May 5, 2008

Appointments, honors and awards

Here is a list of recent accomplishments by faculty and staff.

Appointments

-- David Eisert has been named manager of a new department, Instructional Media and Emerging Technologies, in ITaP's Teaching and Learning Technologies (TLT) unit.
"We created a new unit," says Ed Evans, TLT's interim executive director, "to provide assistance to faculty on the use of Web 2.0 technologies. Increasingly, we see opportunities to leverage such social technologies to facilitate learning activities and pedagogical goals." Web 2.0 technologies include wikis, blogs, Second Life, educational games, Twitter, and new forms of streaming media.

-- Julie Hendon is the new director of membership for the Purdue Alumni Association. Hendon formerly served as assistant director of the Purdue President's Council.

-- Jessica Teets has accepted the position of electronic media content specialist with Purdue Marketing Communications. Teets previously served as a communications coordinator with Purdue and also has worked with Arnett Health Systems.

Awards

-- Ray Kavanaugh, head of the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management, will receive the 2008 Michael E. Hurst Lifetime of Achievement in Education Award from the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation (NRAEF) in May. The award honors an individual's career of commitment and accomplishment to academic instruction in the field of hospitality.

Recently published

-- Bert Useem, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and coauthor Anne Piehl, of Rutgers University, recently had an article in the news magazine Weekly Standard, summarizing a chapter of their book, Prison State:  The Challenge of Mass Incarceration (Cambridge University Press, 2008).  The article's title, "The Second Big Crime Drop," refers to the decline in violence and disorder in prisons over the last 20 years.