Campus, community events set for Green Week

The goal of the second annual Alternative Transportation Challenge is to encourage students and residents to use buses, carpooling, biking or walking to get to classes, work or to run errands for the week.

The event, now in its fifth year, is a cooperative effort to provide students with information about graduate education and will feature several activities.

Steve Green, the Basil S. Turner Distinguished Professor of Management, said the changes were made during a review by the management undergraduate task force. Green chaired the committee, which meets periodically to review the structure of the school for efficiency and possible improvements.

Female timber rattlesnake

A group of researchers led by Purdue University has begun to sample data for a planned 100-year study designed to develop better forest management methods and measure how such practices affect resident plant and animal species.

Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School dean and Leeds Professor of Management, said Krannert had grown sufficiently over time to make formalizing the two departments with administrators who handle their affairs worthwhile.

Porter Shreve

"When the White House Was Ours" is Shreve's third novel, and it is loosely based on his own childhood growing up in the Washington, D.C., area. The book ($12.95), published by Mariner Houghton Mifflin, is available Tuesday (Sept. 9).

Purdue University agricultural economists will plot out what could happen in the next couple of years based on the demand for biofuels, acreage in production, input costs and many other factors. Chris Hurt and Corinne Alexander, both Purdue Extension ag economists, will highlight where farmers might see vulnerability in terms of crop production margins.

Lori Foster Thompson, a visiting professor in the Department of Organizational Leadership and Supervision, will give a presentation from 4:30-5:30 p.m. at Beering Hall, Room 1268, on the project titled SmartAid: Consultants Without Costs. There will be a one-hour reception after the presentation where Thompson will be available to talk with audience members. The talk is free and open to the public.

The auditions will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Purdue Memorial Union, Room 263, and are open to Purdue students. The auditions are for the Purdue Student Union Board's annual production of Shakespeare in Academy Park, which will be performed at 3 p.m. Sept. 27.

Purdue University renewable energy specialist Chad Martin said there are many factors to consider when installing a wind turbine to generate power on the farm, and economic feasibility is certainly one of them.

Several guest lectures, organized by the Energy Center, Center for the Environment and the Purdue Climate Change Research Center, are planned for Sept. 19 from 8 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., followed by a town hall forum from 2:30-4 p.m. Purdue's Green Week runs from Sept. 15-19.

For its 2008 Workforce Study, the magazine asked companies in those industries to list the top five institutions from which they recruit. Of the 64 schools mentioned, Purdue ranked at the top, moving up from No. 4 in the 2007 rankings and bumping last year's No. 1 choice, Pennsylvania State University, to second.

A team led by R. Graham Cooks, Purdue's Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has developed a new analysis tool that can provide a map of the distribution of a drug within the body. The new tool requires no chemical pretreatment.

Some of the changes address mental health issues, said Thomas B. Robinson, vice president for student services.

The theme for the symposium is "Family Relations and Late Life Health." It is free for Purdue faculty, staff or students and those 65 and older.

"We are excited to continue our partnership with Ohio State University at the Farm Science Review," said Chuck Hibberd, Purdue Extension director. "We feel that the specialists we bring from Purdue truly complement the programming from Ohio State, making a complete, educational experience for visitors."

Started in 1973, the Krannert Executive Forum is an undergraduate class for both management and non-management students, primarily seniors. Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School dean and Leeds Professor of Management, coordinates the class.

The board also ratified the appointments of two new vice presidents.

Xtreme Alternative Defense Systems Ltd. was selected from a drawing of the top 50 companies during a Wednesday (Aug. 27) night event that drew 500 people to the Indiana Roof Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis.

Eugene H. Spafford, the executive director of Purdue's CERIAS (Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security), will present "Will Your Vote Be Counted? How Do You Know?" from  7-9 p.m. at the Morton Community Center, 222 N. Chauncey Ave. The event is free and open to the public.

Of that amount, gifts to the university reached $201 million, exceeding the year's fundraising goal.

The free tickets for an "Evening with James Earl Jones" were available to Purdue faculty, staff and students on Thursday (Aug. 28) and were picked up on a first-come basis. The talk is part of Experience Liberal Arts, a monthlong celebration highlighting programs in the College of Liberal Arts.

On Sept. 15-18 faculty members will discuss green topics during brown bag talks each day from noon to 1 p.m. in the Deans Auditorium of Pfendler Hall. The sessions are free, and participants are invited to bring their own lunch.

"The issue of animal welfare and well-being reflects a change in the concern that society has about animals and where their food comes from," Pajor said. "And it's an issue that needs to be taken seriously because it has serious implications."