Purdue Notebook
March 17, 2006
Campus activities
— The seventh annual CERIAS Information Security Symposium is 8 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. March 21-22 in Stewart Center and the Purdue Memorial Union ballrooms. With theme of "Negotiating Trust: Security, Privacy, Risk," the Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security will stage several panel discussions with topics including digital identity management and digital forensics. More information is available online.—Alexius Macklin, associate professor of library science, has created, in conjunction with Peg Ertmer in the College of Education, The Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-Based Learning. Macklin says that the journal, which debuts on March 22, will be the first to focus on the scholarship of teaching and learning from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Editorial board members have also agreed to serve as mentors to junior faculty and graduate students to help them learn how to critique a scholarly paper and identify strategies to improve their own research and writing practices through the review practice.
— Brian Leftow, Nolloth Professor of the Philosophy of the Christian Religion from University of Oxford, will present "God, Vagueness and Logical Truth" at 4:30 p.m. on April 6 in Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education, Room 1268. The talk is part of the Department of Philosophy's Colloquium Spring 2006 series. The series is supported by the College of Liberal Arts Dean's Department Enhancement Funds.
Student honors
— Purdue's Epsilon Rho Chapter of the Kappa Alpha Order was recently awarded the Samuel Z. Ammen Award for Chapter Excellence. The award is given to the top 20 of 125 active chapters nationwide to recognize overall chapter excellence. The Epsilon Rho Chapter has been re-established on campus for four years.
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