Purdue News Photo Index/1999

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Shipsey - Quarks-- Technician Tom Smith, Purdue physicist Ian Shipsey and mechanical engineer Kirk Arndt, (left to right) work on a silicon detector, which will become part of the CLEO III physics experiment operated at Cornell University, where electrons and their antimatter counterparts, positrons, are smashed together in an underground particle accelerator.
Kohlhaw - Geneswitch-- Purdue biochemist Gunter Kohlhaw found a gene switch that could help people suffering from genetic deficiency diseases such as diabetes mellitus, familial gout and hypercholesterolemia.
Goecker - Jobs-- Food scientists and engineers will be in the greatest demand in the agricultural job market over the next five years, according to a new Purdue-USDA study. Marketing and sales positions will comprise the next largest group of job openings.
Rusek - peroxide-- Purdue engineering student Kok Hong Lim, a junior from Singapore, attaches leads to an experimental hydrogen peroxide fuel cell that researchers think may one day replace conventional batteries.
Haring - Tcon-- Parents, teachers and students can learn a lot from each other when all three participate in the parent-teacher conference, such as this simulated one.
Sprenkle - Gift-- Professor Douglas Sprenkle will bequeath his Purdue retirement funds ‹ expected to amount to more than $1 million ‹ to the School of Consumer and Family Sciences to help strengthen families. He says he's a great believer in the role of families in human happiness and well-being.
Axtell - Genomics-- Plant scientists have discovered that if they determine the location of a gene for a specific trait in one plant, another plant in the same family is likely to have the gene in the same location on its genome. For example, the genes for digestibility, dwarfism and waxy skin are found in the same approximate locations on cereal grains such as wheat, corn, sorghum and rice. But because corn has three times as much genetic material as sorghum, it is easier to identify the location of a desired trait in sorghum and then search for that gene in corn than it is to search through the entire genome of corn.
Perrucci - Class-- Purdue sociologist Robert Perrucci and co-author Earl Wysong created the concept of a "double diamond" to describe America's class inequality in their new book "The New Class Society." Perrucci says the privileged few are at the top in their own diamond, and the rest of society fits in a much larger diamond below with little chance of climbing to the top.
Krannert - Germany-- Purdue President Steven C. Beering (left) and German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder sign an agreement in Washington, D.C., to create the German International School of Management and Administration. Courses will be taught by faculty from Purdue's Krannert Graduate School of Management, and students will earn Purdue degrees.
Bressa - Osmotin-- Purdue horticulture Professor Ray Bressan, shown here in a growth chamber, has used yeast cultures to discover that plants can protect themselves from fungi by producing a chemical that causes fungal cells to commit suicide
Watkins - Center-- Purdue food science Professor Bruce Watkins and graduate student Amy Devitt check the color and texture of eggs that have a better-balanced fat content.
Ben-Amotz - Sensor-- Purdue chemist Dor Ben-Amotz uses a new imaging microscope he helped develop to analyze the chemical components of a plant cell. The instrument uses laser light to analyze various materials in real time.
Landgrebe - Spy-- This color infrared photograph of the National Mall in Washington, D.C., can be manipulated by a computer program to make a detailed image that distinguishes between rooftops, roads, vegetation and other surface materials.
Bernhard - Roads-- Jacob Klos, left, a Purdue graduate student in mechanical engineering, and Bob Bernhard, an engineering professor and director of the university's Institute of Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways, use a laser to study how noise is generated by a smooth tire on a textured surface. The tire, painted white to better reflect laser light, is rotated on a motor-driven roller. The laser measures vibration, and the data are relayed to a "signal analyzer" for interpretation..
Reicher - Dedication-- Steve Reynolds majored in turfgrass management at Purdue and now is a golf course superintendent in Valparaiso, Ind., Here, he examines turfgrass samples in a Purdue greenhouse during his undergraduate studies.
Cassens - July-- Daniel Cassens, professor of forestry at Purdue, spends much of the summer hard at work on his Christmas tree farm in Tippecanoe County, Ind. Cassens says that growing Christmas trees requires effort throughout the year.
Axtell - Genomics-- Plant scientists have discovered that if they determine the location of a gene for a specific trait in one plant, another plant in the same family is likely to have the gene in the same location on its genome. For example, the genes for digestibility, dwarfism and waxy skin are found in the same approximate locations on cereal grains such as wheat, corn, sorghum and rice. But because corn has three times as much genetic material as sorghum, it is easier to identify the location of a desired trait in sorghum and then search for that gene in corn than it is to search through the entire genome of corn.
Sudhoff - Transformers-- Scott Sudhoff, left, and research engineer Steve Glover work on a solid-state transformer. High voltage, roughly 7.2 kilovolts, comes in at the bottom of the picture and is converted to the 120-volt household current needed to run the light bulbs at the opposite end of the table.
Brodley - CTscan-- The large CT image of a patient's lungs at the top left is the query image, which can be compared with the four most visually similar images of lungs at the bottom of the picture. The large image on the top right is an enlargement of the best match.
Neudeck - Chips-- This drawing depicts a new way of making computer chips in layers. It shows four "islands" made with epitaxial lateral overgrowth, or ELO, connecting vertical layers of electronic devices made with a technology called silicon on insulator, or SOI.
Edwards - Fish-- Purdue researcher Nancy Edwards is studying how fish may be used to help ease disruptive behaviors by Alzheimer's patients that can interfere with eating and sleeping.
McDonald - Environment-- Lynne Barden, department chairwoman in biology at LaVille Junior-Senior High School in Lakeville, and Brad Ruff, a biology and earth science teacher and Central Catholic High School in Lafayette, collect water and water insect samples from the Celery Bog Nature Area in West Lafayette. The project was part of four days of field work during the Environmental Science Institute for Indiana Teachers at Purdue.
Dana - Wildflowers-- Pale purple coneflowers are just one species of native plants that are attractive and beneficial landscape plants, says Purdue horticulturist Michael Dana. These coneflowers grow at the Kern Memorial Wildflower Garden at Purdue. The garden, which is between Ross-Ade Stadium and Ackerman Hills Golf Course, contains several species of native flowering plants.
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.
Cox - readready-- Georgia Foster reads to 7-month-old Paige and 5-year-old Luke Murphy while their mother, Carol Murphy, looks on. Purdue literacy expert Beverly Cox says this type of experience is equally important to helping children of both ages develop future reading skills.
Dudareva - flowers-- Purdue flower researcher Natalia Dudareva works with flowers to understand the genetic mechanisms that have caused flowers to lose their scent.
Tao - 99contest-- Purdue students Ryan Howard and Faye Mulvaney, both of Indianapolis, have won $4,500 for developing a healthy vegetarian gelatin dessert. The new food contains soy isoflavones, which may lower the risk for certain diseases. The new soybean-based food was developed as part of Purdue's fifth annual "Innovative Uses for Soybeans" contest.
Pomery - hihopes-- Amit Jain of Glenrock, N.J., a Purdue junior who is majoring in management, tutors a group of elementary students from the Indianapolis Public Schools. He does the work as part of a Purdue class that meets once a week at three public housing sites in Indianapolis.
Thompson - worklife-- Marcy Garriott, a wellness specialist at Purdue, uses a ball to teach employees (seated front to back) Patti Cauble, Kay Solomon, Marta Lah and Cathy Sleeth how to "throw away" their stress. The exercise is part of a stress management workshop offered by the Purdue WorkLife Program.
Myers-Walls - child-- Age-appropriate toys are just one of the factors in healthy child development that are provided in quality day care settings.
Elicker - Bond-- How many hazards can you find in this child-care home?
Shepson - Arctic-- Ann Louise Sumner, a doctoral student in atmospheric sciences at Purdue, collects a sample of snow and ice crystals from the frozen surface of the Lincoln Sea, located in the Canadian Arctic, to measure formaldehyde levels in the snow.
Morgancomp2-- Christoph Weismayer, winner of the 1999 Burton Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition at Purdue, explains his product to the judges. The "Femate" is a portable exercise device to help women who suffer from urinary incontinence.
Haring - tcon-- Parents, teachers and students can learn a lot from each other when all three participate in the parent-teacher conference, such as this simulated one.
Rube99 - SWE-- Society of Women Engineers (SWE) team member Leigh Ann Schildmeier, a junior in industrial engineering from Anderson, Ind., gives her machine a little nudge during the local Rube Goldberg contest at Purdue in February. Because it required human intervention to complete its task, the SWE machine did not place among the top three. A team representing the Society of Manufacturing Engineers won the contest and will vie for the national title against teams from across the country on April 10 at Purdue.
Bugbowl - Preview-- Sarah Barry of Fishers, Ind., reacts to a New Guinea walking stick insect at Purdue's 1998 Bug Bowl. This year's Bug Bowl will include activities such as the petting zoo show here, cockroach racing, cricket spitting, and lots of insect snacks. Events take place in and around Entomology Hall.
Elicker - Bond-- How many hazards can you find in this child-care home?
Robinson - Bioscope-- Students at Horace Mann High School in Gary, Ind., test out BioScope, an interactive biology program being developed by Purdue. BioScope never becomes obsolete, because the CD-ROM that connects users to the Internet is constantly being rewritten thanks to software developed for the project. The students, from left to right, are Darwin Archie, William Shakespeare and Rufus Cross.
Mason - Pherc-- These Purdue mini-bins were filled last fall with corn that was subjected to insult by insects, molds and other stored-grain pests. Purdue entomologists, botanists and agricultural engineers use the bins to research safer and more economical ways to store and handle grain.
Vyn - Fallzone-- Purdue agronomist Tony Vyn stands in a field where he used fall zone tillage methods and equipment. By using zone tillage in the fall, farmers can grow corn profitably and protect poorly drained or high-clay soils from erosion.
Huggins - Careers-- Ray Cipra, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue, helps Noelle Schneider of Spring Lake, Mich., and Curt Peternell of Fort Atkinson, Wisc., examine a crankshaft in a small engine lab. Jobs for all engineering students are booming, and each mechanical engineering grad at Purdue is receiving an average of nine job interviews.
Wilkerson - Njobs1-- As health costs soar,advanced practice nurses are providing more of the routine medical care once handled by doctors. Kellie Lohrman-Kozma is a certified family nurse practitioner in Lafayette, Ind. Here she monitors the fetal heartbeat for a pregnant patient. Nurse practitioners handle a wide range of health-related issues, including the diagnosis and treatment of common minor illnesses and injuries.
Paul - Virtual Pic-- Purdue University sculpture Professor Rick Paulcreates three-dimensional works of art that exist only in his computer. Paul started his college career as a chemistry major at the University of Florida in the mid-'60s, and he maintained his interest in science even after switching his major to fine arts. He created "Riding the Gordian Knot" by using math software to create a 3-D knot. He then added hundreds of chairs to the surface of the knot using special software he created. Paul also has developed software that enables him to build objects directly from his computer models.
Spafford - Lilly-- Purdue Professor Eugene Spaffordis director of a new multidisciplinary center designed to tackle issues related to information security from a number of perspectives.
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.
Wilder - TAEVIS-- Braille and low-vision graphics developed by TAEVIS for a biology course show the basic structure of a chicken egg.
Borgens - PEG-- The top view shows a spinal cord that is cut in two pieces. The middle view shows one severed nerve fiber of the thousands within the spinal cord. In a recent study, Purdue researchers applied the polymer PEG to the fibers, fusing the segments together and restoring electrical nerve impulses through the cell.

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