Faculty invited to President's Colloquia on Nov. 7

Daniel Kelly, associate professor of philosophy, addresses faculty at the first President's Colloquia event on Sept. 28. The next colloquium will be held Nov. 7. (Purdue University photo/Rebecca Wilcox) Download image

Faculty members are encouraged to attend the President's Colloquia, a series of events this academic year that involves faculty lectures and receptions at Westwood, the Purdue presidential residence. The next colloquium is Nov. 7.

The series, arranged at the invitation of President Mitch Daniels, is meant to provide timely information about Purdue scholars' research as well as networking opportunities for faculty members from across the University.

At the Nov. 7 colloquium, the topic of "When Is Good News Bad and Vice Versa? The Fortune Rankings of America’s Most Admired Companies" will be presented by John McConnell, the Burton D. Morgan Distinguished Chair of Private Enterprise (Finance). McConnell’s research postulates that media coverage can increase or decrease the value of a manager’s reputational capital and, as a consequence, enhance or diminish the manager’s power to extract corporate resources for private consumption. McConnell will examine these predictions using increases and decreases in Fortune’s rankings of America’s Most Admired Companies as a measure of media-induced changes in a CEO’s reputational capital.

The final colloquium of the fall will take place Dec. 6 featuring Marc Caffee, professor and associate head of the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and Darryl Granger, professor and associate head of the Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, on "Bones, Caves, and Cosmic Rays: Accelerator Mass Spectrometry at PRIME Lab Pieces Together an Ancient Story."

Each colloquium, which meets at 4-6 p.m. at Westwood, the Purdue presidential residence, will include a wine and hors d'oeuvre reception after the presentation. Registration is required for each, and links are available for each session here. The website also has the schedule with descriptions of each presentation.

Presenters for spring semester will be added soon.