Purdue Notebook

September 30, 2005

Campus activities:

– Award-winning poet Amy Quan Barry will be reading from her work at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday (Oct. 5) in the Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall. Barry, an associate professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a visiting professor this year in the Department of English. She has published two books of poetry, "Controvertibles" and "Asylum," which won the Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, Georgia Review, New England Review and Missouri Review, and she also has received a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and a 2003 Pushcart Prize. This reading is sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts and the Department of English and the Master of Fine Arts program in English.

– Daniel Hsieh, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures, will present "Tang Poetry: Some Favorite Translations" at 8 p.m. Thursday (Oct. 6) in Rawls Hall, Room 1057. Hsieh's lecture is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Classics Program and the Purdue Classics Association.

Faculty and staff honors:

–Thomas Webster, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and materials engineering, has been selected for a Young Investigator Award from the American Academy of Nanomedicine. He received the award during an August meeting in Baltimore.

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