October 5, 2018

Appointments, honors and activities

Faculty and staff honors:

- “Against Dying,” a poem by Kaveh Akbar, assistant professor of English, has been selected to appear in “Best American Poetry 2018.” The publication is a yearly anthology featuring poems from approximately fifty poets that have been published in the last year, compiled by a guest editor. Dana Gioia selected the poems that would appear this year. Akbar and other poets who appear in the anthology will read their works Sept. 28 at The New School in New York City. “Against Dying” originally appeared in Tin House magazine.

- Michael Campion, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Management, is listed as the second most cited author in human resource management textbooks in an article published by the Academy of Management Learning and Education journal. More information is online.  

- William Watson, an associate professor of learning design and technology in the College of Education, and Holly Fiock, an instructional designer of learning design and technology in the College of Education, each received the Excellence in Instructional Design award for their work with digital badges in course design. The award was presented by the University Professional and Continuing Education Association during a central regional ceremony in St. Louis in September. This award recognizes a credit or noncredit course or program which serves as a model of instructional design excellence for others.  

 

Alumni honors:

- Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, an assistant professor of chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin who received her Ph.D. from Purdue, has won a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, often called a “genius” award. The prestigious, no-strings-attached five-year fellowship awards $625,000 to each recipient. Eberlin has been recognized for developing new ways to identify cancerous tissue to improve outcomes for patients using a chemical analysis method called mass spectrometry. She’s also discovering biomarkers associated with different types of cancer.

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