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Tour of the Lab |
Photos of Current and Previous Research Groups
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Laboratory Equipment |
Annual Croquet Match
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November 2007
- Peppas Laboratory All Researchers
First row: Alper
Konuk, Melissa Kanzelberger, Farha Butt,
Kristin Lutek, Amber Doiron, Maggie Phillips,
Isis Trenchard Second row: Nicholas Peppas,
Adam Ekenseair, Omar Fisher, Barbara Ekerdt,
John Yang. Ruben Morones, Steve Marek Third
row: Stephen Dietz, Brandon Slaughter, Daniel
Carr, Martin Gran, Diana Snelling, Shahana
Khurshid, James Dempsey, Justin Shofner,
David Kryscio, Carolyn Baker
November 2007
- Peppas Laboratory Graduate Researchers
First row: Amber
Doiron, Omar Fisher, Melissa Kanzelberger,
Ruben Morones, Maggie Phillips, Diana Snelling,
Shahana Khurshid, Carolyn Bayer, Steve Marek
Second row: Dr. Nicholas A. Peppas, Martin
Gran, Justin Shofner, Daniel Carr, Adam
Ekenseair, David Kryscio, Brandon Slaughter
February 2007
- Peppas Laboratory
First row: Dr. Nicholas
Peppas, Adrianne Rosales, Martin Gran, Omar
Fisher, Jeff Wilson, Carolyn Bayer, Ruben
Morones, David Beavers, Melissa Kanzelberger,
Maggie Phillips, Shahana Khurshid, Irma
Sanchez, Isis Trenchard, Stephen Marek,
Megan Kittle
Second row: Brandon Slaughter, Daniel Carr,
Justin Shofner, Diana Snelling, Adam Ekenseair,
Terry Farmer
March 2006 -
PhD Students
First row: Michael
Marks, Omar Fisher, Carolyn Bayer, Jeff
Wilson, Dr. Nicholas Peppas, Daniel Carr,
Justin Shofner, Adam Ekenseair, Steve Marek
Second row: Melissa Kanzelberger, Kristy
Wood, Hunter Lauten, J. Brock Thomas, Don
Owens, Terry Farmer, Ruben Morones
March 2006 - Undergraduate
Lab Members
David Beavers,
Greg Stone, Jonathan Ng, Joseph Tsingsanchali,
Courtney Creecy, Peter Jian, Jack Eby, Brandon
Slaughter
March 2006 - Laboratory
of Dr. Nicholas Peppas
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November 2004
(AIChE - Austin, TX)
First row: Kristy
Wood (Epic), Tom Dziubla (U Kentucky), Balaji
Narasimhan (Iowa SU), Nicki Bergmann (Rice
Univ)
Second row: Mark Byrne (Auburn U), Madeline
Torres-Lugo (U Puerto Rico), Alec Scranton
(U Iowa), Marianthi Ierapetritou (Rutgers),
Bob Parker (U Pittsburgh), Yannis Androulakis
(Rutgers), Esmaiel Jabbari (U S Carolina),
Kim Hayden (U Missouri), Chris Bowman (U
Colorado), Chris Brazel (U Alabama), Surya
Mallapragada (Iowa SU)
Third row: Nicholas Peppas, Lisa Brannon-Peppas
(U Texas), Tony Lowman (Drexel), Jay Blanchette
(U Colorado), David Henthorn (U Missouri),
Tom Chiesl (Northwestern U) and Zach Hilt
(U Kentucky)
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March 2004
First row: Don Owens,
Mamoru Fukuda, Terry Farmer, Hunter Lauten,
Nikhil Kavimandan, Brock Thomas, Jay Blanchette,
Zach Hilt.
Second row: Kristy Wood, Nicki Bergmann,
Preeti Sood, Dan Barad, Jeff Wilson.
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Spring 2002:
The last group of graduate students
at Purdue University
Front: Mark Byrne,
Bumsang Kim, Laura Serra, Nicki Bergmann,
Ebru Oral, Jennifer Lopez, David Henthorn
Back: Nicholas Peppas, Aaron Foss, Nikhil
Kavimandan, Zach Hilt, Cristina Donini,
Jay Blanchette
Of these, Ebru Oral, Jennifer Lopez,
Aaron Foss, and Cristina Donini finished
at Purdue and the rest moved to the
University of Texas at the end of December
2002. Ebru Oral was the very last student
in the 26 year history of the lab at
Purdue. She recalls printing six copies
of her PhD thesis in the lab printer
on November 20, 2002. As soon as she
had finished, that printer was the last
item packed and loaded in two trucks
that left for Austin, arriving there
on December 3. The Austin labs were
operational on January 15, 2003! Mark
Byrne and David Henthorn returned to
Purdue at the end of 2003 to defend
their theses. The rest graduated from
the University of Texas at Austin.
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April 2002
First row: Nikhil
Kavimandan, Ebru Oral, Laura Serra,
Nicki Bergmann, Jennifer Lopez, Cristina
Donini, Bumsang Kim and Mark Byrne.
Second row: Aaron Foss, Jay Blanchette,
Zach Hilt, David Henthorn
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2002
Front: Madeline
Torres-Lugo (Univ Puerto Rico), Cristina
Donini (Serono), Bill Leobandung (Intel),
Jing Zhang (Givaudan), Monica Little
(3M), Ebru Oral (Mass General Hospital),
Bumsang Kim (Korea)
Back: David Henthorn (Univ Missouri-Rolla),
Yanbin Huang (Alza), Jenny Ward (Exxon
Mobil), Javier Pacheco-Gomez (Lilly),
Aaron Foss (Medtronic), Petr Bures (Bayer)
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December
2001
Nicholas Peppas,
Nikhil Kavimandan, Diana Whirledge,
Aaron Foss, Mrs Kim and son, Bumsang
Kim, Kim Heyden (now Heyden-Henthorn),
Nicki Bergmann, David Henthorn, Carlee
Hilt, Zach Hilt, Laura Serra, Susan
Byrne, Cristina Donini, Mark Byrne,
Jay Blanchette, Jennifer Lopez, Scott
McClellan
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December
2000
Sitting: Petr
Bures, Christie Dorski (now Christie
Bures), Madeline Torres-Lugo, Kelley
Keys, Jennifer Harting Ward, Tony Fan
Standing: Tony Lowman, NAP, Yanbin Huang,
Bob Parker, Bill Leobandung, Kairali
Podual, Atsmon Shahar, Jing Zhang, Rob
Scott, Rachel Peck (now Rachel Simmons),
Aaron Foss, Tonya Tetrick (now Tonya
Chalfant), Kevin Rabinovitch, Diane
Whirledge, David Henthorn, Upma Sharma,
Tom Dziubla, Sandy Mui
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December
2000
Yanbin Huang,
Nicholas Peppas, Jay Blanchette, Bumsang
Kim, Ebru Oral, Madeline Torres-Lugo,
Teresa Zakaria, Daphne Robinson, Petr
Bures, Aaron Foss, Erin Moulesong, Oya
Sipahigil, David Henthorn, Mark Byrne,
Jennifer Lopez
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November
2000
From the dinner
for the departure of Dr Hideki Ichikawa
(now professor of Pharmacy at Kobe-Gakuin
University, Kobe, Japan). Jing Zhang,
Jorge Pacheco-Gomez, Madeline Torres-Lugo,
Ebru Oral, Bill Leobandung, Eduardo
Juan, Nicholas Peppas, David Henthorn,
Yanbin Huang, Hideki Ichikawa, Petr
Bures and Aaron Foss
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December
1998
Front: Nicholas
Peppas, Madeline Torres-Lugo, Petr Bures,
Bill Leobandung, Sujata Harshvardan,
Jing Zhang, Rachel Peck, Jenny Harting
Ward, Ebru Oral Back: Hideki Ichikawa,
Yanbin Huang, Aaron Foss, David Henthorn,
Javier Pacheco-Gomez, Christie Dorski
Hassan
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1998
Back: Christie
Dorski (Westvaco), Jenny Ward (ExxonMobil),
Yanbin Huang (Alza), Aaron Foss (Medtronic)
Front: Petr Bures (Bayer), Jing Zhang
(Givaudan), Kelley Keys (Lilly), Madeline
Torres-Lugo (Univ Puerto Rico) , Bill
Leobandung (Intel), Kairali Podual (Bioarrays)
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August 1998
On August 8,
1998 about 100 hundred former students
and friends gathered in Indianapolis
for a surprise party in honor of Prof
Peppas’ 50th birthday (the actual date
being two weeks later). Here from the
day events of August 9, 1998, Nicholas
Peppas, Michelle Knight (BS '83), Tony
Lowman (PhD '97), John Howell (BS '83),
John Jr, Matthew and Barbara Barr-Howell
(MS '84), and Prof Rena Bizios, now
at the University of Texas in San Antonio,
a long -term friend of Professor Peppas
as labmate in Dr Lees' Arteriosclerosis
Center at MIT
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June 1998
Front row: Bill
Leobandung, Kelley Keys, Madeline Torres-Lugo,
Kairali Podual, Jing Zhang and Jennifer
Harting Back row: Aaron Foss, Atzmon
Shahar, Christie Dorski, Nicholas Peppas,
Flemming Madsen, Petr Bures and Yanbin
Huang
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December
1997
Monica Little,
Kairali Podual-Banerjee, Lisa Schwarte-Runge,
Bob Parker, Jing Zhang-Rosing, Rob and
Elle Scott, Nicholas Peppas, Laura and
Tony Lowman, Balaji Narasimhan, Kelley
Keys
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November
1997
A gathering of
former students of the Peppas laboratory
at the Purdue hospitality suite of the
1997 AIChE meeting in Los Angeles, CA
on November 18, 1997. From left: Dr
Flemming Madsen (now of Colorplast,
Humlebaek, Denmark), Chris Bowman (now
Associate Dean of Engineering, University
of Colorado), Matt Helmkamp (now with
Rohm and Haas Company, Deer Park, TX),
Prof Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Dr Becky Ficek-Fredrickson
(now a practicing ophthalmologist, Northwest
Eye Associates, Houston, TX), Prof Kristi
Anseth (now distinguished professor
at the University of Colorado), Prof
Alec Scranton (now Associate Dean of
Engineering at the University of Iowa),
Dr Richard Korsmeyer (now Global Head
of Licensing with Pfizer), Nicholas
Peppas, Tony Lowman (now Associate Dean
of Engineering at Drexel University),
Kairali Podual-Banerjee (now with BioArray
Solutions in Piscataway, NJ), Prof Surya
Mallapragada (now professor at the Iowa
State University), Adam Turk (a postoctoral
fellow at the Research Center of Design,
Management and Infrastructure of Delft
University of Technology, the Netherlands),
Jennifer Sinclair Curtis (Head of Chemical
Engineering at the University of Florida)
and Prof Balaji Narasimhan (Associate
Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University).
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August 1997
Nicholas and
Lisa Peppas, Tony Lowman, Juergen Siepmann,
Flemming Madsen and friend, Kelley Keys,
Christie Dorski, Kairali Podual, Rob
and Elle Scott, Jing Zhang
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Summer 1997
Front: Juergen
Siepmann, Kelley Keys, Kairali Podual,
Jing Zhang
Back: Nicholas Peppas, Tony Lowman,
Flemming Madsen, Christie Dorski, Rob
Scott
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October 1995
First Row: Monica
Little, Christie Dorski, Lisa Schwarte,
Surya Mallapragada,
Kairali Podual, Balaji Narasimhan, Rob
Scott
Second Row: Sheila Wright, Tony Lowman,
Chris Brazel, Prof. Paolo Colombo, Bob
Parker
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August 1995
Bob Parker, Chris
Brazel, Nicholas Peppas, Kristi Anseth
(as a postdoc in the lab), Sheila Wright,
Christie Dorski, Lisa Schwarte and Surya
Mallapragada
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April 1995
This picture
includes the legendary honors class
of 1995. Ten honors students of that
year (Brad Chadwell, Jennifer Swiger,
Amy Lutrell, Sarah Vakkalanka, Michelle
McFerrin, Michelle Bland, Neena Mongia,
Jennifer Bauerle, Chrsitie Dorski, Kelley
Britton) did their BS honors theses
in the Peppas laboratory under the expert
tutelage of Chris Brazel who showed
signs of briliant organizational skills.
Of these ten honors students, eight
went on to receive PhD, MD, MBA, JD
and other professional degrees. All
ten published papers, a total of 16
publications and 24 proceedings/abstracts.
The graduate students in this picture
did not do less, with four of them becoming
nationally known academic leaders (Surya
Mallapragada, Bob Parker, Balaji Narasimhan,
Chris Brazel). Absent from this picture
is Tony Lowman, another academic leader
now. Front: Surya Mallapragada, Kairali
Podual-Banerjee, Sheila Wright, Bob
Parker. Second row: Lisa Schwarte-Runge,
Brad Chadwell, Jennifer Swiger-Sauriol,
Balaji Narasimhan Back row: Amy Lutrell-Borcherding,
Cynthia Bugert, Sarah Vakkalanka, Michelle
McFerrin-Anthony, Michelle Bland, Neena
Mongia-Tierney, Jennifer BauerleKmet,
Chris Brazel, Christie Dorski-Bures
and Kelley Britton-Keys
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December
1994
Kelley Britton-Keys,
Christie Dorski-Bures, Cynthia Bugert,
Laurie Hite, Chris Brazel
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August 1994
Chris Brazel,
Alla Pavlova-Hickey, Surya Mallapragada,
Ruggero Bettini and Dev Kurdikar
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July 1994
Alla Pavlova,
Dev and Champa Kurdikar, Surya Mallapragada,
Christie Dorski
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December
1993
Sitting from
left: Michelle McFerrin-Anthony (now
a senior business analyst at Dell Computers),
Rebecca Hays-Jessep (now in Horsell
Graphic, UK), Surya Mallapragada (now
Professor at Iowa State University),
Brad Berkowicz (now at Merck), Ann Grosvenor
(received PhD from Univ Kentucky), Lakshminarayana
Achar (Bayer India) Standing: Natalie
Wisniewski (received PhD from Duke Univ,
now independent consultant in California),
Ruggero Bettini (now Professor at the
Univ of Parma, Italy), Nicholas Peppas,
John and Cristi Bell-Huff, Linda Gudeman
(now on mission at Pyatigorsk, Russia),
Amy Jines, Balaji Narasimhan (now Associate
Dean of Engineering at Iowa State University),
Chris Brazel (now Professor at the University
of Alabama), Dev and Champa Kurdikar
(now at Baxter).
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December
1993
Nicholas Peppas,
Matt Helmkamp (now at Rohm and Haas),
Becky Ficek-Fredrickson (now ophthalmologist
at Northwest Eye Associates, Houston),
Amy Ouellette (now at Brown University),
Brad Berkowicz (now at Merck), and Mina
Mazdai (now at Air Products). Sitting:
Jennifer Smith (now at BP).
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December
1992
Balaji Narasimhan
(now Assoc Dean of Engineering at Iowa
State University), Kristine Dermoty,
Deepak Hariharan (Adhesives Research),
Amy Ouellette (now at Brown University)
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March 1992
First Row: Christi
Chisamore, Kristi Anseth, L. Achar,
Ankush Argade, Ernie Davis
Second Row: Jennifer Sahlin, Esmaiel
Jabbari, Dukjoon Kim, Mary am Ende
Third Row: Jianchu Wu, Cristi Bell,
Dev Kurdikar, Deepak Hariharan, Sam
Bhargava, Atul Khare, Eric Dietz
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December
1991
Front row (from
left): Mary Rugger-am Ende (now at Pfizer),
Atul Khare (now at Baxter), Jennifer
Sahlin (now at 3M), Esmaiel Jabbari
(now a Professor at the University of
South Carolina), Deb Kurdikar (now at
Baxter), Saumitra Bhargava; second row:
Jianchu Wu, Nicholas Peppas; third row:
Kristi Anseth (now a Distinguished Professor
at the University of Colorado), Deepak
Hariharan (now at Adhesives Research),
Lakshminarayana Achar (now at Bayer
India Ltd), Cristi Bell-Huff, Ankush
Argade (now at Rigel Pharmaceuticals)
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December
1991
Front row (from
left): Mary Rugger-am Ende (now at Pfizer),
Atul Khare (now at Baxter), Jennifer
Sahlin (now at 3M), Esmaiel Jabbari
(now a Professor at the University of
South Carolina), Deb Kurdikar (now at
Baxter); second row: Jianchu Wu, Nicholas
Peppas; third row: Deepak Hariharan
(now at Adhesives Research), Lakshminarayana
Achar (now at Bayer India Ltd), Cristi
Bell-Huff
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July 1990
From left: Chris
Bowman (sitting, now Assoc Dean of Engineering
at the University of Colorado), Alec
Scranton (now Assoc Dean of Engineering
at the University of Iowa), Jennifer
Sahlin (now at 3M), Jorge Olivares (now
at Eli Lilly), Margaret Janusz-Olivares
(now at Eli Lilly)
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December
1988
From left: John
Klier (now with Dow Chemical), Nancy
Loiacono-Klier, Lisa Brannon-Peppas,
Lisa Scranton, Alec Scranton (now Assoc
Dean of Engineering at the Univ of Iowa)
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October 16,
1987
First Row: Waleed
Shalaby, Jessica Alameda, Rashmi Drummond,
Lynette Malone,
NAP, Lori Keneipp, Dawn Edwards, Sandra
Shoup, Chris Bowman, Curt Walker, John
Kler, Nancy Loiacono-Klier
Second Row: Rich Drummond, Cathy Blinstrub,
Jennifer Broadbelt-Lustig, Lisa
Scranton, Tiziana Canal, Lisa Brannon,
Mara Lovrecich, Dee Ann Harland, Amy
Carver, Ron Harland, Shari Kennett,
Jennifer Sahlin
Third Row: Steve Lustig, Greg Schard,
husband of S. Feigen, Alec Scranton,
S. Feigen, Tony Mikos, Prof. Paolo Colombo
of the Univ. of Parma, Ray Muleskey,
Any Tsou, Shari Kennett's friend, Humphrey
Moynihan
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October 1987
First Row: Jessica
Alameda, Rashmi Drummond, Sandra Shoup,
Lori Keneipp, Dawn Edwards, Waleed Shalaby,
John Klier Second row: Kathy Blinstrub,
Lisa Brannon-Peppas, Lynette Malone,
Tiziana Canal, Mara Lovrecich, Amy Carver,
Shari Kennett, Ron Harland Third row:
S. Feigen, Tony Mikos, Alec Scranton,
Steve Lustig, Curt Walker, Chris Bowman,
Andy Tsou
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October 1987
Lisa Brannon-Peppas,
Sandra Shoup, Lori Keneipp and Lynette
Malone with Prof. Peppas. This team
addressed important, early research
on essential oil delivery in cosmetic,
consumer and food products.
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May 1987
Nicholas Peppas,
Ron Harland and Steve Lustig
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May 1987
Prof Paolo Colombo
of the University of Parma, Italy, Ron
Harland and Steve Lustig. A 25 year
long friendship with Paolo Colombo has
benefited both laboratories not only
in operatic activities (!) but also
in scientific exchanges. Purdue and
UT lab students who worked in Prof Colombo's
laboratories have included Chris Brazel,
Surya Mallapragada, Balaji Narasimhan,
Ron Harland, Kristi Anseth, Tony Lowman
while Italian students in our laboratories
have included Didi Sangalli (now professor
at the University of Milan), Paolo Giunchedi
(now professor at the University of
Sassari), Lauretta Maggi (now professor
at the University of Pavia), Ruggero
Bettini (now professor at the University
of Parma), Alessia deAscentiis, Maria
Teresa Peracchia (now at Sanofi-Aventis
in Paris), Cristina Donini (now at Merck-Serono
in Geneva, Switzerland), Elena Losi,
and Gaia Colombo (now lecturer at the
University of Ferrara).
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January 1987
Professor Peppas
in early January 1987 after his return
from his sabbatical at the University
of Paris-Sud. The obvious metamorphosis
over the 1985 and 1986 pictures took
place in six months, during sabbatical
in Paris (!) and under doctor's strict
orders...
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May 1985
A candid shot
from the second Annual Croquet
Game of the laboratory with
Tony Mikos (left) and Ron Harland (right),
two formidable competitors. Tony is
now a distinguished professor of Biomedical
and Chemical Engineering at Rice University,
while Ron is President of PharmSolv
LLC.
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December
1984
First Row: Steve
Lustig, Christian Bindshaedler, Lisa
Brannon, John Klier, Phil Ritger, Tony
Mikos
Second Row: Narsi Sundaram, Ron Harland,
Kent Urdahl, John Howell, Barbara Barr-Howell
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April 1984
Sitting: Don
Miller, Serge Segot-Chicq, Phil Ritger,
Tae-ho Kim, Tony Mikos, Ron Harland
Standing: Michelle Smith, Barbara Howell,
Sherri Wilson, Joan Havlin, Julie
Mounts, Cele Latchford, Karen Butler,
Jean Meyer, Marcie Getoor, Randy Haase,
Jim Wiestler, Mike Heglas, Doug Kline,
Lori Nelson
Standing on Bench: Steve Lustig, Ray
Davidson
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April 1984
Michelle Knight,
John Howell, Sherri Wilson, Joan Havlin,
Julie Mounts, Cecilia Latchford, Karen
Butler, Jean Meyer, Marcie Getoor, Jim
Wiestler, Randy Haase, Mike Heglas,
Doug Kline and Lori Nelson
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April 1984
Steve Lustig,
Barbara Barr-Howell, Steve Lustig, Serge
Segot-Chicq, Rat Davidson, Kent Urdahl,
Phil Ritger, Ron Harland, Tony Mikos
and (sitting) Taeho Kim
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March 1982
Martha Honey
(now with duPont in Houston), Donna
McCullum-Foster (now in Akron, OH),
Tod Jilg (now with Celanese in Rock
Hill, SC), Nancy Franson (now with Schering-Plough),
Nicholas Peppas, Richard Korsmeyer (now
with Pfizer in New London, CT), John
Larson (now with Corning in Corning,
NY), Rachel Lenox-Mace (now Professor
of Pediatrics at the School of Medicine
of Vanderbilt University, Nashville,
TN), Lucy Hair-Lucht (now with Lawrence
Livermore Laboratories in Livermore,
CA), Ray Davidson (now a consultant
in Kalamazoo, MI).
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December
1980
Back row: Mark
Karrs, Ed Van Hoene, Paul Shafer, Russ
Elms, Kim Evans, Dave Rumsey, Dave Tyler.
Front row: Mark Miles, Jenny Wetzel
(now Reinhardt), Mark Cheesman, Nicholas
Peppas,
Teri Carter, Jerry Stacy, Patty Wilson,
Charles Wilson
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1980
Eva Swan and
Don Miller in 1980. This photograph
was used by Purdue ChE in their early
80s publicity to show the changing chemical
engineering world. Don and Eva work
now for Wyeth. Don Miller was the winner
of the 2004 Heroes in Chemistry Award
of the American Chemical Society for
his invention and production of the
Mylotarg system for cancer treatment
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October 1979
First Row: Kathy
and Ray Davidson, Mary Beth Hill, Marianne
and Hon Hooker,
Don Barar, Don Miller, Katie Reinhart
Second Row: Kathy Eleutherakis-Napp,
Lucy Hair-Lucht, Scott Napp, Bob Lucht,
Nitu Sekhon, John Koszuta, Richard Korsmeyer,
Humphrey Moynihan, David Meadows
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May 1976
From the class
picture of the Purdue ChE graduating
class of 1976. Two graduating students
became the first graduate students of
the Peppas group. Left: Todd Gehr (with
glasses, MS '77, now Chief of Nephrology
at the Virginia Commonwealth Medical
School) and Right: Bill Bussing (MS
'78, now President of BP Singapore)
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