Purdue Notebook
Purdue Notebook
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April 10, 1998
Purdue NotebookAppointments and promotions:-- W. Randy Woodson, head of the Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture since 1996, has been named associate dean and director of Agricultural Research Programs in the School of Agriculture. A native of Fordyce, Ark., Woodson joined the Purdue faculty in 1985. Since then, his research on the physiology of flowering plants has earned him worldwide attention. In 1994, he received the Agricultural Research Award from the School of Agriculture. As administrator of all research programs in the School of Agriculture, Woodson will oversee 295 faculty who devote about 40 percent of their time to research with annual outlays of $47 million. He succeeds Bill Baumgardt, who retired. -- Marvin Smith has accepted the position of associate director in the Division of Financial Aid. He will have overall responsibility for management of the client services area, records management area, and the gift/scholarship area. Smith has 10 years of experience in student financial aid administration, having worked as a graduate research assistant, administrator, peer counselor program supervisor and staff trainer at Purdue. For the past four years, he managed the financial assistance office at Ivy Tech State College in Lafayette. -- Dean M. Ballotti has accepted the position of director of Horizons, a federally funded program in the Office of the Dean of Students to assist first-generation and low-income college students. Ballotti has been a member of the Horizons staff since 1993, most recently as coordinator of science and technology. Ballotti earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Purdue. -- Two veteran officers in the Purdue Police Department, Steven R. Dietrich and Linda J. Stump, have been named captains of the Investigation Division and Patrol Division, respectively. Dietrich, a graduate of West Lafayette High School and Purdue, previously was captain of operations; Stump, a graduate of Lafayette Jefferson High School and Ball State University, was a detective lieutenant. Dietrich joined the Purdue police force in 1984; Stump joined it in 1985.
* * * * * Campus activities: -- Students in the School of Consumer and Family Sciences will present findings from their independent honors research projects from 1:30 p.m. to 5 p.m. Friday, April 17, in Room 311, Stewart Center. Undergraduate honors students from the Departments of Foods and Nutrition, Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management, Child Development and Family Studies, and Consumer Sciences and Retailing work with professors to complete the independent research projects. This year the research covered areas such as the relationship between carbohydrate intake and calories, past victimization and social adjustment, differences between the self-perceptions of bullies and victims, holiday shopping in the Lafayette area, long-distance relationships and adjustment to college, an evaluation of Tippecanoe County's First Step Program, school readiness, socialization of religious beliefs and values, and the role of market mavens in the marketplace. Many of these papers are later presented at conferences or published in scientific journals. The presentations are open to the public. -- Purdue's Office of Continuing Engineering Education will offer the seminar "The Year 2000 Problem -- It's Not Just a Technical Issue" May 1. The program will be shown from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. in Room 268, Potter Engineering Center. The program will feature in-depth discussions with international experts on issues related to the problems caused by computer programs that will not be able to recognize the year 2000, including management and legal issues. In addition, the program includes case studies to illustrate how businesses and other organizations are solving the problem. Registration deadline is April 22. The cost is $30 per participant. To register, call (765) 494-7017. -- A Purdue student who died recently will be recognized during the monthly Golden Taps ceremony at 10 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Spitzer Court, Cary Quadrangle. The student is Jeffrey S. Grott, who was a senior majoring in mechanical engineering technology from Michigan City . The ceremony is open to the public and is conducted monthly when a member of the student body has died the month before. The activity is sponsored and coordinated by Pendragon, the Cary Quadrangle student leadership honorary. * * * * * Faculty and staff honors: -- Gamma Sigma Delta, an honorary society for Purdue's Schools of Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine, recently honored three faculty members. Receiving the Award of Merit for contributions in research, teaching, Extension or service were S. Suzanne Nielsen, professor of food science, Thomas E. Pearson, professor of restaurant, hotel, institutional and tourism management, and Dr. Gordon L. Coppoc, professor of veterinary pharmacology and head of the Department of Basic Medical Sciences. -- Carl Botan, associate professor of communication, has been selected to work on a national two-year project to identify trends and issues in public relations education. Botan will participate in the new Commission on Public Relations Education, a consortium of representatives from eight allied communications organizations. The commission eventually will recommend educational models for studying public relations. * * * * *
Alumni honors: -- Gamma Sigma Delta, an honorary society for Purdue's Schools of Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, and Veterinary Medicine, recently honored three of its alumni who have made outstanding service contributions to the schools. The honorees are:
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WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Ten Purdue University students have been recognized for their
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