Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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June 19, 1998
Appointments and promotions-- Thomas N. Farris, professor of aeronautics and astronautics, has been named head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, effective July 1. He will replace John Sullivan, who will return to teaching. Farris joined the Purdue faculty in 1986 and has taught courses in aerospace structures and materials. His research areas include fatigue and fracture, manufacturing processes, and tribology, the study of friction. In 1990 he won a Presidential Young Investigator Award from the National Science Foundation.-- Vickie J. Maris has been hired as the new communications specialist in personnel services. She is responsible for communicating the changes that will occur with Purdue's implementation of a new human resources information system, InPower. Maris, a Purdue graduate, formerly owned and operated Creekside Communications in Battle Ground. She continues to operate her Connemara pony farm there.
Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
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