Discovery Park to get new program director

By Kurt Esposito
Assistant Campus Editor

Dean of the School of Pharmacy Charles Rutledge has been named program director of Discovery Park.

The position is effective immediately and he will serve as both program director and dean of the School of Pharmacy until a successor is appointed as dean. Rutledge has served as the dean since 1987.

In a press release, Provost Sally Frost Mason said, "Dean Rutledge is the ideal person to head Discovery Park. He is a top researcher and he has the excellent leadership and management skills needed for the job."

Discovery Park provides tools and space for both the educational needs of Purdue and start-up companies. It is already the future home for the Birck Nanotechnology Center, a bioscience/engineering center, an e-enterprises center and a center for entrepreneurship.

Construction on the park will begin in July and will be completed in the summer of 2004. It will be located on areas currently occupied by Purdue Village, which was formerly known as Married Student Housing.

Stephen Byrn, head of the department of industrial and physical pharmacy, said he thinks Rutledge will do an excellent job because of his perspective and excellent planning skills.

"He's easy to work with; he listens well. He really works with faculty well," he said.

Under Rutledge, he said, Discovery Park will be able to attract more grants. He said Rutledge is an excellent fund-raiser who can make plans to organize everyone so they can also work on bringing in grants.

Byrn also said Rutledge's broad background gives him the experience needed as program director of Discovery Park.

Rutledge received a bachelor of science degree in pharmacy from the University of Kansas and a doctoral degree in pharmacology from Harvard University.

Before coming to Purdue, he served as professor and chairman of the department of pharmacology and toxicology in the School of Pharmacy at the University of Kansas. He was also the associate director of the Center for Biomedical Research at Kansas.

He is a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceuticals Scientists and has served as president of the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy and the American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics.

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