Purdue Notebook
April 14, 2006
Campus activities
— Purdue's Digital Learning Collaboratory is sponsoring a red-carpet award ceremony for student filmmakers at 7 p.m. on Thursday, April 20 at Wabash Landing 9 theater. All short film entries, live-action and animated, will be shown and winners will receive prizes. The public is welcome and tickets are free. More information is available online.— The Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries present "UDE: Undetected Character Error," a senior exhibition and juried show of fine art, April 19-28. The opening is 6-8 p.m. on April 20. Rueff Galleries, located in the Yue-Kong Pao Hall for Visual and Performing Arts, 552 W. Wood St., are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Gallery exhibits are free and open to the public.
Faculty and staff honors
— Bill Murphy, clinical professor of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, has been selected as a 2006 Hoosier Hero in Science & Technology for his work with high school students who stutter. Murphy will have the opportunity to designate $2,000 to an Indiana high school scholarship to be given in his honor this spring. The award is given by Dollars for Scholars, a program of Scholarship America, which is a national network of more than 1,200 community-based, volunteer-driven scholarship foundations throughout the United States.— Eugene Spafford, executive director of the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security, has been named the recipient of the 2005 IEEE Computer Society Technical Award. The international award is being given to Spafford for his contributions to information security and digital forensics.
— David Lasater has been selected as the director of development for the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering at Purdue, effective May 1. He has been director of leadership gifts and development for the Krannert School of Management since 2002.
Student honors
— Ningying Wu, a doctoral student studying measurement and psychometrics in the College of Education, had one of two winning proposals in the 2006 MCAT Graduate Student Research Program. Wu's project was titled "Detecting Differential Item/Testlet Functioning in the Medical College Admission Test across Racial Ethnic Groups." Her mentor on the project was Susan Maller, a professor in the College of Education. Wu is a member of the Purdue Measurement Club, which provides a setting for the discussion of issues pertaining to measurement and quantitative methodology.
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