Purdue Notebook

March 11, 2005

Appointments and promotions

– Kokomo Mayor Matt McKillip, a 1985 graduate of Purdue's computer technology program, has been appointed to the university's Computer Technology Advisory Board. McKillip was elected mayor of Kokomo, Ind., in 2004. He has worked for Proctor and Gamble in the United States and Europe and started Momentum, a Kokomo-based consulting firm, in 1995.

Faculty and staff honors

– Fabio Ribeiro, an associate professor of chemical engineering at Purdue, has received a 2005 Excellence in Catalysis Award from the Catalysis Society of Metropolitan New York. He will be presented with the award during a society meeting on May 11. "Professor Ribeiro is being recognized for his creativity and outstanding accomplishments in the field of heterogeneous catalysis," according to a prepared statement from the society. "His work is broadly recognized and characterized by complete attention to detail and careful experimental design to precisely answer important questions in catalysis. In a relatively short period of time, Professor Ribeiro has provided key insights into numerous important and diverse catalytic systems, such as catalytic combustion, hydrodechlorination, hydrocarbon rearrangement on alloy surfaces, and properties of oxygen-modified transition metal carbides."

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