AWARDS &
Satyajit Ambike (Faculty Associate) was elected to the board of the International Society of Motor Control. Uma Aryal (Faculty Associate) was promoted to Research Associate Professor of Comparative Pathobiology. He was
Jennifer Freeman (Faculty Associate) was appointed Assistant Vice President for Research Development for Purdue to develop, evaluate, implement, and streamline various research programs and processes. Melissa Franks (Faculty Associate) was appointed as the Director of the Center for Families where she aims to carry out programs supporting faculty scholars in their cutting - edge family research and engage undergraduate and graduate students in family research and policy activities.
also awarded the NIHS10 grant for
$600,000 to acquire a trapped ion mobility time of flight mass spec- trometer.
Bing Han (Dual - title PhD Student) received the Lois K. Cohen Graduate Education Endowment for Global Health in Sociology.
Alan Beck (Faculty Associate) retired as Professor Emeritus of Animal Ecology in August 2023.
Mallory Bell (Dual - title PhD Student) was awarded the Robert L. Eichhorn Fellowship Award in Medical Sociology.
Ellen Kossek (Faculty Associate) was appointed to an expert committee by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine with the goal of providing leaders with evidence - based guidance on how to implement policies and programs to support students and professionals working in the sciences who have family caregiving responsibilities. Daniel Hirai (Faculty Associate) was selected to receive the Second Century Early Faculty Independence Award for his project “ Home - based heat therapy to improve functional performance in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction. ”
Chad Carroll (Faculty Associate) was awarded an NIH grant for $3,066,018 from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases for his project on Serum Advanced Glycation End - Products as Mediators of Tendon Degeneration with Diabetes.
Kenneth Ferraro (Faculty Associate) was awarded the Distinguished Career Contribution to Gerontology Award by The Gerontological Society of America. Nancy Edwards (Faculty Associate) was awarded the SAC 2023 Health Cluster grant in the amount of $2,416,959.
Ashwini Kulkarni (Dual - title PhD, 2023) is now Assistant Professor of Physical Therapy in the School of Rehabilitation Sciences at Old Dominion University.
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