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November 30, 2001 Appointments and promotions; faculty and staff honors Appointments and promotions – Jacquelyn Frost, former associate director of the Office of Budget and Fiscal Planning, has been named director of the new Office of Institutional Research. The office will help collect, analyze and report data that will be critical to the campuswide strategic planning process. Frost, who has a doctoral degree in educational research from Oregon State University, has managed institutional research offices at Indiana State University and Oregon State. Campus activities The Purdue University Visitor Information Center will conduct a volunteer tour guide callout at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 9, in the Liberal Arts and Education Building, Room 2290. Anyone interested in becoming a tour guide is welcome to attend. For more information, contact the Visitor Information Center at (765) 494-INFO. Faculty and staff honors – Paul Benhamou, associate professor of foreign languages and literatures in the School of Liberal Arts, was presented with the Palmes Academiques Award during a ceremony in the Anniversary Drawing Room of the Purdue Memorial Union on Nov. 28. The Palmes Academiques is the most prestigious award a scholar can receive from the French government. It is awarded to academics who have given exemplary service in promoting French culture and education. – Mark W.M. Bannatyne, associate professor in the computer graphics department in the School of Technology, has been named a 2002 Fulbright Scholar. He will spend February to July at Tula State Mechanical University in Tula, Russia. He will lecture on problem-solving strategies and techniques for developing solid and surface computer-generated models. The Fulbright Scholar Program, named after the late former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright from Arkansas, sponsors 800 American faculty and professionals to lecture and do research abroad. A similar number of scholars comes to the United States each year, primarily as researchers. The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, with additional funding from participating governments and host institutions. – James Larue Mohler, an associate professor in the computer graphics department in the School of Technology, has been named a 2002 Fulbright Scholar. He will spend February to May as a distinguished lecturer at the Portuguese Catholic University in Porto, Portugal. He will lecture on multimedia authoring and production. The Fulbright Scholar Program, named after the late former U.S. Sen. J. William Fulbright from Arkansas, sponsors 800 American faculty and professionals to lecture and do research abroad. A similar number of scholars comes to the United States each year, primarily as researchers. The Fulbright Scholar Program is sponsored by the United States Department of State, with additional funding from participating governments and host institutions. Alumni honors – James B. Russell, a 1975 Krannert School of Management alumnus, has been named the executive vice president of Delta Tau Delta Fraternity. Before accepting the fraternity's highest administrative position, Russell was a member of the Indiana High School Athletic Association's executive staff and spent 17 years as a sportswriter for three Indiana newspapers. Delta Tau Delta has 116 chapters and expansion colonies across the United States and Canada with an annual membership of 6,500 undergraduates and 135,000 alumni members. Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; purduenews@purdue.edu To the Purdue News and Photos Page