Purdue professors recognized with highest honor in their fields – Journal & Courier

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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. Three Purdue professors have been selected to receive the highest honors in their respective fields:humanities and social sciences andquantum sciences, according to a Purdue press release.

ProfessorEllen Ernst Kossek is a distinguished professor ofManagement in the Krannert School of Management. She was nominated by her peers andchosen by university president Mitch Daniels to be giventhe2021 Lu Ann Aday Award.

TheLu Ann Aday Awardwas first established in 2017 by Purdue alumna Lu Ann Aday, a distinguished professor in Public Health and Medicine at the University of Texas School of Public Health-Houston, according to the release. This award annually recognizes a member of Purdue faculty who has achieved major impacts in the field of humanities and social sciences.

Kossek is a social scientist who researches how the functions of the workplace - employees, managers and overall organizations - can improve workplace cultures and the "effectiveness of work-family policies," according to the Purdue release.

Along with her research, Kossek also continuously organizes the"Dismantling Biases: Bridging Research to Practice"conference. Research from this conference has been published as books and referred articles, as stated in the release. The next conference is set for March 22-24, 2022.

Kossek will givethe Lu Ann Aday Distinguished Lecture at 2 p.m. on Nov. 1. The virtual lecture will be made available to the public.

Michael J. Manfra was nominated by his colleagues and selected by president Daniels to receive theArden L. Bement Jr. Award. This award was first established in 2015 by Purdue professor Emeritus Arden Bement and his wife, Louise Bement, to "annually recognize a Purdue faculty member for recent outstanding accomplishments in pure and applied sciences and engineering," according to the release.

Manfra is receiving this honor for his work in quantum physics. He and his team at Purdue reporter a landmark experiment in 2020 that found evidence of "anyons,"fractional statistics of quasiparticles. This was the first time direct evidence of such a substance's existence sincequasiparticles were first proposed in the early 1980s.

Manfra serves as thescientific director of Microsoft Quantum Lab West Lafayette andcontributesto the Quantum Science Center. He will give theArden L. Bement Jr. Distinguished Lecture at 3 p.m.on Nov. 12. This will be a virtual lecture and will be made available to the public, according to the release.

Yong Chen, a professor of physics and astronomy, electrical and computer engineering and thedirector of Purdue Quantum Science and Engineering Institute, willreceive the 2021 Herbert Newby McCoy Award. This prestigious award is given to those who have show outstanding work in the field of natural sciences.

Chen has successfully implemented a program at Purdue that focuses on "timely problems in nanoscience," according to the release. He continues to lead a large research group that works on quantum matter and devices.

Chen was one of the first in the world to "synthesize and study large-scale graphene and graphene single crystals," as stated in the release. As such, he is considered to be a global leader ingraphene-based materials.

In addition to his research, Chen serves on theGovernance Advisory Board forQuantum Science Center.

The 2021 recipients of these distinguished awardwill receive a cash prize along with a small grant for their university scholarly activities.

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