Purdue News Digest
Purdue News Digest
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May 21, 1999
Purdue news summary for week of May 16-21This digest contains summaries of the following stories from Purdue News Service and Agricultural Communication Service. All these stories, and more, are available on the World Wide Web.(Instructions for retrieving stories and photographs via the Internet are at the end of this document.)
1. Porous silicon lights way for new analytical devices 2. Board of Trustees (Stories will be available Friday afternoon.) 3. Home and Family Conference starts June 8 at Purdue 4. Purdue holds farm tour with a southwestern flavor 5. Legislature brings thaw to Purdue Extension hiring freeze 6. Purdue News Roundup
8. National Education and Careers Package 9. Inside Purdue and Perspective
RESEARCH NEWS AND SPECIAL REPORTS
1. Porous silicon lights way for new analytical devices Porous silicon, a roughed-up version of the material that paved the way for the computer industry, is now smoothing the way for new types of chemical and medical analyses, including micro-laboratories designed to fit on a computer chip. In the May 20 issue of the scientific journal Nature, Purdue chemist Jillian Buriak and two co-researchers describe how porous silicon can be combined with mass spectrometry, a method used to identify the chemical nature of a substance, to streamline and automate the analysis of biological molecules. The technique provides new tools for pharmaceutical companies to analyze small molecules, and it may be incorporated into new technologies designed to put miniature laboratories on a computer chip, says Buriak, an assistant professor of chemistry.
GENERAL INTEREST NEWS
2. Board of Trustees The board was meeting Friday morning (5/21). Because the board had not yet taken action when this digest was compiled, stories about its actions were not available. Stories about the board's actions will be available Friday afternoon by e-mail and on the News Service Web and ftp servers.
3. Home and Family Conference starts June 8 at Purdue Hundreds of people from Indiana and surrounding states will attend the 1999 Home and Family Conference June 8-11 at Purdue. Gardening, cooking with herbs, computers and the Internet, tips on how to save money and reduce debt, personal and family health, and human development are a few of the workshop topics at this year's conference. There also will be well-known speakers, presentations by university specialists and professors, and music, drama and comedy.
4. Purdue holds farm tour with a southwestern flavor Innovation and tradition will be showcased at the 1999 Indiana Farm Management Tour. The two-day excursion, scheduled for July 6-7, will visit Posey, Gibson and Vanderburgh counties in the southwestern corner of Indiana. The Indiana Farm Management Association and the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service sponsor the annual tour to develop management competence among farmers. Host families conduct tours of their facilities and describe their production and management practices. According to Howard Doster, agricultural economics professor at Purdue and secretary-treasurer of the Farm Management Association, the tour will provide an opportunity for farmers to learn more about the changing styles of management in production agriculture.
5. Legislature brings thaw to Purdue Extension hiring freeze Thanks to the Indiana State Legislature, a year-long hiring freeze for the Purdue Cooperative Extension Service will thaw in time for the 4-H county fair season and to help farmers cope with an extended period of depressed agricultural prices. When Gov. Frank O'Bannon signed the state budget bill May 13, he authorized a $2.8 million appropriation that the Legislature had passed to ensure a strong Indiana Extension system that concentrated on local needs. The money will be used to insulate county Extension staff from decreases in federal support, all of which had been absorbed by the university over the past few years.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
6. Purdue News Roundup See summary of headlines at beginning of this document.
7. Agriculture calendar This calendar lists Purdue Agriculture events during the next four weeks.
8. National Education and Careers Package These stories were distributed nationally this week to education and careers reporters. A Web site with links to all the stories and photos in this package is available.
1. Purdue expert: It's never too early to give a child a book (Color photo available.) 2. New master's program targets industrial professionals 3. Purdue students win $4,500 for vegetarian gelatin dessert (Color photo available.) 4. Purdue Extension improves day care options and offerings (Color photo available.) 5. Education and careers briefs
9. Inside Purdue and Perspective Check the on-line versions of Inside Purdue , the faculty/staff newspaper, and Perspective , a quarterly publication for alumni, parents of students, faculty and staff.
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