Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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Campus activities-- Two Purdue students who died recently will be recognized during the monthly Golden Taps ceremony at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 19, at Spitzer Court, Cary Quadrangle. The students were Brady C. Putzier, a junior in the Schools of Engineering from Pensacola, Fla., and Elizabeth G. Brown, a sophomore in the Schools of Engineering from St. Louis, Mo. The Golden Taps ceremony is conducted monthly when a member of the student body has died the month before. It is sponsored and coordinated by Pendragon, the Cary Quad student leadership honorary.
Faculty and staff honors-- Larry Braile, professor of earth sciences, has received the 1998 Excellence in Geophysical Education Award from the American Geophysical Union. Braile and five researchers from other institutions received the award for their work as faculty members of SAGE, the Summer of Applied Geophysical Experience, which is designed to introduce students to geophysical exploration and research.-- Ahmed Sameh, head of Purdue's Department of Computer Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, the highest rank of membership in the organization. Sameh also has been named winner of the organization's 1999 Harry M. Goode Medal. The annual award recognizes outstanding achievements and contributions in the information processing field. Sameh's research interests include numerical linear algebra with emphasis on parallel computing.
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