WEST LAFAYETTE – Purdue University educator Bobby Chastain has been selected for an Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowship by the Television Academy Foundation in Hollywood. He is one of 18 professors selected from colleges and universities nationwide for the 2026 fellowship program.
Since 2021, the Foundation has offered Alex Trebek Legacy Fellowships, established by the Harry & Judy Friedman Family Foundation, in honor of the late television icon and Jeopardy! host Alex Trebek, which provide financial support for educators from community colleges and minority-serving institutions to attend its annual Media Educators Conference. The three-day conference, held at the Television Academy’s North Hollywood campus in California, Oct. 21-23, connects college classrooms with the television industry by providing media professors with curriculum-enhancing seminars on the latest in the art, science and business of television with prominent leaders in entertainment.
Chastain is the chair of the Department of Film and Video at Purdue University where he has taught since 2004. He is developing courses toward Purdue’s new university-wide AI competency graduation requirement, the first of its kind in the country, including a course on AI and the screen. He has been producing, directing and editing since 1995; on film sets; in post-production suites; and in multicamera control rooms and is a Blackmagic Design certified DaVinci Resolve trainer.
