Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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Faculty and staff honors-- Purdue North Central Chancellor Dale W. Alspaugh has been designated a Sagamore of the Wabash by Gov. Frank O'Bannon. The award is given to those who have rendered a distinguished service to the state. Alspaugh, who is stepping down as chancellor at the end of June, came to the North Central campus in 1981 as vice chancellor for academic services. He became acting chancellor in 1982 and was named chancellor in 1984. He and his wife, Marlowe, reside in Valparaiso.-- The School of Civil Engineering has presented Professor Ronald Wukasch with the Ross Judson Buck Outstanding Counselor Award, and Robert Frosch, assistant professor, with the Harold Munson Outstanding Teacher Award. -- For work that helped plant scientists understand the inner workings of plant cells, agronomy Professor Sally Mackenzie has received the 1999 Research Award from the Purdue School of Agriculture. Her research focused on plant mitochondria, organelles in a cell that produce most of the cell's energy, but which also contain genes. Mackenzie found that genes in the mitochondria of common bean plants are partially responsible for cytoplasmic male sterility, a trait that can help cut the cost of seed production. Mackenzie, who joined the Purdue faculty in 1988, will be leaving Purdue this summer for the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she has been named leader of the Plant Science Initiative.
Alumni honors-- Purdue's Schools of Engineering honored 10 graduates April 23 for outstanding contributions to the field of engineering. Recipients of the 1999 Distinguished Engineering Alumni Awards are: Robert L. Bowen, president and CEO, Bowen Engineering Corp., Indianapolis; Bryan A. Erler, senior vice president and owner, Sargent and Lundy, Chicago; Stanley Gembicki, chief technical officer, UOP, Des Plaines, Ill.; Zara Larsen, director, Controls and Externals Product and Module Center, Pratt and Whitney, United Technologies Corp., East Hartford, Conn.; David W. Pershing, senior vice president for academic affairs and distinguished professor of chemical and fuels engineering, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Michael M. Sears, senior vice president, the Boeing Co., St. Louis; David A. Stamm, founder and chairman, Clarify Inc., San Jose, Calif.; James A. Tompkins, president, founder, and chairman, Tompkins Associates, Raleigh, N.C.; Lorry Y. Wagner, chairman and CEO, Phillips Electric Co., Cleveland; and Adel A. Zakaria, senior vice president, engineering and manufacturing, Worldwide Agricultural Equipment Division, Deere and Co. Moline, Ill.
Appointments and promotions-- David Hunke has become adjunct adviser for Purdue's Interfraternity Council. He will advise the student organization on leadership development, alcohol education and risk management. Hunke, a 1983 Purdue graduate, is director of marketing and public relations for United Way of Greater Lafayette. The Interfraternity Council is the program and policy board for 39 fraternities with nearly 3,000 member on the Purdue campus.
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