Colleagues,
This is one of my
favorite times of the year because I get lots of chances to brag about the
terrific people in Purdue Agriculture! You’ll read about them in this month’s Purdue Agriculture in Focus. Let me take this opportunity to publicly
congratulate the faculty and staff who earned promotions this year and everyone
who was recognized with University and
College awards. It’s the hard work and
success of Purdue Agriculture people that make our progress possible,
and I’m thrilled to celebrate your accomplishments.
I’d
also like to thank everyone who worked so hard to pull off another great
Spring Fest last weekend. While the
weather was a bit rough on Saturday, the crowds were quite respectable, and
we had a great turnout on Sunday! I’m
so grateful to Danica Kirkpatrick for her leadership on this event and to all
her colleagues in each of the departments for their efforts to make this a
great weekend to show off Purdue.
Cheers,
Randy
News around Purdue Agriculture
Congratulations
to the faculty and administrative and professional staff members who have
been advanced in rank beginning with the next fiscal year.
Faculty
From Associate to Professor:
T. Channing Arndt,
Agricultural Economics
Christopher A. Bidwell,
Animal Sciences
Zhixiang Chen, Botany
& Plant Pathology
Jane R. Frankenberger, Agricultural & Biological Engineering
Sandra S. Rossie, Biochemistry
Brian A. Talbert, Youth
Development & Ag Education
Kim L. Wilson,
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
From Assistant to Associate:
Shorna R. Broussard, Forestry & Natural Resources
Kevin D. Gibson, Botany
& Plant Pathology
Tesfaye Mengiste, Botany &
Plant Pathology
John Scott Radcliffe,
Animal Sciences
Bradley L. Reuhs, Food Science
Christine A. Wilson,
Agricultural Economics
Adjunct Promotions:
Douglas R. Smith,
Adjunct Associate Professor, Agronomy
Stephen B. Goodwin,
Adjunct Professor, Botany & Plant Pathology
A/P
Staff Promotions
Rank 6
Judith K.
Atkinson Agricultural
Business Office
Jerry J. Fankhauser
Agricultural Research Programs
Darrel J.
Johnson
Animal Sciences
Karyn S. Rodkey
Biochemistry
Daniel S. Egel
Botany & Plant Pathology
John G.
Baugh
Dean’s Office
Steve A.
Gauger
Food Science
Theresa M.
Baker Forestry &
Natural Resources
Elizabeth T.
Maynard Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Leo A.
Reed
Office of the
Indiana
State Chemist
Jon D. Leuck
Purdue Agricultural Centers
Steven K.
McKinley Youth Development and
Agricultural Education
Rank 5
Scott E.
Brand
Agricultural and Biological Engineering
Crystal R.
Hughes Agricultural
Communications Service
Kevin L.
Smith
Agricultural Communications Service
Susan A.
Steeves
Agricultural Communications Service
Luanna D. DeMay
Agricultural Economics
Sherry L.
Oland
Agricultural Research Programs
Corey K.
Gerber
Agronomy
John M. Cavaletto
Botany & Plant Pathology
Pamela S.
Mow
Botany & Plant Pathology
Christopher M.
Pierce Entomology
Chia-Ping
Huang
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Anna L. Whipkey
Horticulture & Landscape Architecture
Jeffrey L.
Hardy
Office of the
Indiana
State Chemist
Thomas L.
Smith
Office of the
Indiana
State Chemist
Delvin B.
Groves
Office of the
Indiana
State Chemist
Rank 4
Militza Carrero-Colon
Agronomy
Kelly J.
Delp
Agronomy
Jennifer S. Crodian Animal Sciences
Andrew S.
Miller
Biochemistry
Danica C.
Kirkpatrick Dean’s Office
Cheryl L. Bluett Entomology
Deidre J.
Bush Food Science
Kiya A.
Smith
Food Science
Natalie L.
Federer Youth
Development and Agricultural Education
Ag faculty, staff and
students recognized for excellence
The
Agricultural Council once again sponsored the spring awards reception on
April 15, where Purdue Agriculture honored its own. Those who received awards are:
Christine A. Wilson,
Agricultural Economics: Richard L. Kohls Outstanding Undergraduate Teacher
Mark Balschweid, YDAE: David C. Pfendler Outstanding
Undergraduate Counselor
Kenneth Foster,
Agricultural Economics, Outstanding Graduate Educator
Tracie Egger, Office of
Academic Programs: Outstanding Service to Students
Outstanding
Agriculture Students:
Erin Kischuk, Outstanding Freshman
Ryan Crane, Outstanding Sophomore
Dustin Potts, Outstanding
Junior
Rachel Cumberbatch, Outstanding Senior
Rachel Cumberbatch was also
honored at the University Honors Convocation with the Flora Roberts Award,
the university’s highest award to a female student.
Three
Agriculture students received Charles O. McGaughey Leadership Awards at the University Honors Convocation:
Anne Marie Diener
Chelsea Quinn Mohler
Amy Lynn Penner
TEAMwork earns award
Purdue’s
Agricultural Innovation and Commercialization Center (AICC)/New Ventures Team is the winner of the 2007 Purdue Agriculture Team
Award. The AICC/New Ventures team supports evaluation and development of new
business ventures through workshops and conferences, individual
consultations, a branded set of publications on effective business planning,
and INVenture, a web-based interactive business
planning tool. The team includes
campus faculty and staff and county-based Extension field staff, and is
supported by applied research in agricultural economics, food science and
agricultural and biological engineering. The program has stimulated and supported entrepreneurial activity
across Indiana and the
U.S.
The TEAM award will be presented on May 10
at 2:00 p.m. in the Deans Auditorium in Pfendler Hall.
Purdue to host national scientific
conference
Purdue
will host a national conference on agricultural genomics on September 10-12,
2007. The conference will feature invited presentations by recognized leaders
in agricultural genomics from across the
Land
Grant
University landscape.
The purpose of the meeting will be to share information, explore collaborations,
and identify future research needs. This promises to be a rare opportunity to
exchange scientific expertise and experiences between genomics researchers,
and stimulate new discussions with applied researchers, stakeholders, and
decision makers that do not normally interact with the genomics community.
More information: http://www.entm.purdue.edu/conference/index.html
Help keep Agriculture healthy!
The
College of
Agriculture
needs another Wellness Ambassador. As a Wellness Ambassador with Purdue WorkLife Programs, you can make a significant impact on
your colleagues with a minimum time commitment, develop and implement
creative ways to communicate wellness information, receive firsthand information on wellness
resources, and network with people from other areas of campus. If you are interested,
contact Jamie Loizzo at jloizzo@purdue.edu.
ABE faculty to author textbook
Jenna Rickus, Marshall Porterfield, and Joseph Irudayaraj are under contract with Cambridge University
Press to write a textbook entitled "The Engineering of Biological Sensing."
The book will be part of the Cambridge Texts in Biomedical Engineering series
and will be targeted as a textbook for upper-level undergraduate and graduate
level biological, biomedical and interdisciplinary engineering courses as
well as a resource for researchers working in the field.
Sally Thompson honored for mentoring
women
Prof. Sally Thompson, head of the Department of Agricultural
Economics, is this year’s winner of Violet Haas Award from Purdue’s Council
on the Status of Women. The award honors an individual, program or department
that has made an outstanding effort toward the advancement of women at the
university. The achievement can include improvement in hiring and promotion
practices, educational opportunities, salaries or generally enhancing a
positive professional climate for women.
Full
story: http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2007a/070411ClarkHaas.html
James
Morris to lecture on world hunger
As part of the community wide focus on hunger on Apr 19, the Office of
Academic Programs is co-sponsoring a lecture by James T. Morris, recently
retired Executive Director of the United Nations World Food Programme, on April 18 at 7:00 p.m. in the Deans
Auditorium in Pfendler Hall. As head of WFP, Mr Morris oversees the world's largest food aid
organization, which last year fed 104 million people in 81 countries with new
contributions totalling US$2.6 billion. WFP reaches
out to hungry people who cannot help themselves -- victims of war and natural
disasters, families affected by HIV/AIDS and orphans who have lost their
parents to the pandemic, and school children in poor communities.
Newest Ag Ambassadors selected
Congratulations
to our new Ag Ambassadors! These 13 new Ambassadors were chosen from
among 48 applicants. As always the
competition was very strong and we look forward to working with these new
members in the upcoming years.
Kristin Schoettmer – Agribusiness Management
Amy
Lockwood – Entomology
Jim Hardy
– Sales and Marketing
LeAnn
Hall – Biochemistry
Ashley Feil – Food Science
Bruce
Cooley – Ag Econ and ABE
Samantha
Sisk – Ag Communications
Ashley
Hudson – Plant Genetics and Breeding
John
Carnahan – Farm Management
Alicia Batta – Ag Education
Tyler Cotterman – Ag Econ and Ag Comm
Grace
Chun – Animal Science
Seth
Harden – Ag Systems Management
First
Leadership Development Certificate students complete program
Seventeen
College
of
Agriculture Leadership Development Certificate
participants will receive their Leadership Certificates on Thursday,
April 26, 2007 at a reception and ceremony at 4:00 p.m. in the Pfendler Gallery. LDCP participants and
their coaches are:
Jeremy Armstrong, Coach: Robert
Taylor
Matthew Blasdell, Coach: Luanna DeMay
Janette Bosler,
Coach: Scott Downey
Katey Brattain, Coach: Clint Rusk
Katie Darr,
Coach: Robert Taylor
Jacqueline Drury, Coach: Jennifer
Dennis
Kristen Emsweller,
Coach: Colleen Brady
Summer Fagg, Coach: Tracie Egger
CJ Fleenor,
Coach: Craig Beyrouty
Kara Hartman, Coach: Scott Downey
Bo Hu,
Coach: Mary Pilat
Jamie Lanier, Coach: Jane Alexander
Ruth Pinto, Coach: Dale Whittaker
Jackie Searcy, Coach: Janet Ayres
Lauren Snyder, Coach: Jerry Peters
Mark Watson, Coach: Bernie Dahl
Di Wu, Coach: Klein Ileleji
Discovery Lectures to focus on
healthcare delivery
The next program
in the Discovery Lecture Series will be presented on April 23. Dr. Stephen Shortell,
Dean of the
School of
Public Health at the
University
of
California,
Berkeley, will present his talk at 1:30
p.m. in the North Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. His title is:
“Marriage of Medicine and Management: Sustaining Improvements in
Delivery, Quality, Cost and Outcomes.” And 2) Dr. Karen Davis,
President of the Commonwealth Fund, will present her talk at 3:00 p.m. also
in the North Ballroom. Her title is: “Achieving the Best:
The Road to Improving National Performance of Health Care Delivery.”
For more
information and to register, please visit: www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/rche
Kudos
Jim Clemens, Assistant Professor of
Biochemistry, was selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow for 2007-2009.
ABE students Elizabeth Casey & Janie McClurkin each received a
prestigious National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship Award. The
Graduate Research Fellowship provides three years of support for graduate
study leading to research-based master’s or doctoral
degrees and is intended for students who are at the early stages of their
graduate study.
Prof. Layi Adeola, Animal Sciences, will be the
first recipient of the Maple Leaf Farms Research Award. The award is to be awarded at the Poultry
Sciences Association (PSA) annual banquet in July 2007. This is a new award at PSA and is given to
stimulate and reward research with ducks and improve the knowledge base of
science as applied to commercial duck production.
Congratulations
to all the award winners in the 2007
Undergraduate Research and Poster Symposium.
Complete
list: http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/in_focus/2007/April2007/
2007_URPS_AWARD_WINNERS.pdf.
Click
here to see all the latest opportunities for research funding: http://www.agriculture.purdue.edu/in_focus/2007/April2007/Grants_Tracker.htm
Purdue
University Multicultural and Gender Forums have been
scheduled for 2007. All faculty and staff who have not yet attended are
encouraged to do so. You must have attended a Multicultural forum in
order to attend a Gender forum.
Schedule: http://www.science.purdue.edu/DiversityForums/dates.html
April 28: Earth Day
Indiana Celebration in
Indianapolis. Purdue Agriculture will have a presence at
this event. Contact Danica Kirkpatrick at 494-9113 for more information.
May 2-3: Pioneering Biotechnology Forum at
the
Bindley
Bioscience
Center.
Contact Kathy Beaver at kbeaver@purdue.edu for more information.
May 13: Purdue Agriculture Commencement
Exercises at 9:30 a.m. in the Elliott Hall of Music. Purdue Agriculture Commencement Reception
to follow in the Ross-Ade Pavilion from 11:30 a.m.– 1:30 p.m. RSVP required. Contact Donya
Lester at 494-8593 for more information.
May 31: Retirement reception for Anna Wilson from
the Biochemistry Department. A
celebration of Anna’s 35 years at Purdue and 32 with the Biochemistry
Department will take place from 2:00–4:00 p.m. in BCHM 101. Contact Kristi
Trimble at 494-1636 for more information. |