PROPOSED ENGAGMENT OPPORTUNITES
Science Journalism Laureates
November 7-9, 2007EVENT: Visit to World Food Prize awardee Phil Nelson in Food Science
COLLEGE: Agriculture
DESCRIPTION: Philip E. Nelson, the Scholle Chair Professor in Food Processing at Purdue University, was recently named winner of the World Food Prize for his contributions to food processing and preservation. Nelson is credited with developing technology to transport processed fruits and vegetables without product spoilage. The technology, known as aseptic bulk storage and distribution, revolutionized global food trade.EVENT: Ride in Paul Shepson's instrumented airplane and discussion of climate change issues
COLLEGE: Science
DESCRIPTION: As a professor of earth and atmospheric sciences and chemistry, Shepson is interested in the way chemicals in the atmosphere interact with Earth. More specifically, he's interested in studying how forests interact with volatile organic compounds, ozone and nitrogen gases all in an attempt to help scientists understand the complex issue of global warming. Shepson and his research group built a specially modified airplane to measure the effect that forest "breathing" has on climate change.
EVENT: Tour with Tim Sands of clean room and research in Birck Center
COLLEGE: Discovery Park
DESCRIPTION: Tim Sands is the Basil S. Turner Professor of Engineering and director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center at Purdue. The Birck Center leverages advances in nanoscale science and engineering to create innovative nanotechnologies addressing societal challenges and opportunities in computing, communications, the environment, security, energy independence, and health.EVENT: Visit to the Purdue airport to see demos of Graham Cook's miniaturized analytical instruments for chemical detection
COLLEGE: Science
DESCRIPTION: Fast, highly reliable detection of residues that could indicate the presence of explosives and other hazardous materials inside luggage is now possible with technology under development at Purdue University. A research team led by R. Graham Cooks has found a way to determine the presence on a surface of trace quantities of chemicals – such as those found in biological and chemical warfare agents, as well as several common explosives – within a few seconds.EVENT: Visit and meet Les Geddes lab - National Medal of Technology
COLLEGE: Engineering
DESCRIPTION: A Purdue University biomedical engineer has developed a new method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation -- or CPR -- that he says will be more effective in saving lives. The technique developed by Professor Leslie Geddes works by pushing on a person's abdomen, instead of the chest, which forces 25 percent more blood flow through the heart.EVENT: Visit and meet Connie Weaver and her calcium work
COLLEGE: Consumer and Family Sciences
DESCRIPTION: Camp Calcium, a summer program that has taken place at Purdue since 1990, is designed to investigate various aspects of calcium metabolism in girls from ages 12-14 and boys from 13-15. The study includes three separate meal plans designed to help researchers sort out the effects on body fat metabolism of either calcium supplements or calcium provided through dairy foods. The researchers specifically want to address whether calcium alone, or calcium in the form of dairy foods, plays a role in managing body weight. The study was designed to measure both possibilities.EVENT: Tour of facility with scanning electron microscope to go along with our high-resolution SEM installed two years ago
COLLEGE: Science
DESCRIPTION: Debby Sherman: The new Quanta 3D FEG is the first production model of this configuration. It actually is a reality now because we requested the company produce an instrument with this combination of capabilities, and, when we got an NSF-MRI grant with funding, they agreed to go ahead with the development. Thus, we are not only the first in the US, but the first in the world, to have a production model. Two beta models were made: one is in the FEI applications lab in Acht, Netherlands; the other was installed in South Korea two months ago.EVENT: Visit high speed equine treadmill
COLLEGE: Veterinary Medicine
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Laurent Couëtil, Professor of Large Animal Medicine and Director of the Equine Sports Medicine Center. Equine Research utilizing the High Speed Equine Treadmill.EVENT: Tour Center for Paralysis
COLLEGE: Veterinary Medicine
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Richard Borgens, Director of the Center for Paralysis Research and Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neuroscience in the School of Veterinary Medicine. How the realm of veterinary medicine at Purdue University is providing one of the most promising pathways to improved treatments for paralysis.EVENT: Meet James Leary and discuss Nanomedicine
COLLEGE: Engineering
DESCRIPTION: Dr. James Leary, SVM Professor of Nanomedicine, Professor of Basic Medical Sciences, Professor of Biomedical Engineering. Nanomedicine creating the next generation of human medical treatment.EVENT: Tour Purdue Cytometry Lab
COLLEGE: Engineering
DESCRIPTION: Dr. Paul Robinson, Professor of Immunopharmacology, Professor of Biomedical Engineering, and Director of the Purdue Cytometry Laboratories. Purdue Cytometry Laboratories and the Cytometry for Life Project making high-tech biomedical equipment practical for the Third World.EVENT: Tour Purdue Cyber Forensics Program
COLLEGE: Technology
DESCRIPTION: Visit our cyber forensics lab and assist in acquiring evidence from a PC or cell phone. The Purdue Cyber Forensics Program is part of the Department of Computer and Information Technology in the College of Technology. It is dedicated to research in the forensics field.EVENT: Tour Zucrow Labs and meet Jerry Woodall - Hydrogen generation-water reacting with aluminum demo engine
COLLEGE: Engineering/ZUCROW LAB
DESCRIPTION: A Purdue University engineer and National Medal of Technology winner says he's ready and able to start a revolution in clean energy. Professor Jerry Woodall and students have invented a way to use an aluminum alloy to extract hydrogen from water - a process that he thinks could replace gasoline as well as its pollutants and emissions tied to global warming. Woodall says the method makes it unnecessary to store or transport hydrogen - two major challenges in creating a hydrogen economy.EVENT: Tour Zucrow Labs and meet Sanford Fleeter - wind turbine demo noise reduction
COLLEGE: Engineering/ZUCROW LAB
DESCRIPTION: The Energy Center will further develop high-efficiency wind turbines. "Current technologies for wind power are based on conventional propeller technology," said Sanford Fleeter, the McAllister Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering. "We are working with the new physics of 'unsteady aerodynamic phenomena.' Our goal is to improve the performance and decrease the noise of conventional wind-turbine designs."EVENT: Tour Zucrow Labs and meet Steve Heister - Experimental Rocket Propulsion
COLLEGE: Engineering/ZUCROW LAB
DESCRIPTION: A facility, Purdue University Rocket Propulsion and Power Laboratory (PURPPL), has been developed at the Maurice J. Zucrow Laboratories to test lab-scale hybrid propulsion systems. Current tests include concentrated hydrogen peroxide (80-88%) as an oxidizer and polyethylene as a fuel. Over 100 successful firings have been conducted within the past five years using this facility.EVENT: Demonstration of the Purdue NanoHub and meet Gerhard Klimeck.
COLLEGE: Engineering/Discovery Park
DESCRIPTION: A web resource that distributes nanotechnology computational resourses to interested users across the world. Funded by NSF and supported by Purdue Information Technology, Discovery Park and the College of Engineering, both the user base of this web resource and its capabilities have grow dramatically in its short lifetime.Classroom/Seminar Opportunities (dates and time to be listed)
ENGINEERING:
SJL would address a special class for the Engineering Ambassadors Program or the Engineering Honors Program students. Glenn ZorpetteLaureates would hold an open session for students interested in science and technology communication. This would be a brief introduction by the SJL(s), and the rest of the session would be a question and answer format.
Bill Oakes, the Director of EPICS (Engineering Projects in Community Service), could hosts the laureate(s) to observe students involved in an actual community project. More can be learned about EPICS at http://epics.ecn.purdue.edu/.
LIBERAL ARTS/ENGLISH
English would be interested in having a SJL(s) address one of their classes. ENGL 366 - Postcolonial Literature. It meets from 10:30-11:20 a.m. on Wednesday or Friday in HEAV 129.
EDUCATION:
The College of Education would like to have SJL(s) address laboratory sections of EDCI 270 - Introduction to Educational Technology.SCIENCE:
SJL(s) could address sections of Biology 205/206 - Biology for Elementary School Teachers taught by David Eichinger.SJL(s) could address the physics courses for engineering students, PHYS 220/221 - General Physics I & II. This is a good venue to observe and interact with students.
AGRICULTURE:
There is a capstone course in Ag Communications that will be covering science journalism at the time of the SJL program. Agriculture would like to have SJL(s) visit that class.The College of Agriculture has a professional club for communicators. They would like to host an open session and have a SJL(s) address the topic of early career advice on getting and keeping that first series of jobs in science journalism/communications.
COMMUNICATIONS:
Communications would like to host one or more SJL(s) to hold a panel discussion in COM 435 - Communication and Emerging Technology. The discussion would be on the role of technology in facilitating the spread of scientific information.
Communications would like to have their student produced FastTracktelevision program cover the event and possibly do in studio interviews. This show appears weekly on Cable Channel 5
