Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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February 18, 2000 Faculty and staff honors– Kevin McNamara, professor of agricultural economics and director of the Center for Rural Development, has been chosen to receive a Humboldt Research Award for Senior U.S. Scientists. The award offers McNamara the opportunity for an extended research stay in Germany. The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation in Germany grants up to 150 Humboldt Research Awards annually to internationally recognized scholars. McNamara specializes in the analysis of factors influencing manufacturing growth, the impact of infrastructure investment on regional economic growth, and the impact of public development policy on local income and employment growth. He was nominated by German scholar Claus-Henning Hanf at the University of Kiel. – Mechanical engineering professor Bruce A. Harding has been named chairman of the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 10. The committee writes and maintains worldwide engineering standards for technical drawing, product definition and related documentation. It is composed of delegates from 22 participating and 35 observing countries, including Australia, Austria, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States. Harding is an internationally recognized expert on engineering drawing standardization and a member of the American National Institute and other technical standards committees. – Pamela Luenz of Lafayette, a volunteer for the James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship, has received a Sagamore of the Wabash Award from Gov. Frank O'Bannon. The honor, the highest bestowed by the state, recognizes her devotion to civic education in Indiana. Luenz has been coordinator of the center's Project Citizen since its inception in 1994. Her other civic activities include Eli Lilly's Partners in Education, Lafayette Indiana Historic Auto Club and the Tippecanoe County Library. She has also volunteered for the March of Dimes, Indianapolis Zoo, Indiana Reading Association and the Friends of the Columbian Park Zoo. – Debra Harmeson has received the John C. Smalley Memorial Grant Award. Harmeson, a resident of Attica, Ind., began her career at Purdue in 1991 as a service worker in Earhart Hall. The Smalley Award was developed by Housing and Food Services to encourage continuing education among clerical, service and administrative staff within the division. The award pays up to $125 tuition toward coursework of the recipient's choice at Purdue or Ivy Tech State College.
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