Appointments, honors and activities

Notables:

–  Mara Faccio, the Duke Realty Chair in Finance and professor of management in the Krannert School of Management, has been shown as the No. 1 cited female scientist in academic finance in a study composed by researchers at the University of Oxford and the University of Technology Sydney. In the paper, “The Inequality of Finance,” the study showed that Faccio authored or co-authored 25 papers in 2019 that were cited by 1,332 other publications. That ranks her as the most productive scholar in her field. Faccio’s research interest is in international finance, and her work has appeared in numerous academic journals.

– The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine has announced that, following a national search, Carlotta M. Arthur will join the organization as the new executive director of its Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education on Feb. 14, 2022. Arthur was the first African American woman to earn a B.S. in metallurgical engineering from Purdue University. More information available online.

– Purdue University has been recognized as a Center of Actuarial Excellence by the Society of Actuaries (SOA). The SOA provides a list of Universities and Colleges with Actuarial Programs that serves as a resource for students looking for a university/college actuarial program. This list is composed of three levels of recognition, the highest being CAE (Center of Actuarial Excellence). The CAE designation recognizes programs that have met highly specific criteria related to degree(s) offered, curriculum, graduate count, faculty composition, graduate quality, appropriate integration with other areas of study, connection to industry, actuarial research and professional involvement. The program also allows universities and colleges with outstanding actuarial programs the opportunity to be recognized for that achievement and to compete for grants for education and research. Purdue actuarial science is in the Department of Mathematics in the College of Science.