Purdue Notebook
March 24, 2006
Campus activities
— The Tippecanoe County Historical Association and Purdue's Interdisciplinary Film Studies Program are partnering for History Circle Movie Club. The series, which is free and open to the public, features a movie, which is followed by a discussion led by Ben Lawton, professor of Italian and chair of the film studies program. "Crash" is showing April 10 and "Il Conformista" (The Conformist) is showing May 8. Both events are at 6 p.m. at the West Lafayette Public Library, 208 W. Columbia St.
Faculty and staff honors
— Mohan J. Dutta, associate professor of communication, has been selected as the winner of the 2006 Kentucky Conference on Health Communication Lewis Donohew Outstanding Scholar in Health Communication award. The honor is in recognition for Dutta's contributions to the culture-centered approach to health communication and research contributions to the health communication field.— James Oakley, assistant professor of marketing at the Krannert School of Management, has been named Krannert Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher by a vote of graduating seniors in the school. Oakley will receive a prize of $1,500 and will be recognized at the April 9 University Honors Convocation. Susan Watts, associate professor of accounting at the Krannert School of Management, and Kelly Blanchard, continuous term lecturer in economics, each received $1,000 awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching.
Student honors
— Joy Santee, a second-year doctoral student in rhetoric and composition from Perry, Iowa, was awarded the East Central Writing Association Tutor of the Year Award. The honor is from the East Central Writing Centers Association. Santee tutors in Purdue's Writing Lab, where people learn about grammar, punctuation, writing style, formatting and content for research papers, Web pages, resumes and Power Point presentations. The lab also has an online component: https://owl.english.purdue.edu/.— Farshad Rajabipour, a graduate student in the School of Civil Engineering, was awarded first place by the Center for Advanced Cement Based Materials for his work to develop a new sensor for assessing drying in concrete. The Electrical Conductivity of Drying Cement Paste study characterizes the electrical conduction in cement paste in relation to drying and moisture absorption. Rajabipour's research will be used in the development of an embedded relative humidity sensor in concrete.
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