Purdue Notebook
March 3, 2006
Appointments and promotions
— Chris Peck has accepted the position of data analyst with the University Development Office. Peck previously worked as an application professional for Allstate Insurance Co.— Jeff Weitekamp has been selected as the director of development for the Purdue Alumni Association, effective April 5. He is currently director of communications and media relations for the Indianapolis Sports Corp. Weitekamp is a 1998 Purdue graduate who worked in the intercollegiate athletics department and was a member of the Glee Club while a student.
Gifts
— Purdue's Krannert School of Management's MBA students raised $5,000 for the Hanna Community Center at their annual Charity Ball and Auction on Feb. 24. The event was sponsored by two Krannert organizations, the Krannert Graduate Student Association and the Management Volunteer Program. The first-year MBA students, with a bid of $2,400, bettered their second-year peers and won invitations for 50 to a cocktail party to be thrown by Charlene Sullivan, associate professor of finance. MBA student Sally Liu, an event organizer, said 66 local businesses donated prizes and gift certificates to the silent auction event. The event was held at the Lafayette Ballet Ballroom, which is owned by Sandra Peticolas, the spouse of David Schoorman, a Krannert School professor of organizational behavior/human resources.
Faculty and staff honors
— A Purdue professor and a graduate student were honored at the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education's annual meeting on Feb. 17 in Indianapolis. Sharon A. DeVaney, professor in consumer sciences and retailing and a faculty associate with Purdue's Center on Aging and the Life Course, was named a fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education. Tetyana Pylypiv Shippee, a doctoral student in sociology and gerontology, was the recipient of the first Association for Gerontology in Higher Education's Student Paper Award for her paper titled "Living and Learning in the Bridge Program: Learning from Student Residence in a Senior Retirement Community." Shippee was the first student to live at Westminster Village, a West Lafayette retirement center, as part of the Bridge Program established by the Center on Aging and the Life Course.— Robert May, professor of history, is giving the inaugural lecture for the academic year at the University of Costa Rica. May also has been invited to present and participate in a number of activities in Costa Rica relating to his book "Manifest Destiny's Underworld: Filibustering in Antebellum America," which was published in 2004.
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