Appointments, honors and activities
May 20, 2011
• Faculty and staff honors:- The Office of Programs for Study Abroad is a finalist in the 2011 GoAbroad Innovation Awards for International Education in the category of Innovation in Marketing. Purdue is being recognized for its Global Greeks program that encourages students in the Greek system to study abroad. The winner for this category will be announced at the upcoming NAFSA: Association of International Educators annual conference. More information is available at https://www.goabroad.com/news/innovation-awards
- Hiroshi Maeda, a postdoctoral research assistant in the College of Agriculture's Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture, has been selected to receive the Eric E. Conn Young Investigator Award from the American Society of Plant Biologists. He will receive the award during Plant Biology 2011, the group's annual meeting Aug. 6-10 in Minneapolis. The award, to be presented for the first time, recognizes excellence in outreach, public service, mentoring or teaching by plant scientists at the beginning of their career. Maeda was chosen for his research in plant stress physiology and aromatic amino acid biosynthesis as well as for his contributions to service, outreach and mentoring.
-- Susan Uhlig, a continuing lecturer in art and design in the Patti and Rusty Rueff School of Visual and Performing Arts, is one of 16 recipients for the 2011 Fulbright-Hays Seminars Abroad Program. Uhlig will spend six weeks this summer in Morocco and Tunisia with the other award winners to study the religious diversity in the Maghreb, the western region of North Africa. As part of the requirement for the seminars abroad program, Uhlig will create a curriculum project for submission to the Department of Education. It will be available for use by educators nationwide and will also be incorporated directly into Uhlig's art education and art appreciation classes as well.
-- Mary Beth Lencke, academic adviser in the Undergraduate Studies Program, has been selected to receive the Outstanding Advising Certificate of Merit in the Academic Advising-Primary Role category from the National Academic Advising Association. The honor is presented to individuals who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students or outstanding academic advising administration. The goal of NACADA is to promote quality academic advising and professional development of its membership to enhance the educational development of students.
-- Andrew E. Oppy, academic adviser in the Department of Agricultural Economics, has been selected to receive the Outstanding New Advisor Certificate of Merit in the Academic Advising-Primary Role category from the National Academic Advising Association. The award is presented to individuals who have demonstrated qualities associated with outstanding academic advising of students and who have served as an adviser for a period of three or fewer years. The goal of NACADA is to promote quality academic advising and professional development of its membership to enhance the educational development of students.
• Notables:
- The College of Technology has been named a CUDA Teaching Center by NVIDIA Corp. Bedrich Benes, associate professor of computer graphics technology, will coordinate the center's activities, which will include courses, training and outreach to industry and academia. CUDA is NVIDIA's parallel computing architecture that enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit (GPU).
As part of the program, Benes will continue teaching a graduate course on CUDA architecture this fall. CUDA programming is taught at more than 400 universities in 49 countries. Purdue joins more than 40 other universities enrolled in the program, launched last year, worldwide.
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