Ryan Svetanoff is a Chemical Technician for the Chemistry Undergraduate Preparations Laboratory at Purdue University. In this role, he collaborates with professors, course coordinators, and head teaching assistants to provide impactful educational experiences for more than 5,000 students every year. Ryan provides services to not only ensure current teaching objectives are met in the laboratory setting, but also to allow instructors to have the freedom to develop new experiments to further grow their courses. Ryan oversees more than 100 teaching assistants every year, serving as a role model for them exemplified by the recognition he received with the Professional Achievement Award from the Purdue College of Science in just two years of his early career. Ryan received his BS in Chemistry from Purdue University on a full ride through the Lilly Endowment Community Scholarship, MS in Management, cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame’s Mendoza College of Business, and a MS in Kinesiology from Indiana University.

Ryan also had a role in the Pugwash ecosystem where he was the President of the Purdue University chapter during his undergraduate studies. Through this involvement is how he and his sister Rachel met Sherman, keeping in touch today.