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April 18, 2003 Faculty, staff and alumni honorsFaculty and staff honors – L. Kirk Clark, professor of swine herd health, has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. Clark is recognized worldwide as an authority on Mycoplasmal pneumonia, the most common respiratory disease of swine. – Richard Linton, professor of food sciences, has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. He developed a train-the-trainer program in food safety for food retail establishments that has been used to educate more than 5,000 food retail operators in one year and has been presented in a number of other countries. – Paul Preckel, professor of agricultural economics and associate department head, has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. His current areas of interest include assessing the effects of policy across an economy's income spectrum, supply chain management, and applications and methods for optimization and numerical integration. – Roger Tormoehlen, a Purdue professor of 4-H youth, has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. Tormoehlen, who received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue, was honored for his work with 4-H programs in mechanical science, youth safety, computers and improving access for youth with disabilities. – Maxine Wilson has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. The 1955 hospitality and tourism management graduate, an emeritus faculty member in Purdue's HTM department, was known as the "kitchen lady," to whom many non-profit agencies turned when designing new kitchens for their facilities. Alumni honors – Ann L. Johnson, a professor of veterinary clinical medicine at the University of Illinois, has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. The 1975 graduate of the Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine was honored for her dedication to teaching small animal surgery. – Karen Pearson Ross has received an Alumni Award of Merit from Gamma Sigma Delta, the international honor society of agriculture, consumer and family sciences, and veterinary medicine. The 1971 graduate in consumer and family sciences has worked since 1988 on space shuttle and International Space Station food systems. Ross' husband is astronaut Jerry Ross. Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
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