Photo: Purdue University photo/Andrew Hancock
Purdue President France A. Córdova, at left, talks with Purdue University professor Ei-ichi Negishi, Nobel Laureate in chemistry, at his home in West Lafayette.
The outgoing president of Purdue University has a new job. France Cordova will step down as Purdue‘s president in mid-July but last week Cordova was installed as the Chairwoman of the National Smithsonian Institution‘s governing board. Cordova says she will be doing double duty for a while…
“For the next few months, I‘m both chairing the board of regents for the Smithsonian and I‘m President of Purdue,” she says.
Cordova is an astrophysicist and was a chief scientist at NASA. She says she will also keep a job as a faculty member at Purdue until she desides to resign that post. Cordova says she’s looking forward to the groundbreaking for a new museum honoring African-American history, art, and culture in late February at which President Obama will preside.
