Purdue Names 2025 Distinguished Ag Alumni Award Winners

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.