Two Purdue researchers receive Presidential Award

Two Purdue researchers will travel to Washington D.C. Tuesday to receive Presidential Awards for their research, one of which will be driving over 600 miles with her 8-week-old son.

Alice Pawley, assistant professor in the School of Engineering, and Ian Kaplan, an assistant entomology professor, are two of 96 recipients to be awarded the Presidential Early Career awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) from President Barack Obama. This is the highest honor bestowed by the United States government on science and engineering professionals.

“I’m shocked,” Pawley said, “because the research that I proposed doing is crazy. It is explicitly feminist research in the context of engineering, which has not historically been known as a super feminist field. To get the original grant was awesome and then to have it recognized in this hugely, amazing way from the White House Presidential Award, I’m beyond humbled and really excited.”
 

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