Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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Campus activities-- The Purdue Memorial Union and Stewart Center will observe special hours during the holidays. The facilities will close at 5 p.m. Dec. 23 and remain closed through Dec. 27. The buildings will be open 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Dec. 28, 29 and 30. The buildings will be closed Dec. 31 through Jan. 3. Both facilities will resume normal operating hours starting Jan. 4.will be open 5:30 a.m. to 11 p.m. on Dec. 28, 29 and 30. The buildings will be closed Dec. 31 through Jan. 3. Both facilities will resume normal operating hours starting Jan. 4. -- Purdue students, faculty and staff will assist numerous Greater Lafayette volunteer agencies during "Affirming the Dream IV: A Day Service" on Jan. 18, Martin Luther King Jr. Day. Service projects will take place between 9 a.m. and noon, followed by a luncheon and Volunteer Information Fair starting at noon in the Hillenbrand Hall formal lounge. The day is an official university holiday for students, faculty and staff. More information about or registration for Day of Service activities is available from the Diversity Resource Office, (765) 494-7307.
Faculty and staff honors-- Four Purdue faculty members received 1998-99 Fulbright Scholar grants to participate in international educational exchanges. Robert Bartlett, associate professor of political science, will lecture and conduct research from January to June at Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland, on Irish and U.S. environmental policy development; Leonard Harris, professor of philosophy and director of the African-American Studies and Research Center, is lecturing and conducting research from September 1998 to July 1999 at the University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; Craig Huneke, professor of mathematics, lectured and conducted research from August to December at the Max-Planck Institute, Bonn, Germany, on commutative algebra; and William Shaffer, professor of political science and associate dean of the School of Liberal Arts, lectured and conducted research from September to December at the University of Bergen, Norway, on the politics of consolidation.-- Two visiting scholars were awarded 1998-99 Fulbright Scholar grants to work on the Purdue campus. Andreas Klik, professor at the Institute of Hydraulics and Rural Water Management, University of Agriculture of Vienna, Austria, will conduct research at the National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory at Purdue from June through August next year. Thalappil Pradeep, assistant professor of chemistry at Regional Sophisticated Instrumentation Center, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India, conducted research on the fundamental aspects of ion/surface collision phenomena from May through August at Purdue's Department of Chemistry. -- Janet Ayres, assistant director for leadership and community development for the Purdue Extension Service, has received Purdue's 1998 Hovde Award of Excellence for her 20 years of helping rural Hoosiers improve their communities. Ayres, a professor of agricultural economics, works with Hoosiers to develop leadership and to create consensus in communities.
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu
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