Rickus named University Faculty Scholar
Jenna Rickus, a professor of biomedical engineering and agricultural and biological engineering, has been named a University Faculty Scholar. This honor recognizes outstanding faculty who are on an accelerated path for academic distinction in the discovery and dissemination of knowledge.
University Faculty Scholars are select associate and full professors who have been in that rank for no more than five years. In the College of Engineering, they are nominated by committees from their academic areas, and reviewed and recommended by a subcommittee of the College's named and distinguished professors. The dean then makes the selection and requests approval by the provost. Faculty scholars are appointed for a nonrenewable five-year term and receive an annual $10,000 discretionary allocation. The University Faculty Scholar program was created at Purdue in 1998.