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May 28, 1999
Students recognized for honors, achievementsWEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Fifteen Purdue University students recently were recognized for their achievements.-- The School of Civil Engineering has presented scholarships to six juniors, three graduate students and three seniors, all from Indiana. The juniors are: Erin Darlage, Brownstown, who received the $2,500 John G. McIntyre Endowment Scholarship; Harmon Henderson, Goshen, and Stephen Spitzer, Lafayette, who received the $1,000 Reith Riley Construction Co. Scholarship; Jeremy Gries, Indianapolis, and Matthew Cushman, Ossian, who received the $1,000 Edna C. and William Y.H. Ling Civil Engineering Scholarship; and Adam McAlpire, New Carlisle, who received the $1,000 Harold E. Rhein Society of American Military Engineers Scholarship. The graduate students are: Matthew Mesarch, Merrillville, who received the $325 Donald E. Bloodgood Memorial Award for outstanding students majoring in environmental engineering; Jennifer Schramm, Fortville, who received the $5,000 Maple Point Foundation Graduate Research Award for Women in Civil Engineering; and Robert Threlkeld, Carmel, who was awarded the $1,000 Greeley & Hansen Elmer F. Ballotti Memorial Fellowship for students pursuing a master's degree in environmental engineering. The seniors are: Julie Meszaros of Lafayette, who was awarded the $2,000 Matthew Edward Kern Environmental Engineering Scholarship/Fellowship; Roger Radabaugh of Wabash, who was awarded the $1,500 Roy E. and Myra Wansik Civil Engineering/Cary Quadrangle Scholarship; and Kara Elliott of Frankfort, who was awarded the $100 Myrtle Ford Tompt Award, which is given to a junior or senior with the highest cumulative grade point index. Elliott also received the $1,000 Albert J. Horth Memorial Scholarship and the $750 Robert D. and Margaret J. Miles Civil Engineering Scholarship. -- The Department of Statistics has honored three students. Jose Miquel Perez received the $200 I.W. Burr Award. Perez, born in Caracas, Venezuela, received his bachelor of arts degree in 1992 and master of science degree in 1994 from Simon Bolivar University, and his Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue in 1998. His areas of research include Bayesian statistics, model selection, objective Bayesian analysis, and development of objective prior distributions. Rebecca Ambler, Grimsby, U.K., and James O'Malley, Christchurch, New Zealand, are the co-winners of the Louis J. Cote M.S. Excellence in Statistics Award. Each receives $200. Ambler came to Purdue in 1997 after receiving a bachelor of arts degree with honors in mathematics from Cambridge University. Her area of research is applied statistics. O'Malley graduated this month with a master of science degree in statistics with specialization in applied statistics. He also was awarded a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Canterbury in March. His areas of research are bioassay, Bayesian statistics, nonlinear regression, variance function estimation, statistical computation, generalized estimating equations and longitudinal data analysis.
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