Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels appointed chemical engineering student Miranda McCormack to the Purdue Board of Trustees yesterday (6/7/11). A native of Fowler, Ind., she will represent the student body, serving as the student trustee, effective July 1. She graduated second in her high school class at Benton Central High School in Oxford in 2009.

In both 2007 and 2008, when she was a high school junior and senior, McCormack participated in teams of students from Indiana high schools that placed in the top three finishers in the Purdue Research Park Entrepreneurship Academy competition. All members of teams that placed in the top three in both of those years received vouchers to help cover college expenses.