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Mary Wirth’s union with Purdue has come full circle, joining the College of Science faculty as the W. Brooks Fortune Professor of Chemistry. She returns to Indiana from the University of Arizona in Tucson. Her new lab, located on the fourth floor of the Brown Laboratory of Chemistry, includes space she occupied as a graduate student in the 1970s.
She is excited to be back at Purdue to build further on her research and take it in new directions. Wirth is excited not only to have returned to her alma mater but also to have joined what she views as one of the pacesetters in her discipline. “Purdue is one of the leaders in analytical chemistry. The people here have great vision,” she says. “Purdue isn’t just a follower in the field – it defines the trends.”
