Appointments, honors and activities

• Faculty and staff honors:

- Purdue claimed 42 total awards during the recent American Advertising Federation of North Central Indiana’s annual ADDY Awards presentation. The awards honored creative excellence in advertising efforts during 2017. Overall, eight departments and organizations and seven individuals at Purdue won 13 gold ADDY awards, 20 silver ADDY awards, the Mosaic Award, one Judge’s Choice award, one People’s Choice award, five Best of Show awards and one service award. 

The Purdue areas recognized on March 1 and their awards are Purdue Information Technology, Best of Show Campaign (Dawn or Doom campaign), two gold and three silver; Purdue Research Foundation University Development Office, Best of Show Video, four gold and three silver; Purdue Athletics, Best of Show Print (soccer schedule poster), one gold and two silver; Purdue Alumni Association, Best of Show Interactive (Boilermaker Station interactive), Judge’s Choice, People’s Choice, three gold and two silver; Purdue Marketing and Media, three silver; Purdue College of Agriculture, one silver; Purdue Executive Vice President for Research and Partnerships, one silver; and Purdue Hall of Music Productions, one silver.

Purdue students receiving ADDYs were Michael Wasserott, Purdue University Northwest, student Best of Show (Tai Pei ingredient dragons), one gold; Elizabeth Coleman, Student Life Marketing, one gold; Anna Schultz, Marketing and Media, one gold, one silver and the Mosaic Award (Fall 2017 Black Cultural Center Arts Series calendar); Francesca Spalding, Student Life Marketing, one silver; Aaron Peabody, Student Life Marketing, one silver; and Kayla Clark, Student Life Marketing, one silver.

Tonya Agnew, director of communication for the College of Education and American Advertising Federation North-Central Indiana past president, received the Allison Meadows Beggs Presidential Cup for her contributions to AAF-NCI over the past year. 

Gold ADDY award winners advance automatically to the district competition in South Bend.

• Student honors:

- Michelle Martindale, a graduate student in history, has received the Colonial Dames of Indiana Dissertation Scholarship. This $5,000 award will support her research and writing for a dissertation titled "Cowboy Capitalism and the IBP Revolution:  Meatpacking and Midwestern Society, 1960-1990."

- Meredith Tuttle, a graduate student in history, has received a Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship to study Russian this summer at the Indiana University Summer Language Workshop.

• Rankings:

- Online MBA Today has ranked Krannert School of Management’s online MBA program No. 8 in its list of the top 25 online MBA programs. The site evaluated 470 online and hybrid executive programs on four factors: estimated tuition cost, accreditation, PayScale early career salary and prestige. More information can be found at https://www.onlinembatoday.com/rankings/top-executive-online-mbas/. Krannert’s MBA program also was ranked No. 13 in the country by QS. The ranking was based on five metrics: employability, entrepreneurship and alumni outcomes, return on investment, thought leadership and diversity. More information on that ranking can be found at https://www.topuniversities.com/university-rankings/mba-rankings/us/2018.