December 5, 2008
Appointments, honors and activities
• Appointments and promotions:— Leah Jamieson, the John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, has been named to the board of the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology. The not-for-profit institute helps industry, academia and government recruit, retain and develop women leaders in high-tech fields. It also provides women with tools to help them develop high-tech careers.
— Shelley MacDermid, professor of family studies and director of the Center for Families' Military Family Research Institute, has been appointed to the Psychological Health External Advisory Committee of the Department of Defense Health Board. She and other subcommittee members will be in Washington, D.C., Dec. 15-16 to meet with Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and members of President-elect Barack Obama's transition team. The board advises and makes recommendations in health policy development, health research programs and health-care delivery to Department of Defense beneficiaries.
• Faculty and staff honors:
— Steven Wilson, professor of communication, received the Bernard J. Brommel Award for Outstanding Scholarship or Distinguished Service in Family Communication from the National Communication Association. Wilson is an expert in interpersonal communication and specializes in communication issues related to family.
— Jay Gore, Reilly Professor of Engineering and director of the Energy Center at Discovery Park, and Tom Farris, head of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics in the College of Engineering, have been named 2009 American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Fellows. The distinction of fellow is given to American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics members who have made notable and valuable contributions to the arts, sciences or technology of aeronautics or astronautics.
— Purdue Libraries, along with the Tippecanoe County Public Library and the Ivy Tech Community College Library, received the Indiana Library Federation's 2008 Collaboration Award for a joint project. The award honors contributions in promoting library services in a community, region or at the statewide level. Catherine Fraser Riehle, instructional outreach librarian, worked with librarians from Tippecanoe County Public Library and Ivy Tech to develop and implement a series of hands-on workshops for local homeschooled teens and their parents. The program, titled "Search it. Find it. Use it," covered core research and information literacy skills.
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