint venture negotiations, merge/acquisition projects, product portfolio planning/development, and joint venture management. In addition to his degrees in statistics, David also holds master's and doctoral degrees in engineering.

Dr. Shun-Zer Chen

• MS '67, Purdue University
• PhD '70, Purdue University

1989 Named president and CEO of The New Era Group, Houston, Texas
1985 Became senior vice president, chief actuary, and board member of Columbia Universal Life
1981 Became senior vice president and chief actuary for Great Southern Life
1971 Joined Reserve Life as an actuary
1972 Joined Liberty Life as an assistant actuary

Bill Chen became a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries (FSA) in 1978 and has worked as an actuary and in executive positions in the insurance industry for 35 years. He founded New Era Life Insurance Company in late 1989 and under his leadership grew the company from a start-up enterprise to a burgeoning group of life insurance companies with revenues in excess of $250 million and assets close to $500 million. His dual strategy (acquisitions/administration, as well as marketing of new products) prompted an impressive growth rate. As of today, the New Era group has made over 40 acquisitions, taken on a number of third party administration projects, and operates in 47 states including the District of Columbia. Moreover, New Era has been in the "Houston 100" list of the city's fastest growing companies for four consecutive years. Bill was recognized in Who's Who in America in 1986, Who's Who in Finance and Industry in 1992, and in 1994 was awarded regional Entrepreneur of the Year, sponsored by Ernst and Young, Merrill Lynch, and Inc. Magazine.

Ms. Rebecca Potratz Creech

• BS '96, Purdue University
• MS '01, Purdue University

2008 Received Golden Apple Award from the Lafayette-West Lafayette Development Corporation and Chamber of Commerce
2007 Gave IACT presentation, "Inquiry Learning that Works"
2006 Gave HASTI presentation, "What Inquiring Minds Have Learned"
2006 Received Tippecanoe County Public Schools Foundation "Seeds of Excellence" Grant for $5,000 for the project "Connecting with Food Chemistry"
2002 Gave HASTI presentation, "What Inquiring Minds Want to Know"
2000 Developed and promoted a student-centered, inquiry-based approach to teaching chemistry

Rebecca Potratz Creech began her teaching career at LaSalle-Peru Township High School in LaSalle, Illinois. She taught biology and algebra at LaSalle-Peru while also serving as an assistant softball coach and school improvement co-chair. She returned to Purdue in 1998 to work as the Teacher-in-Residence for BioScope, a National Science Foundation-funded science education project. She left BioScope to become an academic advisor in the then-School of Science at Purdue. She returned to the classroom in 2000 when she accepted a biology and chemistry teaching position at Harrison High School in West Lafayette. She continues to teach chemistry at Harrison while also serving as the school improvement co-chair. In addition, she is the high school science chair for Tippecanoe School Corporation. While at Harrison, Rebecca has been involved as varsity softball coach, girls' basketball scorekeeper, and co-sponsor for Key Club and Sunshine Society. She accompanied a student to the INTEL International Science Fair in San Jose, California.

Rebecca gives back to the science education field by serving as a mentor for new teachers and in-service teachers. She works with Purdue Block I students each year and has mentored four Purdue student teachers. She also worked with students in the Summer Biology Experience at Purdue. She has partnered with chemistry education graduate students for four research projects and wrote standards-based chemistry lessons for the I-STEM Resource Network. Rebecca is a member of several science education organizations and has attended and presented at many state and national science education conferences.

Dr. N. Reed Dunnick

• BS '65, Purdue University
• MD '69, Cornell University Medical College

2008 Gold Medalist of the Society of Uroradiology. This award was given by Reed's colleagues in uroradiology.
2006 President-elect of the American Board of Radiology (ABR).
2006 Gold Medalist of the American Roentgen Ray Society. This is the oldest radiology society in the United States.
2005 Elected President of the Academy of Radiology Research. Reed testified before Congress about the need to establish an NIH institute for imaging research. In 2000, then-President Clinton signed into law the establishment of the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB).
2000 Founding president of the Radiology Research Alliance. It is comprised of the research directors and senior leaders in academic radiology research.
1992 Became chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan. Since then, the department has grown to almost 1,200 people and has ranked in the top five radiology departments in NIH research awards for the last several years.
1991 Co-authored Textbook of Uroradiology, now in its fourth edition. Few such texts continue such acceptance that they run through four editions.

Reed Dunnick is Fred Jenner Hodges Professor and chair of the Department of Radiology at the University of Michigan, where he investigates functional adrenal diseases, hypertension, renal masses, and the percutaneous approach to urolithiasis. His medical career is an impressive one. As chair of the Department of Radiology, Reed oversees more than 180 physicians and a budget of nearly $40 million. He is the founding president of the Radiology Research Alliance, the recipient of several grants from the National Institutes of Health, and has served on the editorial boards of 12 peer-reviewed journals. He has authored eight books, contributed to 61 book chapters, is the author or co-author of nearly 300 articles in scientific journals, and has been a presenter at more than 140 national medical meetings.

He received his medical degree from Cornell University Medical College in New York City. He was a resident in internal medicine at Strong Memorial Hospital at the University of Rochester in New York, and completed his radiology residency at Stanford University School of Medicine in California. He was also named Best Doctor in America on six occasions. Reed's favorite Purdue memories include watching Bob Griese leading Purdue over Notre Dame, participating in - and once winning - the University Sing, participating in intramural athletics, and working in the Purdue Memorial Union.

Dr. Moira Gunn

• PhD '74, Purdue University
• MS '72, Purdue University
• BS '70, University of San Francisco

2007 Publication of book, Welcome to BioTech Nation; My Unexpected odyssey into the Lan of Small Molecules, Lean genes, and Big Ideas
2006 Program Director, Information Systems Programs, College of Professional Studeis, University of San Francisco
2006 Founder of Purdue's Science Journalism Laureates Program
2004 Founder and host of public radio's "BioTech Nation"
2001 College of Science, Dean's Leadership Council, Purdue University
1993 Founder and host, public radio's "Tech Nation"
1990 Patent, Nutritional Measurement System
1987 President, Tech Nation Media
1979 Independent engineering consultant
1978 Adjunct Professor, University of San Francisco
1974-79 Manager, Systems Development Division, NASA/Ames Research Center, Institute for Advanced Computation

After becoming the first woman to earn a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering at Purdue, Moira Gunn gained valuable hands-on experience as a NASA computer scientist and engineer. Today, she is best known as the host of the "Tech Nation" and "BioTech Nation" public radio programs, where she relates the impact and challenges of science and technology to audiences around the world.

Gunn created "Tech Nation" in 1993, a time when she could readily see the rise of personal tech, and went on to create "BioTech Nation" in 2004, when DNA, genetically-modified food, and bioenergy moved into national focus. This programming is now heard weekly on more than 200 public radio stations, six National Public Radio Sirius satellite radio channels, multiple times to 133 countries via American Forces Radio International, and hundreds of thousands of downloads via the Internet. In more than 2,000 interviews, she has talked with business leaders including Google's Larry Page and Sergey Brin, scientists such as Crick and Watson, politicians such as John McCain and John Kerry, and Nobel Laureates from Linus Pauling to Muhammad Yunus.

Gunn's topics are diverse—they range from biotech extracted from wallabees to cutting-edge Parkinson's surgery, from high-tech business to national politics and social issues to the role that technology plays in history. Gunn strives to show that all facets of the world we live in are affected by science and technology. "We're trying to make sense of an overwhelming wave of life-changing technologies. People are desperate to make sense of it," she says. During her tenure with NASA, Gunn worked in large-scale scientific computation and global communications. She went on to work as a consultant and applied her expertise to areas such as robotics, financial data management, and nutrition research for clients ranging from IBM to the U.S. Navy. She holds a patent with two USDA scientists for technology key to human nutrition research.

Today, Gunn is director of the Information Systems programs for working professionals at the University of San Francisco. There she has created specialized emphases in information security and revamped the curriculum to bring unprecedented enrollments in the BSIS and MSIS degree programs. In 2006, she founded the Science Journalism Laureates Program at Purdue, which has drawn a global community of science journalists and thought leaders to the university. With her two sons grown, now—more than ever—Gunn is energized by an ever-expanding sense of wonder about the place of science and technology in our world. She envisions no end to the topics she covers and the people she interviews on her popular radio programs. In her words, "Everyone is essential. Everyone is a piece of the puzzle."

Gunn's Purdue awards include Distinguished Science Alumni Award (2007), Science Journalism Laureate (2006), College of Science Dean's Ovation Award (2006), Outstanding Mechanical Engineer (2001), and Old Master (2000).

Dr. David Hager

• BS '79, Purdue University
• MBA '84, Southern Methodist University

2005 Named chief operating officer of Kerr-McGee Corporation
1979 Began career with Mobil Corporation

David A. Hager retired as the chief operating officer for Kerr-McGee Corporation upon their acquisition by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation on August 10, 2006. Dave began his career in the oil and gas industry in 1979 as a geophysicist with Mobil Corporation. After joining Sun Oil Company (predecessor of Oryx Energy Company) in 1981, he advanced to positions of increasing responsibility. He joined Kerr-McGee as vice president of Gulf of Mexico operations following the company's merger with Oryx in 1999. He became vice president of international operations in April 2000 and was named vice president of worldwide deepwater exploration and production in October 2000. He became senior vice president responsible for worldwide oil and natural gas exploration and production in March 2003. Dave joined the board of Devon Energy Corporation in August 2007 and Pride International Inc. in February 2008. Dave and his wife, Alice, live in Edmond, Oklahoma, with their three children, Robert (18), Emily (13), and David, Jr. (11).

Dr. Daniel A. Reed

• BS '78, University of Missouri-Rolla
• MS '80, Purdue University
• PhD '83, Purdue University

2007 Co-chaired subcommittee on information technology for the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), which produced the report "Leadership Under Challenge: Information Technology in a Competitive World."
2005 Co-chaired subcommittee on computational science for the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), which produced the report "Computational Science: Ensuring America's Competitiveness."
2004 The Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) is launched to capitalize on the strengths of UNC, Duke, and NCSU, and the social, business, and research opportunities of the Research Triangle and the State of North Carolina.
2001 Directed the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois and spearheaded a proposal to create a Distributed Terascale Facility (DTF) and the NSF TeraGrid.
2000 While heading the University of Illinois Department of Computer Science, Thomas M. Siebel donates $32 million to endow the Siebel Center for Computer Science as a new home for the department.

Daniel A. Reed is Microsoft's scalable and multicore computing strategist, responsible for re-envisioning the data center and parallel computing platform of the future. Previously, he was the Chancellor's Eminent Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, as well as the Director of the Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI), a venture supported by the state of North Carolina and three universities - the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Duke University, and North Carolina State University - that explored the interactions of computing technology with the sciences, arts, and humanities. Daniel also served as Chancellor's Senior Advisor for Strategy and Innovation for the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research focuses on the design of very high-speed computers and on providing new computing capabilities for science, engineering, and the humanities, as well as business and society.

Daniel is a member of President George W. Bush's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) and a former member of the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC), providing advice on information technology issues and challenges to the president. He recently chaired a review of the federal networking and IT research portfolio, and he is chair of the board of directors of the Computing Research Association. He was previously head of the Department of Computer Science at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He has also been director of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at UIUC, where he also led National Computational Science Alliance, a consortium of roughly 50 academic institutions and national laboratories that is developing next-generation software infrastructure of scientific computing. He was also one of the principal investigators and chief architect for the NSF TeraGrid.

Mr. Patrick J. Starich

• BS '81, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
• MS '84, Purdue University

2007 Received ExxonMobil Exploration — Geoscience Leadership Award
2005 Named Purdue Earth and Atmospheric Sciences Outstanding Alumnus
2003 Awarded a Life Membership in Geophysical Society of Houston
1994 Named Outstanding Instructor at Exxon Production Research

Patrick J. Starich was born and raised in Milwaukee, attended St. Catherine's Elementary School, and graduated from Brookfield Central High School. A childhood interest in photography and fascination with light, optics, and chemistry by age 10 sparked an interest in physical sciences that developed into his academic and professional pursuits. He and Marie, who was a graduate student in Civil Engineering, met in 1982 at Purdue. Marie and Patrick were married in Charleston, South Carolina, in April of 1985 and moved to Houston, Texas, in 1986 where they still live with their two children, Olivia and Bartholomew. Patrick's professional career includes nearly 24 years of scientific work at ExxonMobil's exploration, research, and development companies. He has broad technical knowledge and experience in the development of cutting-edge 3D seismic methods, gravity and magnetics, stratigraphy, structural geology, geophysical applications, risk analyses, and integrated subsurface imaging technologies. He is an experienced exploration and development geoscientist with extensive knowledge of the habit and occurrence of oil and gas accumulations in a large number of petroleum basins worldwide.

Patrick holds the position of geophysical associate with ExxonMobil Exploration Unconventional Resources. His responsibilities include identification of global opportunities for heavy oil, tar sand, basin-center gas, coal bed methane, and oil shale. He has served as technical advisor to ExxonMobil's exploration, production, development, and research affiliates. His contributions to the ExxonMobil's efforts include evaluating opportunity quality and risk, assessing hydrocarbon volumes, and contributing to drilling decisions, and appraising resource additions. He served as the company's upstream geophysical coordinator in 2005 and 2006, coordinating alignment of exploration, development, and production geophysical activities in key global operating regions.

Patrick has presented and published many technical papers and reports both inside and outside of ExxonMobil and lectured in company training courses and symposia. His professional memberships include the Society of Exploration Geophysicists and the Geophysical Society of Houston where he has served as editor, secretary, vice president, and president and was awarded Life Membership in 2003. He is licensed by the Texas Board of Professional Geoscientists. He lives in the City of West University Place, Texas, where he served on the Zoning and Planning Commission from 1995 to 1997 and the City Council from 1997 to 1999.

Dr. Lowell E. Wenger

• BS '71, Purdue University
• MS '73, Purdue University
• PhD '75, Purdue University

2003 Named dean, School of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alabama at Birmingham
1998 Appointed chair, Department of Physics, Wayne State University
1996 Became an associate dean, College of Science, Wayne State University
1982 Named a Fulbright-Hays Senior Research Fellow, Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratorium, Leiden University, The Netherlands

Lowell Wenger is the dean of the School of Natural Sciences and Mathematics at The University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) where he is responsible for more than 90 faculty and 1,700 students. He has led the NSM faculty through major curricular changes to improve student learning in mathematics and to enhance research and honors opportunities for undergraduates. Before joining UAB, Lowell was a member of the physics faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, and held administrative positions of chair in the Department of Physics and associate dean in the College of Science. As a researcher, he has authored over 120 journal articles and presented his work at numerous national and international conferences. His work focuses on the calorimetric and magnetic properties of spin-glass, superparamagnetic, and other magnetic materials. In addition, he has studied the paramagnetic Meissner and Josephson effects in both conventional and hightemperature superconducting materials. He is presently serving as a co-PI on an National Science Foundation-funded project titled "UAB ADVANCE Institutional Transformation Award," whose objective is to increase the number of female faculty in the science and engineering disciplines. Lowell is a member of the American Physical Society, Materials Research Society, and Sigma Xi, and of the Sigma Pi Sigma, and Phi Kappa Phi honorary societies. He was awarded a Fulbright-Hays Research Fellowship in 1982 and Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship in 1978 and was a recipient of a Board of Governors Faculty Recognition Award and an inaugural Career Development Award while at Wayne State.

Lowell is originally from Middlebury, Indiana, and is a 1967 graduate of Middlebury High School. He and his wife, Andrea (MS '76, Consumer and Family Sciences), reside in the Riverchase area of Birmingham, Alabama.

Dr. Louis F. Wong

• BS '70, Northern Arizona University
• PhD '76, Purdue University

Present Works in Global Beauty Analytical with responsibilities for Beauty Analytical Technology and Deodorants and Male Personal Care Analytical in Cincinnati, Ohio, and Cosmetics Analytical in Baltimore, Maryland.
2002 Awarded two awards: (1) Global Analytical Leadership Recognition award and (2) PhD Campus Recruiter of the Year award
1995-2000 Section Head for North America Beauty Care Analytical
1990-1995 Section Head - Personal Cleansing Product Development
1987 Promoted to Section Head - Bar Soap & Household Cleaning Products Analytical
1976 Joined Procter and Gamble Company in the Bar Soap & Household Cleaning Research & Development organization

Lou joined The Procter & Gamble Company May 24, 1976, in the Bar Soap and Household Cleaning Product Development Division. Since joining the company, he has had a variety of research and development assignments in technology development, upstream products research, current business development, and analytical science in fabric care, skin and personal care, hard surface cleaners, and beauty care. He is the holder of over 20 patents and has numerous internal and external publications and presentations. Lou has been a PhD recruiter for Procter & Gamble at Purdue since 1976 and has interviewed and recruited numerous Purdue PhD graduates for Procter & Gamble. He has also served multiple terms on the Purdue Chemistry Department Advisory Board.