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LA UN C H I N G N EW LEADERS New American Academy of Arts and Sciences Members Three Purdue faculty joined seven others elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, founded in 1780 to study complex, emerging problems. Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ransburg Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engi- neering, cofounded and led Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS). Jamieson was also named a fellow of the American Society for Engineering Education. H. Jay Melosh, Leah Jamieson Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmos- pheric Science and Physics, an expert in impact cratering, planetary tectonics and earthquake and landslide physics, served on a NASA science team for a lunar gravity mission. He's now working on three space missions, imaging comets and examining compositions and behaviors. Ei-ichi Negishi, the Herbert C. Brown H. Jay Melosh Ei-ichi Negishi This picturesque waterfall in Bangang, Cameroon, will be the source of a new hydropower system that a Purdue student team is creating. (inset)The group was one of five winning teams among 55 universities competing for grants from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's P3 Program. photo courtesy of Purdue Global Engineering Program (inset) photo courtesy of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, earned the 2010 Chemistry Nobel Prize with Richard Heck and Akira Suzuki. Negishi is known for discoveries and developments linking carbon atoms for easy synthesis of complex organic compounds used in pharmaceuticals, elec- tronics and many other areas.