Purdue Notebook
June 2, 2006
Appointments and promotions
— Purdue University's Krannert School of Management has named Henry J."Hank" Suerth director of student and academic services for its executive education programs. He will have responsibility for directing student and academic support services, corporate relations, marketing, program recruiting and overall administration for the internationally ranked Krannert Executive Education Programs. He will also work closely with school faculty in content development for the executive education programs. Suerth, who assumes his new duties on June 6, has been an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in Purdue's Discovery Park, earned a bachelor's degree in industrial management from Purdue in 1968. He also received an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1973.— Shelley MacDermid, professor of child development and family studies, has been named associate dean for discovery and learning for the College of Consumer and Family Sciences. She will assume the core work in the learning area, including curriculum and student services, and will oversee Experiment Station, Purdue Research Foundation, faculty development and graduate school activities. MacDermid will retain her directorship of the Center for Families and continue research efforts in the college.
— Rick Widdows, professor and head of the Department of Consumer Science and Retailing, will become the interim associate dean for diversity and international programs in the College of Consumer and Family Sciences. He will work with study abroad programs in CFS and on a new "Consumers and Technology" initiative with Discovery Park.
— Darren Cooper has joined Purdue's Office of Advancement as a research associate. He was previously an academic counselor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering Technology. Before that, he worked as a consultant for Manugistics Inc.
Faculty and staff honors
— Erica Carlson, assistant professor of physics, received a 2006 Cottrell Scholar Award valued at $100,000 for her commitment to teaching and research in quantum soft matter. Research Corp. created the award to recognize early-career faculty who show promise and leadership in both research and education. She is one of 13 recipients nationwide. The awardees are announced in the June 2 issue of Science.— Otto Doering, professor of agricultural economics, has been elected president of the American Agricultural Economics Association for 2007-08. The AAEA is a professional society for those interested in agricultural economics. A nonprofit organization, the AAEA is committed to furthering knowledge about the economics of agriculture, rural communities and natural resources. Doering is a public policy specialist and has worked with the U.S. Department of Agriculture on the 1977, 1990 and 1996 farm bills.
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