Stukel will receive an honorary doctor of engineering degree at Purdue's West Lafayette, Ind., campus on May 17. The department of crop sciences presented its first departmental achievement awards April 18. All recipients received a monetary award, a personal plaque and will be recognized on a plaque to be displayed in the department. The department of economics in the College of Commerce and Business Administration awarded Economics Graduate Student Organization Teaching Awards to professors Anil Bera , Roger Koenker and Wayne Shafer. The awards are given each year to the best professors of a large class and of a small class.
Selection is based on surveys completed by graduate students in the department.
The program is the world's largest kindergarten through 12th grade science competition. Nearly 18,000 students entered the 1997 competition that asks participants to select a technology and envision it 20 years in the future. According to Sarwate, the project incorporates smart hydrogels, amorphous silicon, tissue scaffolding and advanced-processing chip technologies to mimic and replace the entire eye structure from the cornea to the optic nerve. A variety of Toshiba products also will be awarded to Uni and to team adviser David Stone , Uni biology teacher. Uni High's student newspaper also has won national honors.