PURDUE UNIVERSITY - Key Persons
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- Member of the Academic
- Director of Global Engagement, College of Veterinary Medicine
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- Member of the Administrative
- Provost
- Provost 's Fellow, Faculty Fulbright Awards, Associate Professor, English and American Studies, College of Liberal Arts
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- Global Partnerships Program Manager
- Program Manager, Global Partnerships
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- Member of the Administrative
- Executive Director, Purdue Online Strategic Initiatives and Partnerships
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- Member of the Academic
- Associate Dean for Learning, Engagement and Global Initiatives, College of Education
- Professor of Learning Design
Dr. Sunnie Lee Watson is Professor of Learning Design and Technology and Assistant Dean for Diversity and Global Engagement in the College of Education. Dr. Watson teaches and conducts scholarly work in the learner-centered paradigm of education. Her areas of research focus on attitudinal learning and mindset change for social justice in both formal and informal educational settings, learner-centered online instruction and innovative educational technologies, and critical systems thinking for educational change.
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- Member of the Academic
- Director of Globalization, Purdue Polytechnic Institute
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- Member of the Academic
- Assistant Dean, Office of Global Programs and Partnerships, College of Engineering
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- Member of the Academic
- Associate Dean and Director, International Programs in Agriculture, Professor of Agricultural Economics, College of Agriculture, Fellow for Global Affairs, OEVPRP
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- Assistant Vice President
- Member of the Administrative
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Vice President, Global Partnerships and Programs Director, Global Partnerships and Purdue - India Partnership
- Co - Chair of the GAC Assistant Vice President, Global Partnerships and Programs Director, Office of Global Partnerships and Purdue - India Partnership
- Managing Director of Global Partnerships
Heidi Arola is Assistant Vice President, Global Partnerships and Program; Director of Global Partnerships; and Director of the Purdue-India Partnership at Purdue University. She is an international education professional with 20 years of experience building strategic bilateral and multilateral partnerships at the highest levels of academia, government, and the private and nonprofit sectors. Arola is a board member of the Indiana India Business Council and a cofounder and cochair of the Big Ten Academic Alliance international partnerships peer group. From 2002 to 2015, Arola served as a U.S. foreign service officer in Montreal, Amsterdam, Rio de Janeiro, and Recife, culminating her State Department career as Chief of the State Department's EducationUSA network. In that capacity, she managed multi-million-dollar budgets and grants and oversaw 400 educational advising centers that promote U.S. higher education in 170 countries. Arola earned her MS in Foreign Service from Georgetown, where she was also Editor-in-Chief of the Georgetown Journal of International Affairs. She has a BA from Tulane University in New Orleans.
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- Member of the Administrative
- Member of the Leadership Team
- Assistant Director, Global Partnerships Director, Latin American Programs Director, Colombia Purdue Partnership
Juan Diego Velasquez joined the Office of Global Partnerships in 2018 and currently serves as the Assistant Director, Global Partnerships; Director, Latin American Programs; and Director, Colombia Purdue Partnership (CPP). He is a connector of people, a builder of strong relationships, a dedicated facilitator of partnerships, and an innovator of programs that reach across the university and across Colombia. He is passionate about bringing Purdue to Colombia and Colombia to Purdue. Prior to joining the Office of Global Partnerships, Juan was the Managing Director of Strategic Initiatives in the Office of Strategic Planning & Assessment in the College of Engineering where he supported two major faculty-and-staff-led initiatives: the Purdue Systems Collaboratory (PSC), and the Colombia Purdue Initiative (CPI).
Juan was born and raised in Colombia, and joined Purdue University in 1994 as an undergraduate student in Industrial Engineering. He completed his graduate degrees (MS '03, PhD '09) at Purdue under the guidance of Dr. Reha Uzsoy, and Dr. Shimon Nof respectively. While at Purdue he was a member, treasurer and president of the Delta Upsilon social fraternity, president of the INFORMS and the Omega Rho local chapters; director of current issues in the Interfraternity Council, and calendar chair of the Barbara Cook chapter of the Mortar Board.
After completing his studies, Juan worked as Assistant Director of TA and Curricular Development at Purdue for 4 years, designing and implementing instructional development programs for Graduate Teaching Assistants (GTA), as well as new orientation programs in collaboration with the Teaching Academy, of which he is a member. He assisted the departments with campus-wide service learning initiatives, consulted with faculty and GTAs regarding instruction, evaluation and other curricular issues, and facilitated micro-teaching sessions - all in the spirit of continuous improvement of Purdue's educational enterprise.
Juan has published several peer-reviewed articles on the application of best-matching protocols in production settings, teaching programs, and collaborated in the publication of Springer's Handbook of Automation.
He currently assists the Colombian Student Association at Purdue and is the academic advisor for the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers.
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- Member of the Academic
- Clinical Associate Professor Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs, School of Business
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- Member of the Academic
- Faculty Director of Global Education, College of Health and Human Sciences
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- Global Partnerships Project Assistant
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- Member of the Academic
- Associate Dean for Academic and International Affairs, Honors College
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- Member of the Administrative
- Senior Global Compliance Officer, Managerial Accounting Services
Purdue-Tec de Monterrey Undergraduate Research Program is a new undergraduate student research collaboration between the two universities, beginning in 2023. Through this program, Purdue hosts Tec de Monterrey undergraduate students in their final year to support research projects with Purdue faculty across the university. These students participate in a rigorous application process before interviewing with Purdue faculty. Once at Purdue, Tec de Monterrey students will typically spend one semester working directly with Purdue faculty on their research projects. The undergraduate research program creates new opportunities to engage undergraduates in meaningful research, builds bridges between Purdue and Tec de Monterrey faculty, and allows students the opportunity to "test drive" graduate studies to help them decide if they wish to pursue a master's or PhD.
PU-CONACYT Joint Fellowship - Since 2015, Purdue University and the National Council of Science and Technology of the United Mexican States has been committed to providing Mexican students the opportunity to earn a PhD or Masters degree in various fields of study.
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- Project Manager, Global Partnerships
Stephanie Saba joined Purdue's Office of Global Partnerships in June 2023 after completing her master's degree in International Relations at Syracuse University. During her time in graduate school, she interned at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, France where she worked on the handbook Intercultural Responses to Drug-Related Challenges for Refugees, Migrants and IDPs, which takes a human rights-based approach to these challenges. She spent the final semester of her program studying within the Graduate School of International Studies at Yonsei University in Seoul, South Korea. Before pursuing her master's degree, Stephanie worked at a non-profit where she prepared permanent residents from the MENA region for their naturalization interviews. Prior to that role, she was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Greece where she served as an English Teaching Assistant (ETA). This was not her first role as an ETA abroad, as she also spent two academic years in southern Spain as an ETA through the Spanish Ministry of Education. Furthermore, she was the recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship while on the Arabic Flagship Program in Morocco. During this time, Stephanie spent a year studying multiple dialects of Arabic and building a children's library for local youth. Originally from the Detroit Metro area, Stephanie completed a triple major in Arabic, English, and Secondary Education at Michigan State University. Stephanie supports the many partnerships that Purdue has worldwide.
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- Member of the Administrative
- Senior Director, International Engagement & Alumni Travel, Purdue for Life Foundation
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- Member of the Academic
- Director of Global and Experiential Learning, College of Liberal Arts