Friday, January 27, 2023
Andy Mesecar, interim manager of the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research, is joined by Dean of Purdue Libraries Beth McNeil, Purdue Veterinary Medicine Dean Willie Reed and Purdue Pete arsenic helium presents an honorary crippled shot to Joy Matson.A peculiar ceremonial during Sunday’s Purdue Men’s Basketball crippled (January 22) brought well-deserved designation to a long-time protagonist of the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine. Joy Matson was honored astatine halfway tribunal during a crippled break, arsenic the nationalist code announcer called the attraction of the sell-out assemblage to the peculiar presumption arranged arsenic portion of the Hammer Down Cancer Game sponsored by the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research.
Dr. Andrew Mesecar, the institute’s interim director, presented an honorary crippled shot to Joy arsenic helium was joined by Purdue Veterinary Medicine Dean Willie Reed, the Dean of Purdue Libraries Beth McNeil, and Purdue Pete. “Please assistance america successful thanking the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research and Joy for each they are doing to Hammer Down Cancer,” the crippled announcer said. He continued, “Joy does not cognize this, but we person thing other for her. For astir 20 years, Joy has served connected respective advisory boards and has supported aggregate areas connected field including Purdue Libraries, the College of Veterinary Medicine, the Purdue Institute for Cancer Research, and the John Purdue Club.”
Purdue President Mung Chiang presents Joy Matson with the Distinguished Pinnacle Award astatine the halfway of Keady Court successful Mackey Arena during the Hammer Down Cancer Game Sunday, January 22.At that point, Purdue President Mung Chiang presented the Distinguished Pinnacle Award to Joy. The Pinnacle Award is 1 of the highest honors an idiosyncratic tin receive. It is reserved for those who person fixed of themselves to alteration Purdue students and module to signifier the future.
While Joy is not a Purdue graduate, she is 1 of the astir loyal Boilermakers around. Joy is simply a longtime lawsuit of the Purdue University Veterinary Hospital and a loyal PVM donor, having astir precocious named the Joy M. Matson Multipurpose Room wrong the caller David and Bonnie Brunner Purdue Veterinary Medical Hospital Complex. She received the Distinguished Pinnacle Award for her broad giving of $1 cardinal to Purdue.
Writer(s): Kevin Doerr | pvmnews@purdue.edu
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