Purdue Notebook
April 7, 2006
Appointments and promotions
—Scott Banfield has been selected as associate director of planned giving, effective May 1. Banfield has 10 years of experience in various positions at The Culver Academies, an independent college preparatory boarding school in Culver, Ind., most recently as their director of annual giving.
Campus activities
— The Affirmative Action Office at Purdue University will present the 2005-06 ADA Audio Conference Series "Survey of Employer Resources Regarding the ADA" April 18 from 2-3:30 p.m. in Stewart Center, Room 318. The combination of teleconferencing and Web-based technologies is presented by the Great Lakes ADA and Accessible IT Center. The program is designed to offer advanced information on the ADA. The real-time, captioned, subject-specific sessions are 90 minutes long with interactive opportunity for questions and answers. To reserve a space, request continuing education units or request an accommodation for the session, please contact the Affirmative Action Office at (765) 494-7253 or (765) 496-1343 (TTY), or e-mail at aao@purdue.edu. All sessions are free and open to the public.— Jean-Luc Marion, professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago Divinity School, will present "Saturation and Counter-Experience" at 4:30 p.m. on April 21 in Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education, Room B222. The talk is part of the Department of Philosophy's Colloquium Spring 2006 series. The series is supported by the College of Liberal Arts' Dean's Department Enhancement Funds.
Faculty and staff honors
— George Moore, associate professor of epidemiology in the School of Veterinary Medicine, won the Mark Gearhart Memorial Graduate Award in Veterinary Epidemiology at the 86th annual meeting of the Conference of Research Workers in Animal Diseases in St. Louis for the following publications: "Adverse events diagnosed within three days of vaccine administration in dogs," and "Postmarketing surveillance for dog and cat vaccines: new resources in changing times," both in the Journal for the American Veterinary Medical Association.
Alumni honors
— Robert Sikora, of Fair Oaks Ranch, Texas, will be inducted into the ROTC Hall of Fame during a ceremony Saturday (April 8) at the Purdue Armory. Sikora, the retired national director of clinical education for Pfizer Inc., received a bachelor's degree in pharmacy from Purdue in 1972. He is retired as a lieutenant colonel in the Army.
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