2025 Alumni Awards

HANNAH THOMPSON, RDN, LD, CPT

2020, Coordinated Program in Dietetics

Titles:
Owner and Non-Diet Dietitian, Health with Hannah, LLC
 
Clinical Outpatient Dietitian, Parkview Health, Fort Wayne, Indiana


Education:
2020, Coordinated Program in Dietetics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
BS 2019; Dietetics/Nutrition, Fitness, and Health; Purdue University; West Lafayette, Indiana
 
Highlights:
Present Collaborations with various guest speakers on The Up-Beet Dietitians podcast, which has over 190,000 streams and counting
 
2021-24 Various brand partnerships, including Potatoes USA, Beef Checkoff, Pork Checkoff, Premier Protein, RIND, Hint, Banza and more
 
2021-24 Guest speaker for Purdue Dining and Culinary’s Food Service and Nutrition Summer Internship and various undergraduate nutrition classes
 
2020-24 Featured in Girls’ Life magazine, Business Insider, Buzzfeed and Feedspot and as a guest expert on podcasts, including The Dairy Download, Intuitive Bites, Truly Fit, The Shift Method and The Dietitian Collaborative
 
2023 Guest speaker for medical students at Lincoln Memorial University-DeBusk College of Osteopathic Medicine

LISA GOFFMAN, PHD, CCC-SLP

BS 1982, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences

Title:
Senior Scientist and Endowed Chair; Center for Childhood Deafness, Language and Learning; Boys Town National Research Hospital; Omaha, Nebraska


Education:
PhD 1994, Audiology and Speech Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
MS 1985, Speech-Language Pathology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
BS 1982, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
Highlights:
2024-present Endowed Chair, Center for Deafness, Language, and Learning, Boys Town National Research Hospital
 
2022 Honors of the Association Award, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
 
2020-21 Co-Chair, NIDCD Advisory Council’s Diversity Working Group
 
2019-24 Advisory Council Member, National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (NIDCD)
 
1996-present Continuous NIH research funding

NANCY QUAN

BS 1989, Food Science and Nutrition Science

Title:
Executive Vice President and Global Chief Technical and Innovation Officer, The Coca-Cola Company, Atlanta, Georgia
 
Education:
BS 1989, Food Science and Nutrition Science, Purdue University, West Lafayette
 
Highlights:
2023 A-List Award, Ascend Global Leaders
 
2022 Outstanding 50 Asian Americans in Business Award, Asian American Business Development Center
 
2022 Inducted into the Academy of Women Achievers, YWCA of Greater Atlanta
 
2018 Top 40 Women in Innovation Award, Front End of Innovation
 
2017 Inducted into the Hall of Fame, Department of Nutrition Department, Purdue University

ABRAHAM TESSER

PhD 1967, Social Psychology

Titles:
Professor Emeritus, Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia
Designer, Maker and Owner; Studio Furniture
 
Education:
PhD 1967, Social Psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
MS 1965, Social Psychology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
BA 1962, Psychology, Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York


Highlights:
2010 Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award, Society of Experimental Social Psychology
 
2000 President, Society for Personality and Social Psychology, American Psychological Association (Division 8)
 
1999 Donald T. Campbell Award, Society for Personality and Social Psychology
 
1991-94 Editor, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology: Attitudes and Social Cognition
 
1976-77, 1994-2000 National Research Service Award and Senior Research Scientist Award, National Institute of Mental Health

DONALD E. GRAY

MS 1972, Kinesiology

Title:
Insurance Agent (Retired), State Farm, Merrillville, Indiana
 
Education:
MS 1972, Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
BS 1971, Physical Education and Health, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana
 
Highlights:
2004 Silver Scroll Award, State Farm
 
2002, 2025 Appreciation Award, Hearts in Motion
 
1990s-present Building houses, a nutrition center, a church, an orphanage, a daycare and more for the children and people of Guatemala through Hearts In Motion
 
1976-84 Director of Physical Education, Crown Point Community School Corporation