Purdue Notebook

Purdue Notebook

July 15, 2005

Faculty and staff honors

– A bicycle design by Scott Shim, an assistant professor of industrial design in the College of Liberal Arts, and two former Purdue University students were awarded the Industrial Design Excellence Awards' Gold 2005 in the Design Explorations category. The tricycle-like bike, called SHIFT, helps a child learn how to ride without training wheels or help from an adult. The two rear wheels shift inward to merge into one wheel as the child gains momentum and learns to balance. Recent Purdue visual and performing arts graduates, Ryan Lightbody, who now works at Strategix Vision in Seattle, and Matt Grossman, from Carmel, Ind., collaborated with Shim. The competition is sponsored by BusinessWeek magazine and is run independently by the Industrial Designers Society of America. The Purdue design also topped 853 entrants from 56 countries to win the $15,000 first prize in the 9th International Bicycle Design Competition in Taiwan earlier this year. Industrial design is housed in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts.

– Robert Perrucci, professor of sociology, will receive The Lee Founders Award this August at the annual Society for the Study of Social Problems meeting in Philadelphia. This lifetime achievement award, which was established in 1981, recognizes scholars in the areas of research, teaching and service-learning committed to social-action programs that promote societal justice. Perrucci, a professor in the College of Liberal Arts, studies the impact of the global economy on workers, communities and structures of inequality.

Student honors

– Corlyn Bailey, a senior in Purdue's Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, was awarded the Clark E. DeHaven scholarship from the Association of American Colleges and Universities. The $3,500 scholarship recognizes the academic and work-based achievements of students pursuing a career in food service. Bailey, from Chicago, is a student supervisor at the Hillenbrand Hall dining court and was presented the award at the association's annual conference this month in New Orleans. She is the second Purdue student to earn one of the scholarships since 1992.

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