Purdue to award 15 honorary
degrees
Purdue will award 15 honorary doctoral degrees
as part of the May commencement ceremonies.
In a release President Martin Jischke said those
who are receiving the awards not only reached unparalleled heights in
their professional lives, but they also are enormously generous in their
contributions to Purdue.
"It's our privilege to invite these individuals
back to campus to recognize their achievements and to inspire today's
graduates as they being their careers," he said.
Thirteen people will be honored at the West Lafayette
graduation ceremonies and two will be honored at regional campuses.
The 2001 recipients at the West Lafayette campus
are:
• Roy Bridges, director of NASA's John F.
Kennedy Space Center, who will be awarded a doctor of engineering degree
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
• Elizabeth Doversberger, chancellor of Ivy
Tech State College, who will be awarded a doctor of education degree
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
• Donald Feddersen, general partner in Bessemer
Venture Partners in Boston, who will be awarded a doctor of engineering
degree at 9:30 Saturday.
• Robert Gadomski, executive vice president
of the Gases and Equipment Group of Air Products and Chemicals Inc.,
who will be awarded a doctor of engineering degree at 9:30 Saturday.
• Ralph Hudson, retired from International
Bureau of Weights and Measures, who will be awarded a doctor of science
degree at 2:30 Saturday.
• Morton Kamien, a professor of entrepreneurship
at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University
in Evanston, Ill., who will be awarded a doctor of economics degree
at 8 p.m. Friday.
• David Kritchevsky, a Casper Wistar Scholar
at the Wistar Institute and Wistar professor of biochemistry at the
University of Pennsylvania, who will be awarded a doctor of science
degree at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
• C. Wayne Mellwraith, professor of veterinary
medicine and director of equine sciences and teaching and research program
at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Colo., who will be awarded
a doctor of science degree at 9:30 a.m. Sunday.
• John David Mooney, an artist, who will be
awarded a doctor of landscape and architecture degree at 8 p.m. Friday.
• Leonard Mortenson, retired Callaway professor
of biochemistry at the University of Georgia, who will be awarded a
doctor of science degree at 2:30 p.m. Saturday.
• Jerry Rawls, president and chief executive
officer and director of Finisar Corp., who will receive a doctor of
management degree at 8 p.m. Friday.
• Timothy Richmond, professor at the ETH Zurich
Institute, who will be awarded a doctor of science degree at 8:30 p.m.
Friday.
• Donald Scifres, co-chairman of the board
of JDS Uniphase Corp., who will be awarded a doctor of engineering degree
at 9:30 a.m. Saturday.
The 2001 recipient at the Purdue North Central
campus is Angela Del Vecchio, an associate professor emeritus of nursing
from the University of Michigan. She will be awarded a doctor of science
degree at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday during ceremonies in the Valparaiso University
Chapel of the Resurrection.
The 2001 recipient at the Indiana University-Purdue
University Fort Wayne campus is Lawrence Lee, president and owner of
Leepoxy Plastics, Inc. He will be awarded a doctor of letters degree
at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the Fort Wayne regional campus commencement at
the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum.
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