Appointments, honors and activities

• Faculty and staff honors:

- A new award has been established in honor of H. Jay Melosh, the University Distinguished Professor of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences. Lee Harwell Jr., Elise Klein and their daughter, Megan Harwell, have established the H. Jay Melosh Planetary Science Engagement Fund to aid both undergraduate and graduate students with their expenses in attending academic conferences.

- Clarence Maybee, associate professor and information literacy specialist with Purdue Libraries, has been named series editor for Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks by the Purdue University Press. The series promotes evidence-based practice in teaching information literacy competencies through the lens of the different academic disciplines. The content of each volume includes the perspectives of disciplinary experts as well as library and information science professionals. The handbooks apply library and information science theories, pedagogies, and models to information literacy in the context of academic disciplines. Each handbook includes sections that explain the relationship of information literacy to different disciplines; identify relevant theories, pedagogies, and/or models; and relate those to effective practice in information literacy teaching and learning. The handbooks are designed both for librarians engaged in instruction and faculty in the disciplines who are including information literacy in undergraduate and graduate learning. For more information about the Purdue Information Literacy Handbooks series, click here. To submit a book proposal to the series, e-mail  pupacq@purdue.edu with "Information Literacy submission" in the subject line.

• Notables:

- The news staff of WBAA, Purdue’s public radio station, received five awards recently in the Society of Professional Journalists’ 39th annual Best in Indiana Journalism contest. WBAA won first place in Radio Continuing Coverage for its reporting of the State Street redevelopment project and its effects on Greater Lafayette. The team's documentary “Blood, Lead and Soil: A Year in East Chicago” won two awards —  first place in Environmental Reporting and second place in the Radio Documentary or Special category, both shared with Indiana Public Broadcasting. WBAA.org took second place for Best Headline Writing. Azra Ceylan and Richard Miles won third place in Radio In-Depth Reporting for a story on pollution caused by a common method of pipe repair and the efforts of a Purdue professor to publicize the health threat it poses.

• Student honors:

- Caitlin Fendley, a graduate student in Purdue’s Department of History, has received a Clarke Chambers fellowship from the University of Minnesota. This is a competitive fellowship and will enable Fendley to continue her research on the voluntary sterilization movement. Wendy Kline is her major professor. Established in honor of Clarke Chambers, professor emeritus of history and the founder of the Social Welfare History Archives, the fellowships fund travel to the archives for dissertation writers and early career scholars. The first fellowship was awarded in 1992 and 119 fellows have visited the archives.