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June 26, 1998
Tapping creativity is topic for seminar
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- Purdue University's Office of Continuing Engineering Education
will offer a seminar on developing and using creativity for success in everyday life
and in the workplace.
The seminar, "Creativity Tools and Techniques for Your Success," will be from 1 p.m.
to 4 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 6, in Room 268 of the Potter Engineering Center. It also
will be broadcast to sites around the state via the Indiana Higher Education Telecommunications System satellite network.
The program covers several aspects of creativity in everyday life and work situations.
Participants will complete several exercises that address individual creativity,
creativity in groups and the challenges of managing creativity. The program is intended
for anyone who is interested in sparking creativity in the workplace as well as in
day-to-day life.
The instructor for the seminar is West Lafayette resident Janet Myers, an author,
artist, entrepreneur, naturalist and public speaker whose practical parables tap
lessons from nature to provide insights for life and business. Myers founded Dearborn
Business Group in 1984 after several years in commercial banking and corporate management.
Her education includes graduate degrees in information science and finance from the
University of Denver and Northwestern University. Her publications range from the
best-selling book, "Productive Bankers and Profitable Banks: The Grand Slam of Banking,"
to an article in Hoosier Banker on trees as an agricultural asset and cash flow source.
The cost of attending the program at Purdue is $100 per person. The registration deadline
is July 20. To register or for more information on additional broadcast sites, call
Marsha Nance at Purdue's Office of Continuing Engineering Education, (765) 494-7018; e-mail, nance@ecn.purdue.edu.
Tenth anniversary issue of
Sycamore Review now available
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. -- The latest edition of Purdue University's award-winning national
literary journal, "Sycamore Review," is available now.
The Summer/Fall 1998 edition, Volume 10, Number 2, features fiction by Doris Dorrie
(translated by Gustav A. Richar), Lucia Perillo and Jamey Hecht and poetry by Mark
Halliday, Billy Little, Joshua Clover, Bill Knott and David Cameron.
An eight-page selection of art by Lafayette artist Hilary Eddy and an in-depth interview
with British playwright Howard Barker also are included. In a previous issue, the
"Sycamore Review" published an excerpt from Barker's 24-hour play "The Ecstatic Bible."
Writer Ivor Irwin's essay on the ethics of adopting Romanian orphans rounds out this
issue with a slightly more journalistic approach than the magazine's usual creative
non-fiction pieces.
Copies of the "Sycamore Review" are available on campus from the journal's office
in Room 442 of Heavilon Hall and also at the Stewart Center Service Desk. Priced
at $7 each, the magazine also may be purchased at various locations in the Lafayette
area, including Von's Book Shop, Lafayette Museum of Art and Little Professor Book Center.
"Sycamore Review" is published twice a year. Subscriptions are $10 a year, and the
rate will increase to $12 in August. Back issues also are available.
"Sycamore Review" is a nonprofit journal for the arts, published twice a year by Purdue's
Department of English. Founded in 1988, the journal is maintained by the Ann Griffith
Lindsey Memorial Fund. Additional funding is received through the Indiana Arts Commission, the Purdue English Department and the School of Liberal Arts, in addition
to private contributions.
CONTACT: Sarah Griffiths, editor-in-chief, (765) 494-3783; e-mail: sycamore@expert.cc.purdue.edu;
Web, http://www.sla.purdue.edu/academic/engl/sycamore/
Purdue Notebook
Faculty and staff honors:
-- Purdue's Women in Engineering Program has been selected to receive the 1998 Maria
Mitchell Women in Science Award. The award honors individuals or organizations that
encourage girls and women to pursue careers in science and technology. It commemorates
Mitchell, America's first professional woman astronomer and astronomy professor. Funded
by the William R. Kenan Jr. Fund for Engineering, Science and Technology, and presented
by the Maria Mitchell Association, this is the first year the award was determined by jury. The $5,000 award will be presented in October in Nantucket, Mass.
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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