Appointments, honors and activities

Notables:

– Allison Gabriel, the Thomas J. Howatt Chair in Management at Purdue’s Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business and director of the university’s new Center for Working Well, was recently recognized by Culture Amp as one of its Top 25 Emerging Culture Creators. Gabriel is one of four people recognized in the academics and researchers category, which emphasizes that anyone who seeks to understand the employee experience through study and evidence is a researcher making a better world of work.

– Zhiwei Zhu, clinical assistant professor of management at the Mitchell E. Daniels, Jr. School of Business, was honored among the 50 Best Undergraduate Business Professor of 2023 by Poets & Quants. The full story, available here, includes a profile of Zhu and highlights his career in analytics and date science prior to coming to Purdue. In addition to running a profile of Zhu, the story singles him out for his career in analytics and data science prior to coming to Purdue. He joins Kelly Blanchard, Amy David, Roy Dejoie, Allison Gabriel, Cara Putman, Kelly Schwind Wilson and Kate Zipay as current Daniels School faculty members who have received a similar honor from Poets & Quants, either here or while at a previous university.

– David Purpura, professor of human development and family science and director of the Center for Early Learning, and Avery Closser, a postdoctoral research scientist for CEL and the Department of Human Development and Family Science, are the first research team to join the SEERnet Digital Learning Platforms Network. SEERNet is a network of platform developers, researchers and education stakeholders working together to create and expand the capacity of digital learning platforms to enable equity-focused and rigorous education research. Funded by the Institute of Education Sciences, the network aims to enhance the potential for improving education practice and, most importantly, lead to the improvement of learner outcomes. 

Student honors:

– The Brian Lamb School of Communication and the Department of Political Science at Purdue University have announced the award recipients of the inaugural D.C. Intern Fellowship, a program designed to foster hands-on learning experiences and professional growth for outstanding students in communication and political science. The recipients are William Courtney, a junior in communication and political science; Maura Struckhoff, a junior in communication, political science and law and society; Lynlee Rice, a junior in political science, and applied statistics; and Elise Elder, a senior in political science and sociology. Each recipient will receive a $8,000 stipend and participate in the 2024 Boilers Go to D.C. Summer Scholars Internship Program. The full story is here.