Purdue Notebook
August 18, 2006
Appointments and promotions
— Diane K. Denis has been named Krannert School of Management senior associate dean for faculty and research. The three-year appointment was effective on Aug. 14. Denis, a professor of finance, was formerly the Krannert School's associate dean for programs and student services. She has been a Krannert School faculty member since 1995.— Kwei Tang has been named Krannert School of Management associate dean for programs and student services. The three-year appointment was effective on Aug. 14. Tang, a professor of quantitative methods, received his doctorate in management science from Purdue in 1984.
— Stephen G. Green, Basil S. Turner Professor of Management, has been named management policy chair at the Krannert School of Management. The one-year appointment was effective on Aug. 14. Green, a professor of organizational behavior/human resources, has been a Krannert School faculty member since 1987.
Faculty and staff honors
— David Schoorman, professor of management in the Krannert School of Management and director of the GISMA Business School, was recognized by the Academy of Management Review for his 1995 article "An Integrative Model of Organization Trust." The honor is in celebration of the Academy of Management Review's 30th anniversary, and the article was chosen from the second decade of the academy's existence. Schoorman co-authored the article with Roger C. Mayer and James H. Davis of the University of Notre Dame.— Stephen G. Green, Basil S. Turner professor of management in the Krannert School of Management, was recently selected as one of nine new members of the Society of Organizational Behavior. The society is a group of 70 organizational behavior scholars who meet annually to discuss and present research in the field.
— Stephen Elliott, an associate professor in the College of Technology who heads the Biometric Standards Performance and Assurance Laboratory, has been awarded the American National Standards Institute's Next Generation Award. The award acknowledges Elliott's leadership, dedication and contributions to biometrics standardization in the early years of his career and his commitment to teaching standards development to students.
— Govert Vroom, assistant professor of strategic management in the Krannert School of Management, has received the 2006 Blackwell Outstanding Dissertation Award in Business Policy and Strategy from the Academy of Management for his dissertation "Strategic Incentive Systems: A Theoretical and Empirical Investigation of Managerial Incentives and Competitive Interactions." Vroom's dissertation was chosen from 83 submissions and seven finalists.
Campus activities
— Purdue Libraries is displaying a Harvey Wiley collection through Sept. 29 in Stewart Center, Room 279. Wiley, one of Purdue's original faculty members in 1874, was a chemist and is widely recognized as the father of the Food and Drug Act of 1906. The collection includes letters, articles, books and speeches by Wiley that document Purdue's early years as well as Wiley's work in agriculture, chemistry and food adulteration. The collection celebrates the 100th anniversary of the FDA and includes commemorative items from the agency's 50th anniversary. Beginning Monday (Aug. 21), the collection can be viewed from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
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