October 5, 2007
Purdue Notebook
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— George B. Adams III has been named associate director for programs at Purdue University's Network for Computational Nanotechnology. Adams, formerly research development manager for the Birck Nanotechnology Center and special projects manager for Discovery Park, assumed his duties on Sept. 10. The national network was launched in 2002 with $10.6 million from the National Science Foundation to develop sophisticated, high-powered computational tools that allow scientists to advance nano-related research simply by using their desktop computers. In September, it received a five-year, $18.25 million NSF grant to expand into new areas such as nanofluidics, nanomedicine, nanophotonics and applications of nanoscience to the environment, energy, the life sciences and homeland security. A primary focus of the network is the nanoHUB – https://www.nanoHUB.org - an Internet-based site used by more than 3,000 researchers and educators monthly.
— David Denis, the Burton D. Morgan Chair of Private Enterprise at the Krannert School of Management, is one of eight new experts to join the Analysis Group, a provider of economic, financial and business expertise to law firms. Denis' research examines corporate governance, corporate financial policies, corporate organizational structure, corporate valuation and entrepreneurial finance. He teaches courses on corporate financial management and venture capital and investment banking in Purdue's MBA, doctoral and executive education programs.
— Tina Parker has been named manager of Boiler Television. Since 2001 Parker had worked at Haan Marketing + Communications of Lafayette as a media buyer. She previously worked at WLFI-TV in West Lafayette for nearly two decades where she served as station manager. Parker's responsibilities include acquiring and producing programming for the on-campus cable television service and training and supervising staff.
Campus activities:
— Brian Rathbun, an assistant professor of political science at Indiana University, will present "Social Capital in Anarchical Society: Varieties of Trust and the American Commitment to European Security" at 3:30 p.m. Oct. 19 in Beering Hall, Room 1255. The talk is part of the new European Studies speaker series, which is co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts' European Studies program and the Comparative Literature program.
— The Crossroads Conference on Communicative Disorders will take place Oct. 29-30. Presented by the Purdue chapter of the National Student Speech-Language-Hearing Association, the conference is open to professionals in speech, language and hearing sciences. Topics that will be presented include what's new in hearing aid technologies, pre-language communication intervention, swallowing disorders and behavioral feeding disorders in children, an update on aphasia treatment, issues in school-based practice, and auditory processing disorders. The registration fee for the two-day conference is $200; one-day registration is $125; and the student fee is $25. Continuing education credits are available. For information about the conference, contact Hala Elsisy, clinical assistant professor in the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, at (765) 494-9950, elsisy@purdue.edu. For registration information, contact Nona Schaler, coordinator at the Conference Division, at (765) 494-2756, (800) 359-2968, njschaler@purdue.edu. More information is available online at https://www.cla.purdue.edu/
experience/events/crossroads/. This event is sponsored by the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences, and is part of Experience Liberal Arts.
Faculty and staff honors:
— Robert Kail, professor of psychological sciences, has been named the editor of the Psychological Science journal for a five-year term. Kail is an expert in cognitive development in children. The journal, which is published by the Association for Psychological Science, receives more than 1,300 submissions a year.
— Todd Wetzel, director of Purdue Convocations, received the 2007 John Corey Award for Arts Leadership at the Bravo Breakfast for the Arts on Oct. 2. The award is given each year to a person who exhibits and embodies leadership in the performing or visual arts in the 14-county region served by the Tippecanoe Arts Federation. Past recipients have included Rep. Sheila Klinker, D-Lafayette, and former West Lafayette mayor Sonya Margerum. Wetzel has served as director of Purdue Convocations for eight years and has a master's degree from Purdue's Krannert School of Management.
Student honors:
— The Purdue Finance Club team of Jirasee (Tob) Kasuwan, Dan Brown, Li-Kang (Silicon) Shih and Geoff Gauthier placed third in the Eighth Annual McCombs Energy Finance Case Competition Sept. 27-28 at the University of Texas in Austin. The competition gives students an opportunity to put what they have learned into practice with a case about energy finance. They beat a field of schools including Northwestern University, Columbia University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, New York University, University of Texas in Austin, Cornell University and the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
— A team from Krannert School of Management placed fourth out of 30 universities in the case competition at the National Black MBA Association conference in Orlando Sept. 11-15. Members of the team were Daniel Brown, Renaldo Trancoso, Carmen Collier, Jimiel Knighton and James Reddick.
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