Purdue News Photo Index/2003

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• Gingerhouse03 -- Bruce Haumesser, Purdue University's executive chef, decorates a life-size gingerbread house on Wednesday (12/10) in the Purdue Memorial Union's Great Hall while visitors listen to holiday music performed by the 7th and 8th grade choir from Lafayette Christian School. The wood-framed gingerbread house is decorated with 180 pounds of edible gingerbread, 150 pounds of powdered sugar frosting, 1,000 graham cracker shingles, 144 candy canes, 20 pounds of gum drops, 10 pounds of red licorice, 300 cookies and six pounds of ribbon candy. The gingerbread house, which debuted last year, is 9 feet tall, 6 feet deep and 5 feet wide.

• Longuski.book -- A new book by James Longuski, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics at Purdue University, provides employment advice to help young scientists and engineers make the transition from school to the workplace, while navigating the sometimes-thorny politics that goes with the turf. The book, "Advice to Rocket Scientists: A Career Survival Guide for Scientists and Engineers," contains Longuski's insights and anecdotes gleaned over 25 years in aerospace and academia.

• Hortin.caregiver -- Medical student Julie Waddle shares a smile with Jessie Swarens, whom Waddle visits bi-weekly. The visits, arranged through the Caregiver Companion Program in Lafayette, Ind., are a requirement of first-year students at the IU Medical School's Lafayette Center for Medical Education.

• Sabol.artteachers -- Robert Sabol, Purdue University associate professor of art and design, says art teachers need to start evaluating their students' artwork more broadly to include criteria more like those used by artists. Sabol, who was a public school elementary art teacher for 23 years, teamed with researchers at Florida State University and Northern Illinois University to study teacher, student and artist attitudes in evaluating art. The results of the study are published in the book "Assessing Expressive Learning."

• Baker.reovirus -- This cross section of a reovirus shows features down to 7.6-angstrom resolution, a scale that has allowed Purdue University's Tim Baker and his research team to examine the inner features of the viral particle. Visible for the first time within the virus are several tiny "factories," shown here in red, which convert raw materials from a victim cell's interior into RNA messages instructing the cell to begin manufacturing more viruses. The technology Baker's team used to examine the reovirus could be used to reveal other viruses' structures, providing fundamental knowledge important for developing potential antiviral agents.

• PMU.tree03 -- Linda Koerner and her class of 3-4 year-olds from Busy Day preschool in Lafayette are dwarfed by the decorated Christmas tree in the Purdue Memorial Union's Great Hall as Martha Morgan, Purdue events office, tells them about the 27-foot tall blue spruce. The tree, which was donated by Tim and Renee Mundell of West Lafayette, was cut and brought to the union on Monday (12/8). The preschool class also sang Christmas songs during their visit to see the tree.

• Wei.nanorings -- Shown are cobalt nanoparticles that have self-assembled into bracelet-like "nanorings." The rings' magnetic flux can be oriented in one of two directions – clockwise or counterclockwise – a characteristic that could represent binary numbers in magnetic memory devices. Because the flux direction remains even without a constant power supply, it is possible these rings could lead to so-called "non-volatile" computer memory, which would not be wiped out in the event of a system failure.

• Ricciardi.show -- Longtime Purdue Musical Organizations Christmas Show attendees Dick and Mary McDowell, left, visit with Glee Club members (from left) Brian King, 19, Lafayette; Rob Flowers, 21, Muncie; and John Kronbert, 19, Ft. Wayne, while Brian Breed (top, right) tells Christmas Show chorus members where to stand during a rehearsal on the Elliott Music Hall stage. The 70th annual PMO Christmas Show will open there on Dec. 12.

• Chao.center -- Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke presents Allen Chao and Lee-Hwa Chao with a plaque commemorating the Allen Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy, now under construction at the Purdue Research Park. The center, which will provide facilities for both education and pharmaceuticals manufacturing, has been made possible by a gift of $5 million from the Chaos.

• Chao.center -- Shown is the future home of Purdue University's Allen Chao Center for Industrial Pharmacy, located at the Purdue Research Park. The $5.3 million center will house facilities both to teach pharmacy students and to manufacture drugs for market.

• Leonard.language -- Martha Levien, a Purdue University senior in speech sciences and audiology from Davenport, Iowa, works with a participant in the Child Language Program. This study seeks to evaluate different therapies for language delay. Children who are not treated fall behind not only in language development, but also in reading.

• Ohm.fusarium -- Both wheat plants displayed by Purdue agronomy professor Herb Ohm have been infected with Fusarium head blight, or wheat scab. The plant on the left was crossed with a pasture grass to create a high level of resistance to the fungus, which is one of the primary diseases affecting wheat production.

• Cramer.ecoli -- Shown in this graphic is the protein colicin and the receptors it uses to cross the cellular membrane of an E. coli bacterium. After lodging one of its ends in the "BtuB" receptor, usually used to admit vitamin B12 into the cell, the protein uses its extended "fishing pole" to search for a porous second receptor, "OmpF," that will allow its import across the membrane.

• Dudareva.scent -- Once flowers like these snapdragons have been pollinated, the amount of scent production is reduced, according to a Purdue University study. Researcher Florence Negre, smelling snapdragons in the Purdue greenhouses, participated in the study published this month in The Plant Cell.

• Gibson.sho -- Part of Harry Gibson's research involves using these heating oils, blended with different amounts of soybean oil, to test the long-term viability of the mixtures. Gibson is a professor of agricultural and biological engineering at Purdue.

• Basaran.nanothreads -- This computer-generated series of images illustrates a surprising discovery about the formation of drops from nozzles such as those in inkjet printers. A team led by researchers at Purdue University and the University of Chicago has shown that the drops form differently when the nozzle is immersed into sticky liquids, such as honey or silicone oil, which have greater viscosity than the drop. As the drop forms, so does a long, thin threadlike attachment. If the drop is made of certain chemicals, this thin thread can be quickly solidified by exposing it, for example, to "photo-polymerizing" light. The method might be used to create fibers, wires and particles only a few nanometers wide, which could have numerous applications, from composite materials to a new class of electronics and pharmaceutical products.

• Seidl.infants -- Amanda Seidl, assistant professor of audiology and speech sciences, captures the attention of 9-month-old Elizabeth Pearson, who is sitting in the lap of her mom, Judy, before beginning research that studies how babies learn language rules from the sounds of language. The baby listens for two minutes to made-up sentences that follow a language rule that does not occur in English. Then the child is tested to see if that language rule was learned.

• Sciencebound.PDA -- Mark Thompson, a freshman at Arlington High School who participates in Purdue University's Science Bound program, watches as his uncle, Matt Thompson, checks out e-Stadium at a Purdue football game. A personal digital assistant prototype developed at Purdue, e-Stadium allows football fans to score up-to-the-minute statistics, review player and coach biographies, and answer trivia questions.

• Lectenberg.isb -- Terry Hayhurst (from left) and Matthew Langdon, of the Indiana Soybean Board, join Victor Lechtenberg, dean of Purdue's School of Agriculture, and Purdue provost Sally Mason as agricultural bioengineering graduate student Will Smith explains the process of creating bio-diesel fuel from soybean oil. The Soybean Board and Purdue representatives today (Tuesday, 11/11) announced a $1.5 million endowment to the university to fund a professorship. The Indiana Soybean Board Professor in Soybean Utilization Research will help create value-added products from soybeans through Purdue's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering.

• Grauerholz.tales -- Liz Grauerholz, associate professor of sociology at Purdue University, studied how beauty is written about in fairy tales and whether stories with beautiful princesses are more likely to be popular. Grauherholz and Lori Baker-Sperry, an assistant professor of women's studies at Western Illinois University and a former Purdue graduate student, examined 168 Brothers Grimm fairy tales to evaluate how beauty is portrayed in the storylines.

• Rietdyk.falling -- Shirley Rietdyk, Purdue University professor of health and kinesiology, watches her research team demonstrate how to apply force to 70-year-old Don Corrigan as part of a study to learn how the elderly maintain balance. Josh Williams, a senior in movements and sports science from Evansville, Ind., pushes Corrigan to simulate a loss of balance. Steven Torgerud, a second-year master's student in biomechanics from St. Paul, Minn., stands as a spotter. Mark Knezovich, a first-year master's student in health sciences from Peoria, Ill., monitors Corrigan's reactions on the computer. By studying the interaction between the body's neural and mechanical systems, Rietdyk is learning how the nervous system combines visual and sensory information to coordinate muscle activity.

• Norberg.signing -- John Norberg (center) introduces Carly Grissom to NASA shuttle commander Don Williams (right) at a signing event for Norberg's recently published book "Wings of Their Dreams, Purdue in Flight," on Saturday (11/8) in Purdue's Memorial Union on the West Lafayette campus. Carly Grissom (Muncie, Ind.) is the granddaughter of NASA Gemini commander Gus Grissom and a junior at Purdue. Gus Grissom died in a fire during a training mission at the beginning of the Apollo program.

• Rhodes.elk -- Purdue researcher Gene Rhodes examines an X-ray printout of an elk's genetic makeup. Research conducted by Rhodes, a wildlife geneticist, found that elk relocated to depleted areas lost significant amounts of genetic diversity when only a few individuals were introduced to a new area or herds were not managed appropriately.

• Bottum.Sun -- Jamie Jennis, a student worker at Information Technology at Purdue, works with the recycled computers in Linux clusters that work with Sun Microsystem servers to deliver high-performance computing power to Purdue's undergraduates. Jennis is a senior computer science and mathematics major from New Rochelle, N.Y. Purdue and Sun officials said the 1,008-node cluster is the largest of its kind.

• Pittendrigh.lice -- Genetic research conducted by Purdue researcher Barry Pittendrigh may "ultimately lead to some real long-term benefits for Indiana and throughout the world," according to the assistant professor of entomology. Purdue scientists have identified the first gene in lice that kills bacteria that threatens the insect.

• Gore.Vista -- Kislaya Kunjan, lead engineer with Vista Biosciences LLC, works on a sensor system developed jointly with Purdue University researchers that detects glucose molecules by shining light in a specific range called mid-infrared radiation, through clear interstitial fluid extracted from under a person's skin. This technology may spawn a new class of hospital bedside monitors (shown) as well as wearable devices to continuously monitor glucose for people with diabetes, eliminating painful finger pricks and alerting a person when it is time to inject insulin.

• Mengiste.graymold -- Purdue researcher Tesfaye Mengiste has identified the gene responsible for halting the growth of a fungus that causes a fuzzy, gray mold that attacks fruits, such as strawberries and tomatoes. Mengiste, an assistant professor in the botany and plant pathology department, says gray mold disease destroys about 25 percent of the tomato and strawberry crop during some seasons.

• Norberg.flightbook -- In a new book, "Wings of Their Dreams: Purdue In Flight," author John Norberg tells the stories of aviation pioneers who finally "broke the bonds of earth" and a university that flew with them – traveling a course from a Dayton, Ohio, workshop, to the moon, to Mars and beyond.

• Norberg.flightbook -- Purdue graduates Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan, the first and last person to walk on the moon, pose during their time working with NASA. They are among the 22 Purdue alumni chosen for the space program, helping the university earn the nickname "the cradle of astronauts."

• Scharf.termites -- Termite colonies, such as this one collected on the Purdue campus, are helping researchers like Michael Scharf develop ways to control the pest. Scharf is an entomology research professor and director of the Purdue Industrial Affiliates Program in the Center for Urban and Industrial Pest Management.

• Wright.id -- Shereka Wright, an All-American on the Purdue University women's basketball team, receives a new university ID card Monday (10/20) as Boilermaker quarterback Kyle Orton waits in line. Wright and Orton were among the almost 39,000 students who will exchange their old IDs for new ones over the next four weeks as the university changes the way students, faculty and staff are identified. To increase security, Social Security numbers will no longer be used for identification. Instead, Purdue is assigning students faculty and staff new 10-digit numbers that will have no connection to numbers used outside the university.

• Celltrack.launch -- CELLTRACK's Co-founder Ben Pobanz holds a Communication Assisted Tracking prototype, a product the Purdue Research Park-based company has developed that adds additional features and reliability to electronic monitoring for community corrections programs. The system's advance warning feature – an audio-visual warning called a ‘Warm Zone' – gives the monitored person a chance to turn back into the court-ordered zone.

• Celltrack.launch -- A Communication Assisted Tracking prototype. The product, developed by the Purdue Research Park-based company CELLTRACK, is designed for electronic monitoring for community corrections programs.

• Jischke.KR -- Doug Mansfield, left, president and CEO of Kirby Risk manufacturing, leads Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke on a tour today (Wednesday, 10/15) of the Kirby Risk Service Center in Lafayette. The center, which employes several Purdue alumni, designs and builds custom-engineered systems, wiring harnesses, subassemblies and kitting services for manufacturing lines throughout the nation. The tour was the second in a series of stops by Jischke and other Purdue leaders to schools and businesses in Lafayette and West Lafayette. Purdue leaders have made more than 50 of these daylong community visits to listen and learn from the citizens of Indiana.

• Kuhn.westnile -- This image shows the orientation of the envelope protein molecules that compose the surface of a West Nile virus particle. The major surface protein is composed of three domains color-coded pink, yellow and blue. The proteins self-assemble in a host cell, forming a well-organized geometric shape. Knowledge of the proteins' structure could help scientists in the effort to develop antiviral agents.

• Kuhn.westnile -- This figure shows a surface-shaded image of the West Nile virus particle produced by Purdue University biologists using cryoelectron microscopy. The surface is composed of proteins that enable the virus to bind with and invade a host cell. The particle is approximately 50 nanometers in diameter, or about 1/1000th of the width of a human hair.

• Ivanisevic.DNA -- Physics doctoral student Dorjderem Nyamjav, left, and Albena Ivanisevic, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering at Purdue University, review an image taken with an atomic force microscope. The researchers have developed a method for precisely placing strands of DNA on a silicon chip and then stretching out the strands so that their encoded information might be clearly read, two steps critical to possibly using DNA for future electronic devices and computers.

• Ivanisevic.DNA -- This diagram depicts the process of depositing DNA onto a chip containing lines of a polymer that has the opposite charge as DNA, causing the genetic material to be attracted automatically to the polymer. The researchers then stretched the DNA along the lines of polymer, uncoiling the genetic material so that its coded information might be read clearly. Inset images taken with an atomic force microscope show the lines and the DNA molecules. The work was done by Albena Ivanisevic, an Purdue University assistant professor of biomedical engineering, and physics doctoral student Dorjderem Nyamjav. Results are being published in the journal Advanced Materials.

• Steuterman.wkendmba -- James Dworkin, at left, chancellor of Purdue North Central and professor of management, teaches negotiation and dispute resolution in the Krannert School's Weekend Executive MBA program. Chuck Bingham, systems and controls engineering manager at International Truck and Engine Corp. in Indianapolis, will finish his MBA in December. Students meet on Saturdays on the West Lafayette campus for six semesters to complete their MBAs.

• Sautter.award -- Purdue University's All American Dining Room, which won a Bronze Citation Award from American School & University magazine in honor of its creative architectural design, features large pillars, a three-dimensional ceiling treatment and yellow walls with photos of former Purdue athletes.

• Jischke.Millennium -- Neil Armstrong, a 1955 graduate of Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, speaks to a Homecoming crowd today (Saturday, 10/4) at the university's West Lafayette campus. On the stage with Armstrong are astronaut Mark Brown, a 1973 alumnus of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, and Jayleen Guttromson, a senior in aerospace engineering from Fargo, N.D. Brown, a veteran of the shuttle program, and Armstrong, who became the first man to walk on the moon in 1969, are among 22 astronauts who are Purdue alumni.

• Jischke.Millennium -- From left, Linda P.B. Katehi, Purdue's John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, university President Martin C. Jischke, alumnus Kenneth O. Johnson, Purdue Provost Sally Mason, and alumnus Neil Armstrong take part in a ceremony today (Saturday, 10/4) to honor Johnson with the university's Distinguished Pinnacle Award. Johnson's $1 million gift for the Schools of Engineering's Millennium Building puts the fund-raising effort at $6.5 million of $10 million in gifts needed for the facility. The 125,000-square-foot building, which will cost a total of $46 million, will include more than 20,000 square feet dedicated to research labs and more than 60,000 square feet of undergraduate teaching facilities.

• Jischke.Millennium -- Jeremy Schroeder, a research engineer doctoral candidate in the School of Materials Engineering, works in Purdue's pulse laser processing facility. Research like his, involving florescence and other types of light, is among the work that will be done in the Millennium Building.

• Mannering.Bowen -- Those attending today's (Friday, 10/3) dedication of the Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research had plenty of room to enjoy the event. The facility, with more than 50,000 square feet, includes a laboratory large enough for researchers to build and test a four-story building. Hydraulic presses, cranes and other equipment will make it possible to analyze parts and materials for buildings, bridges and other structures.

• Mannering.Bowen -- Robert and Terry Bowen listen as Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke speaks to about 400 people attending today's (Friday, 10/3) dedication of the Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research. The Bowens provided a $3.25 million gift toward the $11 million lab.

• Rawls.dedication -- Jerry S. Rawls, the lead donor for Rawls Hall, the Krannert School of Management's new facility, spoke to faculty, staff, students and alumni at the "Opening Day" dedication of Rawls Hall today (Thursday, 10/2). Rawls, a Krannert School alumnus, is CEO of Finisar Corp., a Silicon Valley optical networking firm. He made the $10 million lead gift to build the facility. Behind Rawls (from left) are Diane Denis, a Krannert School associate professor of finance who was on the Rawls Hall Building Committee; Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School dean and Leeds Professor of Management; and Purdue President Martin C. Jischke.

• Rawls.dedication -- Jerry S. Rawls threw out the first pitch at the "Opening Day" dedication today (Thursday, 10/2) of Jerry S. Rawls Hall, the Krannert School of Management's new facility. The $35 million facility, built completely with private funds, opened for classes this fall. Catching Rawls' pitch is Leighann Burke, a pitcher for the Purdue softball team from Lafayette, Ind., who will graduate from the Krannert School in May 2004.

• Cramer.photo -- The Purdue University biologists who determined the structure of the cytochrome protein complex, which is critical for photosynthesis, are, from left, professor Janet Smith, associate research scientist Huamin Zhang, visiting scholar Genji Kurisu and distinguished professor William Cramer.

• Cramer.photo -- Shown is an illustration of the cytochrome b6f protein complex, which is critical for photosynthesis. The eight colors represent the eight protein components of the cytochrome complex; the cylinders are the 26 segments of the complex that cross the photosynthetic membrane; the colored rings made of little balls that are embedded in protein are the groups that actually carry the electrons stimulated by light absorbed in photosynthesis. Purdue University biologists determined the structure of the complex using X-ray crystallography.

• Johal.corn -- Guri Johal, assistant professor of botany and plant pathology at Purdue University, kneels before a dwarf form of corn. Johal and his colleagues have recently identified the genetic mechanism responsible for this dwarfed appearance.

• Raftery.NMR -- A closeup of the Raftery team's nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) device, which features four parallel channels for sample analysis. The parallel construction allows for faster chemical analysis with a smaller required sample size when compared to standard NMR equipment.

• Hambrusch.compsci -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke embraces Heddy Kurz as Purdue's "All American" Marching Band serenades her. Kurz and her late husband, Herman, a 1925 Purdue graduate, bequeathed $2 million toward the construction of a new building that will house the Department of Computer Sciences. The couple also has given $800,000 for the purchase and maintenance of instruments for the band.

• Hambrusch.compsci -- The $20 million facility for the Department of Computer Sciences will concentrate classrooms, faculty offices and laboratories into two buildings rather than the five currently used. The new facility will be located on the corner of Third and University streets. Construction on the 100,000-square-foot building is tentatively scheduled to begin in 2004, with completion in time for classes in fall 2006.

• Hambrusch.compsci -- Plans for the interior of the new Department of Computer Sciences facility call for space for classrooms, instructional and research laboratories, meeting rooms, and offices for faculty and graduate students and staff.

• Hirleman.alumni -- Members of Purdue University's pep band serenade Purdue alumni during a ceremony today (Tuesday, 9/30) to recognize them for donating more than $5 million to the university. From left are Rosella Welch, Nancy Bratt, John Bratt, Janice Wilson and Herbert Wilson.

• Bindley.grndbrk -- Purdue University broke ground today on the Bindley Bioscience Center, a $15 million facility for research in the life sciences. The building, for which half the funding was donated by entrepreneur William Bindley, will form part of Purdue's Discovery Park, which will facilitate interdisciplinary work in the sciences and engineering. Pictured (from left) at the ceremony are: Charles Rutledge, executive director of Discovery Park; J. Timothy McGinley, chairman of Purdue's Board of Trustees; Bindley; Purdue President Martin Jischke; Mrs. Mary Ann Bindley; and Graham Cooks, Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry.

• Bindley.grndbrk -- Indiana entrepreneur William E. Bindley attended the groundbreaking today (9/29) of the Bindley Bioscience Center, one of the buildings that will form Purdue University's Discovery Park. Bindley's gift of $7.5 million will finance half the cost of the building, to be completed in two years. Bindley's wife, Mary Ann, also attended the ceremony.

• Bentley.software -- Jeffrey Brewer, a Purdue assistant professor of computer technology, instructs Leslie Lorenz, a master's student in information technology project management from Seattle, on using Rational Rose, a systems design program. The program is part of $4 million in software that Rational and IBM have given to the Purdue School of Technology.

• Bindley.grndbrk -- An artist's rendering shows the Bindley Bioscience Center, now under construction at Purdue's Discovery Park. The center will facilitate interdisciplinary research in the life sciences, allowing faculty and students to collaborate on projects that could enhance Indiana's $36 billion life sciences industry.

• Jischke.six -- An anonymous donor will give $4 million to the newly constructed $38 million Visual and Performing Arts Building. The donor will give $2 million now, and will match another $2 million to be raised by the School of Liberal Arts. This fall, dance and art and design moved into the building. Theater, music and art education departments will move in after the second phase of construction is complete.

• Jischke.six -- ssam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, demonstrates the liquid-cooling system he has developed for future computers. Research like Mudawar's will be among the work that faculty and students will be able to do in the facilities planned for the School of Mechanical Engineering.

• Beering.sculpture -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke, from left, Purdue President Emeritus Steven C. Beering and Spanish artist Faustino Aizkorbe admire the nine-foot sculpture Aizkorbe created and donated in honor of Beering. The sculpture, fashioned from iron and bronze, was dedicated to Beering at a ceremony today (Friday, 9/26.) It is located on the east side of Steven C. Beering Hall of Liberal Arts and Education.

• Wodicka.biomed -- From left, Sen. Vi Simpson, D-Bloomington; Rep. Jeff Espich, R-Uniondale; Rep. William Cochran, D-New Albany; Linda P.B. Katehi, Purdue's dean of engineering; Purdue President Martin C. Jischke; Peter Katona, president and CEO of the Whitaker Foundation; George Wodicka, head of Purdue's Department of Biomedical Engineering; Purdue doctoral student Rachel Price; Marilyn Schultz, state budget director; and Sen. Robert Meeks, R-LaGrange take part in a ceremonial groundbreaking today (Friday, 9/26) on Purdue's new $25 million Biomedical Engineering building. The facility, the first at any public institution in Indiana, will enable Purdue to expand the current Department of Biomedical Engineering into a full-fledged school and create the state's first undergraduate program in biomedical engineering at a public university.

• Lemaster.center -- The 12,000-square-foot John S. Wright Forestry Center is nestled in the woods just west of Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The $4 million facility will be dedicated during a 4 p.m. ceremony on Friday, Oct. 3.

• Jeffries.police -- Judson Jeffries co-authored "Urban America and Its Police," with Harlan Hahn, political science professor University of Southern California. The book, ($29.95) released by University of Colorado Press last month, examines both sides of the police-public relationship starting from the post-colonial era to the 1960s, while chronicling law enforcement's roles as peace officers and social workers.

• Jeffries.police -- Judson Jeffries co-authored "Urban America and Its Police," with Harlan Hahn, political science professor University of Southern California. The book, ($29.95) released by University of Colorado Press last month, examines both sides of the police-public relationship starting from the post-colonial era to the 1960s, while chronicling law enforcement's roles as peace officers and social workers.

• Burke.decamp -- Morgan Burke (left), Purdue's director of intercollegiate athletics, shakes hands with John DeCamp, known as the "Voice of Purdue" for his 43 years of radio broadcasting of Boilermaker football games. The radio booth in Ross-Ade Stadium's new pavilion is being named for DeCamp. A student-assistance fund for student broadcasters also is being established in his name.

• Lemaster.center -- The 12,000-square-foot John S. Wright Forestry Center is nestled in the woods just west of Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The $4 million facility will be dedicated during a 4 p.m. ceremony on Friday, Oct. 3.

• Williams.hessian -- Purdue researcher Christie Williams says the discovery of a gene in wheat plants like the ones she holds in her lab may help the plant resist damage from the tiny Hessian flies hovering above the plants.

• Williams.hessian -- This photo, with common keys as a comparison, shows the actual size of Hessian flies.

• Morgan.comtech -- Rachel Tieken, a freshman in public relations from Evansville, Ind. (in front) and Sarah Lamping a freshman in English education from Joplin, Ohio, (left to right) and Brittney Smith a freshman in history from Alexandria, Ind., use Toshiba tablet PCs in Melanie Morgan's "Presentational Speaking" honors class. More than 40 tablets, which are about the size of a flat screen computer monitor, will be distributed to communication students and faculty to checkout for the semester to learn more about this technology in the communication field.

• Norberg.openhouse -- The public watches a flight demonstration on the Purdue University campus in 1911. From the early days of aviation, Purdue researchers and alumni were involved in advancing the young science.

• Norberg.openhouse -- The Purdue Airport was a busy facility, used by both the public and the community by 1964, when this photograph was taken. Founded in 1930, it was the first university owned and operated airport in the country.

• Carney.flightweek -- Purdue seniors (from left) Ashley Snedeker, John Rearick and Lucy Capadona use one of Purdue's two Boeing 727 flight simulators. Snedeker, of Carmel, Ind., Rearick, of Chesterton, Ind., and Capadona, of Milwaukee, are students in the Department of Aviation Technology's flight program. The simulators are among the department's facilities that will be on display during Flight Week activities on Sept. 19-20.

• Shuttlesworth.bcc -- The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth talks with students today (Wednesday, 9/10) at Purdue University's Black Cultural Center. Shuttlesworth, who led the movement to end segregation in Birmingham, Ala., along with Martin Luther King Jr. and Ralph Abernathy, toured the center before delivering a speech on campus. He currently serves as pastor of the Greater New Light Baptist Church in Cincinnati and founded the Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights and was a co-founder of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference.

• Bottum.eathletics -- Boilermaker fans at Ross-Ade Stadium this fall will be able to access player bios, game information and scores of other games using handheld wireless computers and PDAs as part of an initiative called e-Stadium. Purdue plans to expand the capabilities not only for more sports information but also for game-day security personnel.

• Hope.wnv -- Sarah Anderson of Bloomington, Ind., leads a Trakehner gelding to the barn at a West Lafayette, Ind., stable to receive its vaccinations, which include ones for West Nile virus and eastern equine encephalitis.

• Katehi.RollsRoyce -- Purdue and Rolls-Royce today (Thursday, 9/4) officially kicked off their joint University Technology Center to improve jet engines and develop advanced propulsion systems for future "hypersonic" aircraft. The event took place at the recently renovated High Pressure Lab at the university's Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories. From left to right are: Tom Martin, a graduate student majoring in aeronautics and astronautics; Linda P.B. Katehi, dean of the Schools of Engineering; Rolls-Royce executive Michael Howse; Purdue Provost Sally Mason; and Stephen Heister, a professor of aeronautics and astronautics.

• Mauer.oil -- Lisa Mauer's research lab at Purdue University has tested a variety of oils for purity – from cod liver to vegetable and every imaginable oil in between. Mauer and her research team used infrared spectroscopy and statistical analysis to classify samples of dietary supplement oils, as well as common food oils.

• Johnson.mba03 -- MBA students started fall classes on Monday (9/25) in the new Jerry S. Rawls Hall at Purdue University's Krannert School of Management, which saw an increase in the size and quality of its incoming MBA class.

• Fekete.ear -- Figure 1 shows part of the cochlea in an embryonic chicken's inner ear, where patches of vestibular hairs, used to detect balance, grew in place of those that detect sound waves. The arrow indicates one such patch. Figure 2 is a close-up that shows both types of inner-ear hairs, which grow in tufts in different locations. The inset shows the type that detects bodily motion, with the hairs themselves stained red and the telltale cilia that extend from motion-detecting tufts stained green.

• Salt.ionome -- David Salt, associate professor of plant molecular physiology, compares growth rates of the plants used in his ionomics research.  The plants shown here are Arabidopsis mutants he identified that are growing on media enriched in the mineral nutrients and trace elements arsenic, nickel and zinc. Salt is leading a research team that has developed a new field called "ionomics," or the study of how genes regulate all the ions in a cell.

• Bralts.ranking -- Linna Wang, a graduate student with Purdue University associate professor Bernie Tao, tests the mechanical properties of an edible, biodegradable film she has developed using a protein associated with soybean oil. This film may be used as a biodegradable alternative to the plastics typically used in food packaging.

• Rowe.greatbook -- Eugene Spafford, standing, shakes hands with Ronnie Wilbur at a Purdue University reception today (Thursday, 8/28) for 42 professors who have been added to the university's Book of Great Teachers. Spafford, a professor of computer science, is the director of Purdue's Center for Education and Research Information Assurance and Security. Wilbur, a professor of audiology and speech sciences, is a previous Book of Great Teachers inductee. The Book of Great Teachers honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom. New names are added every five years.

• Katehi.engineering -- Albena Ivanisevic, assistant professor of biomedical engineering, dissects a pig eye as part of her research into retinal transplants. Cellular and tissue engineering research, such as that conducted by Ivanisevic, will form the core of the work done at Purdue University's new biomedical engineering building, scheduled for groundbreaking Sept. 26.

• Katehi.engineering -- The Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research, under construction near the Purdue campus, is one of nine new buildings planned for the Schools of Engineering. Other projects call for major additions and renovations to at least 10 other facilities that, in total, will increase the space for the schools by more than 325,000 square feet, an almost 60 percent increase. The exterior view shows the final stages of construction of the laboratory. Also part of the major expansion of Purdue's Schools of Engineering are plans to increase the number of faculty members by 70, or more than 25 percent, over the next five years.

• Katehi.engineering -- Casting forms are removed from the two 4-foot thick, 40-foot-tall and 60-foot-long walls to be used for large-scale testing at the Robert L. and Terry L. Bowen Laboratory for Large-Scale Civil Engineering Research, under construction near the Purdue campus. The lab is one of nine new buildings planned for the Schools of Engineering. Other projects call for major additions and renovations to at least 10 other facilities that, in total, will increase the space for the schools by more than 325,000 square feet, an almost 60 percent increase. Also part of the major expansion of Purdue's Schools of Engineering are plans to increase the number of faculty members by 70, or more than 25 percent, over the next five years.

• Sheahan.Praxis -- Purdue researcher Piki Saha checks results as part of a cell-extraction project in the Biochemical Engineering Laboratory on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus. Life science is a traditional strength at Purdue and one of the three key areas the university is targeting for technology-transfer efforts.

• Loven.bats -- Judy Loven, a U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service wildlife biologist, said bats can invade older buildings, and the best way to evict them is by sealing up the building's holes in the fall. Bat droppings can become a medium for hystoplasma spores, which can cause respiratory infections and, in some cases, blindness. Bats also can transmit rabies to humans.

• Mitchell.peace -- Donald Mitchell co-edited "Transforming Suffering: Reflections on Finding Peace in Troubled Times," with James Wiseman, professor at the Catholic University of America and a Benedictine monk at Saint Anselm's Abbey in Washington D.C. An Image paperback ($12.95) released this month, the book is a collection of letters from religious leaders, including Dalai Lama, Pope John Paul II, Thomas Keating, Joseph Goldstein and Thubten Chodron.

• Gery.preview2 -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke (from left) and Jim Shook Sr. discuss the community campaign kick off, and Shook's gift, which will benefit the effort. The community campaign was announced Wednesday (8/20) during Chamber After Hours at the Buchannan Club at the Ross Ade Pavillion.

• Goodwin.resist -- Stephen Goodwin's wheat research may lead to a reduction in the amount of grain lost to leaf blotch. Goodwin is an associate professor of botany and plant pathology at Purdue University.

• Barnes.marestail -- Glyphosate-resistant marestail (right) and nonresistant marestail stand side by side in an Indiana field.

• Rossmann.baseplate -- Shown is an image of the T4 virus studied by Michael Rossmann's group. The virus carries its genetic material in the head section, then injects it into the E. coli bacterium through its tail after the baseplate attaches itself to the cell membrane.

• Rossmann.baseplate -- This is a close-up image of the T4 virus baseplate, which the virus uses to attach itself to its E. coli bacterium host. The 16 types of proteins that form the baseplate are color-coded. More than 150 total protein molecules make up the baseplate, a complex molecular machine that changes configuration when it bonds with the E. coli cell membrane. Further analysis of the baseplate could lead to advances in both medicine and nanotechnology.

• Ertmer.infantsounds -- David Ertmer, a Purdue University speech-language pathologist, plays with 4-year-old Emily Jones from Monon, Ind., to provide language stimulation. Emily has had a cochlear implant for 30 months. Ertmer, who specializes in early speech and language development in children with hearing losses, created www.VocalDevelopment.com, an interactive Web site for parents, students and professionals. The site can help parents by providing audio examples of baby jargon, such as squealing and babbling, so they can recognize when their child has made progress in early speech development.

• Rowe.greatbook -- Nick Giordano, physics professor, discusses how to prepare artificial lipid membranes for studies of electrical noise with summer research program participants Rebecca Heine, from Winona State University in Minnesota, and Jacob Millspaw, a Purdue physics doctoral student from Baltimore. Giordano is one of Purdue's 42 professors added to the Book of Great Teachers, which honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom.

• Rowe.greatbook -- Bharat Bhargava, professor of computer science, meets with members of his lab team, including, from left, Yuhui Zhong, a doctorate student from Chongqing, China; Leszek Lilien, postdoctorate research associate from Krakow, Poland; and Ahsan Habib, a doctorate student from Dhaka, Bangladesh, who graduated this summer. Bhargava is one of Purdue's 42 professors added to the Book of Great Teachers, which honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom.

• Rowe.greatbook -- Nursing professor Jane Kirkpatrick, at right, teaches nursing student Megan Hanna, a senior from Delphi, Ind., about assessing the needs of newborns in the Nursing of Developing Families class. Kirkpatrick is one of Purdue's 42 professors added to the Book of Great Teachers, which honors outstanding teaching faculty who have demonstrated sustained excellence in the classroom.

• Sadof.emeraldash -- The emerald ash borer is responsible for millions of dollars of damage to ash trees in Michigan. The adult borer is a metallic, coppery-green color and one-third to one-half inch long.

• Sadof.emeraldash -- When the emerald ash borer emerges from its host tree it creates a distinctive D-shaped exit hole. It's the damage caused by the larval form of the insect before emergence that kills the tree.

• Statefair.pics -- Purdue University sophomore Eric Aasen gently lifts sophomore Zheng Wang into the cockpit of Purdue's solar-powered car, on display at the Indiana State Fair today (Wednesday, 8/13) in Indianapolis. The Purdue team finished 13th in the 2,300-mile American Solar Challenge race from Chicago to Los Angeles in July. To keep from damaging the delicate solar panels that cover the car, the driver is lifted in and out of the cockpit. Wednesday was Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair, which featured more than 50 Purdue interactive booths and displays, performances, and visits from university leaders and some well-known alumni.

• Statefair.pics -- Angela Buchman, meteorologist for WISH-TV 8 in Indianapolis, grimaces as Purdue University's Mike Piggott, from left, and entomology professor Tom Turpin munch on live mealworms today (Wednesday, 8/13) during Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair in Indianapolis. Buchman, who declined the mealworm meal, was one of several Purdue alumni who took part in Purdue Day, which featured more than 50 university interactive booths and displays, performances, and visits from university leaders and some well-known alumni.

• ONeil.aphids -- More than 100 soybean aphids collect on the underside of a soybean leaf. Pest feeding can inhibit the plant's ability to make grain, or kill it outright.

• Cooks.chiral -- This schematic illustrates Cooks' theory of how serine, one of the 20 amino acids that comprise all living things, may have determined the chirality of other biological molecules at the dawn of evolution. "Left-handed" serine, shown here as L-serine, has virtually the same properties as "right-handed" D-serine. But because of an unknown process that possibly caused L-serine to become more prevalent than D-serine in the environment, the strong clusters that L-serine forms bonded only with other left-handed amino acids and right-handed sugars. Other biological molecules with an incompatible chirality were left out of the bonding process, and all the organisms on the planet eventually developed from amino acids with exclusively left-handed chirality.

• Park.Akina -- Purdue Research Park company Akina Inc. is developing Frosta^TM, a Purdue-licensed technology that allows pills to melt in a patient's mouth in as quickly as 10 seconds. This series of photographs shows a white Frosta^TM formulated tablet being dissolved in a drop of water containing red dye for easy visualization.

• McKinnis.jobs03 -- Four Purdue University School of Technology students from last year's High-Tech Job Fair for Indiana Companies all were hired by Cornerstone Controls, an Indianapolis advanced-manufacturing company. The students are (from left) Christopher Noble, Melissa Beyer, Benjamin Creasy and Alan Bledsoe. This year's high-tech job fair takes place on Oct. 29 in the Purdue Memorial Union ballrooms.

• Rawls.opening -- Rawls Hall, located on the corner of Grant and State streets, is connected to the Krannert Building by means of a skywalk and a tunnel, which is under construction. Krannert School alumnus Jerry S. Rawls, CEO of Finisar Corp., a Silicon Valley optical networking company, made the lead $10 milliion gift for the privately financed building. Rawls Hall, which received an architectural design award from Architectural Portfolio, will be dedicated on Oct. 2.

• Rawls.opening -- Jerry S. Rawls Hall, the addition to the Krannert School of Management, is open for business fall semester. Faculty members are moving in, and workers are putting the finishing touches on the $35 million, 128,000 square-foot, four-story building. Rawls Hall, which is technologically state-of-the-art with Internet- and videoconference-enabled classrooms, also is equipped with wireless access points throughout the building.

• Mattes.peanuts -- Richard Mattes, professor of foods and nutrition at Purdue University, and Amy Devitt, a second- year doctoral candidate from Demotte, Ind., discuss foods that contain peanuts. Mattes' research shows that a daily dose of peanuts can help prevent cardiovascular disease without weight gain. Mattes conducted three treatments in his study to measure weight gain and energy expenditure.

• Rossade.construction -- Viewed from the roof of Mollenkopf Athletic Center, the remade Ross-Ade Stadium will wow fans who have not seen it since the end of the 2002 regular season. With new architectural details and fan-friendly amenities, the transformation of the 79-year-old home of the Boilermakers is nearly complete.

• Collodi.germline -- Paul Collodi and his research team at Purdue University discovered a method of keeping embryonic stem cells of zebrafish viable. They believe this breakthrough will enable them to make zebrafish that will reveal gene function related to human diseases.

• Linton.winecomp -- Nancy Bandy, a judge for the Indy International Wine Competition, is surrounded by some of the nearly 3,300 wines entered in this year's contest. The competition is the third largest in the United States and runs through Saturday (7/26) at the Indiana State Fairgrounds. The contest is coordinated by the Indiana Wine Grape Council, which is based at Purdue University.

• Schweitzer.soyCD -- Purdue University's "Soybean Growth, Development and Diagnostics" CD-ROM is a diagnostic tool that can yield extra bushels of soybeans for producers. Useful for soybean farmers and crop advisers, the multimedia program also has proven its worth in the classroom.

• Campbell.scibound -- Arnee Sykes celebrates her discovery with Jamicia Cole on Friday (7/18) during a simulated animal bone excavation at Purdue University's West Lafayette campus. The two Indianapolis students were among participants in ScienceScape, a camp for middle-school girls and Science Bound students. Purdue's Science Bound program offers underrepresented students from Indianapolis opportunities to earn full-tuition scholarships to Purdue to study in preparation for a science-related career.

• Ebert.clouds -- Purdue University engineering student Joshua Schpok has created a software program, called Swell, that can be used by artists to create realistic animations of cloud formations for movies and video games. The same approach also could be used to design software for creating animations of any gaseous phenomena, such as explosions, smoke, steam and fog. This image is an example of a cloud from one of the animations.

• Burwell.flood -- Rivers throughout central Indiana overflowed their banks, and several homes, such as these along the Tippecanoe River in Carroll County, were flooded this weekend. Water damage inside homes should be cleaned up within 24 to 48 hours to avoid the development of mold, which can trigger a variety of health problems.

• Jones.floodwater -- Livestock manure storage at farms, such as the hog operation pictured, and water quality could be affected by the recent floods. However, Purdue University experts say that the large amount of rain dilutes contaminants, negating potential risks.

• Nielsen.wetcrops -- Row after row of corn plants disappear into the rising waters of the Wabash River southwest of West Lafayette on Monday. With more rain forecast for today (Tuesday, 7/8), the river may not have crested yet.

• Ogas.pickle -- Joe Ogas, an associate professor of biochemistry, displays a dish of two-day-old arabidopsis seedlings in his Purdue University research lab. Using the plants, Ogas hopes his research will provide clues about how cancer cells grow.

• Veen.canopy -- Purdue Child Care Program student volunteer Laura Elicker (at left) watches as Rian Egan (background) and Lauren White play at Fowler House. The children play outdoors underneath canopies that help filter harmful rays from the sun. The program's director, Linn Veen, says it's important for children to play outside and be physically active, but it also is important to protect them from the potentially harmful effects of the sun.

• Harkness.compet -- Purdue seniors Jody Graf (foreground) and Justin Casterline label entries in the 12th annual Indy International Wine Competition. The Indiana Wine Grape Council, which is based at Purdue and acts as the repository for all entries, expects a record 3,500 wines for this year's event. Once sorted and refrigerated on campus, the wines will be trucked to the Indiana State Fair Exposition Hall for the competition, scheduled for July 24-26.

• Rusk.lessons -- Joe Sheets, 14, is one of approximately 46,000 Hoosier youths who will show livestock at Indiana county fairs this summer. The Shadeland, Ind., youth will be exhibiting cattle at the Tippecanoe County 4-H Fair later this month.

• Rusek.Swift -- John Rusek, an adjunct professor in Purdue University's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics and co-founder of Swift Enterprises Ltd., holds an older fuel cell model in his West Lafayette lab while demonstrating the newer version, shown at the bottom of the photo.

• Darkes.solarcar -- Kevin Darkes, a senior in Purdue's School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, works on a new solar car that Purdue students will race in July in the American Solar Challenge, the longest solar-car race in the world. The sleek, composite body contains about 650 solar cells.

• Murphy.auxin -- This mutant plant is stouter and bushier than a normal plant because of an alteration in two genes related to human multidrug resistance genes. A Purdue University research team led by Angus Murphy is uncovering functions of these genes and the related proteins that could result in heartier plants and improved treatment for human cancers.

• Piggott.billboards -- Billboards featuring the new Purdue University and Lafayette-West Lafayette brands were unveiled Tuesday. The billboards should be in place on Interstate 65 before the start of classes.

• Piggott.billboards -- Billboards featuring the new Purdue University and Lafayette-West Lafayette brands were unveiled Tuesday. The billboards should be in place on Interstate 65 before the start of classes.

• Rossmann.immature -- This image shows the immature dengue particle. Notable are the 60 protein "spikes" which jut from the surface, making the immature particle far less smooth than the mature form. One spike is circled for reference. Knowledge of how the immature particle develops into the mature, infectious dengue virus could be important to developing antiviral medicines.

• Bhunia.infection -- Arun Bhunia, a microbiologist in Purdue University's Department of Food Science, says a variety of factors enable Listeria monocytogenes to cause infection. Information from a comprehensive study on how Listeria makes people sick may lead to vaccines to prevent food poisoning.

• Mauer.plasmin -- Kirby Hayes hopes research at Purdue will help cheese producers lower production costs by shortening the time it takes cheese, like this Swiss variety, to ripen. Hayes is an assistant professor of food science.

• Dana.Prophetstown -- Prophetstown volunteer Ann Pellegrino, of Lafayette, tends to one of the many trees planted recently by Purdue University horticulture students. Six teams of students developed landscaping plans that match the 1920s style homestead at the park, located near Battle Ground, Ind.

• Thompson.pets -- Steve Thompson, veterinarian and director of the Wellness Clinic at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine, inspects Kit Kat's fur with a flea comb for evidence of the parasitic insects. Thompson says now is the time for pet owners to begin watching their pets' coats for tick bites and fleas. During the warmer months, it is also time to think about protecting pets from mosquito bites and heat stroke.

• Jenks.wax2 -- Research conducted at Purdue University by Matt Jenks with Arabidopsis plants may lead to the development of more drought-resistant plants. Jenks is an assistant professor of horticulture.

• Schneider.institute -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke (right) answers a question about the feasibility of an advanced manufacturing institute today (Tuesday, 5/20) at a conference that attracted more than 400 Indiana manufacturers, educators and state government officials. The proposed $58.8 million institute would do applied research for manufacturers and help them bring emerging technologies to market. Also answering questions about the proposed institute were Patrick Kiely (center), president and CEO of the Indiana Manufacturers Association; and Lee Lewellen (far left), vice president of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership.

• Schneider.institute -- Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan was one of the speakers at Summit 2: Advancing Manufacturing that attracted more than 400 Indiana manufacturers, educators and state government officials. The proposed $58.8 million institute would do applied research for manufacturers and help them bring emerging technologies to market.

• Jischke.commence -- Xiangyu Liu, from Wuhan City, China, celebrates with daughter Sarah today (Saturday, 5/17) after receiving his animal science degree during morning commencement ceremonies at Purdue University¹s West Lafayette campus. A second commencement ceremony takes place today, and two ceremonies on Sunday (5/18). Approximately 5,600 students ‹ 4,413 of whom are undergraduates ‹ will be awarded degrees during the four ceremonies this weekend in the Elliott Hall of Music.

• Jischke.commence -- Bethany Madsen, of Indianapolis, calls family members after receiving her consumer and family sciences degree today (Saturday, 5/17) during morning commencement ceremonies at Purdue University¹s West Lafayette campus. A second commencement ceremony takes place today, and two ceremonies on Sunday (5/18). Approximately 5,600 students ‹ 4,413 of whom are undergraduates ‹ will be awarded degrees during the four ceremonies this weekend in the Elliott Hall of Music.

• Elliott.biometric -- Purdue University undergraduate student Rich Skinner's facial features are scanned by the camera, which graduate student Eric Kukula (center) adjusts. Professor Stephen Elliott (at right) makes adjustments to the computer system that will confirm Skinner's identity by comparing his face to previously scanned images stored in a database. This face-scanning biometrics technology at Purdue Airport will measure the faces of student pilots departing from the terminal, a first step toward refining it for use on passengers in larger airports.

• Jischke.cpt -- Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan speaks today (Monday, 5/12) during an event to announce the designation of the Purdue Research Park as the state's first Certified Technology Park. The new Certified Technology Park program encourages the location of high-technology businesses within areas identified by local redevelopment commissions. Portions of tax revenues generated by tenants are reinvested into the park.

• Jischke.cpt -- Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan (at right) presents Purdue President Martin C. Jischke and West Lafayette Mayor Sonya Margerum with a certificate designating the Purdue Research Park as the state's first Certified Technology Park. Kernan came to the park in West Lafayette today (Monday, 5/12) to make the announcement. West Lafayette and the Purdue Research Foundation partnered to develop 40 of the acres in the Purdue Research Park that is now designated as a Certified Technology Park. The new Certified Technology Park program encourages the location of high-technology businesses within areas identified by local redevelopment commissions. Portions of tax revenues generated by tenants are reinvested into the park.

• Cook.groundbreak -- Cook Biotech Inc. President Mark Bleyer (from left), West Lafayette Mayor Sonya Margerum, and Joseph Hornett, senior vice president and treasurer of the Purdue Research Foundation, break ground today (Wednesday, 5/7) on Cook's new 55,000-square-foot manufacturing, research and development facility. The company's expansion in the Purdue Research Park will add more high-tech jobs to Cook Biotech's base of 70 employees. The new building is scheduled for completion in mid-2004.

• Cook.groundbreak -- Cook Biotech Inc. manufactures tissue-engineered medical products from a specific portion of porcine (swine) small intestine. This special tissue, seen here, is developed into strong, sterile, pliable sheets that serve as biocompatible scaffolds to make medical products for surgical repair of hernias, wounds, burns and other soft-tissue injuries. The material works as a scaffolding for surrounding cells that facilitate the repair of damaged tissues.

• Nolfie.wheelchair -- Purdue University mechanical engineering seniors Mike Brock, left, of Naperville, Ill., Scott Davison, seated, of Warsaw, Ind., and Eric Breidenbaugh of Elmhurst, Ill., position a prototype wheelchair capable of descending stairs in the event of an emergency. The chair was designed and built by 18 students in a senior design course taught by John Nolfi, manager of the university's Product Engineering and Realization Laboratory. A pair of plastic tracks, engaged with a hand crank, enable the chair to descend stairs. The chair could save lives in the event of a fire or other building emergency when elevators are shut down, Nolfi said. Students estimate the chair could be manufactured at a retail cost of less than $2,000.

• McNamara.afghan -- Afghan faculty members Obaidullah Akbari, Mohammad Naseri and Nastratullah Akbarzad examine some of the textbooks donated to Kabul University. Purdue is also sending 40 used computers donated to establish computer labs at Kabul.

• Cramer.crystal -- These crystals of a fat-soluble membrane protein were formed in the lab of biologist William Cramer of Purdue University. Cramer's research team formed the crystals by dissolving the protein in a synthetic detergent and then adding synthetic fat to the solution. Scientists need proteins in crystalline form in order to study them, but fat-soluble proteins have proven more difficult to crystallize than their water-soluble brethren.

• Oakes.nsfgrant -- Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS) student Brian Powell, a sophomore in the School of Mechanical Engineering from Mishawaka, Ind., has designed toys for disabled children at the Wabash Center in Lafayette, Ind. EPICS, founded at Purdue in 1995, allows teams of undergraduates to earn academic credit for projects that solve engineering- and technology-based problems for community service and education organizations.

• Ripberger.gprix03 -- Timothy O'Brien receives a congratulatory hug from his father, Mike O'Brien, after successfully defending his title in the Purdue Grand Prix kart race. O¹Brien, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering technology from Lebanon Ohio, was in contention for most of the race and led the final 68 laps. Thirty-three Purdue students competed in the 46th annual event today (Saturday, 4/26) on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The Purdue Grand Prix Foundation is a student-run, nonprofit organization that conducts the race and related events to raise money for student scholarships.

• Ripberger.gprix03 -- Timothy O’Brien leaps for joy after successfully defending his title in the Purdue Grand Prix kart race. O’Brien, a sophomore majoring in mechanical engineering technology from Lebanon Ohio, was in contention for much of the race and led the final 68 laps. Thirty-three Purdue students competed in the 46th annual event today (Saturday, 4/26) on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The Purdue Grand Prix Foundation is a student-run, nonprofit organization that conducts the race and related events to raise money for student scholarships.

• Granger.hominid -- The remains of what is thought to be an Australopithecus, found in the Sterkfontein cave in South Africa and estimated to be between 3.5 to 4.5 million years old. Visible are the skull and humerus (arm) bone of this creature, which is considered to be an ancestor of the human race. Purdue University researchers established its age by measuring the radioactive aluminum and beryllium present in the sediment in which the fossil was buried.

• Blewett.winners -- Matthew Campbell, chief operating officer of Iris AO, makes the winning presentation at Purdue's inaugural Life Sciences Business Plan Competition on Wednesday (4/23). Iris AO won the $50,000 top prize, plus $10,000 in legal and business services, in the $147,000 contest. The winning team was one of the eight finalists who made presentations during the competition, which was in the Purdue Memorial Union.

• Cunningham.vpa -- Theresa Rose, a senior studying food science from Dyer, Ind., experiments with a motion capture suit while creating a dance sequence. Carol Cunningham, dance professor in the School of Liberal Arts, teamed with faculty and students from the School of Technology to integrate video game and motion picture technology into her dance choreography. The motion capture suit records the dancer's movement and projects an image onto a screen. The image can be manipulated in size, color and shape.

• Cunningham.vpa -- Theresa Rose, a senior studying food science from Dyer, Ind., experiments with a motion capture suit while creating a dance sequence. Carol Cunningham, dance professor in the School of Liberal Arts, teamed with faculty and students from the School of Technology to integrate video game and motion picture technology into her dance choreography. The motion capture suit records the dancer's movement and projects an image onto a screen. The image can be manipulated in size, color and shape.

• Eckerle.rossaward -- Matt Eckerle is the seventh agricultural student in the past nine years to have his name engraved on this obelisk on the Purdue Mall as the 2003 recipient of the G.A. Ross Award. The award is presented annually to the outstanding senior male student at Purdue University.

• Johnston.nanoclay -- Cliff Johnston uses a laser to look at a clay particle in his Purdue University lab. The laser helps Johnston study the structure and orientation of the clay. This particular layer is approximately 1 million times the thickness of the one nanometer-thick layer researchers recently developed.

• Johnston.nanoclay -- Cliff Johnston peers through a model of a 1 nanometer-thick layer of clay at his Purdue University laboratory. It would take 70,000 of the clay layers to equal the thickness of one human hair. Using these ultrathin films, researchers hope to develop new materials that will benefit medicine, electronics and engineering. Johnston, an environmental chemist in the agronomy department, also is a researcher in Purdue's Birck Nanotechnology Center.

• Bugbowl03 -- Alyson Cline (4) of Indianapolis, reacts to a New Guinea walking stick at this year's Petting Zoo at Bug Bowl, part of Purdue's Spring Fest celebration on the West Lafayette campus. Spring Fest, which took place on April 12-13, featured a wide range of activities from the schools of Agriculture, Consumer and Family Sciences, Veterinary Medicine, Science, Education, Liberal Arts and Engineering.

• Rube.nat03 -- Jen Watson, a senior in aeronautics from West Lafayette, reacts after Purdue University's Theta Tau/Phi Sigma Rho machine successfully crushes a can today (Saturday, 4/12) during the 15th annual national Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Cumberland Place Exhibition Center. This year's contest task was to select, crush and pitch a 12-ounce aluminum can into a recycling bin in at least 20 steps. The Theta Tau/Phi Sigma Rho team won first place and the People’s Choice Award with its sports-themed machine that crushed a can in 34 steps. The University of Toledo came in second place and University of Texas at Austin earned third place.

• Mobley.HSSE -- Courtney Thompson, a second-year master's degree candidate in American studies, consults Pam De Bonte, library secretary and reference assistant, and Monica Turner, library reference assistant, during an electronic search in the Walter and Saraellen Veon Electronic Reference Center. The reference center, in Purdue University's Humanities, Social Science & Education Library, is the result of a two-year renovation made possible by a $1.2 million gift from the Veons.

• Mobley.HSSE -- Walter and the late Saraellen Veon's $1.2 million gift to Purdue Libraries made possible the two-year Humanities, Social Science & Education Library renovation. The electronic reference center was named for the couple. The center is a 40-foot circle where staff members provide assistance and training in electronic research skills.

• Vermerris.sorghum -- Purdue University assistant professor Wilfred Vermerris and a research team have cloned a sorghum gene that controls plant cell wall hardness. The sorghum research could contribute to the plant's hardiness and digestibility. Vermerris is an assistant professor of agronomy and agricultural and biological engineering.

• Mudawar.cooling -- Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, demonstrates the liquid-cooling system he has developed for future computers. Within about three years, microprocessor chips are expected to generate four times the amount of heat as current chips, requiring innovative cooling systems to keep the chips from being damaged by heat.

• Bhunia.agaward -- Purdue University associate professor of food science Arun Bhunia holds a culture of human cells. Bhunia exposes the cells to Listeria bacteria in pathogenicity testing in his lab. For his research on food bacteria, Bhunia will receive the 2003 Agricultural Research Award from the Purdue School of Agriculture.

• Muschert.columbine -- Time and Newsweek magazines are examples of the national media that Glenn Muschert, sociology professor at Purdue University, analyzed after the 1994 Columbine High School shootings. His study finds that media coverage bred a culture of fear nationwide that defies logic. Muschert said the fear created from Columbine fuels a misperception of how violence affects the country's youth.

• Sadof.caterpillar -- The eastern tent caterpillar will likely make its way into Indiana trees again this spring. The caterpillars are dark in color with a white stripe on their backs and may grow up to 2 inches in length.

• Hall.scholarship -- Jane and George Van Scoyoc talk with a friend just before an announcement today (Thursday, 4/3) at the Ross-Ade Stadium Pavillion of a $200 million scholarship campaign. Part of the campaign is the Purdue Opportunity Awards, which will benefit one student in each of Indiana's 92 counties. The Van Scoyocs donated $50,000 to provide scholarships for students participating in Purdue Muscial Organizatons.

• Farmwald.gift -- Purdue University's planned computer science building will be a 60,000 assignable square-foot, multistory building that will consolidate the computer science department in one location. Currently, the department is scattered in five different buildings across the West Lafayette campus.

• Cosier.burton03 -- Dan Schlitz (left) and Vishal Singhal receive the $50,000 top award in the 16th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition from Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School dean and Leeds Professor of Management. Schlitz and Singhal are Purdue doctoral students in mechanical engineering. Their venture, Thorrn Micro Technologies, is based on a small, quiet, high-performance device they developed to cool laptop computers. The increased power in today's computers creates additional heat, making compact cooling devices more critical.

• Neary.springfest -- West Lafayette's Mudde siblings, Willem (left), Maaike and Jon (right) spend some anxious moments with a tarantula at the 2002 Spring Fest. This year's event, which will include the popular insect petting zoo, will be held April 12-13 on the Purdue University campus.

• Rube.advance -- Purdue University students Justin Wheeler and John H. Wright Jr. react as their National Society of Black Engineers machine accidentally starts in motion during the regional Rube Goldberg Machine Contest on Feb. 15 in West Lafayette, Ind. The Theta Tau/Phi Sigma Rho team won the competition and will advance to the national contest, which will be April 12 in West Lafayette. Representatives from Hofstra University, University of Toledo, George Washington University and University of Texas at Austin also will compete. This year, student teams built machines that could select, crush and pitch a 12-ounce aluminum can into a recycling bin in at least 20 steps. Wheeler, of South Bend, Ind., and Wright, of Louisville, Ky., are freshmen engineering students.

• Jasper.bus -- LaKara Rochester (foreground, left), a psychology and Japanese major from Lafayette, and Courtney Prewitt (right), a freshman in nursing from Gary, Ind., are among the Purdue University students who made up more than half of CityBus' ridership in 2002. Purdue pays $1 million annually to provide students, faculty, staff and retirees with CityBus access.

• Hatke.roadschool03 -- Will Thornton, a mechanical engineering doctoral student at Purdue University, positions a microphone needed to gather data using the Tire/Pavement Test Apparatus at Purdue's Institute for Safe, Quiet and Durable Highways. The machine, the only one of its kind, is housed at the university's Herrick Laboratories.

• Earhart.opening -- Sally Putnam Chapman autographs her book "Whistled Like a Bird" for Michele Cervone, of Clifton, N.J., who attended the opening of the Flight Trails exhibit on Monday (3/10) at Purdue University. The exhibit features a selection of almost 500 items donated to Purdue by Chapman, biographer and granddaughter of Earhart's husband. The latest installment brings Purdue's Earhart collection to more than 5,000 pieces. Flight Trails is open in Stewart Gallery through April 27.

• Novak.AUD -- James Wilson, a second-year master's student in audiology and speech sciences at Purdue University from Elkhart, Ind., tests hearing sensitivity at his externship at Arnett Clinic. In the new joint clinical doctoral degree between Purdue's Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences and the Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine-Indianapolis, students will have the opportunity to take part in more clinical experiences and applied research.

• Bill.vettech -- Melissa Lichtenbarger, a second-year veterinary technician student, examines a rescued dog at Purdue University's School of Medicine. Purdue's Veterinary Technology distance-learning program received American Veterinary Medical Association accreditation fall semester. This Web-based distance-learning program allows students to learn off-campus, by using computers to complete exercises, download information and interact with other students. The students gain clinical experience while working in veterinary practices in their home areas.

• Burke.chair -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke (left) thanks Christopher B. Burke and his wife, Susan, both Purdue graduates, for pledging to endow the Christopher B. Burke Professorship in Civil Cngineering. Linda P.B. Katehi, (foreground) Purdue's John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, joins in the salute on the West Lafayette campus today (2/17). The Burkes, of Naperville, Ill., also received the Distinguished Pinnancle Award, Purdue's highest recognition of support.

• Rube.local03 -- Greg Franzer, a Purdue University senior in chemical engineering from Coldwater, Ohio, gets the ball rolling today (Saturday, 2/15) during the 21st annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Cumberland Place Exhibition Center. Franzer was captain of the winning Theta Tau/Phi Sigma Rho team. This year student teams built machines that could select, crush and pitch a 12-ounce aluminum can into a recycling bin in at least 20 steps. The competition pays homage to the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks. The Theta Tau/Phi Sigma Rho team advances to the national contest on Saturday, April 12, which also will take place in West Lafayette.

• Rube.local03 -- Purdue University students, from left, Heather Spalding, Ann Markwell, Bret Lengerich and Lindsay Gossom react as their machine successfully completes its task today (Saturday, 2/15) during the 21st annual Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Their team, the Society of Women Engineers, was among nine competing in the event that pays homage to the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks. The winning team, Theta Tau/Phi Sigma Rho of Purdue, advances to the national contest on Saturday, April 12.

• Lee.membranes -- Christine Hrycyna, a Purdue University assistant professor of chemistry who specializes in the field of multidrug resistance, is working with other Purdue researchers to develop a new class of miniature devices that use cell membranes to screen new drugs. The work is being conducted at the university's new Center for Membrane Protein Biotechnology. The goal is to produce "laboratories-on-a-chip," devices less than one half-inch square that contain up to 1 million test chambers, each capable of screening an individual drug and speeding the discovery of new drugs to treat numerous diseases, including cancer and cystic fibrosis.

• Lee.membranes -- This is an image of "microfabricated membrane support chambers," critical components in research at Purdue University's new Center for Membrane Protein Biotechnology to develop a new class of miniature devices that use cell membranes to screen new drugs. The goal is to produce "laboratories-on-a-chip," devices less than a half-inch square that contain up to a million test chambers, each capable of screening an individual drug and speeding the discovery of new drugs to treat numerous diseases, including cancer and cystic fibrosis.

• Huber.elnino -- This graphic of a cross section of the Pacific Ocean between Asia and the Americas shows the difference in ocean temperatures between ancient and modern times. While the shallower and deeper regions of the Pacific were several degrees warmer 50 million years ago, there still existed a relatively cool "wedge" of water sandwiched between these regions. This wedge allowed the Pacific to absorb the atmospheric heat that would have otherwise accelerated global warming.

• Maya.Angelou -- Pulitzer Prize winning writer and poet Maya Angelou gave a presentation Wednesday (2/5) at Purdue University's Elliott Hall of Music. Her address, which included recitations from African-American poetry and personal anecdotes, was the highlight of many events scheduled for Project Respect Week.

• Guo.ATP -- One promising application of RNA-ATP binding is this microscopic motor, assembled by Peixuan Guo's team at Purdue University. The motor, only a few nanometers wide, is formed by six strands of RNA surrounding an "axle" made of DNA. When fed a supply of ATP as fuel, the RNA molecules kick against the DNA in succession, much like the pistons in a conventional motor.

• Vandergraff.popcorn -- "Professor Popcorn" is the tour guide for a new Purdue Extension curriculum that takes elementary-age children on a visit to the Food Guide Pyramid. "Exploring the Food Guide Pyramid with Professor Popcorn" teaches youngsters about healthy foods, food safety and the value of physical activity.

• Smith.visit -- Vernon Smith (center), the 2002 Nobel laureate in economics, talks with Richard A. Cosier, Krannert School dean and Leeds Professor of Management, and Provost Sally Frost Mason during a Jan. 22 reception on campus to honor Smith. Smith, called "the father of experimental economics," began his research when he was a Krannert School professor in the 1950s and '60s.

• Mason.ozone -- Linda Mason, an associate professor of entomology, and other members of Purdue University's Post Harvest Grain Quality Research team used mesh bags filled with corn and other grains and infested with insects to test ozone as a fumigant alternative. They found that the gas effectively kills grain-damaging bugs without harming grain quality or the environment.

• Hicks.memorial -- Richard Sullivan Lee, an associate professor of visual and performing arts, recites Ernest L. Thayer's poem "Casey at the Bat" during a memorial service for John W. Hicks on Monday (1/28) at Purdue University's West Lafayette campus. Hicks, who was known for reciting the classic poem, died Dec. 20 at age 81. He served Purdue for more than 40 years and had a major impact on Indiana higher education. He was senior vice president emeritus, served for many years as the university's liaison with the state of Indiana and was an emeritus professor of agricultural economics. He is credited with playing an important role in creating and developing Indiana's system of higher education. The undergraduate library at West Lafayette was named for Hicks, as was the baseball field at Purdue North Central.

• Ritter.Boeing -- David Swain, Boeing executive vice president, office of the chairman, and chief technology officer, talks with Shedrick Bessent, a Purdue graduate student in electrical and computer engineering and Boeing scholarship recipient. Today (Wednesday, 1/22) Purdue and the Boeing Company announced a  partnership to help underrepresented students and those with the greatest financial need get an education at Purdue in engineering, computer sciences and business.

• Posey.intern03 -- Purdue University senior Norris Hulbert was a Technical Assistance Program intern at Essroc Cement in Speed, Ind., last summer. Hulbert is a senior from Louisville, Ky., majoring in mechanical engineering technology. Since 1988 more than 700 undergraduate and graduate engineering, technology and management students have worked for 375 Hoosier employers through TAP's Summer Intern Program.

• Ricciardi.colbyded -- Rick Brown, a senior majoring in health and fitness who serves as a personal trainer and supervisor at the Colby Fitness Center, uses one of the new treadmills while chatting with Kelly Bonnar, assistant director for fitness and wellness. A dedication ceremony for the 19,000-square-foot facility, located in the lower level of the Recreational Sports Center, will be at 3 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 23.

• Datta.nanotech -- Supriyo Datta, right, will direct the new Purdue-based NASA Institute for Nanoelectronics and Computing. Mark Lundstrom, left, will direct another new federally funded nanotechnology center also being announced this week. That center, the Network for Computational Nanotechnology, is funded by the National Science Foundation. Datta is the Thomas Duncan Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering. Lundstrom is the Scifres Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering.

• Datta.nanotech -- Rashid Bashir, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering, works at a single-wafer reactive ion etcher system, used to etch and form small features in silicon and related materials. Bashir will be involved in research in the new NASA-funded nanotechnology institute based at Purdue.

• Turek.lipids -- Dogs, like this hound, are helping Purdue researcher John Turek understand how special diets contribute to aging and development of human diseases, such as cancer.

• Johnson.diningcourt -- An architectural rendering shows the east view of the Stadium Avenue Dining Court. The court will be open to students in the fall of 2004.

• Hornett.Theron -- Leslie Geddes, Purdue's Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering, chats with Richard and Maureen Stewart, parents of infant Eli, a patient at Riley Hospital for Children today (1/8) shortly after a news conference there announced a partnership agreement between Purdue Research Foundation and Theron Technologies LLC. The agreement grants Theron exclusive commercial rights to a non-invasive cuff device developed by Geddes at Purdue. The instrument uses optical techniques to measure systolic, mean and diastolic blood pressure; heart and respiratory rate; and oxygen saturation in prematurely born and other low birthweight babies.

• Hornett.Theron -- Leslie Geddes, Purdue's Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering, and doctoral candidate Rebecca Roeder, test a device they invented that uses optical techniques to measure the vital signs of premature infants.

• Hornett.Theron -- A researcher demonstrates the monitor for premature babies. The monitor device can be placed around the arm of a premature infant to measure vital signs in a non-invasive way.

• Couetil.horsestent -- Laurent Couetil, a horse specialist at Purdue University, conducts a follow-up appointment on Magnificent, a competing miniature horse that received the first equine intratracheal stent. The horse's trachea collapsed in November, and Couetil performed this first of its kind equine procedure on Nov. 22 at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine Large Animal Hospital.

• Morre.bioclock -- D. James and Dorothy Morré in a Purdue University laboratory. The husband-and-wife team has discovered a protein that is responsible for setting the length of periods of activity and inactivity within cells in the body, acting as a biological clock. The research, which appears in the journal Biochemistry, is the culmination of four decades of work by James Morré

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