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Back-to-Class

October 24, 2008

** NOTE: PC Annual Weekend 2008 is scheduled for October 24-25, 2008. **

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BACK-TO-CLASS

Revisit your Purdue experience by going "Back-to-Class". Explore fascinating topics with Purdue's top professors and instructors. This is your opportunity to explore going to class in zero-gravity, see what great dishes Indiana produces or write a poem about your life!

* Registration is not yet available but invitiations will be mailed soon!

Location:
Various locations around the West Lafayette campus.
Time:
8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m.
(Includes complimentary breakfast and lunch.)

Schedule
   
8:00 - 8:45 a.m.  President’s Council Registration and Welcome
(No program)
  Continental Breakfast, PMU, 118 
   
9:00 - 10:15 a.m.    Session One
Class: Building Dreams: An Overview of the Mackey Arena Project
Instructor: Morgan Burke
   

Class:

Medication Safety: Protect Yourself and Those You Love
Instructor: Craig K. Svensson, Pharm.D., Ph.D.
Steven R. Abel, Pharm.D., FASHP
   
Class:
Welcome to the World of Water
Instructor: Brent T. Ladd
   

Class:

Adventures in Biography: Writing the Lives of John Wayne, Joe Louis and Other Famous Celebrities
Instructor: Randy Roberts
   
Class:
The Zero Gravity Experience
Instructor: Steven H. Collicott
   

10:30 - 11:45 a.m.  

Session Two

Class:

All You Ever Wanted to Know About Planned Giving
Instructor: Gordon Chavers, Chuck Sage, Scott Banfield, David Williams
   

Class:

The Future of Energy - Fossil Fuels, Alternatives, Environmental Impact
Instructor: Lawrence W. Braile
   

Class:

Health Care in America: Big Business and Bad Medicine?
Instructor: James G. Anderson Ph.D.
   
Class:
A Smart Start: Moving Research into the Marketplace
Instructor: Julie Goonewardene
   
Class:
The World is Flat, But is The Sky Falling?
Instructor: John Contreni
   

12:00 - 1:15 p.m.

Lunch
  • Lunch with PC members, E/W Faculty Lounges, PMU
  • Engineering Dean’s Club, North Ballroom, PMU (Invitation only)
  • Liberal Arts Dean's Club Lunch, Lafayette Room, PMU (Invitation only)
  • CFS Dean's Club Lunch, John Purdue Room, Stone Hall (Invitation only)
   

1:30 - 2:30 p.m.  

General Session:  Question & Answer
  President France Córdova
  Fowler Hall, Stewart Center
   
2:45 - 4:00 p.m.   Session Three
Class:
Hey! Where Did All the Money Go?
Instructor: Annetta Jones
   

Class:

The Obesity Epidemic: Outwit the 'Wisdom of the Body'
Instructor: Prof. Terry Davidson, Prof. Wayne Campbell, Assoc. Prof. Susan Swithers, Prof. Richard Mattes
   

Class:

Creative Writing: It's Your Life!
Instructor: Porter Shreve, Donald Platt
   

Class:

Deep Impact: Earthquake Technology Prevents Bone Breaks
Instructor: Dr. Ozan Akkus
   
Class:
Hungry? Get a Taste of Indiana
Instructor: Carol Ann Kalkstein-Silkes, MBA, CEC
   
6:00 p.m.     President’s Council Annual Dinner
  South Ballroom, PMU
Cost: $65 per person

For more information, please contact the Special Events Office at (800) 213-3044, (765) 494-0900, or events@purdue.edu.

 

 
         
     
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