Jenkins Knevel/Kienly Awards - October 27, 2005
| The Awards Symposium was held in the West Faculty Lounge of the Purdue Memorial Union. In an unusual display of both excellence in research and outstanding teaching ability, Hema N. Viswanathan, Department of Pharmacy Practice, took home both the Albert and Anna Kienly Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student, and the Jenkins-Knevel Award for Excellence in Research during the Graduate student Awards Symposium on October 27, 2005. The Kienly Awards have been endowed since 1976 by gifts from Dr. Albert V. Kienly, Jr of the Class of 1940, as well as an anonymous faculty gift in memory of Dr. Kienly's father and mother. Dr. Kienly's father graduated from the Purdue University School of Pharmacy in 1901. The 2005 winners of the Kienly Awards for Outstanding Teaching were: Patrick J. Marsac, Department of Industrial and Physical Pharmacy; Lisa A. Bonner, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology; and Hema N Viswanathan, Department of Pharmacy Practice. The Jenkins-Knevel Awards are supported by Dr. Serena Ford, daughter of Dr. Dr. Glenn L. Jenkins, Dean of the School of Pharmacy from 1941 to 1966, and other donors. They are given in honor of Dr. Jenkins and Dr. Adelbert M. Knevel (PhD '57), professor emeritus, School of Pharmacy. The 2005 winners of the Jenkins-Knevel Awards for Excellence in Research were: Adnan K. Salameh, Industrial and Physical Pharmacy (The Role of Deliquescence Lowering in Enhancing Chemical Reactivity); Misty D. Handley, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (A Tale of Two Rases); Hema N. Viswanathan, Pharmacy Practice (Development and Validation of Patient-Based Measures of Pharmaceutical Care); and Chau H. Nguyen, Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology (Dextras1 Negatively Modulates Adenylyl Cyclase Type 2: Inhibition of Protein Kinase C Alpha Activity).
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