Elon College – A computer lab located in the remodeled Duke Building at Elon College will be dedicated in honor of J. Albert Carpenter, a long-time faculty member who died in November 1998. Dedication ceremonies will be held at the lab at 1:45 p.m. Friday, April 30.
Carpenter was an associate professor of computing sciences and mathematics and chair of the department of computing sciences. He joined the Elon faculty in 1983. He received the 1988-89 Daniels-Danieley Award for Excellence in Teaching, the college’s top teaching honor, and served as co-chair of the curriculum committee during the 1996-97 and 1997-98 academic years. He inspired Elon’s first Academic Summit and played a key role in its success — a sign of his long-term commitment to academic excellence. He was known as a dedicated teacher who spent long hours mentoring students.
“This lab is a perfect way to honor Al Carpenter’s dedication to students,” said Rosalind Reichard, dean of sciences and mathematics. “His legacy will live on in an exciting facility designed for talented computer science majors.”
The J. Albert Carpenter Computer Laboratory will provide 16 workstations and will include several pieces of powerful computing equipment. It will include a LINUX network, an MPI (message passing interface) configuration to support parallel computation, a SPARC workstation and a SGI workstation.
Attending the dedication will be several members of Carpenter’s family, including his parents, Raymond and Edna Carpenter, who have endowed the J. Albert Carpenter Scholarship Fund. The first recipient of the scholarship will be announced at the Omicron Delta Kappa awards ceremony on April 30.
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