Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
-- Denise Driscoll, assistant professor of psychological sciences, will work with the Office of Human Relations to implement programs that arise from the campus diversity report released this week: "From Barriers to Bridges: The Purdue University Plan for Enhancing Diversity." She will retain her faculty position and will split her time between Human Relations and the Department of Psychological Sciences. She teaches and conducts research in the areas of prejudice and stereotype suppression.
-- The Purdue University Police Department has announced the appointments of three new patrol officers and the promotion of a veteran officer.
Eric H. Chin, a native of Brookline, Mass., is a new patrol officer. He is a May 1997 Purdue graduate, with a degree in law and society. In 1996, he served a summer internship with the Drug Enforcement Administration New England Field Division in Boston.
Tim Potts, originally from Brookston, Ind. , is a new patrol officer. He graduated from St. Joseph's College and the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy. He is a former officer with the White County Sheriff's Department and the West Lafayette Police Department.
Stanley A. Wallace Jr., raised in Lafayette , is a new patrol officer. He served as a dispatcher and officer with the Delphi (Ind.) Police Department and was a member of the U.S. Marine Corps Security Forces. He is an honor graduate of the Indiana Law Enforcement Academy.
Tyree Harris, originally from Hallandale, Fla., has been promoted to detective sergeant. A Purdue patrol officer since 1993, he is a U.S. Army veteran as a medical specialist and a 1990 graduate of Ball State University, with a major in telecommunications and minor in criminal justice and criminology. He formerly was an officer with the Indianapolis Public Schools Police Department.
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-- Coachmen Recreational Vehicle Co., Middlebury, Ind., will showcase its award-winning, environmentally friendly lamination process to other manufacturing firms, pollution control agencies and the public during a special presentation from noon to 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 19. The presentation at the Coachmen plant is organized by the company, the Indiana Department of Environmental Management, and the Indiana Clean Manufacturing Technology and Safe Materials Institute, based at Purdue. The institute helps Indiana manufacturers develop pollution prevention plans and provides technical assistance and pollution training. In 1995 Coachmen won the Governor's Award for Excellence in Pollution Prevention for switching from a solvent-based adhesive to an adhesive that removes several toxic chemicals from the manufacturing process and reduces volatile air emissions.
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