Steven Claus Beering served as president of Purdue University

Purdue University

Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...

 from 1983 to 2000. Previously, he was dean of the Indiana University School of Medicine

Indiana University School of Medicine

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 for nine years. During his leadership, Purdue's main campus in West Lafayette, Indiana

West Lafayette, Indiana

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 grew by more than 20 buildings. He replaced John W. Hicks

John W. Hicks

John William Hicks served as acting president of Purdue University from 1982 to 1983. An agricultural economist, he was executive assistant to the university's presidents Frederick L. Hovde and Arthur G. Hansen from 1955 to 1982. Purdue's Undergraduate Library was renamed in his honor on April 21,...

 and was succeeded by Martin C. Jischke

Martin C. Jischke

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. Steven Beering was well known for his opposition to financial earmarks. In his honor, the former Liberal Arts Education Building (or LAEB), was renamed Beering Hall. He also founded an eponymous scholarship that provides recipients with full tuition and fees, room and board, and expenses for their undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral degrees.

Beering earned a B.S.

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 in 1954 and an M.D.

Doctor of Medicine

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 in 1959, both from the University of Pittsburgh

University of Pittsburgh

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. In May 2010, he completed a term as Chairman of the National Science Board

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