April 27, 2018
Appointments, honors and activities
• Faculty and staff honors:
- Arvind Varma, the R. Games Slayter Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering, will receive this year’s American Society for Engineering Education Benjamin Garver Lamme Award on June 27 in Salt Lake City. The annual award will recognize Varma for his contributions to teaching, research and advancements in the engineering college administration. Varma joined Purdue in 2004, serving as head of the School of Chemical Engineering until 2016.
-Edward M. Mikhail, professor emeritus of civil engineering, was selected as the 2018 recipient of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation’s Arthur C. Lundahl-Thomas C. Finnie Lifetime Achievement award. Mikhail is the 14th individual to receive this award and was recognized on stage during the GEOINT 2018 Symposium’s general session.
• Notables:
- The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business has extended its accreditation in business for the Krannert School of Management. For over a century, AACSB accreditation has been synonymous with the highest standards in business education. The distinction has been earned by less than 5 percent of the world’s business schools. Achieving accreditation is a process of rigorous internal focus, engagement with an assigned mentor and a peer-reviewed evaluation. During this multi-year path, schools focus on developing and implementing a plan to align with AACSB’s accreditation standards. These standards require excellence in strategic management and innovation, learning and teaching, academic and professional engagement, and active participation by student, faculty, and staff. Krannert has been accredited since 1967.
• Student honors:
- Four master’s students in the Krannert School of Management won second place in the 2018 Fishers Invitational Case Competition, sponsored by the National Center for the Middle Market, at The Ohio State University. Edgar Kennebrew, Riya Pandya, Ji Jiang and Matthew Meyer participated in the competition and were advised by professors Teresa Sekine and Denise Driscoll. Second-year master’s students Christine Rasquinha, Matt Kennedy and Mike Hanson helped the team prepare. Meyer also won the Best Q-and-A award.
- Amber Nickell, a graduate student studying history, has been selected to participate in a summer school in Kharkiv, Ukraine, from June 25 to July 6. The subject of the summer school is “Borderlands Studies in East Central Europe and the Black Sea Region.” During that time, she will make two presentations about her dissertation research and, upon completion, will receive a certificate from the Center for Interethnic Relations Research and the Universality of St. Galen.
