Purdue President Emeritus Steven Beering remembered

Pitt alumnus Steven C. Beering, who was president of Purdue University from 1983 to 2000, died on April 6, 2020. He was 87 years old.

Under Beering’s leadership, Purdue expanded its international efforts, grew its liberal arts programs, promoted diversity, greened and beautified the campus, added 20 major buildings and took fundraising to new levels, a Purdue statement said. Beering earned a bachelor's degree summa cum laude from Pitt in 1954 and, under a Mellon Fellowship, went on to finish medical school there in 1958.

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