Purdue Notebook

March 25, 2005

Campus activities

– The 2005 annual College of Liberal Arts Honors Program Colloquium takes place from noon to 5 p.m. on March 30 in the Purdue Memorial Union, Anniversary Drawing Room. The colloquium is free and open to the public. More than 30 undergraduate honors students will showcase their original research and deliver work from honors-level courses. Four students, recently named outstanding seniors in their departments, will participate in this year's program. Topics include international terrorism, social theory, research in evolutionary psychology, Spanish literature, and original poetry. For more information, contact (765) 496-7997 or go online.

Faculty and staff honors

– The A.H. Ismail Center for Health, Exercise and Nutrition at Purdue has been recognized as an age-friendly facility by the International Council on Active Aging, known as the ICAA. The Ismail Center is the first fitness facility in Indiana to obtain this designation. The council is the world's largest trade association for the senior fitness and wellness industry. Purdue's Ismail Center gained this designation by meeting requirements set out by the ICAA in nine areas, including equipment, staffing and customer service, and programming. By meeting these requirements the center has accepted to participate in the ICAA's national, age-appropriate fitness and wellness facility locator and patient-referral program. The Ismail Center operates three fitness programs for older adults, including the 650-plus member Adult Fitness Program. The center was opened in 1999 and is operated by the Department of Health and Kinesiology in the College of Liberal Arts.

– The Plant Propagation CD-ROM, produced by the Purdue Horticulture Department and the Department of Agricultural Communications Service, will be awarded three bronze awards from the Garden Writers Association. The CD-ROM won an award in each of the following areas: writing-electronic media, graphic design-electronic media and overall product-electronic media. The Garden Writers Association’s award program recognizes excellence in gardening-related communications in all media. Entries are judged by a jury of professionals selected for their experience, expertise and genre perspective. The official announcement of the award winners will be made at a press conference at the U.S. Botanic Garden in Washington, D.C., on March 29. The actual awards ceremony will be Sept. 12 in Vancouver, British Columbia.

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