PURDUE NEWS SUMMARY FOR WEEK OF AUGUST 6-11
This digest contains summaries of the following stories from Purdue News
Service and Agricultural Communication Service. All these stories, and more,
are available on the World Wide Web at
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/html3month/3month.html
(Instructions for retrieving stories and photographs via the Internet are at
the end of this document.)
1. Space experiments are key to better crystal-growth modeling
2. Advanced systems aim to keep new cars running clean as they age
3. Beering tells grads to tolerate imperfection, strive for excellence
4. Growth of tourism spurs departmental name change
5. Purdue Notebook
6. Grant awarded to Purdue to benefit cattle producers
7. Davis-Purdue Field Day looks at waste lagoon options
8. Field day includes talks on tax assessment, crop insurance
9. Purdue Varsity Glee Club to perform at First Nighter
10. Father of convicted spy to speak at Purdue
11. Purdue calendar
12. Agriculture calendar
13. Best Bets for Journalists
14. Back-to-school Experts
15. National Lifestyles, Education & Careers Package
16. Inside Purdue and Perspective
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RESEARCH NEWS AND SPECIAL REPORTS
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1. SPACE EXPERIMENTS ARE KEY TO BETTER CRYSTAL-GROWTH MODELING
Information gleaned from space experiments is enabling a Purdue University
engineering professor and his graduate students to design new software aimed
at manufacturing superior crystals for electronics and other industrial
applications. Better crystals would improve the quality of electronic
hardware, including computers, and enable engineers to design superior
alloys for a wide range of applications. Because gravity masks the fine
details of how crystals form, making them in space in the near absence of
gravity is uncovering information critical to designing better crystals and
alloys. ''The goal is to be able to grow materials to exact
specifications,'' says Suresh Garimella, an associate professor of
mechanical engineering at Purdue.
2. ADVANCED SYSTEMS AIM TO KEEP NEW CARS RUNNING CLEAN AS THEY AGE
Purdue and Ford Motor Co. are teaming up to develop an advanced, onboard
electronic system designed to monitor the health of aging engines and keep
cars in compliance with stringent exhaust-emission standards. Findings from
the research ultimately could make possible the creation of sophisticated
diagnostic systems that not only warn the driver about impending engine
failures but also identify the likely sources of the problems, says Matthew
Franchek, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue.
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GENERAL INTEREST NEWS
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3. BEERING TELLS GRADS TO TOLERATE IMPERFECTION, STRIVE FOR EXCELLENCE
Purdue President Steven C. Beering told new graduates Sunday (8/6) during
his final commencement speech that they need to be tolerant of
imperfections, but always strive for excellence. Approximately 1,070 Purdue
students were eligible to receive degrees during commencement ceremonies in
the Elliott Hall of Music. After Beering completed his remarks, Timothy
McGinley, president of the Purdue Board of Trustees, thanked the outgoing
president for his 17 years of service to the university.
4. GROWTH OF TOURISM SPURS DEPARTMENTAL NAME CHANGE
The study of the contemporary retail food, lodging and travel industry has
come a long way from its academic roots in institutional foods and nutrition
and home economics. To be consistent with the growth and evolution of the
field, Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel and Institutional Management
has changed its name to the Department of Hospitality and Tourism
Management. The change was effective July 1. ''The department's new name
reflects the total umbrella of hospitality and tourism today,'' says Raphael
R. Kavanaugh, professor and department head. ''Tourism is the fastest
growing industry in the world, and our curriculum has increasingly
emphasized tourism.''
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NEWS ABOUT PURDUE PEOPLE
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5. PURDUE NOTEBOOK
- Richard A. Cosier, dean of the Krannert School of Management and Leeds
Professor of Management, has accepted appointment to the Business
Accreditation Committee of AACSB - The International Association for
Management Education.
- Raphael R. Kavanaugh, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management
professor and head, has completed a three-year term of leadership with the
International Council of Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Educators.
- Nicholas A. Peppas, the Showalter Distinguished Professor of Chemical and
Biomedical Engineering, has received the General Electric Senior Research
Award for fundamental and prolific contributions to polymer engineering and
science, biomedical engineering, and pharmaceutical engineering.
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS
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6. GRANT AWARDED TO PURDUE TO BENEFIT CATTLE PRODUCERS
Smaller cattle operations in Indiana will get help with making their
operations more competitive through a grant awarded to Purdue Extension
specialists. The United States Department of Agriculture, through its
Federal-State Marketing Improvement Program, awarded Purdue beef specialists
Ron Lemenager and Matt Claeys, along with meat science specialist John
Forrest, a $78,000 matching grant to strengthen Indiana's cattle industry.
Lt. Governor Joe Kernan, who serves as Indiana's Commissioner of
Agriculture, submitted the grant proposal on behalf of the state's
agriculture office. ''The goal of this USDA program is to help small farms
thrive, through the development of new market opportunities or products,''
Kernan said.
7. DAVIS-PURDUE FIELD DAY LOOKS AT WASTE LAGOON OPTIONS
When the livestock are gone, what's a farmer to do with the waste lagoon?
Purdue agricultural experts asked themselves that question when they shut
down a hog operation at the Davis-Purdue Agricultural Center. They'll share
their solution - and others - at the ag center's field day on Aug. 22. The
field day runs from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. The free event also features crop
workshops and a tour of corn and soybean herbicide demonstration plots.
Davis-Purdue staff closed two waste lagoons about a year ago. With the help
of Purdue agricultural engineers and the Indiana Department of Environmental
Management, the lagoons are being turned into freshwater ponds.
8. FIELD DAY INCLUDES TALKS ON TAX ASSESSMENT, CROP INSURANCE
Visitors to the Northeast-Purdue Agricultural Center Field Day can learn
about two important fiscal issues, in between inspecting corn and soybeans.
The field day schedule includes workshops on the federal crop insurance
program and Indiana's property tax assessment system. The event is free and
takes place from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Aug. 24 at the agricultural center. ''This
year it's a little different from what most field days are,'' said Rolla
Parsons, Huntington County Purdue Extension Service director and field day
organizer. ''We're trying to expand this to include economics.''
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ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT ITEMS
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9. PURDUE VARSITY GLEE CLUB TO PERFORM AT FIRST NIGHTER
Purdue Musical Organizations' 66 member, all-male singing group presents an
evening of traditional Purdue songs and much more Aug. 25 at the Purdue
Varsity Glee Club First Nighter. Sponsored in part by the Purdue Student
Union Board, the First Nighter will be held at 7 p.m. in the Purdue Memorial
Union Ballrooms. The event is free and open to the public. ''The event may
not have always been called the First Nighter, but the tradition has always
been the same, to entertain and welcome back students,'' said Brian Breed,
director of PMO.
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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10. FATHER OF CONVICTED SPY TO SPEAK AT PURDUE
Morris Pollard, the father of Jonathan Pollard, who was sentenced to life in
prison for spying for Israel, will speak about his son's case on the West
Lafayette campus Aug. 23. His lecture, titled ''A Dreyfus Affair - American
Style,'' will be held from 12:30 p.m. to 1:20 p.m. in Room 320, Stewart
Center. Pollard, who is a professor emeritus from the University of Notre
Dame, has been speaking extensively about his son's case since the younger
Pollard pled guilty to the indictment in 1987. The lecture is free and open
to the public.
11. PURDUE CALENDAR
This calendar lists entertainment events, lectures and meetings involving
Purdue people during the next month. An online calendar of Purdue events is
at http://www.purdue.edu/calendar/
12. AGRICULTURE CALENDAR
This calendar lists Purdue Agriculture events during the next four weeks.
13. BEST BETS FOR JOURNALISTS
-- Will the real conservative please stand up?
''Best Bets'' also has details about the Aug. 23 lecture by Morris Pollard,
father of convicted spy Jonathan Pollard; and the Black Cultural Center's
Boilerfest New Student Orientation on Aug. 24.
14. BACK-TO-SCHOOL EXPERTS
Here is a list of seven Purdue experts who can address a variety of issues
related to the start of a new school year.
15. NATIONAL LIFESTYLES, EDUCATION & CAREERS PACKAGE
These stories were distributed nationally and internationally this week to
about 1,000 writers, reporters, editors and other interested parties. A Web
site with links to all the stories and photos in this package is at this
URL:
http://news.uns.purdue.edu/paks/lifepak.digest.0008.html
1. Domestic violence laws ignore lesbians, gays
2. Food and agribusiness MBAs grow futures virtually (Photo available)
3. Purdue grows its own computer techies; lauded as national model
4. Lifestyles, Education & Careers Briefs
5. Purdue researchers track deadly foodborne bacterium
6. Back-to-School Experts
16. INSIDE PURDUE AND PERSPECTIVE
Check the online versions of Inside Purdue, the faculty/staff newspaper, and
Perspective, a quarterly publication for alumni, parents of students,
faculty and staff, for other news about Purdue, at
http://www.purdue.edu/PER/Periodicals.html.
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