April 9, 2004

Trustees honor faculty, rename liberal arts department

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The Purdue University Board of Trustees today (Friday, 4/9) honored three faculty members with designated professorships, approved the appointment of vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of history at Purdue North Central, and approved posthumous tenure for a Purdue Calumet faculty member. Board members also voted to rename the Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

Chemistry professor Fred Regnier and communication professor Charles Stewart were appointed distinguished professors.

"These professorships are being awarded to some of Purdue's finest scholars and instructors," said Provost Sally Mason. "They are leaders among their peers and are pioneers in their fields. They each are making significant strides in carrying out our goal to make Purdue preeminent. Their work is exemplary of distinguished and extraordinary careers, and Purdue is fortunate to rank them among its faculty."

Fred Regnier

Regnier has been a world leader in analytical chemistry and biochemistry for several decades for his efforts in proteomics, the pioneering field of categorizing protein function.

He earned his bachelor's degree in chemistry from Nebraska State College and a doctorate in chemistry from Oklahoma State University. He did postdoctoral work at the University of Chicago and at Harvard University. He joined the faculty at Purdue in 1968 and has been associate director of Purdue's Agricultural Experiment Station.

He has received numerous awards from peer groups for his achievements in chromatography, including the David B. Hime Award by the Chicago Chromatography Discussion Group, the Stephen Dal Nogare Award from the Delaware Valley Chromatography Discussion Group, the ACS Award from the American Chemical Society, the Martin Gold Medal Award from the Chromatographic Society and the Pierce Award by Pierce Chemical Corp., among others.

Regnier sits on the boards of Liquid Chromatography Magazine, Journal of High Resolution Chromatography and the International Journal of Bio-Chromatography.

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