PURDUE NEWS SUMMARY FOR WEEK OF JUNE 4-9
This digest contains summaries of the following stories from Purdue News
Service and Agricultural Communication Service. All these stories, and more,
are available on the World Wide Web at
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1. Purdue brings students from around the globe into live classroom
2. Purdue School of Education receives federal grant
3. Food and agribusiness MBAs grow futures virtually
4. Predictions for 21st century engineering
5. Purdue Notebook
6. Pork Research News Tips
7. Best Bets for Journalists
8. Inside Purdue and Perspective
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RESEARCH NEWS AND SPECIAL REPORTS
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1. PURDUE BRINGS STUDENTS FROM AROUND THE GLOBE INTO LIVE CLASSROOM
Distance learning takes on a whole new meaning when a Purdue University
educator brings students from across the United States, Australia and Canada
into his classroom via the Internet. Richard Lesh's mathematics and science
education graduate course, conducted at Purdue's West Lafayette campus,
creates a virtual classroom where students participate in live classroom
discussions, produce multimedia projects and co-write documents through a
collaborative distance learning venture.
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GENERAL INTEREST NEWS
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2. PURDUE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION RECEIVES FEDERAL GRANT
Purdue's School of Education will receive $1.11 million from the Prepare
Tomorrow's Teachers to Use Technology (PT3) federal grants program,
President Clinton announced June 3. The grant is a 50/50 match with the
university, with the Purdue Office of Academic Affairs and other university
offices contributing the same amount to the project.
3. FOOD AND AGRIBUSINESS MBAS GROW FUTURES VIRTUALLY
Today's food producer is more likely to drive a microprocessor than a
tractor. It was with this in mind that Purdue's School of Agriculture and
the Krannert Graduate School of Management a year ago began offering a
largely Internet-based MBA in food and agribusiness. The first class'
reviews are now coming in. ''If you had asked me last fall what I thought
the learning experience would be, I would have thought that it would be
logging on to a Web site and pounding out the assignments on my own,'' says
student Eric Perry, a manager with Murphy Family Farms in Wallace, N.C.
''That is so far from the reality.''
4. PREDICTIONS FOR 21ST CENTURY ENGINEERING
-- Satellites will improve agriculture, resource management
-- Boutique materials will become available in lot sizes of one
-- Water will replace transmission oil
-- Ethics will play greater roles in engineering education, energy use
-- U.S. will build 'intelligent highway network' to separate trucks and
cars
-- Rainwater and snow melt will be managed to protect water quality
-- Future vehicles will 'understand' their role in transportation
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NEWS ABOUT PURDUE PEOPLE
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5. PURDUE NOTEBOOK
-- Christie L. Sahley, professor of biological sciences, and Nicholas
Giordano, professor of physics, have been named half-time assistant deans of
the School of Science.
-- David J. Asai, professor of biological sciences, has been appointed
acting head of Purdue's Department of Biological Sciences.
-- Sue Aufderheide has been named the new director for the Undergraduate
Studies Program, succeeding Dick Grace, who retires from Purdue June 30.
-- West Lafayette resident Donna M. Osborn was one of nine recipients of
the School of Science's Distinguished Alumni Award; the other recipients are
Tan-Sun (Mark) Chen, Michael Farmwald, Sundaram (Kris) Krishnamurthy, John
H. Postlethwait, Robert G. Potter, David G. Seiler, Jing Y. Shyr, and Joel
Smoller.
-- Indianapolis residents Peter J. George Jr. and Doris Hasler are among
the five recipients of Purdue's School of Consumer and Family Sciences
Distinguished Alumni Awards; the other recipients are Karen Johnson Morgan
Elam, Ruth Anne Benfiel Fowler, and Doris Sleeter Steider.
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AGRICULTURAL NEWS
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6. PORK RESEARCH NEWS TIPS
-- Ultraviolet light reduces harmful bacteria on pork
-- Researchers develop computer model to lower swine feed costs
-- National setback guidelines based on Purdue measures of manure odor
-- Purdue low-cost feed decreases pollutants and odor in manure
-- Purdue researchers hoping to improve the quality of bacon
-- Vaccine could give pork producers a 20- to 50-fold return on its cost
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MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
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7. BEST BETS FOR JOURNALISTS
-- A Purdue-owned, former commercial aircraft will return to the West
Lafayette campus on June 19, having served the Federal Aviation
Administration and The Boeing Co. in their quest to determine whether to
redesign rudder systems on Boeing 737s.
8. INSIDE PURDUE AND PERSPECTIVE
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Perspective, a quarterly publication for alumni, parents of students,
faculty and staff, for other news about Purdue, at
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