Purdue Notebook

-- Carl C. Cowen, professor of mathematics, has received the Mathematical Association of America's Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award for Distinguished College or University Teaching of Mathematics. He was one of three mathematicians nationwide chosen for the award, designed to honor people whose teaching effectiveness has had influence beyond their own institutions. Cowen is the third Purdue mathematics professor to receive the award since 1994.

-- Deborah K. Rishel, Lafayette, has received the annual John C. Smalley Memorial Grant. The award was established in 1988 to encourage continuing education among clerical, service and administrative staff in the Housing and Food Services division. It pays up to $125 tuition toward coursework at Purdue or Ivy Tech State College. Rishel is a clerk at Wiley Residence Hall.

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Campus News:

-- The Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management (RHIT) Society of Hosteurs, a nonprofit student organization, will auction a variety of lodging, dinner and travel packages at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 8, in Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Admission is $2. Most of the packages have been donated by hotels, restaurants and other businesses that offer employment and internship opportunities to Purdue students. Packages include a ski vacation in Utah and meals and/or lodging in Chicago, Indianapolis, New York, California and South Carolina.

-- The Institute of International Education (IIE) Midwest regional office will award $1,000 grants to U.S. students at Midwest colleges and universities to study abroad during 1997-98. Applications for Purdue students are available at the Programs for Study Abroad Office in Young Graduate House, Room 120, and are due to the IIE in Chicago by March 17.

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