Photo Index 2004

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• Huber.Antarctica --This image, based on newly obtained core samples from the ocean floor near Australia and Antarctica, shows a revised conception of current flow past those continents around 33 million years ago. At that time, the continents were just beginning to drift apart, and scientists have theorized that a warm-water current flowing southward along the Australian coast reached Antarctica, keeping that continent largely ice-free. But fossil plankton in the core samples indicate that a cold current flowed past Antarctica for about two million years before the continent developed its mile-thick ice cap, suggesting that the ice formed as a result of some other mechanism – possibly a variation in greenhouse gases in the ancient atmosphere.

• Union Holidays --Umme Al-Waxedi, a doctoral student in Purdue's English department, arranges silks in the Bangladesh Student Association display during the annual Holidays Around the World celebration in the Purdue Memorial Union. (second photo) Gene Tsai, a senior from Taiwan who is studying physics, demonstrates calligraphy as part of the Chinese Calligraphy Club at the annual Holidays Around the World celebration in the Purdue Memorial Union. Holidays Around the World took place Dec. 8 in the Union's Great Hall as part of Purdue's Holidays at the Union celebration on Dec. 6-19, which featured a 25-foot Christmas tree, singers from the community and schools, and a life-size gingerbread house. (third photo) Pastry chef Cheri Vaughn, at right, shows Bouse sisters, 8-year-old Brittni (in pink) and 3-year-old Brooke, how she uses icing to cement the life-size gingerbread house on display in the Union until Dec. 19. Executive chef Bruce Haumesser puts finishing touches on a window over the head of 8-year-old Carlie Hinkle. (fourth photo) Kathy McGraw, of Kathy's Varieties, performs on Dec. 7 near the decorated tree in Purdue Memorial Union's Great Hall.

• Ashworth.rankings --Junior landscape architecture students Derek Shelton, at right, and Tim Wright work on their final project in the department's design studio. Through a $110,000 grant, each junior in the program received a tablet PC this year. Students like Shelton and Wright can work on projects on their own PCs, then bring them to the lab to work with other members of their project team.

• NSCORT.growthchamber --Seniors Anna Leung, from Lawrence North High School in Indianapolis, and Jess Rombach, from Hamilton Southeastern High School in Fishers, inspect plants grown in a chamber they used in NASA-funded research as part of the NASA Specialized Center of Research and Training, or NSCORT. They were among 17 students attending the McKenzie Career Center in Indianapolis, which conducted a semester-long research project aimed at preparing students for careers in science and engineering.

• Mudawar.robotics (4 photos) --Matt Kloos, a senior mechanical engineering student at Purdue University, demonstrates the remote-controlled vertical robotic wall climber designed and built in a senior design course taught by Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering. (second photo) Mike Schrader, kneeling, and Ben Smith, both senior mechanical engineering students at Purdue University, demonstrate the remote-controlled vertical robotic wall climber they designed and built with three other students in a senior design course taught by Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering. The students created prototypes and displayed their inventions in December. (third photo) Derek McClean, at left, and Jay Cress, both senior mechanical engineering students at Purdue University, demonstrate the portable cooling backpack they created with three other students in a senior design course taught by Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering. (fourth photo) Adam Duggleby, a mechanical engineering senior at Purdue University, demonstrates a "no-sweat seat" created in a senior designed course taught by Issam Mudawar, a professor of mechanical engineering. The portable seat might be used at spectator events to keep fans cool.

• Monroe.dedication --From left, Betty Nelson, Marylu McEwen, Barbara Cook, Barbara Stonewater and Barbara Watts stand in front of the sculpture "When Dreams Dance," which is located between Schleman and Hovde halls on the Purdue University campus. The sculpture, which honors former deans of students Cook and the late Beverly Stone, was dedicated Saturday (Dec. 11). Nelson also is a former dean of students and McEwen, Stonewater and Watts are former Purdue students.

• Monroe.dedication --The stainless-steel sculpture, "When Dreams Dance," is being dedicated to former deans of students Barbara Cook and Beverley Stone. Louisville artist Dave Caudill created the sculpture, which will be located between Schleman and Hovde halls.

• Mudawar.twophase --Hui Zhang, left, a Purdue mechanical engineering doctoral student, and Issam Mudawar, a Purdue professor of mechanical engineering, work on a flight apparatus used to conduct experiments on a NASA aircraft that creates reduced gravity conditions such as those in earth orbit, on the moon and Mars. The apparatus has a back-lighted window that enables engineers to take high-speed pictures and video of fluid flowing through tubing during reduced gravity. Data from the experiments enabled the researchers to verify the accuracy of a model that engineers can use to design more efficient spacecraft systems for everything from heating and air conditioning to nuclear power. The future space systems, using the same principle behind ordinary air conditioners and refrigerators, will have a closed loop in which liquid comes to a boil as it absorbs heat, turns into a vapor and is then returned by pumps so that it condenses back into a liquid, and in the process cools down to begin the cycle over again. Designing the systems will require a better understanding of the behavior of boiling and condensing liquids in space. The Purdue model was developed during a four-year NASA-funded project led by Mudawar.

• Jischke.Marion (2 photos) --From left, Purdue University's James Goldman, Department of Computer Technology associate department head, Scott Ksander, a senior inforensics analyst and information technology engineer, and Indiana State Police detective Sgt. Michael Flynn (right) explain the latest crime-fighting technology to Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. The group was visiting the North Central Indiana Cyber Crime Investigation Lab in Marion, Ind. on Tuesday (Nov. 30).
  (second photo) Purdue Cooperative Extension Service field educator John Woodmansee, from left, Purdue professor James Goldman, Department of Computer Technology associate department head, and Purdue President Martin C. Jischke, listen as Indiana State Police detective Sgt. Michael Flynn, demonstrates the latest crime fighting computer technology to Jischke and other Purdue leaders who visited the North Central Indiana Cyber Crime Investigation Lab and several other facilities in Marion, Ind., Tuesday (Nov. 30).

• Jischke.Sikorsky (4 photos) --Indiana Gov. Joseph E. Kernan announces today (Wednesday, Dec. 1) that New Jersey-based Butler International Inc. and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. have partnered to open a new engineering design center at the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette. Purdue President Martin C. Jischke looks on at right.
  (second photo) Edward M. Kopko, chairman and CEO of Butler International Inc., talks about the company's plans for its new facility in the Purdue Research Park. Butler International and Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. today (Wednesday, Dec. 1) announced plans to open a new engineering design center in the research park. Plans call for Butler to initially have 40 employees at the facility with the potential for as many as 400 workers.
  (third photo) Engineering design support for Connecticut-based Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. will be performed by a division of the New Jersey-based Butler International in a new center to open at Purdue Research Park. The center is expected to bring West Lafayette as many as 200 high-tech jobs in the helicopter industry. Among Sikorsky's better-known products are the H-60 Blackhawk and the Marine One presidential helicopter. The company is proposing a new version of its H-92 demonstrator helicopter (shown) for the next Marine One.
  (fourth photo) Butler engineers will design helicopters for Sikorsky Aircraft Corp. at the Purdue Research Park's former Whirlpool Corp. building, which is being renovated by the city of West Lafayette and Purdue Research Foundation. The design center initially will involve 40 employees working in 12,900 square feet of space. The 111,000-square-foot warehouse facility also provides additional space for future expansion.

• Blewett.regbizwin (2 photos) --Don Blewett, at far right, presents the $25,000 top prize Tuesday (Nov. 23) in the $50,000 Opportunity for Indiana Business Plan Competition to representatives of Quadraspec, from left, Eric Davis, Chad Barden and Brian Weichel. Blewett is associate director of Purdue University's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship in West Lafayette, where the competition took place. Quadraspec is a West Lafayette company that aims to commercialize protein-diagnostics technology with a wide range of applications. The company's technology was developed at Purdue by physics professor David Nolte. The West Lafayette competition was one of three statewide co-sponsored by the Lilly Endowment as part of its $3.5 million, three-year Opportunity for Indiana grant. (second photo) Molly Pentecost, Artistway.com's director of marketing, makes the business plan presentation that won second place and $15,000 Tuesday (Nov. 23) in the $50,000 Opportunity for Indiana Business Plan Competition. Artistway.com represents visual artists' work on a Web site and markets the works to corporations and individual consumers. The West Lafayette competition was one of three statewide co-sponsored by the Lilly Endowment as part of its $3.5 million, three-year Opportunity for Indiana grant. The competition took place at Purdue's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at Discovery Park.

• Welchans.dance --Joe Hayes, a senior in fine arts from Terre Haute, Ind., and Kat Hickey, a senior in political science from Steger, Ill., will be performing in Purdue Repertory Dance Company's Winter Works 2004 Dance Concert, which will take place Dec. 9-11 in Stewart Center's Experimental Theatre.

• Martin.award --The Purdue Alumni Association on Saturday (Nov. 20) presented Special Boilermaker Awards to, from left, David Downey, Betsy Marti and Gene Keady. The presentation took place at the Old Oaken Bucket football game against Indiana University.

• Zawisza.Christmas --Santa, played by Joey Martin, a senior in agriculture education from Walton , Ind., sings with Peter Tarrant, at left, a freshman majoring in computer graphics, and A.J. Robinson, a junior in consumer and family sciences, both from Indianapolis. The students, who are members of Purdue Musical Organizations' Glee Club, were practicing for the annual Christmas Show, which will take place Dec. 10-12 at the Elliott Hall of Music.

• Linton.strawberries --Yingchang Han, post-doctoral research associate in the Center for Food Safety Engineering at Purdue University, prepares strawberries for a decontamination treatment with chlorine dioxide gas. A new study shows this treatment to be significantly more effective than the current industry-standard chlorinated water rinse.

• Ross.book --Charles Ross, professor of English, translated the "Thebiad," which was first published by Publius Papinius Statius in 92 A.D., from Latin into American verse. His "Thebaid: Seven Against Thebes" ($55) will be published by John Hopkins University in December. The "Thebaid" tells how two brothers, Polynices and Eteocles, sons of Oedipus fight for control of the city Thebes. Statius' epic strongly influenced European literature, Ross says. It also provides an apt counterpart to the famous Japanese film "The Seven Samurai" and the Hollywood film that imitated it, the 1960s western "Magnificent Seven."

• Baldwin.fitness --Stacey Jackson, a senior studying health and fitness from Goshen, Ind., and a fitness supervisor at the A.H. Ismail Center for Health, Exercise and Nutrition at Purdue University, assists her client, Chris Strantz of Lafayette. Starting in the 2005 fall semester, Purdue undergraduates pursuing the health and fitness major concentrate or specialize in personal fitness training. Personal trainers are responsible for fitness management by designing and leading exercise programs in group or individual settings, as well as providing health education to improve lifestyle behaviors. Purdue will be the first university in the nation to offer a four-year degree with a concentration in this area.

• Lee.robots --C. S. George Lee, a Purdue professor of electrical and computer engineering, from left, and Howard Zelaznik, a professor of health and kinesiology, work with doctoral student Nicole Rheaume to study how humans learn movement skills. Rheaume draws s circle with a pen equipped with a tiny coiled wire "receiver." A nearby magnet induces a low-level magnetic field. As Rheaume moves the pen, the wire coil induces an electrical current that enables researchers to track the movements. The ultimate goal is to create software that enables robots to combine several of the most "primitive" skills to perform more complex movements, much as people are able to combine a series of basic movements to perform specific tasks.

• VIC.backdrop --Purdue students, from left, Jaci Hills, Mike Watts and Kevin Gaul pose with the holiday backdrop in the university's Visitor Information Center. Anyone with a camera can make an appointment to come to the center and take Boilermaker-themed holiday photos.

• Owens.Vietnam --Timothy J. Owens, a Purdue University associate professor of sociology who studies self-concept and identity, says it is too early to tell how the self-esteem of the young men and women serving in today's military will be shaped by their experiences. He cautions others to remember how the Vietnam War affected the self-esteem of some adolescent males who were involved. Owens' research, which analyzed the feelings of self-worth of men who chose three different paths to adulthood after leaving high school Ñ college, military or full-time work Ñ in 1969 will be reported in his upcoming book, "From Adolescence to Adulthood in the Vietnam Era," to be published by Springer Press this month.

• Rhodes.crops --Although wild turkeys often take the blame for damaging crops like soybeans, these fawns have been caught in the act. Contrary to popular belief, deer and raccoons account for the vast majority of damage to Indiana's crops, according to a recent Purdue study.

• Redtail --An immature light-morph red-tailed hawk makes itself at home Thursday (Oct. 28) on a lamp post near the Purdue Bell Tower. There are several nesting pairs in the immediate vicinity of campus, and the large (25-inch, 2-3 pound, 4.5-foot wingspan) raptors hunt the abundant gray squirrels and chipmunks on campus. The birds are perhaps best known for their famous scream, often used in television and movie soundtracks as the voice of the American eagle. Football fans often spot the birds soaring above Ross-Ade Stadium during football games.

• McKinis.jobfair --Brian Hodorek, an engineer for Zimmer Inc. of Warsaw, Ind., discusses the orthopedic devices developed at his company with Purdue biomedical engineering student Amy Lang of Cleveland, Ohio. Lang was one of an estimated 1,200 students who on Wednesday (Oct. 27) attended the seventh annual High Tech Job Fair for Indiana Companies, which is administered by Purdue University's Technical Assistance Program. Representatives from more than 50 companies from throughout Indiana collected resumes and arranged job interviews with students who plan to earn degrees in technology, science, engineering, management and agriculture.

• Rowe.remnant (5 photos) --Brian Bex, founder of the Remnant Trust, shows Sir Isaac Newton's "Principia" to Purdue President Martin C. Jischke at a news conference on Tuesday (Oct. 26) announcing that three dozen original and early edition historic documents focusing on the quest for freedom and human dignity will be exhibited at the university. The documents will be on display at Purdue from Jan. 10 through Feb. 20 in Stewart Center Gallery. The collection, loaned by the Hagerstown, Ind.-based Remnant Trust, includes titles such as the "Emancipation Proclamation," "Magna Carta" and Machiavelli's "The Prince."

• Jischke.Weldon (2 photos) --Purdue alumnus Norman Weldon, of Evergreen, Colo., speaks during the President's Council dinner in the Purdue Memorial Union on Oct. 22. Also pictured, from left to right, are Cheryl , Thomas and Carol Weldon. The Weldons received a Crystal Boilermaker award from Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. The Crystal Boilermaker is the Purdue President's Council's highest award for philanthropy to the university. The Weldons are providing a $10 million gift to transform the biomedical engineering department into a full-fledged school. (second photo) Michael Birck (at podium), chairman of the Campaign for Purdue and a member of the university's board of trustees, is applauded by the Purdue Varsity Glee Club as he announces Friday (Oct. 22) that the university has increased its fund-raising campaign goal to $1.5 billion. The initial goal for the seven-year campaign, which began in 2000, had been $1.3 billion. Birck also announced during the President's Council event that the university has raised more than $1 billion with nearly three years left in the campaign.

• Cosier.bdmctr --At the dedication today (Thursday, Oct. 21) of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Purdue President Martin C. Jischke watches as the late philanthropist's daughters and granddaughter unveil a portrait of Morgan that will hang in the center. From left are Jischke, daughters Suzanne Morgan and Mary Graves, and granddaughter Brooke Riley. The Burton D. Morgan Foundation provided funds to build the $7 million, 31,000-square-foot building, the first to be completed in Discovery Park, the university's interdisciplinary research hub.

• Rebar.radiation (2 photos) --Canine cancer survivors, their owners and Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke join Dolores McCall in breaking ground today (Wednesday, Oct. 20) for a $1.4 million radiation therapy facility to be built at the School of Veterinary Medicine. McCall is donating $1 million for an endowed professorship for a radiation oncologist and another $1 million to the school. This will be Indiana's first veterinary radiation therapy facility. Pictured, from left, are Mark Regan, with the Regan's Labrador retriever and cancer survivor Charlie; Kyler Laird; Kitty Laird, with cancer survivor Greta (behind Charlie); Purdue Provost Sally Mason; McCall; Jischke; School of Veterinary Medicine Dean Alan Rebar; comparative oncologist Deborah Knapp; and Amy Regan. (second photo) Adam Regan, 4, pets his family's 8-year-old Labrador retriever, Charlie, who has been treated for cancer for three years at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine. Amy and Mark Regan, of Crown Point, Ind., brought Charlie and their two sons, Adam and Mark, 3, to the groundbreaking for the state's first veterinary radiation therapy facility.

• Caruthers.discover (2 photos) --Purdue University graduate student Leif Delgass reviews chemical structures associated with points in a 3-D "scatter plot." The interactive graph is part of a system being developed at Purdue University that could dramatically speed up scientific discovery by enabling researchers to test hypotheses in real time using high-performance computing and artificial intelligence software. (second photo) Purdue University graduate student Leif Delgass reviews "molecular orbitals" of a catalyst containing titanium as it is being used to make a plastic polymer, such as polyethylene. The interactive display is part of a system being developed at Purdue University that could dramatically speed up scientific discovery by enabling researchers to test hypotheses in real time using high-performance computing and artificial intelligence software.

• Pekny.e-ent --From left, Charles Rutledge, executive director of Discovery Park; Leonard Betley, president of the Regenstrief Foundation; Purdue President Martin C. Jischke; Jack Shaw, vice president and treasurer of the Regenstrief Foundation; and Joseph Pekny, director of the e-Enterprise Center, take part today (Monday, Oct. 18) in a ceremonial groundbreaking for Purdue's e-Enterprise Center at Discovery Park. The $10 million, 38,500-square-foot e-Enterprise Center will be completed by spring 2006. The Regenstrief Foundation provided a three-year, $3 million start-up grant to establish the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering, which will be housed in the e-Enterprise Center.

• Tucker.royalty --Gina Bassetto of Munster, Ind., and Tim Jones of Evansville, Ind., were crowned Purdue University's 2004 Homecoming king and queen during halftime of the Purdue-Wisconsin game on Saturday (10/16).

• Jischke.Armstrong (2 photos) --Heddy Kurz (front row, left), Guy Gardner, Michael McCulley, Mark Brown and K.O. Johnson watch a ceremony marking the groundbreaking of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, while Don Williams (in stocking cap) looks on from a row behind. Kurz and Johnson are each major donors for the new facility that will house several schools and programs in Purdue's College of Engineering, including the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics. Gardner, McCulley, Brown and Williams represented Purdue's 22 astronaut alumni at the ceremony. Each of the 22 astronauts either gave to the funding of the new building or had gifts made in their honor. (second photo) Ben Maon, in foreground, a master's degree student in aeronautics and astronautics from Melbourne, Australia, works in Purdue's Fatigue and Fracture Laboratory with Skip Grandt, a professor in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, on an experiment to test how cracks form. The Fatigue and Fracture Laboratory is one of the many research facilities that will be located in the new Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering.

• Gery.Dauchdedication (2 photos) --Purdue's first lady Patty Jischke, in foreground, looks on as Tom Spurgeon, and Sandy and Dick Dauch, join Purdue President Martin C. Jischke today (Friday, Oct. 15) for the ribbon cutting at the university's new Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center. The $16 million facility is the university's first alumni center and features several display areas that showcase the university's points of pride and achievements. (second photo) Visitors get their first look at the Spurgeon Hall of Spirit today (Friday, Oct. 15) during the dedication of Purdue's Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center. The Hall of Spirit, located on the first floor of center, features changeable showcases with photographs, memorabilia and other objects that highlight some of the university's accomplishments and distinguished alumni.

• Rueff.vpa --Patti and Rusty Rueff applaud while watching students and faculty perform at today's (Friday, Oct. 15) celebration for the successful completion of fund raising for Phase II of Purdue's $41 million Visual and Performing Arts Building. The Rueffs donated $5 million to the visual and performing arts department, which has since been named in their honor. During today's event, it was announced that the building will be renamed to honor the late Yue-Kong Pao (pronounced u-KONG pow), a Chinese business leader who died in 1991. The naming is at the request of an anonymous donor who gave $4 million to the campaign.

• Carney.gift --Purdue alumnus Scott Niswonger, of Greenville, Tenn., surprises Purdue President Martin C. Jischke with a check for the first $1 million of a $3 million gift. The gift, which was announced today (Thursday, Oct. 14), will go toward the renovation of the Aviation Technology Building and construction of a new, adjacent facility, and Niswonger has challenged the university to raise the additional $3 million needed for the project.

• Cooks.spectrometer --Postdoctoral researcher Zoltan Takats works with the special "wand" he and a team of chemists developed to improve mass spectrometers, which are powerful — but unwieldy and labor-intensive – tools for chemical analysis. The wand, developed in the laboratory of Graham Cooks at Purdue University, dramatically simplifies and shortens the analysis process, meaning mass spectrometers using the wands could be carried into the field to investigate suspicious residues on packages in post offices and airport baggage rooms.

• Rokhinson.spin --Shown is an atomic force micrograph of a device used to separate quantum objects according to their spin, which could be used in next-generation computers and other "spintronic" devices. Using a so-called magnetic focusing technique, a small perpendicular magnetic field bends a beam of holes in a gallium arsenide semiconductor along two different cyclotron trajectories, the radius depending on the spin of the particles. Those holes with "up" spin curve in one direction, those with "down" spin in the other. The light-colored lines are oxide, which separate different regions of two-dimensional "hole gas" beneath the surface.

• Delp.forensics --These before-and-after black-and-white photographs of macaws show how specialized methods can be used to reduce "banding" created by laser printers. Banding has been reduced in the upper image. The same methods developed at Purdue University to reduce banding also could be used to cause printers to embed features so that investigators would be able to trace documents to a specific printer. The technology could help law enforcement track counterfeit bills and forged documents to the printers on which they were created.

• Depew.anniversary --Purdue senior Adam Acton, at left, from Whitestown, Ind., and sophomore Thom Taylor, from LaGrange, Ind., work with robotics software in Purdue's technology education laboratory. The technology education program, which trains future middle and high school teachers, is a component of the School of Technology's efforts to encourage younger students to consider careers in technology.

• McKinnis.04annual --Purdue students Kim Boner of Mishawaka, Ind., and Scott Richmond of South Bend, Ind., completed civil engineering internships last summer with the consulting firm of Lawson-Fisher Associates of South Bend, Ind. Their work included field surveying, structural design and quality calculations on bridge projects, and water quality sampling. The internships were arranged through Purdue's Technical Assistance Program, which recently released its 2003-04 annual report.

• Bhunia.sensor --Purdue researchers have developed a new biosensor that can detect minute quantities of the deadly foodborne bacteria Listeria monocytogenes. Here, research associate Tao Geng places an optical fiber, which is part of the biosensor, into a sample to test for the bacteria's presence as Arun Bhunia, professor of food science, watches.

• Knapp.25th --Purdue veterinary oncologist Debbie Knapp examines Bear, a 12-year-old Scottish terrier, in the oncology lab at the School of Veterinary Medicine's Small Animal Hospital. Assisting her is Brent Herzberg, a senior majoring in biology from South Bend, Ind. Purdue veterinarians annually treat about 1,000 patients with cancer.

• Johnson.dining (3 photos) --Gayle Russell, dining court associate, and Mike Smith, student supervisor, serve food to other University Residences employees on the first day of operation for a new dining court on Purdue University's West Lafayette, Ind., campus. (second photo) An exterior view of the newest dining court for Purdue University Residences on the West Lafayette, Ind., campus. The marketplace-style dining court is the third of five to open at Purdue, providing a new era in dining choices for college students. (third photo) Purdue students can choose from eight stations at the award-winning Earhart Dining Court, including the Souper Deli. The upgraded dining facility recently won two awards for outstanding design.

• Blackwelder.week --Purdue University will name and celebrate the completion of fund raising for its new $47.7 million Millennium Building, called the jewel of the College of Engineering, at 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 16. The building – to be the new home of the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, School of Materials Engineering and Department of Engineering Education – will anchor the corner of Stadium and Northwestern avenues.

• Shelby.RV (2 photos) --Purdue Fire Department Deputy Chief Kevin Ply and Carol Shelby, Purdue's senior director for environmental health and public safety, examine the university's new mobile command center. The 32-foot trailer, a gift from Coachmen Recreational Vehicle Co., can be used as a mobile headquarters for police, fire and other workers in the case of a large-scale emergency on campus. (second photo) Ken Alling, Purdue Fire Department chief, and John Cox, Purdue Police Department captain of special services, discuss additional equipment that will be added to trailer. In addition to the standard features, including a restroom, shower and kitchen facilities, the trailer will include computer and telecommunication equipment.

• Rutledge.dispark (2 photos) --Meng Yu, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, operates an atomic force microscope in work involving "dip-pen nanolithography." The work is aimed at creating retinal transplants to treat age-related macular degeneration, in research led by Albena Ivanisevic, an associate professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry. The work is associated with the Birck Nanotechnology Center and the Bindley Bioscience Center, both in Purdue's Discovery Park. (second photo) Discovery Park currently encompasses five centers: the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Birck Nanotechnology Center, Bindley Bioscience Center, e-Enterprise Center and Discovery Learning Center. The park also will include a new biomedical engineering building, to be completed in 2006.

• Dutta-Bergman.eat --Mohan Dutta-Bergman, assistant professor of communication at Purdue University, says local health campaigns are not reaching the at-risk American population with public service announcements or by planning activities to attract local media coverage. To reach the at-risk American population, campaigns should target places where this group gets most of its health information – soap operas, sitcoms and sports programs on television, as well as entertainment magazines.

• Johnson.Earhart --Purdue students can choose from eight stations at the award-winning Earhart Dining Court, including the Souper Deli. The upgraded dining facility recently won two awards for outstanding design.

• McKenzie.inven --Purdue forestry and natural resources students Kasey Krouse, at left, and Henry Schmitt record data about trees located on city rights of way in West Lafayette, Ind. Krouse, of Fort Wayne, Ind., and Schmitt, of Covington, Ind., are part of a Purdue urban forestry team that is conducting a street tree inventory for the city. The information collected helps Indiana communities plan tree management programs that maintain the health and diversity of urban trees.

• Michler.center --The Center for Tree Genetics, a joint research center sponsored by the National Science Foundation, will be led by Purdue University scientists. The center's goal is to improve the genetic quality of fine hardwood trees, such as these young walnut trees growing in a research plantation at Purdue's Martell Forest in West Lafayette, Ind.

• Sigman.MFA --Derrick Stanley, a first-year master's degree student in drawing and printmaking from Indianapolis, works on a charcoal drawing. Next fall, Purdue will offer a master of fine arts (MFA) for the students in division of art and design. The MFA, which requires 60 hours of course work, is the creative arts academic equivalent of the doctorate.

• Fosmire.mega --Michael Fosmire, an associate professor of library science, led the team that implemented Megasearch, a Google-style information-search interface that both provides higher quality information than general Internet search engines and contributes to students' information literacy. The next step for Megasearch is to be implemented into WEB-CT, course management software for faculty.

• PMU-newlandscape --Purdue University grounds department employees Carlos Flores, at left, and Eddie Castaneda prepare the soil for sod on the south lawn of the Purdue Memorial Union. The work is part of a $175,000 refurbishment of the area made possible by a gift from the Class of 1953 in honor of its 50th anniversary. An Oct. 22 event will take place to dedicate the space, which also will include walkways and other plantings. The lawn will replace a reflecting pool to beautify the area, provide more green space and minimize the maintenance associated with the pool.

• Gibb.lady --Asian lady beetles, such as this one, appear every October and make their way into homes. This year entomologists think there might be fewer beetles for homeowners to contend with.

• Coleman.home (2 photos) --Fans fill Purdue Mall to listen to the traditional Homecoming concert on the steps of Hovde Hall and visit tents set up on the mall to house a variety of displays and activities. After the concert, those attending follow the "All-American" Marching Band to Ross-Ade Stadium. The same tradition will take place on Oct. 16 for the 2004 Purdue Homecoming game against the Wisconsin Badgers. (second photo) Purdue President Martin C. Jischke and first lady Patty Jischke share their school spirit during Homecoming festivities with members of the "All-American" Marching Band in front of Hovde Hall. This year's Homecoming will begin with a pep rally on Thursday, Oct. 14. A parade and fireworks will be on Friday, Oct.15, with the Homecoming game against the Wisconsin Badgers kicking off on Saturday, Oct. 16.

• Ivanisevic.mitaward --Albena Ivanisevic, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering and chemistry at Purdue University, has been included in a list of "100 top young innovators" by Technology Review, a magazine published by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She will be honored with a TR100 award on Sept. 29, during the 2004 Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT. In this photo she dissects a pig eye as part of her research into retinal transplants for which she is being recognized for the award.

• Gibb.nests --Homeowners frequently find large wasp and hornet nests, such as this baldfaced hornet's nest, in their trees at the beginning on autumn. The nests have been there all year, but become visible once leaves fall from the trees.

• Cook.ribbon --Cook Biotech's President Mark Bleyer, at left, takes researcher Leslie Geddes, Purdue's Showalter Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Bioengineering, at center, on a tour of the company's new facility. Geddes and his wife, LaNelle, looked over the company's new $7 million, 55,000-square-foot research and production facility on Friday (Sept. 10) after a ribbon-cutting ceremony. The new facility was constructed to meet increased demand for Purdue University-licensed tissue-engineering technology, which Cook Biotech is developing and manufacturing.

• Duvall.mfs --Nancy Peterson, associate professor of English, and John Duvall, professor of English, are celebrating Modern Fiction Studies' 50th anniversary this year with a symposium on Oct. 1. Modern Fiction Studies, which began as a project of the Purdue Modern Fiction Club in 1955, is one of America's oldest journals of literary criticism. The journal has 3,000 subscriptions and receives more than 250 submissions a year.

• Houkes.interest --John M. Houkes, the first head of the Krannert School of Management's Special Collection of Literature in Business and Economic History, is the author of "An Annotated Bibliography on the History of Usury and Interest from the Earliest Times Through the Eighteenth Century." Houkes says most early cultures had prohibitions against charging interest for the use of money, but when capitalism began to develop in the post-medieval period, religious and government strictures against interest Ñ and even usury Ñ gradually disappeared.

• Jischke.Warsaw --Purdue President Martin C. Jischke, at right, talks with DePuy Orthopaedics Inc. Vice President Richard R. Tarr at the company's Warsaw, Ind., plant. Victor L. Lechtenberg, at center, Purdue's vice provost for engagement, also toured the facilities on Thursday (Sept. 2) along with Purdue professors and community leaders. In addition to DePuy, Purdue leaders also toured Zimmer Inc., Biomet Inc. and Maple Leaf Farms during a community visit to Warsaw. This is the fifth year Jischke and other university officials will be conducting daylong visits to Indiana communities. Future visits are planned for Bedford, Marion, Indianapolis, Muncie, Evansville, Valparaiso, Kokomo and Elkhart.

• MacGowan.snakes (2 photos) --The bullsnake is one of the Midwest's largest snakes. It's non-venomous, but still strikes fear into many who see it. The creators of Purdue Extension's "Snakes of the Midwest" CD designed their product to help people learn the truth about snakes and alleviate fears. (second photo) Purdue Extension's "Snakes of the Midwest" CD is Mac- and PC-compatible and meets Indiana standards for science education.

• Hill.tickgenome (2 photos) --An engorged deer tick sits precariously on the fingertip of Catherine Hill, a Purdue entomology assistant professor and tick genome project lead investigator. Ticks can spread a variety of illnesses to humans and other animals, including Lyme disease, Rocky Mountain spotted fever, tularemia, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever and tick-borne encephalitic diseases. (second photo) A female tick, engorged with blood after feeding, lays tiny eggs in clusters as big as her body.

• Salt.antioxidant --David Salt, at right, a Purdue University professor of horticulture, and doctoral student John Freeman are finding out why certain plants thrive while others wither when exposed to massive amounts of nickel. Their findings provide insight for the development of plants that can remove toxic metals from polluted sites or extract useful metals from soil, a process known as phytomining.

• Morris.papers (2 photos) --Purdue archivist Sammie Morris, at left, shows Walter Veon, 92, Indianapolis, some of the items from the expansive Potter collection that is now available for viewing and research at Purdue Libraries. Veon studied engineering at Purdue while A.A. Potter was dean. (second photo) One of former Purdue engineering Dean A.A. Potter's diaries, with a note from a friend written in 1954.

• Alleman.sliderules --Robert Miles, a retired Purdue University civil engineering professor and a Purdue alumnus, left, and James Alleman, a current Purdue civil engineering professor, hold a 7-foot-long slide rule in front of an exhibit they created that contains about 200 of the pre-digital computational devices. The permanent exhibit is on display in the university’s Potter Engineering Center and includes slide rules from astronauts Neil Armstrong and Jerry Ross.

• Hawkins.horse --Purdue clinical veterinarian Laurent Couetil feeds an apple to 23-year-old Chico, a thoroughbred that underwent two innovative surgical procedures to diagnose and remove a tumorous kidney. Couetil and fellow Purdue clinician Jan Hawkins, second from left, performed the procedures earlier this week. Chico's owners, Frank and Janet Daskalos, of Zionsville, Ind., look on.

• Jischke.poa --Purdue freshmen, from left, Heidi Peace and Brittany Shively talk with university President Martin C. Jischke on Thursday (Aug. 27) near Hovde Hall. Peace and Shively are among a group who received the inaugural Purdue Opportunity Awards, a program designed to pay tuition, room and board for an incoming freshman from each of the state's 92 counties who have faced personal or financial hardships that might stand in the way of attending college. Jischke announced on Thursday that the program has been expanded into the students' sophomore year to provide up to $2,500 to assist in covering the gap remaining after federal, state and other university aid has been applied to their college costs.

• Sutton.Huffer --Kendall Huffer shows off her catch of the day, a shovelnose sturgeon from the depths of the Wabash River. The Lafayette Jefferson High School senior worked as a research assistant with Trent Sutton, (at left) an assistant professor in Purdue University's forestry and natural resources department. Huffer weighed, measured and tagged the fish to help determine their biological attributes and population dynamics.

• Starks.scholar --Eileen Roccella, left, and her husband, Edward, of Vienna, Va., present the first Andrew Roccella Memorial Study Abroad Scholarship to Purdue student Jonathan Osborn, of La Porte, Ind., center, on Wednesday (Aug. 25) during a Study Abroad reception at the Purdue Memorial Union. The $500 scholarship, which Osborn will use to help fund his 2004-05 Study Abroad experience in Freiburg, Germany, is in memory of Purdue alumnus Andrew Roccella, who died in a ferryboat accident in March in Baltimore Harbor. The Roccellas established an endowment to support a scholarship for Purdue Study Abroad students.

• Volenec.mars --Jeff Volenec, at right, and Shane Howard display a variety of plants in their Purdue University greenhouse. Volenec, a crop physiologist, and Howard, his graduate assistant, have been growing a variety of grasses, legumes and food crops in soil close to what astronauts may find on Mars.

• Rossmann.baseplate (2 graphics) --Shown is an artist's conception of the T4 virus just after it has penetrated the cell membrane of the E. coli bacterium, which the virus infects. Purdue University researchers have revealed the conformational changes undergone by the multicolored "baseplate" (at center of image, amid the virus' "legs"), enabling scientists to visualize the infection process with a movie, from which this still image was taken. Improved understanding of the baseplate's behavior could shed light on the infection processes of other viruses. (second graphic) The T4 virus is shown here in black and white at two moments in its life cycle, both before and after a portion of its midsection, called the baseplate, undergoes the conformational change necessary for the virus to infect the E. coli bacteria on which it rests. On either side of these images are color close-ups of the baseplate, both before the change (at left) and afterward (at right). By following the changes in T4, Purdue researchers hope to gain insight into the infection process, work which could lead to deeper understanding of how other viruses infect host cells.

• Gery.chamber --Local community campaign co-chairs Joe Seaman and Linda Rohrman, from left, take the stage with Purdue President Martin C. Jischke to unveil the current total of the community portion of the Campaign for Purdue. During a Lafayette-West Lafayette Chamber of Commerce event Thursday (Aug. 19) at the Bowen Civil Engineering Lab four new gifts were announced, pushing the campaign total past the $24 million mark.

• State.fair (2 photos) --Jobie Walker, 11, of Indianapolis, gets a Purdue Pete temporary tattoo from Ambra Neier, a senior majoring in agricultural education, on Wednesday (Aug. 18) during Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair on Wednesday. Neier was working at the Purdue School of Agriculture booth. (second photo) Virginia Dinkel, Speedway, answers the age-old question, "Will it float?" on Wednesday (Aug. 18) during Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair. Participants like Dinkel and her husband, Jim (left), designed and built boats out of aluminum foil to see how many pennies the boat could hold. Virginia won the demonstration of density and bouyancy by loading 63 pennies in her boat, 13 more than her husband.

• Guo.scaffold --These images show some of the shapes formed of RNA in the lab of Purdue's Peixuan Guo. The first three abstract shapes – monomers, dimers and trimers – are further illustrated with the analogy of human figures grasping each others' arms (see inset illustrations in figures A, B and C). Guo's team has found a way to make these elementary shapes form more complex, 3-D structures such as the array in figure D. Such arrays might form tiny scaffolding on which to construct nanotech devices.

• Bentley.Crime (2 photos) --Jennifer Barnes and Dave Lloyd, both Indianapolis-based officers with the Indiana State Police, use computer forensics software during a training session at Purdue University. At the training, about 20 officers from law enforcement agencies around the state worked with Purdue instructors to learn to use software and hardware designed to gather and preserve evidence. (second photo) Computer technology Professor Marcus Rogers (standing) teaches computer forensics techniques to Isaac Ghansah (clockwise from Rogers), professor of computer science and engineering, California State University, Sacramento; Chen-chi Shing, associate professor of computer science at Radford University; Mario Garcia, assistant professor of computer science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi; and Qing Yuan, associate professor of computer science, East Tennessee State University.

• Johnson.stadium (3 photos) --An exterior view of the newly constructed Stadium Avenue Dining Court at the intersection of University Street and Stadium Avenue on the West Lafayette campus of Purdue University. The market-place style dining court is one of five dining courts being constructed in the university's effort to give the students of today what they want in centrally located dining. (second photo) Gayle Russell, dining court associate, and Mike Smith, student supervisor, serve food to other University Residences employees on the first day of operation for the Stadium Avenue Dining Court. (third photo) University Residences staff members are the first to taste the fare during the first week of operation at Stadium Avenue Dining Court.

• Pappy's.opens -- Customers are checking out the retro look of the Pappy's Sweet Shop that reopened recently in Purdue Memorial Union after a $1.9 million renovation. The renovation on the 1927 restaurant started in December and finished on schedule. Pappy's still serves the same dishes that made it popular, including Pappy's ice cream, burgers, pork chop sandwiches and soda fountain creations such as shakes, malts, cones and sundaes.

• Welcome Back -- Joe Bennett (above), Purdue University vice president for university relations, and West Lafayette Mayor Jan Mills hang the first of 100 Welcome Back signs in a ceremony Monday (Aug. 2), signaling the community's preparation for students to return to Purdue for fall semester. Move-in weekend is Aug. 14-15. The welcome-back campaign is sponsored by the West Lafayette-Purdue University Community Issues Committee.

• Webster.students -- Lester J. Smith, a 2002 graduate of the Research Experience for Undergraduates program, has returned to Purdue to pursue a graduate degree in biomedical engineering. Smith, who participated in the program while he was an undergraduate at Louisiana Tech University, works in a Purdue lab this summer to prepare for his upcoming graduate studies. The Research Experience for Undergraduates program, funded by the National Science Foundation, gives students a firsthand look at careers in biomedical engineering with the goal of filling future jobs in burgeoning high-tech health-care fields. The program encourages students to pursue careers in biomedical engineering.

• Schmitt.institute -- Author and educator Ellin Oliver-Keene works with 7-year-old Braden Cross, who will be a second-grader at West Lafayette's Cumberland Elementary School, during a teaching demonstration Wednesday (July 28) at the Purdue School of Education's fourth annual Summer Literacy Institute. This year's institute drew 400 Indiana elementary school teachers to campus to learn about new techniques for literacy education, particularly ways to help students with reading comprehension.

• Bertoline.Thomson -- Edward J. Delp, at left, a Purdue professor of electrical and computer engineering, demonstrates a new large, high-resolution display with William Mengel, a consulting engineer for Thomson, a leading provider of technology and services for media and entertainment companies. The display was showcased on Tuesday and Wednesday (July 27-28) during a three-day homeland-security program for federal, state and local officials. The program included simulations aimed at improving how officials respond to terrorist attacks. The prototype, developed by Thomson with assistance from Purdue engineers, uses four separate projectors to display a single image onto the large screen. Innovative software allows the four separate projections to be blended together so that no seams are seen between adjacent segments, joining the four images into a single picture with higher resolution than regular television sets.

• McKinis.jobfair -- Tyler Back, who graduated from Purdue University in December with a degree in mechanical engineering, works on the heavy-duty lock he is designing for Best Access Systems in Indianapolis. Back found employment through Purdue's High Tech Job Fair for Indiana Companies, which is facilitated by Purdue's Technical Assistance Program. The seventh annual event will take place from 10:30 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 27, in the Purdue Memorial Union ballrooms. More than 1,200 students are expected to attend this year's fair.

• Pekny.regenstrief -- Leonard J. Betley, president of the Regenstrief Foundation, and Purdue President Martin C. Jischke, at right, announce a $3 million gift to launch the Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue, beginning in January 2005. The announcement took place at the President's Executive Roundtable Luncheon on Thursday (July 22) at the Indianapolis Downtown Marriott. The Purdue Regenstrief Center, to be located in the university's Discovery Park, will apply the principles of engineering, management, science and information technology to improve the delivery of health care to consumers.

• Weber-Fox.research (2 photos) -- Christine Weber-Fox, assistant professor of speech sciences, and John Spruill III, a doctoral student in the Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences from Virginia Beach, Va., prepare a subject for a continuing study to evaluate the brain's role in language processing in adults who do and do not stutter. (second photo) In a silent rhyming task for children, the neural activity over the left hemisphere occurred later for children who stutter but earlier over the right hemisphere compared to their normally fluent peers. The deep blue colors in the figure indicate changes in activity over anterior brain regions that occur for making a rhyme decision. These preliminary findings in children are similar to results found in a series of past studies of adults who stutter.

• Mitchell.institute -- Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke on Tuesday (July 20) welcomes 18 students from 12 countries in the Middle East, including from left, Carla Khazzoum, Syria, 18; Renad Hikmat Dawoud, West Bank, 17; and Dina Zbeidy, Israel, 17. The students are in the United States as part of the 2004 Summer Institute on American Life and Youth Leadership, which is based at Purdue. On the right are Donald Mitchell, director of the institute and Purdue philosophy professor, and Peter M. Benda, a representative of the U.S. Department of State. The institute participants, all recent high school graduates, will be in the United States through Aug. 22 to learn firsthand about American political, social, cultural and economic life.

• Jischke.weadig (2 photos) -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke takes a close look at Jenean Cox and Dynesha Harris' (white hat) excavation site at the Wea View Schoolhouse No. 8 dig in Tippecanoe County. Cox and Harris, both of Indianapolis' Broadripple High School, were two of the 17 Science Bound students who on Friday (July 16) helped Purdue anthropologists excavate the site, located at Newman and Sharon Chapel roads in West Lafayette. (second photo) Brian Hardy, of Arlington High School, displays a marble he found Friday (July 16) at Purdue University's Wea View Schoolhouse No. 8 excavation site in Tippecanoe County. Also pictured is Hank "Jarell" Davenport, of Arsenal Tech High School, and Michelle McCormick, a Purdue senior in anthropology from Houston. Hardy and Davenport are two of the 17 Science Bound students who helped Purdue anthropologists excavate the site.

• Martin.airrace -- Tina Lukas, at left, and Allison Martin exit the Lockheed-Martin Warrior III that brought them an 11th place finish in the 28th Annual Women's Air Race Classic.

• Patchen.schools -- Martin Patchen, professor emeritus of sociology, says pumping more money into public schools, including money needed to shrink class size, is not the way to improve American students' learning. Patchen addresses this in his new book "Making Our Schools More Effective: What Matters and What Works." The book (hardcover $69.95 and soft-cover $49.95) was published in June by Charles C. Thomas Ltd. of Springfield, Ill. The book also focuses on issues related to teaching, school organization and programs, evaluating students, charter schools, vouchers, bilingual education, standardized testing, and computers in the classroom.

• Rotman.weadig -- Ann Marie Zan, at left, a museum educator from Romeoville, Ill., consults with Jessica Yan, a senior majoring in anthropology from Ft. Wayne, Ind., during Purdue University's summer archaeological field school. For the first time, Project Archaeology, a national program based at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, brought teachers to Purdue for a three-day workshop to learn what it's like to be an archaeologist. On Wednesday (June 30), the teachers assisted with the excavation of the Wea View Schoolhouse (No. 8) site in Tippecanoe County's Wabash Township. Purdue's Department of Sociology and Anthropology field school takes place every summer and provides technical training for Purdue students.

• NYSP.shoes -- Ronald Banks, 10, a student at Amelia Earhart Elementary in Lafayette, tries on his new pair of shoes from Purdue University's National Youth Sports Program. Banks was one of 300 children who received a pair of athletic shoes on Wednesday (June 30). The shoes were a gift from Jan and Ken Bootsma of Tippecanoe County. Jan is owner of A Storage Inns in Lafayette and Ken is a former principal of Lafayette Christian School. The National Youth Sports Program camp, which runs through July 23, focuses on healthy living by encouraging children, ages 10-16, to eat right and engage in physical activity through sports. Math, science and writing also were added to the program's activities this year. Children are referred to the program by their Tippecanoe County schools.

• Woeste.rustling -- Molecular geneticist Keith Woeste at Purdue University was able to prove this chunk of walnut wood came from a tree stolen in Warren County. Working in the USDA Forest Service Hardwood Tree Improvement and Regeneration Center at Purdue, Woeste ground the wood into a fine powder to extract enough DNA evidence to convince investigators the wood matched that of the stolen tree, which had been sold to a sawmill.

• Ohm.wheat -- Purdue University agronomy professor and wheat breeder Herb Ohm examines a plot of Fusarium-resistant winter wheat at Purdue's Agronomy Center for Research and Education, near West Lafayette, Ind. The Purdue-developed wheat variety will be released this year and should be available for use by wheat growers in 2005.

• Bayh.cam -- Purdue University President Martin C. Jischke, at left, listens as Sen. Evan Bayh, D-Ind., emphasizes the importance of investing in Indiana's manufacturing sector. Bayh was at Purdue's Discovery Park on Tuesday (June 29) to announce $3 million in federal funding for the university's Center for Advanced Manufacturing, which will be located in the park. Bayh was traveling to several Indiana communities to highlight the crucial role small manufacturers play in the state's economy.

• Swithers.research -- Susan Swithers, associate professor of psychological sciences, and Terry Davidson, professor of psychological sciences, studied how artificial sweeteners disrupt the body's ability to naturally count calories. Based on the research, Davidson and Swithers suggest that switching to a diet drink may not be the best solution to fight obesity. Their study, "A Pavlovian Approach to the Problem of Obesity," appears in this month's International Journal of Obesity. Both researchers are members of the Ingestive Research Center at Purdue.

• Nees.seedcount -- The Office of the Indiana State Chemist and Seed Commissioner conducted testing on seed count label claims after a farmer in Indiana alleged that his seed wasn't living up to expectations.

• Jischke.4h -- Renee McKee, Indiana 4-H and Youth Development Program leader, and Purdue President Martin C. Jischke on Wednesday (June 23) present a proclamation to state 4-H representatives, from left, Chad Shoultz (Warren County), Keaten Becher (Adams County) and Amber King (Elkhart County). The proclamation, made by Gov. Joe Kernan, is in honor of the 4-H program centennial. Hoosier 4-H members from around the state are on the Purdue campus as part of the annual 4-H Round-Up, which focuses on career choices and leadership skills.

• Burke.pefcu -- Bill Connors, PEFCU president and CEO on Wednesday (June 23) announces the credit union's $500,000 gift to benefit the Tom Spurgeon Golf Training Center and the Dennis J. and Mary Lou Schwartz Tennis Center. The announcement was made at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex prior to PEFCU's annual Community Business Partner Golf Outing.

• Groll.conference -- Eckhard Groll, an associate professor of mechanical engineering at Purdue University, works on a miniature-scale refrigeration system that could be used to cool computer chips in the near future. The system is similar to conventional refrigerators except that it is small enough to fit in a personal or laptop computer. Researchers will present a technical paper about the work during an international conference in July on air conditioning, refrigeration and compressors.

• Brees.nysp -- Drew Brees, of the San Diego Chargers, autographs a T-shirt for Sneah Rani, a junior at West Lafayette High School, on Tuesday (June 22) during the PEFCU Pep Rally for Purdue University's National Youth Sports Program. Rani, in her third year with the program, is training as a counselor. More than 300 children, ages 10-16, attend the sports program weekdays from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. through July 23. The camp focuses on healthy living by encouraging children to eat right and engage in physical activity through sports. Math, science and writing also were added to the program's activities this year. Children are referred by their Tippecanoe County schools.

• Hynd.doctorate -- George Hynd, dean of Purdue University's School of Education, along with 13 distinguished scientists, researchers and others at the tops of their fields, in May received honorary doctorates from the University of Jyvaskyla (pronounced yoo-VES-kyoo-la) in Finland. A sword was given to each of the honorees. Hynd was honored for his research in the neurobiological basis of learning and behavioral disabilities in children. Ben Roy Mottelson, who earned a bachelor's degree in physics from Purdue and received a Nobel Prize in 1947, also was honored.

• Piggott.4th -- The Lafayette Symphony Orchestra performs at a previous Stars & Stripes Fourth of July concert at Purdue's Slayter Center of the Performing Arts. After two years off-campus due to construction, the Lafayette-West Lafayette tradition, which is free and open to the public, returns to Slayter Hill on Sunday (7/4) with the concert starting at 6 p.m. and fireworks starting at 9:15 p.m.

• Hynd.gh (2 photos) -- George Hynd (at right), dean of Purdue's School of Education, and David Schleppenbach, CEO and co-founder of gh LLC, discuss collaboration possibilities before a recent meeting in which Schleppenbach talked with faculty about the company. Schleppenbach says he hopes more education professors will become interested in adding their research and expertise to product development at his company and others like it. (second photo) Ashley McWhirter, a student from Indiana School for the Blind, works with software developed by gh LLC. McWhirter and several classmates visited the Purdue Research Park company with their teacher Pam Taylor.

• Gibb.mole (2 photos) -- This Eastern mole is very common. They use their powerful front legs to dig tunnels in search of earthworms and insects that comprise their diets. (second photo) The star-nosed mole is found mainly in the Western United States. In Indiana, where some inhabit the northern part of the state, they are an endangered species. If one is found, the Indiana Department of Natural resources should be notified immediately.

• Templin.nysp04 (2 photos) -- Robin Boomer, a senior in health and fitness from Noblesville, Ind., checks 11-year-old Merissa Wilson-Mason's blood pressure at the free medical screenings provided by Purdue University's National Youth Sports Program. Purdue's third National Youth Sports Program will run June 17-July 23. More than 300 students, ages 10-16, are expected to participate in this year's five-week program, which offers sports instruction, health education and science courses on Purdue's campus. The program is free for children who were referred by their schools in Tippecanoe County, including Wilson-Mason's school, Earhart Elementary. (second photo) Kim Lehnen, at left, a program volunteer and administrative assistant in Purdue University's Department of Health and Kinesiology, tests the vision of Alyssa Bowlin, a 15-year-old student at Sunnyside Middle School in Lafayette. The free medical screenings are provided as part of Purdue's National Youth Sports Program.

• Contreni.visit -- André Oosterlinck, rector of the University of Leuven in Belgium, and Purdue President Martin C. Jischke sign a memorandum of understanding between the two universities. The document establishes the two universities' commitment to collaborate on research, establish joint curricula and programs, and participate in student and faculty exchanges.

• Jischke.jobfair -- Amy Mahoney, at left, of Peerless Pump Co., speaks with K.C. Howard on Thursday (May 27) during Purdue University's white-collar job fair. Howard, of Indianapolis, is seeking a job as a maintenance manager. Peerless Pump Co., based in Indianapolis, was one of nearly 40 companies from throughout Indiana whose representatives accepted resumes from nearly 200 out-of-work professionals at the free fair. The event was sponsored by the Purdue Dual Career Assistance Program in conjunction with the Tecumseh Area Partnership and the Indiana Department of Workforce Development's Lafayette WorkOne office.

• Park.International -- From left, Joseph Hornett, senior vice president and treasurer of the Purdue Research Foundation; Lori and Paul Fortwendel, owners of International Sports Clubs; Stephen Shook, partner in Research Park Associates LLC; Drew Sanders, pre-construction director for Duke Construction; Martin C. Jischke, president of Purdue University; and Jan Mills, mayor of West Lafayette, take part in a ceremonial groundbreaking Wednesday (May 26) at the Purdue Research Park. The event marks the beginning of construction to build the International Technology Center, a 75,000-square-foot facility that will include space for high-tech companies and a full-scale health club. The facility is being built by Duke Construction of Indianapolis and funded by Research Park Associates LLC, which is the second group of Lafayette-based private investors to construct additional space for growing startup companies at the research park. Construction is expected to be completed in fall 2004.

• Weaver.calcium -- Connie Weaver, center, and Berdine Martin, at right, conduct a bone scan on Purdue University junior Breanna Rayl. The scan, a procedure to measure bone density and body composition, is one type of assessment the researchers will perform on students attending Camp Calcium, Purdue's annual summer program that investigates various aspects of calcium metabolism in adolescents.

• Thompson.feline -- Steven Thompson, veterinarian and director of the Pet Wellness Clinic at Purdue University's School of Veterinary Medicine, inspects Kit Kat's fur for evidence of parasitic insects that can carry diseases harmful to animals and humans. During the warmer months, it is vital to protect dogs and cats from fleas, ticks and mosquitoes that carry diseases and parasites that can be harmful to animals and humans. Cats as well as dogs can get heartworms from mosquitoes. Prevention is the best approach to heartworms, especially for cats whose bodies have a lower survival rate than dogs if infected.

• Spurgeon.golfded (3 photos) -- Purdue University's Tom Spurgeon Golf Training Center will feature an indoor putting green, a swing-analysis video computer system and multiple heated hitting bays, as well as team locker rooms, a lounge, coaches' offices, a pro shop and a classroom. The 11,400-square-foot center will be open to the public when not in use by Purdue golf teams. (second image) The Tom Spurgeon Golf Training Center will be located along Cherry Lane near the Voinoff Pavilion as part of the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex. The complex includes the center, and the 18-hole Kampen and Ackerman courses. (third photo) Purdue senior and women's golf team member Beth Hermes works on her game. Purdue athletes will be able to improve their golf skills, rain or shine, with the completion of the Tom Spurgeon Golf Training Center.

• PTC.groundbreak -- From left, Joseph Hornett, senior vice president and treasurer of the Purdue Research Foundation; Ron Ellis, president and CEO of Endocyte Inc; Martin C. Jischke, president of Purdue University; and Jan Mills, mayor of West Lafayette take part in a ceremonial groundbreaking Thursday (May 20) at the Purdue Research Park to mark the beginning of construction to double the size of the park's flagship business incubator facility. The Purdue Research Foundation has selected the Indianapolis firm of Shiel Sexton to manage construction of the new 60,000-square-foot wing on the north end of the Purdue Technology Center. The new wing's anchor tenant will be Endocyte Inc., a life sciences venture developing Purdue University-licensed cancer detection and treatment technologies.

• Nolte.CD -- Purdue physics professor David Nolte holds a prototype BioCD, which, if developed, could provide quick, inexpensive medical tests that screen patients for thousands of diseases. BioCDs would use a modified version of the technology already in use in standard CD players, but instead of containing digital data, their surfaces would hold molecules that could detect levels of proteins in blood samples.

• Jischke.center -- Purdue President Martin C. Jischke (second from left) discusses the importance of advanced manufacturing to Indiana's economic future during a panel that was part of Tuesday's (5/18) Summit III: Advancing Manufacturing in Indiana. At the summit, Jischke announced plans for Purdue to establish a Center for Advanced Manufacturing to serve as an interface between the university's basic research and the applied-technology needs of Indiana manufacturers. Other panelists are, from left, Brian Burton, vice president of marketing and member services of the Indiana Manufacturers Association; Jischke; Lee Lewellen, vice president of the Central Indiana Corporate Partnership; Tim Monger, executive director of the Indiana Department of Commerce; and W. Parker Sykes, director of manufacturing and engineering for Rolls-Royce.

• Brown -- Alysa Rollock, vice president for human relations at Purdue University (left), and Suellen Reed, Indiana's superintendent of public instruction (right), chat before Reed gives a talk at a reception honoring the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education U.S. Supreme Court decision. The decision, named after one of the plaintiffs in the class action suit, made it mandatory for public schools to integrate. In the background, state representative Sue Sholer (R-West Lafayette), visits with another attendee.

• Jischke.commence (2 photos) -- Joe Dickelman, of Minneapolis, gives his 4-year-old son Kyler a lift from the Boilermaker Special, Purdue University's mascot. The two, along with other family members, were celebrating after a commencement ceremony Saturday (May 15) on Purdue's West Lafayette campus in which Dickelman received his master's degree in building construction technology. (second photo) April Savoy, at left, walks on Purdue's West Lafayette campus Saturday (May 15) with her proud mother, Ethel Narcisse, after Savoy participated in the university's commencement exercises. Savoy, from Lafayette, La., received her master's degree in computer science. The Saturday morning commencement was the first of four on the Purdue campus Ñ another took place Saturday afternoon, and the final two ceremonies are scheduled for Sunday (May 16).

• Gery.chairgifts -- Linda Rohrman is serenaded by the Purdue Glee Club at the Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center as an emotional Joe Seaman, in background, looks on. Rohrman and Seaman, who serve as co-chairs of the community portion of the Campaign for Purdue, announced gifts on Friday (May 14) to benefit the university's fund-raising effort.

• Hirleman.geare -- Students from Purdue University and the Universität Karlsruhe in Germany demonstrate the portable amusement-park ride they designed and built as part of a program to give American students firsthand experience working abroad with multicultural teams. The ride is being tested with two 70-pound sandbags in place of people because a state safety certification is needed for human passengers. Purdue officials said the ride could easily pass a state inspection if students made minor modifications, but the project is completed and there are no immediate plans to commercialize the ride.

• Parker.book -- Politicians' concern about reputation, not elections, keeps them honest, says Glenn R. Parker, Distinguished Professor of Political Science. Parker's research shows that most politicians will police their own behavior and refrain from engaging in activities for private gain out of concern for their reputations. His research results are in the book "Self-Policing in Politics: The Political Economy of Reputational Controls on Politicians." The book, $35, was published by Princeton University Press. Parker's analysis draws on public opinion based in congressional constituencies and collected by the University of Michigan's national election study surveys between 1978 and 1994.

• Wojtalewicz.rotc (2 photos) -- Fun is a part of the training for freshman midshipmen in Purdue's Navy ROTC. These midshipmen are learning to sail, a requirement during the first year. (second photo) Army ROTC cadet Justin Grant, of Decatur, Ind., gives an OK sign to two members of the U.S. Army's elite Special Forces during combat scuba training last summer in Pensacola, Fla. Grant was one of the first cadets to receive the training.

• Hirleman.baja -- Anthony Perfetto, from Rochester, Ind.; Dan Burt, from Chicago; and Brett Zook, from Henryville, Ind.; examine Purdue University's entry into the 2004 Mini Baja West competition. All are seniors in Purdue's School of Mechanical Engineering. The vehicle, the only entry that could shift from two-wheel to four-wheel drive, was awarded second place for engineering. The U.S. Army wants to study the Baja with hopes of using it in the design of new vehicles.

• Solomon.screenings -- Ana Morales, a graduate clinician in the Department of Audiology and Speech Sciences, conducts a speech screening on Connie Paul, a pharmacy graduate student from St. Joe, Mich., as part of her clinical rotation. From 1-4 p.m. on May 24 and May 26 the M.D. Steer Audiology and Speech-Language Clinics will offer free screenings. To schedule an appointment, call (765) 494-4229. A speech screening will evaluate language ability and swallowing function, as well as voice and fluency.

• Meilan.genetrap -- The blue color in the veins of the leaf pictured may contain the key to the trees of the future, says Purdue scientist Rick Meilan, who uses a type of molecular flag that produces a blue substance in his research in tree gene discovery. Meilan suggests his research could lead to the development of ideal characteristics, such as insect resistance or improved wood production, in trees that could be domesticated or "farmed," reducing the need to log wilderness areas.

• Shin.grinding -- Chengying Xu (left). a doctoral student in mechanical engineering at Purdue University, and Yung Shin, professor of mechanical engineering, review information on data acquisition and monitoring for a "computer numerical control" grinding machine, pictured in background. Commonly referred to as CNC machines, the grinders cost up to $1 million and are widely used in industry to manufacture parts. Shin is leading research work that uses artificial intelligence software to improve the precision of such CNC grinding machines, which potentially could yield annual savings of $1 billion for U.S. companies.

• Pittendrigh.orchestra -- Tiny fruit flies are the subjects of Purdue University entomology researcher Barry Pittendrigh's efforts to discover how insects neutralize the pesticides designed to kill them. He believes that a series of genes are players that orchestrate the biochemical processes involved in pesticide resistance. His study was published in the current issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

• Fox.student -- Purdue student teacher Hirra McNeal, a senior in elementary education from Indianapolis, works with Tori Misner, a student in a mixed-age first- and second-grade class at Lafayette's Murdock Elementary School, as professor Gerald Krockover watches via a television monitor. McNeal is one of several Purdue student teachers who were observed via the Internet.

• Rotman.dig -- Deborah Rotman, assistant professor in anthropology, (far right) assists in preparing tools to be used in the Sears House Project excavation on May 17—21. Rotman and anthropology students from Purdue's archaeology field school (from left) Jenell Hawley, a junior from Warsaw, Ind., Tyler McWilliams, a senior from New Albany, Ind., and Sharan Bhaskar, a senior from Madison, Wis., will guide local volunteers in excavating a house site at 2114 N. Ninth St. The home, which is being donated by the city of Lafayette, was constructed in 1921 from a kit sold by Sears. After the Sears House Project excavation, which will focus on the land surrounding the house, the city plans to move the house to the Museum of Prophetstown, which features a Woodland Native American Village, Wabash Valley Living History farm and a prairie.

• Chung.hearing -- King Chung, assistant professor of audiology, sets up for her next experiment in the Amplification and Communication Research Laboratory at Purdue University. She will evaluate how hearing-aid technologies can improve the efficiency of cochlear implants. Chung's current research shows that by applying the front-end processing capability of hearing aids to cochlear implants, cochlear implant users achieved better listening quality. Chung's research findings are published in the current issue of Acoustic Research Letters Online.

• Chang.parallel -- As part of an effort to make superpowerful quantum computers, Purdue University researchers have created "quantum dots" in a semiconducting material known as gallium arsenide. The quantum dots (the two small circular areas shown adjacent to one other in the center of the image) are puddles of about 40-60 electrons. Together the dots can form part of transistors in which the electrons' spin, a quantum mechanical property, could be harnessed to make logic gates for next-generation computer chips. Each dot measures only about 180 nanometers (billionths of a meter) in diameter — about 5,000 of them could stretch across the width of a grain of sand.

• Hornett.Superpave -- Ghassan Chehab, a pavement research engineer, explains highway surfacing test equipment to Bryan Nicol, commissioner of the Indiana Department of Transportation, today (Tuesday, 4/27) during a tour of INDOT's Division of Research facility. A 22,000-square-foot addition to the building, which includes office and laboratory space and new equipment was dedicated today. The building is used by the Division of Research and North Central Superpave Center to conduct transportation-related research.

• Smith.grandprix (2 photos) -- Clayton Smith, winner of today's (Saturday, 4/24) Grand Prix at Purdue University, holds up his trophy as he is surrounded by his mother, Cindy Smith, at far right, and family members who have previously won the race. From left are Tom Smith, an uncle who won the race in 1989; brother Dustin Smith, who won in 1996; Clayton Smith; cousin Kyle Smith, who won in 1998; and brother Ian Smith, who won the race in 1993, 1994 and 1995. (second photo) Grand Prix champion Clayton Smith (in kart No. 2) holds a slim lead over two-time winner Timothy O'Brien (in kart No. 3) during the early laps of today's (Saturday, 4/24) race. O'Brien later took the lead, but mechanical problems forced him out with 30 laps to go in the 160-lap race.

• Blewett.lifesciwin (2 photos) -- Alan Kleinfield, CEO of FFA Sciences in San Diego, makes the winning presentation at Purdue's second annual Life Sciences Business Plan Competition today (4/21). FFA Sciences 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 held in Rawls Hall, the Krannert School of Management's new facility. (second photo) Kevin Boscacci, a Krannert School of Management MBA graduate, makes the presentation for Prosolia that won second place at Purdue's second annual Life Sciences Business Plan Competition yesterday (Wednesday, 4/21). Prosolia, based in Indianapolis, won $20,000 for being the top Indiana entry in the competition, in addition to the $20,000 second prize and $8,000 in business services. Prosolia and third-place finisher, Tienta Sciences, both used technology developed in Purdue's Aston Laboratories for Mass Spectrometry.

• Cunningham.dance -- Kristin Pavelka, A Purdue University senior studying psychology from Lagrange Park, Ill., performs selections from "A Turn of Season" in the motion-capture suit. The Purdue Repertory Dance Company will present 10 new dance works, including "Seasons of Surreality," on April 30 and May 1. The dance company, which is housed in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, will perform at 8 p.m. in the Loeb Playhouse in Stewart Center. Faculty and students from dance, the theater sound program and computer graphics technology departments are using motion-capture technology to incorporate imagery and sound effects into the performance.

• LaLopa.indot -- Six interdisciplinary teams of Purdue students from three departments – forestry and natural resources, horticulture and landscape architecture, and hospitality and tourism management – on Tuesday (4/27) will present "an optimum physical design" for U.S. 231 from the Wabash River to U.S. 52 to the Area Planning Commission, the Indiana Department of Transportation and a community advisory committee. From left, are Shorna R. Broussard, assistant professor of forestry and natural resources; Amber Hatke, a junior hospitality and tourism management major from Attica, Ind.; Mick La Lopa, associate professor of hospitality and tourism management; Kim L. Wilson, associate professor of horticulture and landscape architecture; Beena Vaidyan, a senior hospitality and tourism management major from Chicago; and Kate O'Reilly, a junior hospitality and tourism management major from Christopher, Ind.

• Ramani.CAD (2 images) -- Purdue University engineers have developed a system that will enable employees to search huge industry databases of parts created with computer-aided design, or CAD, software, such as this image. Before a CAD part can be searched, its three-dimensional shape must be converted into "voxels," or volume elements, and then the system uses complex software algorithms to convert the voxels into a simplified "skeletal graph" based on "feature vectors," or numbers that represent a part's shape. The system then searches for these simplified skeletal graphs. (second image) Here is another example of CAD parts contained in company databases. Purdue University engineers have developed a system that will enable employees to search huge industry databases for such parts. Before a CAD part can be searched, its three-dimensional shape must be converted into "voxels," or volume elements, and then the system uses complex software algorithms to convert the voxels into a simplified "skeletal graph" based on "feature vectors," or numbers that represent a part's shape.

• LeMaster.pfendler -- Pfendler Hall, built in 1901 as the original home for the School of Agriculture, has had a $16 million facelift and will be dedicated on Saturday (4/17). The building, formerly called Agricultural Hall, and later Entomology Hall, was vacated in 1999 because of its deteriorating condition. The building now includes new classrooms, a spatial modeling computer lab, and office space for faculty, staff and graduate students. An addition to the building, which houses several new laboratories and a large auditorium, connects it to Whistler Hall.

• Mancing.cervantes -- Howard Mancing, (standing), joins his graduate students who are planning a 48-hour reading of "Don Quixote." The students – Jessica Ribble, a master's student in Spanish literature, from Binghamton, N.Y.; José Garcia, a master's student in teaching Spanish from Bogota, Columbia,; Fermin Recarte, a master's student in Spanish literature from Montevideo, Uruguay; and Silvina Meza, a doctoral student in Spanish literature from Resistencia, Argentina – are organizing "A Quixotic Reading/Una Lectura Quijotesca." The reading begins at 2:30 p.m. on April 22 and will end sometime during the afternoon of April 24.

• Gallucci.cfsgift -- Patricia Ayers Gallucci, Purdue alumna and former Lafayette resident, sits by the "Tired Boy" statue located at the entrance of the Windsor Halls complex while at Purdue University to donate 52 acres of family land to the School of Consumer and Family Sciences.

• McKenzie.ibook -- Alan T. McKenzie, a Purdue University expert in British literature puts words into the mouths of the 18th century's greatest literary figures, such as Samuel Johnson and Lord Chesterfield, in "Enlightening Up Postmodernism: Seven Pastirodies." The book ($24.95) is available this month from the Purdue University Press. This is Purdue Press' first e-book, which means it is in a digital format, and no paper copies exist.

• Envision.open (2 photos) -- Hong Tan (far left), of Purdue University's Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, demonstrates the Access Grid to Purdue President Martin C. Jischke today (Monday, 4/9) during the opening of the university's Envision Center for Data Perceptualization. The main screen of the Access Grid, on which complex audiovisual information including 3-D images can be projected, also is visible from inside the control room (foreground). The facility is part of the new center, designed to create virtual-reality environments that can help scientists and engineers with projects from oil prospecting to weather pattern and drug molecule analysis. (second photo) Shown is a view of Purdue University's Access Grid from inside its control room, where operators can project audiovisual information, including 3-D images, into the viewing area for a large audience. The grid, a next-generation telecommunications facility inside Purdue's new Envision Center, will help students and faculty collaborate on highly technical projects requiring the exchange of complex information between remote locations.

• Opheim.cpr -- Paula Opheim, a Purdue University sophomore from Indianapolis, is recovering from an operation to install a pacemaker on Thursday (4/8). Purdue patrol officers saw Opheim collapse on Monday (4/5) while jogging on campus. The officers and paramedics from the Purdue Fire Department revived her using CPR and defibrillation, and she was taken by ambulance to St. Elizabeth Medical Center. She is recovering at home in Indianapolis and expects to return to campus and finish her spring semester classes.

• Webster.rosette -- This image depicts the "self-assembly" of rosette-shaped rings made of specially modified molecules called guanine and cytosine, which come together to form DNA. After forming, the rings then assemble themselves into "nanotubes" that offer promise in a variety of applications, including the possible creation of better artificial joints and other body implants. The nanotubes are only about as wide as 3.5 nanometers, or billionths of a meter. Researchers have recently found that bone cells attach better to titanium coated with the nanotubes than to uncoated titanium used in orthopedic implants.

• Finley.veritas -- Shown is an illustration of the VERITAS gamma-ray telescope now under construction on Kitt Peak, Arizona with the assistance of three Purdue University physicists. The telescope will permit astronomers to examine some of the most energetic objects in the universe, from quasars to the massive black holes thought to exist at the centers of galaxies. The illustration has been prepared by superimposing four copies of a photograph taken of a single dish antenna onto the landscape where the telescope will be located after its completion in October 2006.

• Rube.national04 (3 photos) -- Andrew Nymeyer, a Purdue senior in the School of Technology from of Bristol, Ind., watches as his team's machine finishes its perfect run today (Saturday, 4/3) during the National Rube Goldberg Machine Contest at Lambert Fieldhouse. Nymeyer is co-captain of the Society of Manufacturing Engineers' team that won the competition and the People's Choice Award. Teams in the contest had to build machines that used a minimum of 20 steps to select, mark and cast a ballot using principles of engineering and physics. Purdue's machine used 71 steps.

• MacGowan.salamander -- Purdue University wildlife biologists recently discovered a population of breeding mole salamanders, a species previously undocumented in the state, in southwestern Indiana. This adult male is displaying a defensive posture typical of the species.

• Ramani.shape (2 images) -- Purdue University engineers have developed a system that will enable employees to search huge industry databases by entering a part that has a similar shape, sketching a part from scratch or modifying a part that has a similar three-dimensional shape. This image shows the beginning of the search process, in which the user selects a catalogued part – shown with a black background – that is similar to the shape of the desired part. The system progressively narrows the search results in a multistep process that provides groups of parts that have similar shapes. (second photo) This image shows the second step in the multistep search process. In this step, the system retrieves a group of parts that have similar three-dimension shapes to the desired part – shown with the black background in the first image.

• Jacobs.chestnuts (2 photos) -- Purdue University researcher Doug Jacobs stands next to an American chestnut. Jacobs is studying how well American chestnut trees grow in plantations, research essential to future reintroduction plans. He also is developing a blight-resistant hybrid to be used in future planting projects. (second photo) The American chestnut tree, whose leaves and nut-bearing structures are shown here, was nearly wiped out in the first half of the 20th century by a fungal infection. A Purdue University researcher is developing trees resistant to the infection in the hope of restoring American chestnut throughout parts the United States.

• Henriksen.ras -- These two images show the development of human cells with (left) and without (right) the normal concentration of the protein Ras in their cell membranes. The cells on the right have the protein Ras scattered throughout their cytoplasm, in contrast with the normally developed cells on the left. The absence of the enzyme Icmt prevents Ras from lodging in the membrane, where it ordinarily performs tasks vital to cellular reproduction. Purdue research suggests that preventing Icmt from interacting with Ras during the protein's development may inhibit the runaway cell growth that is characteristic of cancer, thus leading to new approaches to treating several forms of the disease

• Duparcq.forecast -- Purdue MBA students and their professor, Patrick Duparcq, in Purdue's Krannert School of Management have published the "Krannert Technology Forecast 2004-2006." They predict the top three high-tech trends are fast growth of broadband, increased use of wireless computer access and radio-frequency identification tags. The research is sponsored by the university's Center for E-business Education and Research.

• Templin.golf -- Jim Ousley, PGA golf professional at the Tippecanoe Country Club and instructor for Golf: For Business & Life at Purdue University, helps his student, Mary Kay Weise, a Purdue senior in actuarial science and statistics from Dyer, Ind., at the Birck Golf Complex. Golf: For Business & Life, a class in the Department of Health and Kinesiology, provides high-quality instruction from PGA professionals to Purdue students who may one day be playing the sport as part of business. Since the program was created, 49 universities, including Texas at Austin, Stanford, North Carolina, Wake Forest and Arizona State universities, have received $3.7 million from the PGA of America as an incentive to follow the model created at Purdue.

• Taleyarkhan.fusion -- Rusi Taleyarkhan, a professor of nuclear engineering at Purdue University, has led research showing evidence for nuclear fusion reactions in a tabletop experiment. Taleyarkhan is shown here with his experiment in a U.S. Department of Energy facility in Oak Ridge, Tenn., where he conducted the research before coming to Purdue.

• Garimella.nanolight (3 photos) -- Mechanical engineers at Purdue University are developing a new type of cooling technology for computers that uses a sort of nano-lightning to create tiny wind currents. This diagram depicts one version of the design, including the carbon nanotube electrodes, represented by thin red tubes on the left, which emit electrons and make it possible to create the ionizing effects of lightning using low voltage.

• Hope.boosters -- Veterinarians recommend that horses receive a vaccination against West Nile virus in March or April and a second one in August or September. Purdue University community practice equine veterinarian Bill Hope prepares a syringe to administer the shot to a horse at the Clinton County Fairgrounds in Frankfort, Ind.

• Rueff.gift -- Sigrid Zahner, at right, a graduate student in ceramics, talks about her two sculptures (foreground) in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Gallery at the new Visual and Performing Arts Building. Rusty, a Purdue University liberal arts graduate who is part of the interactive entertainment industry, is recognizing his alma mater with the largest single gift ever made to Purdue's School of Liberal Arts. In recognition of their $5 million deferred gift, the university will name its Department of Visual and Performing Arts after the Rueffs, who live in Burlingame, Calif. The department, in Purdue's School of Liberal Arts, is composed of four divisions – art and design, music, dance and theater.

• Blevins.ct -- William Blevins, professor and chief of diagnostic imaging in Purdue University's Veterinary Teaching Hospital, performs a bone biopsy on Pug, a 2-year old male pug, with the aid of the School of Veterinary Medicine's new computed tomography (CT) scan. Assisting Blevins are radiologic technologist Donna Tudor, left, and Kristina Henricks, of Hilo, Hawaii, a fourth-year doctor of veterinary medicine student.

• Bridgebust -- Science Bound students Jea-Lissa Harvey and David Howard, who both attend Key Learning Center High School in Indianapolis, react as their bridge collapses on Friday (3/5) during the Bridge Bust competition at the Tippecanoe Mall in Lafayette. High school teams built bridges that were judged based on aesthetic qualities and structural concepts, as well as on how much weight the structures could carry before collapsing. The event was administered by the Purdue University chapter of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Several team members are part of Science Bound, a program initiated in 2002 by Purdue President Martin C. Jischke. The program mentors eighth-grade to 12th-grade Indianapolis Public Schools students and encourages them to take classes in preparation for future careers in science, engineering, technology and math-science education.

• Ellis.gypsy (2 photos) -- Male gypsy moths, shown at bottom right, begin emerging in June and can vary in size. Female gypsy moths emerge soon after the males. (Second photo) Gypsy moth egg masses can be found on tree trunks and other stable surfaces and also are frequently found on camping equipment and firewood.

• Rube.Local (2 photos) -- Curt McDowell, Andrew Nymeyer and Brian Enlow, from left, all seniors in Purdue University's School of Technology, celebrate after winning today's (Saturday, 2/28) Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. The competition pays homage to the late cartoonist Rube Goldberg, who specialized in drawing whimsical machines with complex mechanisms to perform simple tasks. Their machine, which used 70 steps to cast a ballot, will represent Purdue at the national contest on April 3. (Second photo) From left, Brian Enlow, a senior from Fishers, Ind., and Kreig Kaiser, a junior from Elwood, Ind., watch their machine complete a successful run today (Saturday, 2/28) in Purdue University's Rube Goldberg Machine Contest. Their machine, sponsored by the Society of Professional Engineers, won the competition and will represent Purdue at the national contest on April 3. Teams in the contest had to build machines that used a minimum of 20 steps to cast a ballot using principles of engineering and physics.

• Engineering week.trade -- C-SPAN founder Brian Lamb, at left, moderates an international trade discussion today (Friday, 2/27) at Purdue University as panelist Michael Eskew, UPS chairman and CEO, listens. The two were part of a group of experts for "The Outlook for International Trade: The Future of Jobs, Technology and Economic Growth," a discussion of international trade issues that took place in conjunction with National Engineers Week activities at Purdue.In addition to Eskew, panelists included Michael "Mickey" Kantor, former U.S. secretary of commerce and trade representative; Thomas F. McLarty III, White House chief of staff and special envoy to the Americas under President Clinton; Sergio Marchi, Canadian ambassador and former chairman of the World Trade Organization; Chan Heng Chee, Singaporean ambassador to the United States; and Yang Jiechi, Chinese ambassador to the United States. Panelists spoke about the importance of international trade to the global economy as well as to the economies of individual countries. Chan Heng Chee summed up the importance of trade to Singapore and the rest of the world: "If we do not trade, we are dead."

• Houston.sweet -- Purdue Memorial Union graphic designer Becky Chapman paints part of a mural on the wall surrounding the renovation of Pappy's Sweet Shop, located on union's first floor. The $1.9 million renovation was started in January and will be finished this summer. Chapman works on the mural Monday through Friday from 3-5 p.m. The collage includes the architect's rendering of the completed renovation, the Pappy's Sweet Shop logo and a portrait of Frank "Pappy" Fox, who managed the Sweet Shop from its opening in 1927 until he retired in 1959.

• Katehi.gifts (2 photos) -- Linda Katehi, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering, helps Heddy Kurz make a concrete imprint of her hands while, from left, Benita Tubbs, a sophomore in the School of Industrial Engineering, and Brian Schoening, a senior in the School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, watch. Purdue University's Schools of Engineering today (Thursday, 2/26) announced that Kurz has donated $1.9 million toward construction of the Millennium Engineering Building. The imprint will be built into the new facility in honor of Kurz. (Second photo) Olivia Djibo, a graduate student in aeronautical and astronautical engineering from Ivory Coast, helps several undergraduate students with a metal strain test experiment. The experiment is an example of work students will be able to do in the Millennium Engineering Building, where a main focus will be undergraduate education.

• Gentry.compete -- Roncalli High School students Michael Parrett, Fatima Patino and Brian Bauman, from left, celebrate a correct answer at the Academic Decathlon competition sponsored by Purdue University on Feb. 13-14. Students from more than 20 schools from throughout Indiana competed in the academic competition, which is one of several contests funded by Purdue and administered by the Indiana Association of School Principals.

• Zwier.tryptamine -- This metaphorical "mountain range" of peaks and valleys represents the different energy states which can be assumed by a tryptamine molecule, closely related to the brain-influencing substances serotonin and melatonin. A single tryptamine molecule can have several different configurations depending on how much energy it has received, and tends to stay in one configuration – represented by the red "valleys" on the chart – until enough energy is added to make it climb out of the valley and cross the range to another steady energy state. Tim Zwier's group at Purdue University has used lasers to explore the precise energies required to move a molecule from one valley to another, making it far easier to determine the route tryptamine takes as it changes configuration. The work could impact the study of how proteins fold and could lead to new approaches to develop computer memory devices.

• Blewett.burton04 -- Jean Guan, a Krannert School of Management MBA student at Purdue University, makes the winning presentation Thursday (2/19) in the 17th annual Burton D. Morgan Entrepreneurial Competition to win the top prize of $50,000 for OganoDevice Technology. OrganoDevice Technology plans to use nanoscale technology to build low-cost, high-performance light-emitting diodes for use in television flat display panel screens and new radio-frequency identification tags that are slated to replace bar coding.

• Katehi.Week -- Sorubh Mahdoo, foreground, an electrical and computer engineering graduate student from Mauritius, uses a laser table to begin scanning a sample for research on a haptic interface for a scanning probe microscope. In the background (clockwise from bottom) Stephen Brown, a senior in physics and mechanical engineering, from Fort Wayne, Ind.; Hong Tan, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering; Laron Walker, a graduate student in electrical and computer engineering from Atlanta; and Ron Reifenberger, a professor of physics, watch the results. The group, which is seeking to develop a way to manipulate nanoparticles by touch, is an example of interdisciplinary research that is becoming a focus of the Schools of Engineering.

• Lewandowski.wkend -- Lynn Holzman and Bob Sakar, two students in Purdue University's Krannert Executive Education Program's 2004 Executive MBA Program, represent the diversity in the new class. Sakar has a doctorate in genetics from the University of Delhi in India and is director/general manager at Sodexho Healthcare Services in Danville, Ill. Holzman earned a bachelor's degree in exercise science from Kansas State University on a basketball scholarship. She then earned a master's degree from the University of North Carolina and now is director of membership services with the NCAA national headquarters in Indianapolis.

• MacGeorge.sexroles -- Michaud and Warner (1997) and Basow and Rubenfeld (2003) recently reported studies of gender differences in "troubles talk" that allegedly provide support for the different cultures thesis, that is, the notion that men and women communication in such different ways that they should be regarded as members of different communication cultures or speech communities. In this article, we identify several limitations in these two studies that, collectively, have the effect of casting doubt on their conclusions. We then report three studies that show that men and women provide and respond to supportive messages (troubles talk) in ways that are much more similar than different. The current findings, in conjunction with other recent findings, suggest that the different cultures thesis is a myth that should be discarded.

• McKinnis.intern (2 photos) -- Kevin Jant, a Purdue University mechanical engineering major, served as an intern last summer for ambulance manufacturer McCoy Miller of Elkhart, Ind. Jant analyzed the company's bill of materials and redesigned fiberglass van caps for ambulances. (Second photo) Patricia Wiyono, at right, a Purdue University management major, is pictured with FieFie Jin. Wiyono served with Jin as an intern at Fanger Communications in Indianapolis. While at Fanger Communications, Wiyono helped to build a database that listed more than 75,000 members of a target market.

• brown.50th -- Linda Brown Thompson, left, speaks to a crowd in Purdue University's Fowler Hall on Thursday (2/12) to mark the 50th anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision, Brown vs. the Board of Education, that ended public school segregation. Linda Brown Thompson and her sister Cheryl Brown Henderson, right, who also spoke, vividly remember the events from more than five decades ago that led to the court case. Linda was 7 and her sister was 3 and not yet in school when their parents tried to enter Linda in the all-white public school near their home so that she wouldn't have to walk seven blocks to catch a school bus for the five-mile ride to the all-black school. The Brown sisters spoke at Purdue as part of the university's yearlong celebration of the supreme court decision that ended school segregation.

• Sheahan.makeover -- Veterinarian Larry McAfee examines a dog at McAfee Animal Hospital in Valparaiso, Ind. American Animal Hospital Association is conducting a "makeover" at the clinic that reaches into all areas of the practice – from the facility itself to its management practices to strategic planning for the future.

• Bashir.virus -- This photo, taken with a scanning electron microscope, shows a miniature "cantilever," a diving board-like beam of silicon that researchers at Purdue University have used to detect a single virus particle weighing about one-trillionth as much as a grain of rice. The work, funded by the National Institutes of Health, is aimed at developing advanced sensors capable of detecting airborne viruses, bacteria and other contaminants. Such sensors will have applications in areas including environmental health monitoring in hospitals and homeland security.

• Salt.selenium -- This illlustration shows the presence of two different selenium compounds in living plant tissue. The image on the left shows a high concentration of MSC, the selenium compound shown to have anti-cancer properties, in one of the plant's leaves. The image on the right highlights a different selenium compound in the same leaf. The image was obtained using a technique called X-ray absorbance spectroscopy, or XAS, to visualize concentrations of selenium. Red indicates regions of high concentration. Blue and green indicate lower concentration.

• Wenthold.molecule -- Purdue chemist Paul Wenthold stands with graduate student Tamara Munsch next to a model illustrating the unusual molecule they analyzed. The radical hydrocarbon has unpaired electrons that face in different directions, a characteristic that makes it unique among non-metallic compounds. The electrons, represented by the binders closer to Wenthold and under a diagram of the molecule itself, "stack up" in a way that can be likened to the way binders lie flat on a shelf but do not face the same direction – as they would in an ordinary radical, represented by the stack farther from him. The fundamental discovery could help in the design of new materials such as non-metal magnets.

• Bhunia.listeria -- A computer monitor in Arun Bhunia's research lab displays a Listeria monocytogenes adhering to human intestinal cells. Research conducted by Bhunia, a professor of food science at Purdue, and Jennifer Wampler, a postdoctoral student, led to the discovery of the protein on the surface of intestinal cells that allows a food-borne pathogen to attach to the intestine.

• Alsup.book -- Janet Alsup, assistant professor of English education at Purdue University, has co-written a book that addresses why only about half of new teachers stay in the profession for more than five years. Alsup, who taught junior high and high school English for seven years before earning her doctorate, co-wrote "But Will it Work with Real Students?" with Jonathan Bush, assistant professor of English education at Western Michigan University and a former Purdue graduate student. The book was published by the National Council of Teachers of English.

• Simulex.sim -- Bmal Shah (left), a systems engineer for Simulex Inc., runs a war game simulation for Dan Snyder from U.S. Joint Forces Command's Virginia division. The Purdue Research Park company is hosting a two-day simulation event for the military that allows participants to evaluate the social, political and economic impact of decisions made in the wake of a terrorist threat or attack using weapons of mass destruction. Also at the table are Shailendra Mehta and Alok Chaturvedi, Simulex co-founders and associate professors of management at Purdue's Krannert School of Management.

• Visser.indesign -- Purdue University students (from left) Michael Guerin, a junior in visual communication design from Winchester, Mass.; Ashley Spangler, a junior in industrial design from Greensburg, Ind.; and Stephanie Cleary, a junior in industrial design from Floyd Knobs, Ind., consult with Steve Visser, professor of industrial design, about the products to be displayed at the INDesign exhibit. Visser and three of his students have assisted with the organization of the Midwes