February 27, 2009

Appointments, honors and activities

— The Committee on Peace Studies, which is housed in the Department of Political Science, is showing the award-winning 2006 documentary "Why We Fight?" at 8 p.m. March 5 in Lawson Building, B155. Discussion will follow the film, which analyzes what President Dwight David Eisenhower called the military-industrial complex. For information, contact Harry Targ, professor of political science, at (765) 494-4169.

— The Undergraduate Exhibition of work from students enrolled in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts will be on display from March 2-13 in the Patti and Rusty Rueff East and West Galleries. Brion Clinkingbeard, the curator/director of exhibitions at the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in Louisville, Ky., was chosen to jury this year's exhibition. A reception for the exhibition will take place from 5-6:30 p.m. March 5 in the galleries. Both galleries are open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. Gallery exhibits are free and open to the public.

• Faculty and staff honors:

— Issam Mudawar, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering, and graduate students Robert Nacke and Brittany Northcutt, have received a Rolls-Royce Milestone Award for their design of a new air-to-fuel heat exchanger for high Mach turbine engines. The researchers were honored by Rolls-Royce North American Technologies Inc.'s Liberty Works on Feb. 21 at an event in Brownsburg, Ind. The Purdue project is part of the university's Rolls-Royce University Technology Center in High Mach Propulsion.

— Kwamena Quagrainie, an Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant aquaculture-marketing specialist, received the Distinguished Early Career Award from the United States Aquaculture Society. This award is given to individuals who have been involved in aquaculture for less than 10 years and have shown outstanding leadership, research, education, extension or industry development. Quagrainie, who has been at Purdue since 2005, has conducted aquaculture-marketing workshops for producers and helped co-author the Aquaculture Marketing Handbook.

• Student honors:

— Ronak Chokshi has been selected as a recipient of a $5,000 Peterson Entrepreneur Scholarship for the 2009-10 academic year. Chokshi is a junior in management and a student ambassador in the Center for Career Opportunities. In his application, Chokshi described how he planned and implemented a Native American Heritage celebration at Purdue that was attended by more than 300 people.

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