September 26, 2006

Appointments, honors and activities

— Harm HogenEsch will serve as associate dean for research and graduate studies in the School of Veterinary Medicine beginning Oct. 1. He has served as head of the department of comparative pathobiology for the past seven years. Under his leadership, research funding in comparative pathobiology has tripled and the department has increased its number of faculty and graduate students. HogenEsch also has maintained a research program focused on vaccines and allergic diseases.

— Patricia Wakenell has been named co-head of the Avian section in the Indiana Animal Disease Diagnostic Laboratory at Purdue University. She will coordinate avian diagnostics and work closely with the Indiana poultry industry and other poultry owners to assist with disease and management issues. She also plans to increase opportunities for students and introduce new poultry medicine courses in the Purdue School of Veterinary Medicine. Wakenell was an associate professor in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction at the University of California Davis College of Veterinary Medicine. She received her veterinary and doctoral degrees from Michigan State University. Wakenell is a diplomat of the American College of Veterinary Pathologists, and is a past president of the American Association of Avian Pathologists.

— Andrew Hancock has been named photographer with University News Service. He previously was a photographer with the Journal & Courier for two years and a photographer with the Huntington Herald-Press for two years.

— Gerry Robinos Jr. is the new web designer for advancement information systems at Purdue Marketing and Communications effective Oct. 6. Robinos is a Purdue graduate and has experience as a graphic Web designer for Purdue Memorial Union, and as a graphic artist for WISH-TV, WINDY, WIIH and WLFI.

— Mary Jane Chew is the new university advancement communications manager, effective Oct. 6. Chew is a Purdue graduate and has experience in marketing, promotions, writing and editing.

• Campus activities:

— The Midwest Study Group of the North American Kant Society will meet Oct. 18-19 at Stewart Center, Room 214A. Allen W. Wood, the Ward W. and Priscilla B. Woods Professor at Stanford University and professor of philosophy, Indiana University, is the keynote speaker. The event is sponsored by Experience Liberal Arts, the Department of Philosophy, North American Kant Society and Religious Studies Program. More information and online registration is available at https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~kain/2008_MSG.html  

— Tammy Conard-Salvo, interim director of the Purdue Writing Lab, will present, "What the Writing Lab Does for Purdue," from noon to 1:30 p.m. Oct. 8 in Heavilon Hall, Room 226. The event is sponsored by the Department of English and Experience Liberal Arts.

— Alejandro Herrero-Olaizola, associate professor of Spanish at the University of Michigan, will present "The Censorship Files: Latin American Writers and Franco's Spain," from 3:30-5 p.m. Oct. 8 at the Lawson Building, Room 1142. The presentation will focus on his new book with the same title. The book examines the role of Spanish editors, government censors and political dynamics of today's Spanish language-book industry in Spain, Mexico, Argentina and the United States in the 1960s and 1970s. The event is sponsored by the departments of history and foreign languages and literatures, as well as Experience Liberal Arts, a monthlong celebration highlighting the College of Liberal Arts.

— The winning team in the open/unlimited division of the Green Week Poster session will present its $250 in winnings to the Boiler Green Initiative Student Club at 6:30 p.m. Tuesday (Sept. 30). The team from Physical Facilities consisting of Robin Ridgway, Dan Schuster, Barb Mansfield, Kurt Stull and Rustin Meister won their division of the contest. There were two other divisions in the competition, which was open to the entire campus and was sponsored by Purdue's Energy Center, Center for the Environment and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center. The other winning teams are Benjamin Doerr, Bryan O'Neill, Bill Callaghan and Ben Stuby in the undergraduate division and Navneet Singh, Sara Yohe, Joao Batista Oliveiro Dos Santos, Fabio Ribeiro, W. Nicholas Delgass and Rakesh Agrawal in the graduate division.

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