Purdue Notebook
March 10, 2006
Campus activities
— Purdue Libraries has gained access to two databases of historical publications, "Eighteenth Century Collections Online" and "American History & Culture Online." The full-text searchable online collections, totaling approximately 180,000 volumes, increase library holdings by 10 percent. The first collection includes almost every significant book published in the United Kingdom and its colonies during the 1700s. The diverse collection includes books, bibles, sermons, sheet music, advertisements and books covering history, geography, science, technology, medicine, law, philosophy and literature. The post-Columbian American collection spans more than 400 years and covers subjects including exploration, trade, colonialism, westward expansion and Native Americans. The collections are expected to be valuable research tools for liberal arts faculty and graduate students and some undergraduate students. For information, contact Lawrence Mykytiuk, history bibliographer and reference librarian, at larrym@purdue.edu.— Barbara R. Rossing, professor of New Testament at the Lutheran School of Theology in Chicago, Ill., will give a presentation in Beering Hall, Room 2290, from 4:30-7 p.m. on March 24. Rossing, whose research focuses on the Biblical book of Revelations, will speak about Apocalyptic Violence and Politics: End-Times Fiction for Christians and Jews. Rossing has a master's degree in divinity from Yale Divinity School and a doctorate in New Testament from Harvard Divinity. The Religious Studies Program and the Society for Religious Studies are sponsoring the event.
Faculty and staff honors
— Kyoung-Shin Choi, an assistant professor of chemistry, has been awarded a Sloan Research Fellowship. The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation awards those engaged in researching physics, chemistry, computer science, economics, mathematics, computational and evolutionary molecular biology, and neuroscience. Grants will be administered to Purdue over a two-year period and are used to fund the fellow's research.— Four Purdue faculty members visited Kuwait from Feb. 17-23 to conduct workshops with faculty members of Kuwait University's College of Business Administration. The purpose of the visit was to help Kuwaiti faculty develop new methods of teaching, especially ways to incorporate technology into the university's curriculum. The visit was coordinated through the efforts of the Office of International Programs at Purdue. The members who visited Kuwait were James Lehman, a professor of educational technology and head of the College of Education's Department of Curriculum and Instruction; John Campbell, associate vice president for information technology; Marne Helgesen, director of the Center for Instructional Excellence; and Gerald Lynch, associate dean and economics professor in the Krannert School of Management.
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