December 30, 2009
Appointments, honors and activities
• Faculty and staff honors:— Kyle Hultgren, project improvement manager for Purdue PharmaTAP, is a recipient of the 2009 Governor's Award for Tomorrow's Leaders. The honor, awarded jointly by the Indiana Humanities Council and the Governor's Office, recognizes excellence and achievement in entrepreneurial, community, educational and cultural leadership by young Hoosiers. More information is available at https://www.indianahumanities.org/GATL/2009_GATL_News_Release.pdf— Vladimir Shalaev, Purdue University’s Robert and Anne Burnett Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, has won the 2010 Willis E. Lamb Award for Laser Science and Quantum Optics. Shalaev is being recognized for his pioneering studies in “optical metamaterials and plasmonic nanostructures.” Two other researchers also are being honored with the award: John B. Pendry, at the Imperial College London; and Aleksei M. Zheltikov, at Lomonosov Moscow State University. The awards will be issued Jan. 6 at the 40th Winter Colloquium on the Physics of Quantum Electronics in Snowbird, Utah.
• Alumni honors:
— Christopher Beltran, Purdue alum and co-founder and vice president of Passageways, is a recipient of the 2009 Governor's Award for Tomorrow's Leaders. The honor, awarded jointly by the Indiana Humanities Council and the Governor's Office, recognizes excellence and achievement in entrepreneurial, community, educational and cultural leadership by young Hoosiers. More information is available at https://www.indianahumanities.org/GATL/2009_GATL_News_Release.pdf
• Student honors:
— Esmeralda Cruz of Frankfort, a senior in liberal arts, is a recipient of the 2009 Governor's Award for Tomorrow's Leaders. The honor, awarded jointly by the Indiana Humanities Council and the Governor's Office, recognizes excellence and achievement in entrepreneurial, community, educational and cultural leadership by young Hoosiers. More information is available at https://www.indianahumanities.org/GATL/2009_GATL_News_Release.pdf
— Winners of the Mechanical Engineering Fall 2009 Innovation Awards have been announced. The awards go to student teams in the senior design class. A top winner was "Rolling Times," a mobile chassis dynamometer designed for the Purdue Society of Automotive Engineers to use in testing its mini-Baja vehicle. Team members were Stu Ogle, Western Springs, Ill.; Zachary Marvel, Evansville, Ind.; Michael Schwer, Crown Point, Ind.; Solomon Rust, Seymour, Ind.; Benjamin Kaplan, Highland Park, Ill.; and Patrick Alonzi, Naperville, Ill.
Other winners included:
The "Yellow-Jacket" multi-wing surveillance device by team members Mark Burchnall, West Chester, Ohio; Fred A. Lucas IV, Fremont, Ind.; Kyle Welker, Naperville, Ill.; Brian Connolly, Simsbury, Conn.; and Leah Bashover, Cincinnati.
Higher efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells with multiwalled carbon nanotubes by team members Raul Maturana and Samik Ghoshal, Fishers, Ind.; Aaron Sisto, Chesterton, Ind.; Deepak Pillai, Cochin, India; and Ben Pax, Coldwater, Ohio.
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