Victor Lechtenberb, Ph.D.
Vice Provost of Engagement, Purdue University
http://www.purdue.edu/engagement

Panelist

Session 7: Technology Incubation and Clean Tech Investments

Monday, October, 27, 2008

Victor (Vic) L. Lechtenberg is Vice Provost for Engagement at Purdue University. He served as interim provost at Purdue from August 2007 to May 2008. Lechtenberg joined the Purdue faculty in 1971 and became a professor of agronomy in 1979. He served as associate director for the Office of Agricultural Research Programs from 1982-1989, and as the executive associate dean of agriculture from 1989 to 1993. Lechtenberg was dean of agriculture, from 1994 to 2004. He has been leading Purdue’s engagement programs as vice provost since 2004.

Lechtenberg is a member of several academic, professional, and scholarly societies and has written nearly 150 technical papers, approximately 50 abstracts, and 6 book chapters. He served as chair of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's national Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board from 1996 through 2002.

Lechtenberg is a native of Butte, Nebraska, where he grew up on a general livestock farm. He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Nebraska in 1967 and earned a doctorate in agronomy from Purdue in 1971.