January 11, 2008
Appointments, honors and activities
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— Kauline Cipriani Davis has been appointed director of diversity initiatives at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine effective Jan. 1. Davis was most recently assistant to the provost and earlier served as assistant director of the Women in Science Program and interim director of the Multicultural Science Program. She will be responsible for developing and implementing recruitment strategies and outreach initiatives to increase the school's multicultural student population. Davis received her bachelor's degree in biology from Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, Texas, and her master's and doctorate in microbiology from Purdue University.
— Max Bales is the new director of development for the school of civil engineering. He most recently served as the director of college development for the college of agriculture and life sciences at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va. Previously, Bales worked for several years at Purdue as the assistant director of agriculture development and as the director of class gifts. He is a 1989 graduate of Purdue.
Campus activities:
— Purdue experts will discuss the future of biofuels during an open forum titled "What Should be the Future of Biofuels? An Open Discussion and Debate" at 7 p.m. Tuesday (Jan. 15) in the Class of 1950 Lecture Hall. Bernard Tao, the Indiana Soybean Board Professor in Soybean Utilization at Purdue, will moderate the discussion. Panelists include Michael Ladisch, director of the laboratory of renewable resources engineering and distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering and biomedical engineering; Larry Nies, an associate professor of civil engineering specializing in environmental engineering; Wallace Tyner, a professor of agricultural economics; and Tony Vyn, a professor of agronomy specializing in cropping systems and tillage. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask the panelists questions. Purdue's Center for the Environment is sponsoring the event.
Faculty and staff honors:
— Kwei Tang, associate dean of Krannert programs and student services and professor of management, was named faculty fellow at TiasNimbas Business School, Tilburg University, the Netherlands. Fellows are current faculty members who have been able to demonstrate outstanding achievements in both management research and in executive education. Tang teaches data mining, quality management, applied statistics, management science and research methods. His current research interests are online process control, integration of quality functions in a manufacturing organization, e-commerce and data-mining.
— Patrick Connolly, associate professor of computer graphics technology, and Victor Barlow, assistant professor of computer and information technology, have been selected to travel to China from late May to early June. They will visit Ningbo, Shanghai, Beijing and Harbin, and their expenses are being covered by the Office of International Programs.
— Purdue's Engineering/Technology Teacher Education Program, housed in the Department of Industrial Technology, and its faculty recently received several awards. George Rogers, professor in the department, received the Region III Award of Merit from the Association for Career and Technical Education. The association also selected the Engineering/Technology Teacher Program as the outstanding teacher education program in the engineering and technology education division. Kara Harris, an assistant professor in the department, received the Silvius/Wolansky Outstanding Young Industrial Education Faculty Member Award. In addition, Rogers won the outstanding dissertation manuscript award from the Journal of Industrial Teacher Education. The awards were announced at the 2007 Association for Career and Technical Education Conference.
— Chris Pincock, an associate professor of philosophy, has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities fellowship. During the fellowship, Pincock will work on a book dealing with applications of mathematics in science.
Alumni honors:
— Patric Hendershott received the David Ricardo Medal from the American Real Estate Society. Hendershott, who received his doctorate in management at Purdue in 1964 and was a faculty member from 1969-81, is visiting chair in the real estate program at San Diego State University College of Business Administration. He also is a half-time chair in property economics and finance at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. He is currently a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, has formerly taught at Northwestern, Ohio State University and has had visiting professorships at Stanford University, New York University, University of Florida, University of Melbourne and Bond University in Australia. The award represents the highest recognition by the organization for scholarly work in the real estate discipline. Hendershott has written five books and more than 140 journal articles.
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