Purdue News Roundup

March 6, 1998

3-day event to showcase women in science, art, technology

The symposium opens at noon Thursday, March 19, with a welcoming address and concludes with a roundtable discussion at 4:45 p.m. Saturday, March 21. In between are workshops, exhibits, lectures and panel discussions. A registration and information table will be available each day in Room 107, Stewart Center. All events are free and open to the public.

Some of the events (all will be on the third floor of Stewart Center, unless noted otherwise):

-- 9 a.m.-7 p.m. Thursday-Saturday. An exhibit of multimedia works by 13 women artists from the Greater Lafayette area. Watson's Crick Gallery, Room 1-125, Lilly Hall of Life Sciences. A symposium reception will be held in the gallery at 4:30 p.m. Thursday.

-- 1 p.m. Thursday. "Programs for Women Students in Science and Engineering." Presentation by Barbara Clark, director of Purdue's Women in Science Program, and Jane Daniels, director of Purdue's Women in Engineering Program. Current students also will discuss their experiences.

-- 3 p.m. Thursday. "Teaching in the Belly of the Beast: Feminism in the Best of All Places," a lecture by Anne Balsamo, assistant professor in the School of Literature, Communication and Culture at Georgia Institute of Technology, about teaching feminism to a predominantly male audience.

-- 8 p.m. Thursday. Room 239, Stanley Coulter Hall. Screening of the documentary film "It's Elementary," directed by Debra Chasnoff, about how teachers and students grapple with homophobia and gay invisibility in elementary and middle schools.

-- 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday. Cyber Archives. An exhibit by Silvia Malagrino, a native of Buenos Aires who is an associate professor in the School of Art and Design at the University of Illinois, Chicago. The exhibit is a series of video monitors playing different digital animations combined with video footage and still photographs.

-- 1:15 p.m. Friday. "Alternative Interventions in Healing," a workshop featuring Susan Cekarmis Schoon, Purdue assistant professor of nursing, discussing Therapeutic Touch, an ancient healing art of the "laying on of hands."

-- 3 p.m. Friday. Two lectures about women and AIDS policy. Paula Treichler, professor of medicine, communications and research and of women's studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will talk about "Women's Interventions in Medicine and HIV/AIDS Policy." Maya Rockeymoore, Purdue political science doctoral student who also is a Congressional Black Caucus fellow, will speak about "African-American Women and HIV/AIDS Policy."

-- 1:15 p.m. Saturday. Diane Glancy, poet, essayist and novelist, reads from her latest novel, "Flutie." She is an associate professor of English at Macalaster College, St. Paul, Minn., and much of her writing focuses on her Cherokee heritage.

-- 3 p.m. Saturday. Screening of the video "When You're Smiling," by former Purdue faculty member Janice Tanaka, now an assistant professor of telecommunication at the University of Florida at Gainesville. The video documents the psychological effects that the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II had on their children.

Other topics to be examined during the symposium include women's health; gender and art; photography, identity and women; learning women artists on the Internet; and issues in the Human Genome Project. Also, three women writers from Greater Lafayette will discuss the writing process.

For more information about the program, contact symposium coordinators Kirsten Lindquist, (765) 494-7782; e-mail, lindquis@omni.cc.purdue.edu, or Rachel Groner, (765) 494-7782; e-mail, rgroner@expert.cc.purdue.edu

Purdue names 3 new department heads in Liberal Arts

Cynthia Stohl, professor of communication, will assume leadership of the Department of Communication, Gordon Mork, professor of history, has been named head of the Department of History, and Carolyn Perrucci, associate dean of the Graduate School and professor of sociology, will head the Department of Sociology and Anthropology.

Mork already has assumed his duties. Stohl's and Perrucci's appointments are effective July 1.

• Stohl joined Purdue in 1982 as an assistant professor of communication. Her teaching and research have focused on group and organizational communication, global and international organizations, communication networks and worker participation programs. She earned a bachelor's degree from State University of New York College at Buffalo and master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue. She will succeed Charles Stewart, who will return to teaching and research.
  
• Mork began his Purdue career as an assistant professor of history in 1970. His teaching and research interests include history education, modern Germany, the Holocaust and genocide. He earned a bachelor's degree from Yale University and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Minnesota. He succeeds John Contreni, who retired.
  
• Perrucci joined the Purdue faculty in 1966 as an assistant professor of sociology. Her areas of teaching and research have been in the sociology of work and occupations, sociology of the family, sociology of gender differences, sociology of aging, and the sociology of education. She received a bachelor's degree from Middle Tennessee State University, and master's and doctoral degrees from Purdue. She has been associate dean of the Graduate School since 1992. She will succeed Dean Knudsen, who will return to teaching and research.

CONTACT: Margaret Rowe, dean of the School of Liberal Arts, (765) 494-3663; e-mail, libarts@sla.purdue.edu; Web page, http://www.sla.purdue.edu

'97 Purdue highlights available on video

The 22-minute program, which highlights Purdue events from 1997, was produced by the Office of University Relations.

The movie, "1997 Purdue Newsreel: Bowled Over," is sponsored by the Alumni Association, the Alumni Foundation and the Office of the President. It is shown to Purdue alumni clubs around the world.

The 1997 Newsreel is narrated by 1958 Purdue graduate John Hultman, who is a news anchor at WBBM Newsradio in Chicago. The program was produced and directed by Ray Cubberley, assistant director of university relations for broadcast services.

A copy of the newsreel on VHS videotape can be purchased for $19.95 plus $3 for shipping and handling from the Purdue Alumni Association, Room 161, Purdue Memorial Union, West Lafayette, Ind. 47906-6212, telephone (765) 494-5175.

Highlights in the 1997 newsreel include: increased enrollment; international student services; activities carnival; edible car contest; concrete canoe race; Engineering Projects in Community Service (EPICS); Grand Prix; Academy Park dedication; Food Science building construction; renaming of Whistler building; virtual tour of new Black Cultural Center; new golf course construction; retirement of Fred Ford, executive vice president and treasurer; memorial service for aviation technology students and instructor who died; AIDS memorial quilt; research to replace damaged tendons or ligaments with a material from pigs' intestines; Chemobile program; archaeology dig; animal behavior clinic; Salty Dogs jazz band reunion; WBAA 75th anniversary; Gala Week alumni activities; Glee Club; Alumni Association awards; Alumni Association tailgate recipe contest; Liberal Arts Dean Margaret Rowe talk at alumni speaker series; and commencement.

Other events in the video: introduction of Rowdy and the JumboTron at Ross-Ade Stadium; beginnings of women's soccer team; plans for a new Aquatics Center; men's swim team; baseball and softball teams; highlights from men's and women's basketball; naming of Keady Court; new women's basketball coach Carolyn Peck; highlights from football, including wins over Notre Dame, Michigan State, and a victory in the Alamo Bowl against Oklahoma State; football team singing Hail Purdue and fan highlights from the official Alamo Bowl trip; marching band performing in San Antonio; closing comments from Alumni Association Executive Director Larry Preo.

Purdue Notebook

-- Sandra Komasinski has accepted the position of director of Printing Services. She is a Purdue alumna and has been on the Purdue staff since 1975, most recently as a purchasing agent.

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Campus activities:

-- The Purdue chapter of Mortar Board is accepting applications for several awards presented during the spring semester. The Tip of the Cap Award is presented to students who do not hold major leadership roles in their student organizations, but who make significant contributions. The Rose Award is presented to members of the clerical or service staff who do outstanding work. The Dean Betty Nelson Service Award honors one student and one student organization for community service. The Challenge Scholarship recognizes a sophomore leader in campus organizations who shows potential for greater leadership. Application forms are available in the Student Organizations and Activities area of the Office of the Dean of Students, Room 250, Schleman Hall. The application deadline is March 27. For more information, contact Nicole Letizia, awards chairperson, (765) 494-1747; home, (765) 495-1363; e-mail, letizia@ecn.purdue.edu

-- Purdue seniors and alumni are invited to participate in the eighth annual Indiana Collegiate Job Fair, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, March 27, in the Indiana Convention Center and RCA Dome, Indianapolis. Purdue University and Indiana University are co-sponsors for the event that will have representatives from 130 employers attending. Job seekers can preregister by sending a one-page resume and $10 before March 16 to: ICJF Candidate Registration, 801 W. Michigan St., BS-2010, Indianapolis, Ind. 46202-5153. Registration the day of the event will be $20. More information is available at http://www.iupui.edu/it/jobfair/home.html or by calling the Purdue Center for Career Opportunities, (765) 494-3981.

Compiled by J. Michael Willis, (765) 494-0371; e-mail, mike_willis@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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