Purdue Notebook

Appointments and Promotions:

-- Carol J. Stickel has accepted an appointment as director of the Division of Recreational Sports. Stickel, who has worked with Purdue's recreational sports since 1971, has been acting director since July 1996. In addition to her work at Purdue, Stickel is Region III coordinator for the National Intramural Recreational Sports Association Soccer Sport Clubs Championship and is president and state director of the Indiana Intramural Recreational Sports Association.

-- Bret Besecker has accepted the position of development services associate for prospect management with the University Development Office. Besecker joined the university development staff as a graduate intern in January 1995 while completing a master's degree in higher education administration. In May 1995, he was hired as a full-time development staff assistant. In his new position, Besecker will work with the university fund-raising staff to create technical and business processes to support the prospect management program.

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Campus Activities:

-- Joe Tiller, Purdue's new head football coach, will talk about the 1997 Boilermakers at 8 p.m. Monday, April 7, in the East Dining Room of Tarkington Hall. Tiller also will answer audience questions during the session. The event is free and open to the public.

-- Ticket prices for the Literary Awards Banquet on Wednesday, April 9, are $11 for students and $17 for faculty, an increase from previously announced prices. Speaker for the event is Russell Banks, award-winning author of 11 novels and collections of stories. Banks was incorrectly described as a native-American writer in an earlier release. The banquet starts at 7 p.m. in the East and West Faculty Lounge in the Purdue Memorial Union. Tickets may be purchased in the English Department main office, Room 324, Heavilon Hall.

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Faculty and Staff Honors:

-- Purdue's on-line calendar, developed by the News Service and Agricultural Communications Service, has won a gold award for information technology from Agricultural Communicators in Education. The calendar, based on software developed at Bowling Green State University in Ohio, was developed by Frank Koontz, news service assistant director; Anastassios E. Petropoulos, graduate research assistant in ACS; Lisa M. Johnson, news service intern who is a senior in Liberal Arts from Marseilles, Ill.; Jeanne Norberg, news service director; and Eldon Fredericks, technical coordinator in ACS. The Web address of the calendar is www.purdue.edu/CALENDAR/

-- W. Dale Compton, the Lillian M. Gilbreth Distinguished Professor of Industrial Engineering, has been appointed chairman of the National Research Council's Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems. He will serve from July 1 until June 30, 2000.

-- James D. Lehman, professor in the Department of Curriculum and Instruction, is the winner of the School of Education's Outstanding Teacher Award for 1996-97. Lehman also serves as co-director of the Technology Resource Center.

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Alumni Honors:

-- Four Purdue University graduates have been named 1997 Distinguished Alumni by Purdue's School of Pharmacy and Pharmacal Sciences in recognition of their outstanding achievements in professional and scientific endeavors. This year's award winners are:

• Judith Christensen, who received a doctor of pharmacy degree from Purdue in 1989. She has held a number of positions as a pharmacy practitioner and administrator, and currently is supervisor of pharmacy resources for St. Joseph's Medical Center in South Bend . Since 1990, she has been an affiliate faculty member with Purdue and Butler universities, and since 1992, with the Indiana University School of Medicine for Family Practice clerkships. She has served on the Indiana Board of Pharmacy and the Indiana Joint Commission on Pharmacy Practice, and she is a director of the American Council on Pharmaceutical Education.
  
• Robert Brown, who received a bachelor's degree from Purdue in 1951 and is a retired pharmacist and owner of Brown's Bed and Breakfast in Cambria , Calif .
  
• Karin Chiung-Sheue Chen Liu, Liu, who received a master's degree in medicinal chemistry from Purdue in 1972 and is a professor in the School of Pharmacy at National Taiwan University.
  
• Robert E. Taylor, chairman of the Department of Pharmacology at Howard University's College of Medicine, Washington, D.C. , who earned a doctorate from Purdue in pharmacology and toxicology in 1972.

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