Purdue Purdue Notebook

January 23, 1998

Campus activities

-- Students planning to study abroad during the 1998-99 school year can apply for $1,000 grants from the Institute of International Education. To be eligible, students must be U.S. citizens, attend a Midwest college or university, study in a non-Western country, be in good academic standing and have no previous study abroad experience. The application deadline is Monday, March 16, at the Institute's offices in Chicago. Applications can be picked up between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. at Purdue's Programs for Study Abroad Office, Room 120, Young Graduate House, at the corner of Grant and Wood streets.

Faculty and staff honors

-- Michael Melloch, professor of electrical engineering, and George Adams, assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering, have received the National Technological University Outstanding Instructor Award. The award was given to the top 23 of 235 instructors who were ranked in the top 16 percent by their students.

-- Stanley M. Shaw, head of the division of nuclear pharmacy in Purdue's Department of Medicinal Chemistry & Molecular Pharmacology, has received the American Pharmaceutical Association's Academy of Pharmacy Practice and Management Distinguished Achievement Award in Nuclear Pharmacy Practice. As one of the founders of the nuclear pharmacy section of the American Pharmaceutical Association in 1975, Shaw helped nuclear pharmacy become the first recognized specialty area in 1978. He also developed the examination for certification and created the model that the rest of the profession could follow.

Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
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