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March 21, 2008
Faculty selected for three concurrent symposia
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Eighteen Purdue University faculty members were selected to participate in three April 11 faculty symposia that precede the presidential inauguration.
The symposia are 10 a.m. to noon and are free and open to the public.
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The "Serious Games for Serious Learning: Harnessing the Digital Generation" panel discussion will take place in the Commons of the Lawson Computer Science Building. Rusty Rueff, chief executive officer of SNOCAP Inc. and former vice president of human resources for Electronic Arts, is the moderator. Rueff earned a bachelor's degree in radio and television in 1984 and a master's degree in counseling in 1986 from Purdue.
The panelists are:
* Nicoletta Adamo-Villani, assistant professor of computer graphics.
* Gary Bertoline, Distinguished Professor of Computer Graphics Technology, professor of computer and information technology, and assistant dean for graduate studies in the College of Technology.
* Dan DeLaurentis, assistant professor of aeronautics and astronautics.
* Lorraine Kisselburgh, a doctorate student in the Department of Communication.
* Carlos Morales, associate professor of computer graphics technology.
* Voicu Popescu, associate professor of computer science.
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The "Building a New Planet" panel will be in the Pfendler Hall Auditorium. Moria Gunn, founder and host of Public Radio's "Tech Nation" and "BioTech Nation," is the moderator. Gunn earned her master's degree in computer science in 1972 and became the first woman to earn her doctorate in mechanical engineering from Purdue in 1974.
The panelists are:
* Kirk Alter, associate professor of building construction management technology.
* Hugh Hillhouse, associate professor of chemical engineering.
*Inez Hua, interim head and professor of environmental and ecological engineering
* Paul Shepson, professor of chemistry and earth and atmospheric science, and director of the Purdue Climate Change Research Center.
* Gerald Shively, professor of agricultural economics.
*Robin Mills Ridgway, environmental regulatory consultant for the Department of Radiological and Environmental Management.
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The "Tiny Technologies for Huge Impacts on Health" panel will meet at the Neil Armstrong Hall
of Engineering, Room B071. Timothy Sands, the Mary Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of Birck Nanotechnology Center and the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering School of Materials Engineering & School of Electrical and Computer Engineering.
The panelists are:
* John Hertig, director of the Alfred Mann Institute for Biomedical Development at Purdue.
* Joseph Irudayaraj, associate professor of agricultural and biological engineering.
* James F. Leary, professor of medical engineering and SVM Professor of Nanomedicine.
* Alyssa Panitch, associate professor of biomedical engineering.
* Jenna Rickus, assistant professor of biomedical engineering.
* Masaru Rao, assistant professor of mechanical engineering.
In addition to the faculty symposia, the Global University Convocation is planned in conjunction with the inauguration. The convocation, which also is free and open to the public, will take place 2:30-4:30 p.m. April 10 in Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse.
France A. Córdova was selected in May as the 11th president of Purdue. She took office in July, after having served as chancellor of University of California, Riverside, since 2002. She previously was vice chancellor for research and a professor of physics at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Before that, she was the first woman and youngest person to hold the position of NASA chief scientist, working on projects that included the Hubble Space Telescope.
Tickets are available for the presidential inauguration, scheduled for 2 p.m. April 11 in Elliott Hall of Music. The inauguration is free and open to the public, but a ticket with an assigned seat is required. Tickets can be picked up at campus box office locations in Stewart Center and Elliott Hall or be reserved by calling (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-7469.
The convocation, part of the Discovery Lecture Series, is funded, in part, by the Lilly Endowment, Inc."" to all news releases that mention the Convocation.
Writer: Amy Patterson Neubert, (765) 494-9723, apatterson@purdue.edu
Source: Joseph L. Bennett, vice president for university relations, (765) 494-2082, jlbennett@purdue.edu
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