Appointments, honors and activities

• Appointments and promotions:

- Michael Bogdanor has been named the director of the Composites Virtual Factory, effective July 1. Part of the Composites Manufacturing & Simulation Center (CMSC), the virtual factory is a collection of software tools, or integrated workflow applications, that facilitates the manufacturing-informed design of composite components. Bogdanor, who began working at Purdue in January 2016 as a senior software application engineer, is the current director of the Composites Design Studio also a part of the CMSC, where he oversees a team of graduate students employing composites simulation tools to support research projects with industry partners through the Institute for Advanced Composites Manufacturing Innovation. More information can be found here.

PHOTO: Michael Bogdanor. A publication-quality image of Michael Bogdanor is available at https://www.purdue.edu/uns/images/2018/mike-bogdanor.jpg

• Faculty and staff honors:

- Jean-Pierre Hérubel, professor of library science, was honored with the 2018 Iowa Library Association/Association of College and Research Libraries Research Award for the article, “Two Sides of the Same Coin? Trade and University Press Publishing of Revised Dissertations, 2007-2016, Some Observations.” The article was co-authored by Edward A. Goedeken, professor of library science at Iowa State University Library.

- Heather Howard, assistant professor and business information specialist, was selected to receive Purdue University’s Teaching for Tomorrow Fellowship Award and will serve as junior fellow for the 2018-19 academic year.

- Nicole Kong, assistant professor and geographic information systems specialist, was recognized by the American Library Association’s Library Instruction Roundtable as an author of one of the Top Twenty Library Instruction Articles of 2017. Kong and her co-authors’ article, “Spatial Information Literacy for Digital Humanities: The Case Study of Leveraging Geospatial Information for African-American History Education,” appeared in College and Undergraduate Libraries.

- Ilana Stonebraker, assistant professor and business information specialist, was recognized by the American Library Association’s Library Instruction Roundtable as an author of one of the Top Twenty Library Instruction Articles of 2017. Stonebraker and her co-authors’ article, “Realizing Critical Business Information Literacy: Opportunities, Definitions, and Best Practices” appeared in the Journal of Business & Finance Librarianship. Stonebraker has also been inducted into the Purdue University Teaching Academy for 2018 in recognition of her outstanding and scholarly teaching in graduate, undergraduate or engagement programs. She is the first member of Purdue Libraries faculty to be inducted into the Purdue University Teaching Academy.

- Seungjin Kim, the Capt. James F. McCarthy Jr. and Cheryl E. McCarthy Head of the School of Nuclear Engineering, was appointed to the Nuclear Energy Advisory Committee for the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Engineering. According to its website, the committee periodically reviews the elements of the Office of Nuclear Energy program, and based on these reviews, provides advice and recommendations on long-range plans, priorities, and strategies to effectively address the scientific and engineering aspects of the research and development efforts. Kim will join the committee at its next meeting in July. He is a Purdue alumnus and took over as head of Purdue’s School of Nuclear Engineering in 2017.

• Student honors:

- Andrew Fogel, a graduate student studying history, has received the Sid and Ruth Lapidus Fellowship to conduct research in the American Jewish Historical Society archival collections.