November 16, 2007
Appointments, honors and activities
Faculty and staff honors:- Mark J. Jackson, an associate professor of mechanical engineering technology, has recently been elected a life fellow of the Cambridge Philosophical Society at the University of Cambridge in England. The society's fellowship is composed of fellows of the Royal Society of London and Nobel laureates who work primarily at the Cavendish Laboratory, where Jackson was a research fellow and demonstrator. Jackson also has been appointed series editor with Oxford University Press and will edit Oxford University's textbook series on nanomanufacturing. In addition, he helped produce a book on surface-engineered medical devices and surgical tools that was published in October. Other contributors to the book were Purdue mechanical engineering technology professors Rod Handy and Michael Whitt.
- Kenneth Morris, associate head of the Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy and director of graduate programs, has been elected a fellow of the American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists. The designation recognizes individuals for outstanding contributions that elevate the stature of the pharmaceutical sciences and for excellence in the field. The mission of AAPS is to provide an international forum for the exchange of knowledge among scientists to enhance their contributions to health.
- Rebecca Doerge, Sabre Kais and Richard Kuhn have been awarded the distinction of fellow by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. They will be recognized at the 2008 AAAS annual meeting in Boston. Doerge, a professor of statistics, is recognized for distinguished contributions to statistics and genetics. She also is recognized for quantitative trait locus mapping and for setting the statistical standards as an editor for life science journals. Kais, a professor of chemistry, is recognized for outstanding creative contributions to theoretical chemistry and particularly for the development of a finite size scaling approach to calculate quantum critical parameters for atomic, molecular and quantum dot systems. Kuhn is recognized for distinguished contributions to the field of virology. He is particularly commended for studies of the structure, assembly and replication of medically important picornaviruses, alphaviruses and flaviviruses.
- Thomas Hodges, a Purdue professor emeritus, has been named an inaugural fellow of the American Society of Plant Biologists. The award is granted in recognition of distinguished and long-term contributions to plant biology and service to the society by current members in areas that include research, education, mentoring, outreach, and professional and public service.
Alumni honors:
- Tom Scholl, who earned a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1970, and Charles L. Jones, who earned a bachelor's degree in industrial design in 1981, have been appointed to the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Advisory Council. Their appointments are effective April 11. Scholl of Bethesda, Md., is a general partner for Novak, Biddle Venture Partners, which is a venture capital firm providing equity financing and assistance to the management of early-stage information technology companies principally located in the Mid-Atlantic region. Jones of Stevensville, Mich., is vice president for global product consumer design at Whirlpool Corp., a worldwide manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances.
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