Purdue Notebook

November 10, 2000 Appointments and promotions Marne G. Helgesen was appointed as the first full-time director of the Center for Instructional Excellence. Helgesen recently served at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign as associate director of the Office of Instructional Resources, head of the Division of Instructional Development, and with faculty appointments in the departments of Educational and Organizational Leadership, and Landscape Architecture. The Center for Instructional Excellence was created in 1999 with a mission to enhance teaching and learning at Purdue Campus activities Sycamore Review, Purdue's award-winning literary magazine, presents Northern Indiana's Annual Share Our Strength Writer's Harvest reading to benefit Food Finders of Greater Lafayette. The fiction and poetry reading will feature Depauw University fiction writer Barbara Bean and Purdue student Sam Van Horne. The event will take place at 8 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Hicks Undergraduate Bookstall. Donations of canned foods or money will be accepted. Faculty and staff honors Yahya R. Kamalipour, professor and head of the Department of Communication and Creative Arts at Calumet, coedited "Religion, Law and Freedom: A Global Perspective." The book was published by Praeger Publishers in September 2000 and deals with confluence of religion, law and communication freedoms in selected nations of the world including China, the European Union, Iran, Israel, Nigeria, Latvia, Singapore, Japan and the United States. To the Purdue News and Photos Page