Purdue Notebook
December 1, 2006
Campus activities
— Members of Purdue's Alpha Xi Delta sorority's Alpha Eta chapter raised almost $5,000 during its sixth annual Fuzzie Football tournament for the Group Homes for Children of Lafayette. More than 26 teams competed in the flag football tournament that will benefit children ages 6 to 18 who are unable to live at home. Delta Chi fraternity won the tournament, followed by Sigma Nu, Delta Upsilon, Lambda Chi Alpha and Kappa Sigma, which also won the spirit award.— An epidemiologist from Israel spoke Nov. 15 at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine about leishmaniasis, a disease that threatens 350 million men, women and children in 88 countries. Eyal Klement, assistant professor of public health and epidemiology, is beginning a collaboration with Purdue faculty. His visit was sponsored by the Department of Comparative Pathobiology and International Programs in Veterinary Medicine. Leishmaniasis is caused by species that are pathogenic for humans belonging to the genus Leishmania, a protozoa transmitted by the bite of a tiny insect vector, the phlebotomine sandfly.
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Faculty and staff honors
— Brant Burleson, a professor of communication, has been elected a distinguished scholar of the National Communication Association at the organization's annual conference in November. The award recognizes a lifetime of scholarly achievement in the study of human communication by the association's members. Burleson, an expert in supportive forms of communication, such as comforting and the role of emotion in communication and relationships, has published five edited books and more than 125 scholarly papers.— Patrice Buzzanell, a professor of communication, received an Outstanding Scholarly Article Award from the Applied Communication Division of the National Communication Association for her article "Struggling with Maternity Leave Policies and Practices: A Poststructuralist Feminist Analysis of Gendered Organizing." The article was published in the Journal of Applied Communication Research in February 2005.
— A book by Taggart Smith, professor of organizational leadership and supervision, is being translated into Chinese. The book, "Meeting Management," was published by Prentice Hall and went into second printing last fall. The book places special emphasis on leading and facilitating interactive meetings, as well as structuring information for effective presentations for business.
— Thomas Carney, department head of the Department of Aviation Technology, received the President's Award from the University Aviation Association for his long-term leadership and service in the organization. Carney also just completed a nine-year appointment as senior editor of the Collegiate Aviation Review, a refereed journal published by the University Aviation Association.
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