Ramaswamy Subramanian was named the Gerald and Edna Mann Director of the Bindley Bioscience Center. Subramanian joined Purdue’s faculty in 2019 as director of the Bindley Bioscience Center and professor of biological sciences and biomedical engineering. His research interests lie in macromolecular structure and function using diffraction and cryo-EM focused on new therapeutic approaches to bacterial infection and developmental diseases of the retina. Previously, Subramanian helped create a structural biology program at the University of Iowa and was the founding dean of the Institute for Stem Cell Science and Regenerative Medicine in Bangalore, India. Additionally, he co-founded and served as the first CEO of the Center for Cellular and Molecular Platforms, a life sciences innovation hub for academia, industry and startup companies. As a business entrepreneur, Subramanian has co-founded companies that include UltraNutri and Ignite Life Science Foundation. He is a member of the Commission on Synchrotron Radiation of the International Union of Crystallography, the American Chemical Society, the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is also a fellow of the Electron Microscope Society of India. Subramanian’s honors and awards include being named the University of Iowa Foundation’s Innovator of the Year.

Juan Wachs was named the James H. and Barbara H. Greene Professor. He joined Purdue in 2009. He is a professor and faculty scholar in the School of Industrial Engineering and a professor of biomedical engineering (by courtesy), and he is an adjunct associate professor of surgery at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Wachs previously served at the National Science Foundation as a program director for robotics and AI programs at the Directorate for Computer and Information Science and Engineering. He currently serves as director of the Intelligent Systems and Assistive Technologies Lab at Purdue and is affiliated with the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. Wachs is a senior member of IEEE and associate editor of the journals IEEE Transactions in Human-Machine Systems and Frontiers in Robotics and AI. He served on several additional editorial boards in previous years. His honors and awards include being named a University Faculty Scholar, receiving the Air Force Young Investigator Award and the James A. and Sharon M. Tompkins Rising Star Associate Professorship, and more. He was a 2015 Helmsley Senior Scientist Fellow and a 2016 Fulbright U.S. Scholar.

The Purdue University Board of Trustees recently ratified faculty appointments and approved resolutions of appreciation and the naming of the School of Industrial Engineering. The trustees further approved naming the School of Industrial Engineering to the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.