Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
-- Arden L. Bement, the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Engineering, will receive the National Materials Advancement Award from the Federation of Materials Societies in December. The award recognizes outstanding efforts to advance the effective and economic use of materials, and advancing the multidisciplinary field of materials science and engineering in general. Bement is being honored for his national leadership in fostering communication among industrial, governmental and academic sectors of the materials community and for the effective presentation of the promise of materials to the government and public.
-- John G. McEntyre, professor emeritus of land surveying, received the 1997 Surveying and Mapping Award from the Surveying Engineering Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers. The award recognizes McEntyre's efforts in advocating formal baccalaureate level educational requirements for land surveyors. McEntyre proposed and developed one of the first land surveying curricula in the country, resulting in the creation of Purdue's land surveying degree in 1971.
-- Jeffrey J. Volenec, professor of agronomy, has been named a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Fellows are named for their efforts to advance science or creating applications that are scientifically or socially distinguished. Volenec will be recognized, along with 269 other new fellows, in February at the Fellows forum in Philadelphia.
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-- Seven alumni of the Krannert School of Management received awards at an alumni board meeting during homecoming weekend. Honored for their service to the school were James O'Dell of Kingsport, Tenn., and James C. Shook of West Lafayette . R. Preston McAfee, the Murray S. Johnson Professor of Economics at the University of Texas at Austin, received the John S. Day Distinguished Alumni Academic Service Award for his commitment to economics education. Distinguished alumni awards were given to John L. Carl of Lake Forest, Ill.; Charlotte Otto of Cincinnati; Stuart Schube of Houston; and Howard B. Witt of Des Plaines, Ill.
Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
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