Purdue Notebook
July 21, 2006
Appointments and promotions
— Larry Braile has been named head of the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences within the College of Science. He succeeds Jon Harbor, who will become Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver.
Faculty and staff honors
— Dean of Libraries James Mullins served on a National Science Foundation panel exploring digital information preservation and access 20 years in the future. Mullins detailed Purdue Libraries' partnership with Information Technology at Purdue to create a distributed institutional repository that was recently featured in the Chronicle of Higher Education. The repository is designed to make increasingly vast amounts of scientific data more readily available to more researchers.— "Sisters in Science," published by Purdue University Press, was featured twice on C-SPAN2's "Book TV." The book profiles the challenges and triumphs of several female African-American scientists, including Purdue student Delores Shockley. In 1955, Shockley became the first African-American woman to earn a doctorate in pharmacology.
Alumni honors
— Three Purdue alumni who are attorneys at Dinsmore & Shohl LLP in Cincinnati have recently been honored. Emerson C. Moser, who received a bachelor's degree from the College of Liberal Arts in 1999, was named an Ohio Super Lawyers Rising Star by the publication Law & Politics Media. Marc C. Bissinger, who received a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1979, and Richard A. Killworth, who received a bachelor's degree in chemistry in 1965 and a master's degree in history in 1966, were among 20 attorneys recognized as leaders in their field in the legal guide "America's Leading Lawyers for Business." Bissinger specializes in construction law, and Killworth specializes in intellectual property law.
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