Christie Sahley

Position: Faculty Representative

Dr. Christie L. Sahley is in her first year as a faculty representative for the Purdue athletic department. She is currently a tenured associate professor in the department of biological sciences and has been at Purdue since 1991.

Sahley received a bachelor’s of science degree from Lake Erie College in 1971, then earned her master’s and doctoral degrees from the University of Kentucky. She landed her first assistant professorship in the department of psychology at Yale University from 1982-86, then joined Yale’s department of biology from 1986-89. From 1989-91 Sahley served as a visiting scholar at Purdue. In 1991 she became an associate research scientist and has since remained in West Lafayette. In addition to her teaching at Yale and Purdue, Sahley has served as an instructor at a number of biological labs in the United States, including Bell Labs (New Jersey) and Cold Spring Harbor Lab (New York). She is the co-director of the neurobiology and development department of the Leech Course Marine Biological Lab in Woods Hole, Mass.

Sahley has earned numerous awards in her professional career, including the Stephen W. Kuffler Award and the Whitehall Foundation Research Award.

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