April 18, 2005
Six Purdue educators receive 2005 Murphy Awards
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Six Purdue educators received 2005 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy on Sunday (April 17) during the university’s annual Honors Convocation in the Elliott Hall of Music.
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The university’s highest undergraduate teaching honor, the Murphy Award is given in recognition of exemplary teaching in all phases of undergraduate instruction at the West Lafayette campus. A $5,000 monetary award accompanies the honor.
The winners’ names will be included in the engraved Book of Great Teachers, a plaque in Purdue Memorial Union that honors the best teachers throughout Purdue’s history. Murphy was a history professor at Purdue between 1927 and 1970.
The 2005 Murphy Award winners are:
• Janet Alsup, assistant professor of English education. She has received three English Department Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Awards and one Excellence in Graduate Teaching Award since joining the Purdue faculty in 2000. Irwin Weiser, head of the Department of English, said Alsup "plays a vital role in the education of secondary English teachers" and "has been quite active in developing new courses."
• Eckhard Groll, associate professor of mechanical engineering. On the Purdue faculty since 1994, Groll teaches thermodynamics and energy utilization. He received the Solberg Best Teaching Award from the School of Mechanical Engineering in 2002. He also was named a senior resource faculty member for the Teacher for Tomorrow Awards program at Purdue. In class surveys, students often use the word "favorite" to describe both Groll and the classes he teaches.
• Stanley Hem, professor of industrial and physical pharmacy. A Purdue faculty member since 1969, Hem teaches basic pharmaceutics. He is a four-time winner of the Henry Heine Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Pharmacy, which is voted on solely by students. Jackie Jimerson, director of the School of Pharmacy’s Office of Minority Programs, said Hem "is an outstanding faculty member who certainly excels in the classroom, but equally as important, goes beyond the classroom to motivate, counsel, encourage and mentor students."
• Chris Oseto, professor of entomology and director of the University Honors Program. Oseto, a Purdue faculty member since 1990, has received outstanding teacher awards from the College of Agriculture and from the North American Colleges and Teachers of Agriculture organization. He also has been inducted into the Purdue Teaching Academy. He consistently earns high ratings from his students, with average scores of 4.89 to 4.96 on a five-point scale. One student said his teaching "raises the bar of excellence for both his own teaching and what he expects of his students."
• Donald Petrin, associate professor of aviation technology. A 1991 winner of the College of Technology’s Dwyer Undergraduate Teaching Award and the outstanding teacher within the Department of Aviation Technology in both 1988 and 1991, Petrin has taught at Purdue since 1979. Unsolicited comments from lecture and flight students include these: "You always provided an open door to knowledge, whether in class or on the phone at home. I appreciate your willingness to go out of the way … very professional … a great captain!"
• Richard Rand, professor of visual and performing arts, has been on the faculty since 1987. His teaching duties include courses on acting, advanced movement, rehearsal and performance. One of Rand’s students was quoted as saying: "Quite simply, he is the best teacher I ever had … no person I met at Purdue has had a more positive, profound and lasting impact on my career." Rand was inducted into the Purdue Teaching Academy this year. He was chosen by students for the Purdue Theatre Best Teacher Award in 2004. Additionally, Rand received the Department of Visual and Performing Arts Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2003.
Writer: Amy Raley, Purdue periodicals, (765) 494-9573, raleyah@purdue.edu
Sources: Jim Vruggink, special projects director, (765) 494-2086, jvruggink@purdue.edu
Alsup, (765) 429-8031, (765) 494-3777, jalsup@sla.purdue.edu
Groll, (765) 464-1414, (765) 496-2201, groll@purdue.edu
Hem, (765) 463-7870, (765) 494-1451, hem@pharmacy.purdue.edu
Oseto, (765) 463-1447, (765) 494-4554, osetoc@purdue.edu
Petrin, (765) 463-5338, (765) 494-9979, dapetrin@purdue.edu
Rand, (765) 497-9677, (765) 494-3077, richrand@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu
PHOTO CAPTION:
Eckhard Groll, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, works on a miniature-scale refrigeration system that could be used to cool computer chips in the near future. Groll was among six Purdue faculty members to receive Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Awards in Memory of Charles B. Murphy during Purdue's 2005 Honors Convocation. (Purdue News Service file photo/David Umberger)
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