Six graduates of Purdue University’s College of Agriculture are being honored with the Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award by the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association.
The Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award was created in 1992 to recognize mid-career alumni of Purdue’s College of Agriculture. Honorees must have a demonstrated record of outstanding accomplishments, have made significant contributions to his/her profession or society in general, and exhibit high potential for future professional growth.
Selections are made by a committee comprised of the Dean of Agriculture, associate deans, assistant dean, department heads and unit directors.
The following have been named as 2025 Distinguished Agriculture Alumni Award winners:
BOBBY CORRIGAN
Director, research and technical projects
New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene
New York, New York
BS ’77; MS ’80; PhD ’95 · Department of Entomology
HEATHER HILL
Owner-operator
Hill Farms LLC
Greenfield, Indiana
BS ’99 · Department of Animal Sciences
DUANE HUGE
Program Coordinator
Mentoring Indiana Beginning Agriculture Teaching Program
Cloverdale, Indiana
BS ’85 · Department of Agricultural Sciences Education and Communication
SASHA ILYUKHIN
Senior Vice President
Tetra Pak
Denton, Texas
MS ’00 · Department of Food Science
SCOTT MITCHELL
President and Chief Executive Officer
Sumitomo Chemical America, Inc.
Ridgefield, Connecticut
MS ’92 · Department of Agricultural Economics
JIANHUA YU
Professor, Director of School of Medicine; Clemons Family Center for Transformative Cancer Research
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, California
PhD ’03 · Agronomy
Each of this year’s award winners will be recognized in a convocation on September 19 at Deans Auditorium at Pfendler Hall (Room 241) on the West Lafayette campus. The reception begins at 3:00 p.m. ET and the Awards Convocation begins at 3:30 p.m. ET.
