UPCOMING LECTURE SERIES SPEAKERS
Guest speakers and thought leaders will join Purdue President Mung Chiang as part of the lineup for this fall’s Presidential Lecture Series.
March 25
Loretta Rush
Purdue alumna Loretta Rush was named Indiana’s 108th Supreme Court justice in November 2012 after her appointment by then-Gov. Mitch Daniels. She was retained by voters in 2014 and 2024. The Judicial Nominating Commission named Rush the first female chief justice of Indiana in August 2014, and she was reappointed in 2019 and 2024.
Prior to joining the high court, Rush spent 15 years at a Lafayette law firm and was elected three times as Tippecanoe Superior Court 3 judge.
She earned an undergraduate degree in history from Purdue’s College of Liberal Arts and a law degree from Indiana University Maurer School of Law, both with honors.
April 10
Thomas Rosenbaum
Selected as Caltech’s ninth president in July 2014, Thomas Rosenbaum is a pioneer in the field of quantum mechanics and also serves as the Sonja and William Davidow Presidential Chair and Professor of Physics.
Before arriving at Caltech, Rosenbaum spent over 30 years at the University of Chicago, serving as provost from 2007-14. He also was the James Franck Professor of Physics and the John T. Wilson Distinguished Service Professor there. In addition, he served as director of the James Franck Institute, and vice president for research at UChicago and for Argonne National Laboratory.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in physics with honors from Harvard College, and a master’s and PhD from Princeton University.
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