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Faculty and Staff Honors:
-- The Department of English honored the late Professor Leonora Woodman by establishing the Leonora Woodman Lecture Series. The series will begin with two lectures this fall. Woodman, who died in 1991 after 15 years at Purdue, taught modern American poetry, American studies, rhetoric and composition.
-- A book of poetry published by the Purdue University Press has won two literary awards. "The Body Mutinies" by Lucia Perillo won the Kate Tufts Discovery Award, given to promising poets, and the Balcones Poetry Prize, presented to the outstanding poetry book of the year. Perillo teaches at Southern Illinois University.
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