Purdue News Photo Index/1998

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Mattes - Beverage-- Purdue researcher Richard Mattes eyes the culprits ‹ beverages ‹ which studies indicate may be responsible for excess calorie consumption in this country, His research found that when people consume solid foods, they compensate for those calories by eating less of other foods. However, when they consume beverages, total calorie intake goes up and so does their weight.
Duparcq - E-com-- Erica Hill, who earned her master's degree in management in May, is one of many management students at Purdue benefiting from new courses in e-business offered by Patrick Duparcq.
Mohler - Virtualvisit-- James Mohler, an assistant professor of technical graphics in the Purdue School of Technology, used a software program for designing computer games to create a Web site that provides a "virtual visit" to the university's West Lafayette campus.
Lesh - Mathphobia-- This quilt pattern and accompanying measurements are one example of math concepts being used in real-life activities.
Critser - Elephant-- Purdue researcher John Critser displays containers such as those he used recently to collect and store reproductive tissues from African elephants. The glass "straw," left, would store sperm. The tube to the right contains three vials for storing ovarian tissue. Beside him are cryogenic storage tanks, filled with the actual samples of elephant semen and ovarian tissue. Liquid nitrogen in the tanks prevents damage to the cells and keeps them frozen at minus 320 degrees Fahrenheit for long-term storage.
Wert - Foodsci-- Kent Wert, manager of the Computer-Integrated Food Manufacturing Center in Purdue's new Food Science Building, oversees the work of master's students Gopal Rangaswamy and Amy Devitt. The two are working on a direct stream injection tank that purifies the food products produced in a new pilot lab.
Haring - Teaching-- Purdue education major Rachel Pranger instructs Chia-Yu Chen, a seventh-grader at Klondike Middle School in Tippecanoe County, Indiana, during her student teaching assignment last spring. Pranger is now a high-school math teacher in Noblesville, Ind.
Patchen - Diversity-- A Purdue sociology professor explores racial and ethnic relations in his book "Diversity and Unity." Martin Patchen says inequalities among ethnic groups often lead to prejudice, segregation and discrimination.
Grant - Plastics-- Purdue Professor, Edward Grant uses a device he helped develop to identify the plastic backing on an automobile headlight. The new device, named by R&D Magazine as one of the year's most technologically significant products, can identify plastics so they can be sorted for recycling, including plastics that are currently impossible or hard to sort.
Laurendeau - Combust-- Clayton Cooper, Batesville, Ark., adjusts the focus of a laser beam that is used to determine the concentration of the pollutant nitric oxide produced by the flame in the chamber. Cooper, a Purdue doctoral student in mechanical engineering, is conducting research that may help manufacturers produce jet engines that produce fewer pollutants.
Diamond - Preschool-- Children at a Purdue University preschool in West Lafayette are introduced to the computer. Parents can help ease a child's anxiety about going to preschool by emphasizing all the new friends and experiences he or she will have there.
Hawkins Compost-- Purdue researchers says that composting manure is a cost- and labor-efficient way for medium and large livestock operations to mange waste. Workers at the Purdue dairy farm use a tractor-pulled windrow turner to turn compost. Because the compost reaches temperatures of up to 150 degrees, the freshly turned compost piles give off steam even in the warm summer.
Wadsworth - TATraining-- Kim Wagner (left), a graduate student in theater from Frankfort, Ky., portrays the teaching assistant during a demonstration of Purdue's cultural awareness classroom climate workshops. The interactive theater presentation allows participants to discuss sensitive topics with the actors and a faculty facilitator. Wagner's "students" are (left to right) Tammy Birchfield, a senior in theater education from Crawfordsville, Ind., Wunji Lau, a graduate student in creative writing from Stillwell, Okla., and Halimat Alabi, a sophomore engineering major from Kansas City, Kan.
Ho - Both-- A genetically engineered yeast developed at Purdue's Laboratory of Renewable Resources Engineering can produce at least 30 percent more ethanol from plant material than its unmodified parent yeast or any other yeast. Nancy Ho, group leader for molecular genetics and the lab's senior research scientist, holds cultures of the new yeast strain (in the petri dish) and a sample of ethanol.
Nelson - Foodsci-- Purdue food science postdoctoral student Angie Broeker (right) and lab technician Peg Purdue set up James Bemiller's lab in Purdue's new Food Science Building. Faculty from the food science and agricultural and biological engineering departments are moving into the $22 million research and teaching facility.
Heath - Rover-- Pet paramedics to the rescue! Mitzi the spaniel helps "Rescuing Rover" author Dr. Sebastian Heath and veterinarian Dr. Julia Allen demonstrate first aid for dogs.
Delks - Church-- Ed Bell, a farmer and a consultant for Purdue University's Breaking New Ground Program, inspects the changes made to Sugar Group Community Church in Greens Fork, Ind. The Breaking New Ground program is helping rural churches improve their accessibility for farmers and others with disabilities. The Purdue program has found that churches are an essential part of community life in rural areas.
Vrana - Race-- Purdue researchers Scott Vrana (left) and David Rollock study social encounters between people of different races. In their latest study, the two found that race affects physical body reactions during such encounters. Facial expressions are an important part of these exchanges and are measured by electrodes placed on the face as demonstrated by the researchers.
Turpin - Fireflies-- The firefly, also known as the lightning bug, is actually neither a fly nor a bug, but a beetle, say Purdue entomologists. This particular firefly is called Say's firefly (Pyractomena angulata), one of about 175 species of fireflies in the United States.
Throssell - Hole14-- At Purdue's new Kampen Golf Course, 15 acres of man-made wetlands, such as the one here along hole No. 14, help filter water from the course and from the nearby community.
Throssell - Hole7-- Hole No. 7 at Purdue's Kampen Golf Course had two fairways separated by a fairway-length sand bunker. The dual fairways allow Purdue scientists and students to conduct research on one while play continues on the other.
Throssell - Hole6-- Golf architect Pete Dye has incorporated a natural marsh in an environmentally friendly design at Purdue's Kampen Golf Course. Hole No. 6 is a 620-yard par five that horseshoes around the marsh, which is known as the Celery Bog.
Spafford - CERIAS-- Purdue Professor Eugene Spafford is director of a new multidisciplinary center designed to tackle issues related to information security from a number of perspectives.
Rau - Mergers-- Raghavendra Rau, Purdue assistant professor of management, prepares a chart which shows that, in the long run, megamergers aren't as profitable as shareholders expect.
Chalmers - Pharmacy1-- Deanna Kania, left, one of three new assistant professors hired this year by Purdue's Department of Pharmacy Practice, works with student Stephanie Riedel of Lafayette to monitor blood levels of an anticoagulation medication in a patient in order to make the necessary adjustments in the dosage. Riedel, a sixth-year student in Purdue's Pharm. D. program, graduated in May.
Chalmers - Pharmacy2-- Ron Weatherman, center, assistant professor in Purdue's Department of Pharmacy Practice, instructs students Priscilla Hill, Poughkeepsie, N.Y., (standing) and Lori Rodocker, Indianapolis, in the pharmacy practices office at Wishard Hospital in Indianapolis. Hill and Rodocker take calls on a hot line set up by the Purdue group to address patients' concerns about their medications. Hill and Rodocker both completed the six-year Pharm. D. program at Purdue in May.
Robinson - Photo-- Thomas B. Robinson
Powley - Photo-- Terry L. Powley, professor of psychological sciences, awarded distinguished professorship
Lesh - Photo-- Incoming faculty member Richard Lesh, professor of education, awarded distinguished professorship
Purdue -Grad98-- Jennifer Peng (Boston, Mass.), is presented with balloons and roses by her mother Ching-Ching after her commencement exercises today (Saturday 5/16). Approximately 4,515 students were eligible to participant in one of the four commencement ceremonies conducted today (Saturday 5/16) and Sunday (5/17) in Elliott Hall of Music on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. This was Purdue's 174th commencement ceremony.
Raffin - Photo-- Theresa Raffin holds a family photo showing her 11 older siblings, just before taking her last final exam at Purdue University. She was to receive a degree in civil engineering on May 17 -- the 10th child of Richard and Bernadette Raffin of Valparaiso, Ind., to earn a Purdue degree. At least one of their children has been attending Purdue every year since 1973.
Hasse - Photo-- Benjamin Hasse photo
Vomit - Aero-- Scott Schoenherr, left, a Purdue senior from Elkhart, Ind., and Alex Morgan, a junior from St. Louis, mill a piece of equipment for use in an experiment that flew on board a NASA research jet, called the "Vomit Comet," in March. As a member of the flight team, Schoenherr experienced weightlessness on the jet, as did the experiment, which studied how fluids behave in microgravity.
Kelly - MVP-- Krannert School of Management graduate students Cory Carter of Greenfield, Ind., Jason Stickles of Athens, Ala., and Randy Hountz of Sunman, Ind., (left to right, facing camera) help clear a construction site for Habitat for Humanity. Their volunteer work is part of a business school program that teaches leadership and community service.
Tao - Skiwax-- Purdue sophomores Faye Mulvaney and Ryan Howard, both of Indianapolis, have invented a mountain-friendly ski wax for snowboarders who like to ride the half-pipes. The food process engineering students substituted biodegradable soybean oil for petroleum-derived paraffin in the wax.
Rossmann - Bella-- Purdue researcher Jordi Bella constructs a view of a common cold virus and shows where the human cell receptor ICAM-1 interacts with the virus.
Rosmann - Virus-- The common cold virus rhinovirus 16 contains 60 sites capable of connecting to a receptor, called ICAM-1, on human cells. The virus uses several of these sites to gain entry into the cell. This computer-simulated model, developed by Purdue researchers, shows where the receptors attach to the outer protein shell of the virus. Color
Edwards - Graduate-- Graduating Purdue University senior Joy Dilosa Edwards sings with the Black Voices of Inspiration at the choir's spring concert
Moser - Aroma-- Lilacs are among the most fragrant flowering shrubs. Purdue landscape expert Bruno Moser suggests using aromatic plants when landscaping as a way to enjoy both the sights and smells of the foliage around your home.
Hunt - Map-- Africanized honey bees, known popularly as killer bees, have spread through Mexico and into the southern United States.
Hunt - Attack-- Africanized honey bees attack more aggressively than their European cousins, as this Mexican beekeeper discovered.
Hunt - Hive-- Greg Hunt, honey bee Cooperative Extension Service specialist at Purdue, checks a bee hive at a Purdue research facility. Hunt and two other researchers have identified a gene in Africanized honey bees that causes their aggressive stinging behavior.
Joern - Phosphorus-- Purdue agronomist Brad Joern catches a sample of water from a farm drainage tile. Joern found that phosphorus can move into drain-tile water from fields that have a long history of phosphorus loading. A decade ago, scientists believed that phosphorus in fields didn't move, unless it eroded away with soil.
Duncan - Testpilot-- Program author Malcolm Duncan demonstrates Test Pilot on the computers in Purdue's BioMedia Center for Instructional Computing. The software allows teachers to design tests and tutorials that students can take on any computer that is connected to the Internet.
Mehta - Morganwinners-- Kirby Goedde's automated locker device for disabled students is designed to fit any school locker manufactured in the United States. A key-chain-sized transmitter can unlock the special locking mechanism from as much as 50 feet away. Goedde, a Purdue senior majoring in electrical engineering, won the university's 11th annual Burton Morgan entrepreneurial competition .
Buriak - Silicon-- Purdue student Matthew Allen shines ultraviolet light on a dish containing small gray structures made of porous silicon, causing the structures to emit a bright orange light. Purdue chemist Jillian Buriak (left) has found a way to stabilize the surface of porous silicon so its light-emitting properties can be used to develop new types of sensors and optoelectronic devices.
Eiff - Aviation-- Kelly McNamara, a Purdue sophomore in aviation technology and a member of Women in Aviation from Batavia, Ill., works with assistant professor Mike Leasure on an aircraft engine for a class project.
Powers - Photo-- Mamon Powers photo.
BCC - Blessing-- Nashid Fakhrid-Deen, an African-griot priest from Kentucky, pours Purdue apple cider on some soil from the site of the university's new $3 million Black Cultural Center. He said such a blessing of the soil is a traditional African ritual. In the background is Mamon Powers Jr., a Purdue trustee from Gary whose Powers Family Foundation contributed $110,000 toward the construction of the new center, the largest single donation to date. The blessing and a ceremonial groundbreaking were held Friday afternoon (2/27) in Purdue's Memorial Union. Construction of the 18,000-square-foot facility, designed by Blackburn Architects of Indianapolis, will begin Monday (3/2) on the West Lafayette campus.
BCC - Render-- Construction of the the new 18,000-square-foot Black Cultural Center at Purdue begins March 2, with completion by the fall of 1999. The design, by Blackburn Architects of Indianapolis, features traditional African elements and will incorporate geometric patterns, textures and materials typically found in African villages.
Bug Bowl '96-- David Fisher and Liz Grauerholz of West Lafayette share daughter Lara's amazement at the size of a New Guinea stick insect at Purdue's 1996 Bug Bowl.
Grandt - Collect-- Skip Grandt's interest in how materials fail extends from aircraft parts to practically everything else. The Purdue aeronautics and astronautics professor has amassed a collection of damaged goods in his office, including a cracked stapler, a diaper pin, and bicycle and toilet seats.
Giordano - Piano-- Nicholas Giordano, professor of physics at Purdue, uses sophisticated electronic devices and mathematical equations to determine how the vibrations of the piano strings, bridge and soundboard interact to produce the instrument's characteristic sound. The goal is to use basic laws of physics to develop a model of the piano, and perhaps create a more realistic-sounding piano synthesizer.
Buriak - Silicon-- Purdue student Matthew Allen shines ultraviolet light on a dish containing small gray structures made of porous silicon, causing the structures to emit a bright orange light. Purdue chemist Jillian Buriak (left) has found a way to stabilize the surface of porous silicon so its light-emitting properties can be used to develop new types of sensors and optoelectronic devices.
Luescher - Puppies-- Purdue animal behaviorist Andrew Luescher (far right) walks Tuggy past an assistant holding a German shepherd in an effort to correct Tuggy's aggression problems. Luescher says behavior modification efforts work in about 65 percent of cases. Owner Drago Panich of Lafayette looks on in the background.
Schneider - Bioanalytical-- Scott Hessong, a scientist at Bioanalytical Systems Inc. in West Lafayette, uses a gas chromotography instrument developed by the company. The business, started on a shoestring in 1974, had $16 million in sales in 1997 thanks to a partnership between Purdue University and its founder.
Watkins - Infants-- Toddlers can have their cake and eat butter, too: Researchers from Purdue University and the University of Kentucky say that children under age 5 - especially infants and toddlers - are getting too little fat in their diets.
Goodman - Ceiling-- Research on women in management positions suggests that women are cracking, but still rarely breaking through, the corporate "glass ceiling." The study, co-authored by Jodi S. Goodman, assistant professor of organizational behavior at Purdue University's Krannert Graduate School of Management, notes that althought the percentage of women in management positions has grown for 18.5 percent in 1970 to more than 40 percent today, only 3 percent to 5 percent of top managers are women.
Ayres - Landuse-- Only the barn remains of what once was Lynnwood Farm near Carmel, Ind. Cropland has been converted to housing and an adjoining golf course. Instead of dairy cattle, the twin-siloed barn now houses electric golf carts.
Petritz -Computer-- Some of the links at the Purdue Pork Page on the World Wide Web are: Hot Topics; Animal Well-Being; Environment; Genetics; Growth; Health; Housing; Management; Manure; Economics and Marketing; Nutrition; Pork Quality; Public Relations; and Reproduction. The Web site is at http://www.anr.ces.purdue.edu/anr/anr/swine/porkpage.htm.
Hawkins - Compost-- Purdue researchers says that composting manure is a cost- and labor-efficient way for medium and large livestock operations to mange waste. Workers at the Purdue dairy farm use a tractor-pulled windrow turner to turn compost. Because the compost reaches temperatures of up to 150 degrees, the freshly turned compost piles give off steam even in the warm summer.
Evans - Notill-- The national percentage of cropland planted with conservation tillage technology surpassed the percentage of plowed ground in 1997. Indiana was one of the top five contributors to the increase in acreage farmed with the erosion-busting technology. Here a farmer plants into corn stalk residue.
Rice - Farmfest-- A young 1997 Farm Fest visitor enjoys the event as he goes eye-to-eye with one of the exhibits.
Hall - collegecash-- With the magic of compounding, saving $100 per month for 15 years equals $41,447. Without compound interest, saving $100 per month for 15 years equals $18,000. This assumes a 10 percent annual rate of return. The difference is that the interest paid one year earns interest the next.
Ferrell - Webplace-- Mike Sinnott (right), data and Web administrator in Purdue's Krannert Graduate School of Management, and graduate assistant Jim Gordon always are looking for ways to make Krannert's placement Web site a valuable tool for students.
Rube98 -Local-- A Purdue student resets his team's entry in the 1997 Rube Goldberg Contest. Duct tape and string were staple materials in creating the machine that loaded a compact disc into a CD player and played it.
Schneider - Tunnel-- Steven Schneider, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue, places a test object inside a Mach 4 wind tunnel. His studies on supersonic airflow may lead to a new generation of reusable space vehicles.
Badylak - SIS2-- Dr. Stephen F. Badylak holds newly developed material made from pigs' intestines that is being used in a clinical trial to replace damaged ligaments. The material can be configured into sheets as thin as two or three cells.
Badylak - DePuy-- Rhonda Clarke, senior biomaterials research scientist, prepares processed SIS for packaging in DePuy's pilot manufacturing facility in Warsaw, Ind. The material will be used to replace ruptured anterior cruciate ligaments of the knee.

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