Teaching Academy to Add Nine Fellows to Its Ranks
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2 - 3 February 12, 2008 Tickets on sale for Big Ten tournaments Teaching Academy to add nine fellows to its ranks Purdue’s Teaching Academy will will present “Functional Memory: the West Lafayette campus, the Liberal Arts, and Venkat Venka- The Big Ten men’s and wom- induct six new fellows and three Implications for Classroom inductees are: tasubrama, professor of chemical en’s basketball tournaments new associate fellows as well as Teaching at Purdue University.” n Four fellows by virtue of engineering. both will be held at Conseco recognize two members at a cer- The Teaching Academy winning a Charles B. Murphy n Three new associate fellows: Fieldhouse in Indianapolis emony on Feb. 26. provides leadership for the im- Outstanding Undergraduate Rebecca Bull, organizational this year. The event will take place in provement of undergraduate, Teaching Award: Patricia Hart, behavior and human resource The women’s tournament the faculty lounges at Purdue graduate and outreach teaching. professor of foreign languages management; Gregory Gibson, is scheduled for March 6-9. Memorial Union. A reception will The academy’s executive council and literatures; Christine Hrycy- sociology; and Kristina Walker, The men’s tournament will be begin at 7 p.m., and the induction selects fellows and associates from na, associate professor of chemis- agronomy. March 13-16. ceremony will follow at 7:30 p.m. nominees. Each year, every college try; Richard Thomas, professor of Robert May, professor of For the women’s tourna- Both are open to Purdue faculty and school can nominate faculty visual and performing arts; and history, and Timothy Newby, ment, both all-session and and staff. members as fellows and graduate Karen Yehle, assistant professor of professor of curriculum and single-session tickets are now James Nairne, the Reece Mc- students or continuing lecturers nursing. instruction, will be recognized for on sale at the Athletic Ticket Gee Distinguished Professor of as associate fellows. n Two other new fellows: receiving the Murphy Award in Office at Purdue, the Conseco Psychological Sciences, will be the For outstanding contribu- John Contreni, the Justin S. 2007. Both are Teaching Academy Fieldhouse box office and guest speaker at the event. Nairne tions to teaching and learning on Morrill Dean of the College of members already. through Ticketmaster outlets. All-session tickets are $65, and single-session tickets range from $12 to $16. For the men’s tourna- TLT offering Chili champion for a cause Trustees act ment, all-session tickets are $150 for upper balcony wide array of seating and $275 for the lower on ME wing, level, club and balcony seat- teaching tools ing. Single-session tickets range from $30 to $85 de- On March 4 and 5, university sports area pending on the location and educators and educational tech- The Board of Trustees on Friday session. nologists from the Midwest will approved financing and construc- meet at the Teaching and Learn- tion of a new addition to the New stop sign placed ing with Technology conference Mechanical Engineering Building in Stewart Center. and granted authority to plan near Mackey, Cary Presentations, workshops, a new athletic complex on the A stop sign has been placed poster sessions, and vendor exhib- north edge of campus. at the intersection of North its address the theme: “Enhancing The board also approved University Drive and Tower the Student Experience.” energy conservation work in Drive near Mackey Arena to “We selected the student Herbert C. Brown Laboratory of help with pedestrian safety in as our theme because it echoes Chemistry, Stewart Center and that area. The stop sign is for one of the University’s strategic PHOTO BY MARK SIMONS the Civil Engineering Building. drivers going north on North planning themes,” says Ed Evans, Judy Schmitz, champion of the Chili Cook-off benefit for a Habitat for Human- In addition, the trustees ap- University Drive. interim executive director of ity house, serves her “Easy on the Gut Chili” to John Campbell, associate vice pointed one named professor and Drivers are to be cautious ITaP’s Teaching and Learning president for the Rosen Center for Advanced Computing. Schmitz, secretary one vice chancellor, and ratified and watch for pedestrians Technologies unit. in international programs, won the trophy on the table in a contest of 27 a bachelor’s degree program in in the area around Mackey Nancy Wilson Head, director entrants. Also shown in the photo, both from ITaP’s systems and operations motorsports engineering at Indi- Arena, Lambert Fieldhouse of TLT’s Instructional Develop- area, are Doug White (in jersey), database administrator, and Eric Pratt, ap- ana University-Purdue University and Cary Quadrangle. ment Center, and Michael Brorby, plications administrator, who is being served by White. Indianapolis. director of user services and in- John McElduff, service delivery manager in IT customer relations, was The meeting also featured Flu vaccines still structional technology at Purdue runner-up with “Spitfire Chili.” Student Joshua Beedle took third with “This reports on institutional and Calumet, evaluated this year’s Ain’t Your Grandma’s Chili.” The event, two days before Super Bowl XLII, had program rankings from Rab being offered at PUSH proposals. a tailgating theme. Mukerjea, director of strategic It’s not too late to get a free “We were pleased with a third The lunchtime event at University Church, 320 North St., was spon- planning and assessment, and flu shot. more submissions than last year, sored by a “Hab-ITaP” group within ITaP. It included a bake sale and raised a on governmental relations from Walk-in flu shots will be and they address a broad number combined $1,034, reports Dan Schumacher, a main organizer and manager of Terry Strueh, vice president for given to faculty, staff, gradu- of instructional technology top- infrastructure services. Hab-ITaP has a Texas Roadhouse percent-of-sales event governmental relations. ate staff, retirees, and their ics,” Brorby says. set for March 3. Other fundraisers will follow in the effort to raise $40,000. Session leaders will discuss spouses/same-sex domestic Schumacher says the project theme is “Building more than technology.” Details of Board of Trustees partners from 8:30 a.m. to social networking sites, mobile actions, page 2 4:30 p.m., Monday-Friday learning games, podcasting and in the urgent care area of vodcasting, wikis, tablet PCs, Purdue University Student wireless video networks, distance Health Center. learning, service learning, cali- Chimp expert Goodall to speak Bring PUID. For ques- brated peer review, collaborative Tickets will go on sale Feb. 19 for Goodall Institute continues tions, call 49-45461 or e-mail technology, new Web 2.0 tech- a presentation by Jane Goodall, a Goodall’s pioneering research Publishing note [email protected]. nologies, video remote inter- world-renowned humanitarian of chimpanzee behavior — re- Inside Purdue is modifying its pretation, WordPress blogging and primatologist, who will speak search that transformed scientific spring and summer schedule tool, Second Life virtual world, at Purdue on March 29. perceptions of the relationship to accommodate added and YouTube, and iTunes. Goodall’s talk, “Reason for between humans and animals. changed events: The conference also provides Hope,” is the College of Science Today, the institute is a global n Issue 15 will come out training or demo sessions in Centennial Finale Event. It will be leader in the effort to protect Friday, April 18, covering n Extension up close some popular technologies, such at 1 p.m. March 29 in Elliott Hall chimpanzees and their habitats. April’s special campus events. Charles Hibberd is starting his leadership as Adobe’s Presenter and Capti- of Music. It also is widely recognized for It also will carry the monthly of Purdue Extension with a visit to each vate, Blackboard’s Vista 4.0, and Tickets are $15 for students establishing innovative commu- calendar for May. of Indiana’s 92 counties. Page 3. Horizon Wimba’s Pronto Instant with a valid student ID and $21 nity-centered conservation and n Issue 16 will come out n Exercising imaginations Messenger. for the general public. They will development programs in Africa, Tuesday, May 13. It will carry “The TLT conference this Recently built recreation centers in Texas be available at Purdue box offices and the Roots & Shoots education the June calendar. drew a team of staff and students to year will be an excellent network- and at Ticketmaster. program, which has groups in n Issue 17 will come out explore ideas for Purdue. Page 7. ing event, especially for Purdue Goodall, acclaimed for her more than 95 countries. Tuesday, June 24. It will in- faculty and staff from all our work with chimpanzees in the More information about clude news of the rescheduled n Climbing with ALPs campuses,” Head says. “Our fac- wild, will describe the special Goodall and the institute is avail- June meeting of the Board of The Adaptive Learning Programs staff is ulty members present more than relationship she has developed able at www.janegoodall.org. Trustees. It also will carry the seeing rising interest in its technology for 50 percent of the sessions.” with these animals and share her More information about the July-August calendar. students with disabilities. Page 8. To register or learn more passion for saving them and their College of Science centennial n Issue 18 will come out about the conference, go to habitat. celebration is at www.science. Tuesday, July 15. Online at www.purdue.edu/per http://tlt.purdue.edu. Founded in 1977, the Jane purdue.edu/centennial/. 2 February 12, 2008 Board appoints named professor, vice chancellor The Board of Trustees on Friday benefits to ways to improve cereal off-road vehicles and unmanned approved the appointment of one use in developing countries.