WEST LAFAYETTE – Three Purdue University professors have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. They are Leah H. Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electric and Computer Engineering; H. Jay Melosh, Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Physics; and Ei-ichi Negishi, the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.
“The academy celebrates leaders in their fields and this year has selected Purdue professors that include a Nobel laureate, a planetary science expert who has participated in NASA missions and a pioneer in engineering education,” said President France Cordova, who was elected to the academy in 2008.