Convocation recognizes faculty for awards, honors, teaching excellence, years of service

Faculty members were recognized Tuesday (May 5) at the Faculty Awards Convocation for international and national awards, University and college honors, and distinguished and named professorships achieved since April 2014. The convocation also honored faculty for their years of service.

National and international awards

For a full list of fellow appointments, click here. For a full list of award winners, click here.

University awards

2014 Purdue Teaching Academy Fellows: Monica Cardella, engineering education; David Eichinger, curriculum and instruction; Kathleen Howell, aeronautics and astronautics; Pamela Karagory, nursing; Cynthia Bozich Keith, nursing; Christopher Lukasik, English; Suzanne Nielsen, food science; Lindsey Payne, environmental and ecological engineering/ecological sciences and engineering graduate program; Vicki Simpson, nursing; Kyle Vealey, English; and Jason Weiss, civil engineering.

2014-15 Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Awards: David Barbarash, horticulture and landscape architecture; Bryan Boudouris, chemical engineering; Josh Boyd, communication; Ryan Cabot, animal sciences; Angelica Duran, English; Abigail Engelberth, agricultural and biological engineering; Tarra Leigh Hodge, health and kinesiology; John Howarter, materials engineering; Daphene Koch, construction management technology; Milind Kulkarni, electrical and computer engineering; Eric Nauman, mechanical engineering; Jonathon Peterson, mathematics; Regena Scott, technology leadership and innovation; and Karen Yehle, nursing.

2015 Exceptional Early Career Awards: Pam Karagory, nursing, and Michael Yough, educational studies.

2015 Morrill Awards: Gebisa Ejeta, agronomy; Michael Ladisch, agricultural and biological engineering; and Wally Tyner, agricultural economics.

2015 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy: Carol Cunningham-Sigman, dance division chair and professor of visual and performing arts; Larry DeBoer, professor of agricultural economics; Karen Foli, associate professor of nursing; Matthew Ohland, professor of engineering education; and Kim Plake, associate professor of pharmacy practice.

Class of 1922 Helping Students Learn Award: Cindy Harwood, chemistry, and Marcy Towns, chemistry.

Committee on Institutional Cooperation-Academic Leadership Program Fellows: Jessica Huber, speech, language, and hearing sciences; Douglass F. Jacobs, forestry and natural resources; James L. Mohler, computer graphics technology; Elizabeth Taparowsky, biological sciences; and Elizabeth M. Topp, industrial and physical pharmacy.

Fellowship for Study in a Second Discipline (2014-15): David R. Foster, pharmacy practice; Stacy E. Holden, history; Heather Servaty-Seib, educational studies; and Melanie Shoffner, English.

Provost Fellow: Jennifer Marston William, languages and cultures.

University Faculty Scholars: Larry Adams, veterinary clinical sciences; Daniel Aldrich, political science; Michele Buzon, anthropology; Laurent Couëtil, veterinary clinical sciences; Alejandro Cuza, languages and cultures; Stacy Holden, history; Ian Kaplan, entomology; Shihuan Kuang, animal sciences; Roberto Lopez, horticulture and landscape architecture; Leigh Raymond, political science; Maria Sepúlveda, forestry and natural resources; and Chong Xiang, economics.

For a full list of honorees, click here.

College awards

For a full list of honorees, click here.

Distinguished professors (appointed after April 2014)

Ahmed Hassanein, the Paul L. Wattelet Distinguished Professor of Nuclear Engineering.

Farshid Sadeghi, Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering.

J. George Shanthikumar, Distinguished Professor of Management.

Paul Shepson, Distinguished Professor of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences/Chemistry.

S. Laurel Weldon, Distinguished Professor of Political Science.

Named professors (appointed after April 2014)

Gregory Arling, the Katherine Birck Chair in the School of Nursing.

Patrice Buzzanell, the Susan Bulkeley Butler Chair for Leadership Excellence.

Weinong Wayne Chen, the Reilly Professor of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Materials Engineering.

Ming Ming Chiu, the Charles R. Hicks Professorship of Educational Psychology.

Qi Feng, the John and Donna Krenicki Chair in Operations Management.

Michael T. Harris, the Reilly Professor of Chemical Engineering.

Wendy Kline, the Dema G. Seelye Chair in the History of Medicine.

Michael C. Loui, the Dale and Suzi Gallagher Professor in Engineering Education.

Nien-Hwa Linda Wang, the Maxine Spencer Nichols Professor in Chemical Engineering.

Wayne E. Wright, the Barbara I. Cook Chair of Literacy and Language.

Alan Zillich, the William S. Bucke Professor.

For a list of all distinguished and named professors, click here.

Faculty service recognition awards

40-year honorees: Steven A. Adelman, chemistry; John N. Anderson, biological sciences; John M. Barron, economics; Mark S. Cushman, medicinal chemistry and molecular pharmacology; Eric S. Furgason, electrical and computer engineering; Larry W. Gross, aviation technology; David R. McMillin, chemistry; Thomas J. Moffett, physics and astronomy; Martin R. Okos, agricultural and biological engineering; John P. Sullivan, aeronautics and astronautics; and John R. Umbeck, economics.

45-year honorees: Clayton D. Lein, English, and Gintaras V. Reklaitis, chemical engineering.

50-year honorees: Ralph Webb, communication.

For a full list of honorees, click here.