Purdue Notebook

Campus activities -- A Purdue University student who died recently will be recognized during the monthly Golden Taps ceremony at 10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 17, at Spitzer Court, Cary Quadrangle. The student was Allan Chyba, a sophomore in the School of Liberal Arts from Carmel. The Golden Taps ceremony is conducted monthly when a member of the student body has died the month before. It is sponsored and coordinated by Pendragon, the Cary Quadrangle student leadership honorary. -- The University Choir will perform at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, in Hillenbrand Hall, main floor study lounge. The Purdue Musical Organization performance is free and open to the public. More information is available from the Hillenbrand Hall office, (765) 494-0325. -- Purdue will offer an evening course, GS 290X: College Study Skills, for older students. The course will be offered from 6 to 9 p.m. Tuesdays from Jan. 12 through May 4. Students will receive three academic credits for the course. To register for the course, students should contact their academic advisers or the Office of Admissions. More information is available from Sara Jane Coffman, course instructor, (765) 494-5110. Faculty and staff honors -- Dave Lubelski, a research engineer in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has received the George P. Hanyo Award for technical support from the American Vacuum Society. Lubelski operates and maintains one of the world's premier labs for fabricating novel semiconducting structures, including the first semiconductor lasers in the blue-green color range. The lab is under the direction of Robert Gunshor, the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Microelectronics. Lubelski also trains and assists graduate students in laboratory techniques. * * * * * Other honors: -- Nancy Eimers, the 1997 winner of the Verna Emery Poetry Prize from Purdue Press, now has won a $30,000 award for young, emerging writers from the Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation. Purdue Press published Eimers' second collection of poetry, "No Moon." The Verna Emery Poetry Prize was named after the former managing editor of Purdue Press. Eimers teaches at Western Michigan University and at Vermont College. Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page