Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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December 3, 1999 Appointments and promotions– Victor Lechtenberg, Purdue's dean of agriculture, has been re-elected as chairman of a U.S. Department of Agriculture advisory board and reappointed to the board for a second three-year term. He has been a member and chairman of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education and Economics Advisory Board since it was created by Congress in 1996. The 30 members provide input to Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman on national research policy and priority issues in food, forestry and agriculture. – Joan Vaughan has accepted an appointment as director of Purdue Trax, an initiative to redesign and replace student mainframe systems with today's technology. Vaughan has been with the university more than five years, and was manager of distributed computing for student services. A partnership of the Offices of Student Services and Management Information, the Purdue Trax initiative will employ over 30 people full-time to assess best practices for serving students and faculty and will adopt current technologies to support the delivery of services. More information about Purdue Trax is available on the web. Campus activities– The 2000 Debris yearbook staff will take pictures of faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Monday (12/6) in Room 130D, Stewart Center. More information about Debris is available at http://go.to/debris or by calling (765) 494-2702. – The Purdue Visitor Information Center will conduct a tour guide callout at 6:30 p.m. Jan. 12. Tour guides are student volunteers who supervise guided walking and riding tours of the West Lafayette campus for alumni, visitors and school groups. Faculty and staff honors– Paul L. Ziemer, director of Purdue's School of Health Sciences, received the 1999 Tony and Mary Hulman Achievement Award for Environmental Health from the Indiana Public Health Foundation. Foundation President Donald R. Able said Ziemer was chosen for his exemplary leadership and commitment in the education and training of professionals in the field of environmental and occupational hazardous materials. Ziemer was also recognized for administering a program that assisted the U.S. Department of Energy toward compliance with environmental requirements, and for research and educational activities related to health risks associated with environmental levels of radon gas. – Dan A. Larson of the Purdue Police Department has received the Police Officer of the Year Award from the Lafayette Daybreak Rotary Club. Larson, an officer with the department's Special Services Division Community Policing Section, was cited for his work with the department's new Alcohol Student Awareness Program. Using a high-performance 1999 Pontiac Firebird Trans Am police vehicle donated by Mike Raisor Pontiac of Lafayette, Larson interacts informally with college-age men and women on alcohol use and abuse, and provides educational materials and information. He has reached some 5,000 people since the program and the vehicle were unveiled at the start of the 1999-2000 academic year.
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