Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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February 11, 2000 Campus activities– Charles Ingrao, professor of history, will talk about the current and historical political and cultural situation in Kosovo. The presentation will be at 8 p.m. Tuesday (2/15) in the rec lounge of Hillenbrand Hall. The presentation will include slides of Ingrao's most recent visit to the country. More information is available from Mattias Eriksson, (765) 495-8210. – Two deceased Purdue students will be recognized during the monthly Golden Taps ceremony at 10 p.m. Tuesday (2/15) in Spitzer Court, Cary Quadrangle. The honored students are Jason Miller, a freshman in the School of Technology from Delphi, and Karol Smith, a graduate student from Hobart. The Golden Taps ceremony gives the Purdue community an opportunity to formally honor and reflect on the lives of students who have died during the previous month. Pendragon, the student leadership honorary at Cary Quadrangle, sponsors Golden Taps. University honors– Purdue has been honored by the Quality Education for Minorities Network for important contributions to the number of doctoral degrees earned by African-Americans, Alaskan natives, American Indians and Hispanics in the fields of mathematics, physical sciences and engineering. The university is one of 27 doctoral degree-granting institutions to be recognized tonight (Friday, 2/11) in Washington, D.C. QEM is a nonprofit organization dedicated to improving education for minorities. Faculty and staff honors– Five Purdue faculty members received 1999-2000 Fulbright Scholar grants to participate in international educational exchanges. Mark W.M. Bannatyne, associate professor of computer graphics, is lecturing at Tula State Mechanical University in Tula, Russia, through June 2000; Patricia Ann Boling, associate professor of political science, just returned from Tokyo, Japan, where she conducted research on family policy for six months; Anthony Faiola, assistant professor of technical graphics, just returned from five months as a guest lecturer at the St. Petersburg Technical University in St. Petersburg, Russia; Charles W. Ingrao, professor of history, will spend March through July of this year conducting research at the International Forschungzentrum Kulturwissenschaften, in Wien, Austria; and Jay J. Rosellini, professor of German, lectured at various institutions in Germany for three weeks last summer. – Rida Shibli, associate professor with the University of Science and Technology in Irbid, Jordan, is working in Purdue's agronomy department through May as a Fulbright Scholar. Shibli is researching the physiological and biochemical aspects of abiotic stress tolerance on alfalfa cells. – Sgt. Harold D. Adams, a 28-year veteran of the Purdue Police Department, has received the Caroline Scherer Memorial Award in recognition of outstanding service to the Purdue Agricultural Alumni Association. He serves as the liaison between the association and Purdue police for special events and activities. He was cited at the association's recent annual meeting, held in conjunction with the Ag Alumni Fish Fry. Scherer was the association's secretary and office manager for more than 15 years, until her death in 1990. (NOTE TO JOURNALISTS: Head-and-shoulders photo of Adams available at Purdue News ftp site.
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