Purdue Today

News for faculty and staff

October 1, 2007

FEATURED NEWS FOR EMPLOYEES

Reminder: ESS legacy service to end this week

Purdue faculty and staff are reminded that Employee Self Service through Purdue's old legacy system will end in early October. Viewing and printing of information through the service will be possible through Friday, Oct. 5, and then the system will be retired. The legacy service has been replaced by OnePurdue Employee Self Service, which is available through the OnePurdue Portal at www.purdue.edu/onepurdue/.

Updated road closings, traffic disruptions

West Lafayette campus and area disruptions are listed here. More

BOARD OF TRUSTEES

Purdue president starts process for next strategic plan

President France A. Córdova on Friday (Sept. 28) told the board of trustees that she is commencing a new strategic planning process.

She announced that she will form working groups focused on key areas identified during her visits with students, staff, faculty and administrators at the West Lafayette and regional campuses, as well as seek input from community groups, alumni, the governor and lieutenant governor, local legislators, other Indiana universities, and the Indiana Commission on Higher Education. She aims to have a draft plan ready for discussion in early spring and to present it to the trustees in May. More

Trustees move forward with biology, disease research buildings

The Board of Trustees on Friday (Sept. 28) approved awarding a construction contract for a new structural biology building and also approved planning of an animal disease diagnostic laboratory and a child development research center. More

Trustees honor professors, ratify administrators, approve degrees

The Board of Trustees on Friday (Sept. 28) approved the appointments of three faculty members to designated professorships and emeritus status for the former vice president for physical facilities.More

RESEARCH NEWS, SPECIAL REPORTS

Researcher looks at racial role in breast cancer tumors

A Purdue researcher is going to the root of cells to find out how breast cancer manifests itself in different ethnic groups. More

GENERAL NEWS

Gift to Purdue Alumni Association to jump-start endowment drive

**Tamara Morse**

A $1 million gift from a former president of the Purdue Alumni Association will kick off its $5 million endowment drive.

Alumni association officersannounced the drive and deferred gift from Tamara Morse, a former president of the organization, at its board of directors reunion meeting on Friday (Sept. 28). More

PEOPLE

Appointments, promotions and honors

— Jon Harbor, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Colorado at Denver, has been named associate vice president for research for centers and institutes at Purdue.
— Richard Borgens, who is the Mari Hulman George Professor of Applied Neurology at Purdue's School of Veterinary Medicine, was nominated for this year's Hall of Fame award sponsored by the National Spinal Cord Injury Association.
— Cathy Tilton, vice president of standards and technology at Reston, Va.-based Daon Inc., received the Outstanding Mentorship Award in Undergraduate and Graduate Education in the Field of Biometrics from Purdue's Biometric Standards, Performance and Assurance Laboratory.
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CALENDAR AND EVENTS

Events today at Purdue

— Oct. 1. 2:30 p.m. Room 317, ECE. Speaker: Marisol Koslowski, Purdue University. Title: Plastic Deformation at Micron and Submicron Scales. See flier here.
— Oct. 1. 3:30 p.m. Black Cultural Center. Experience Liberal Arts. Speaker: Miriam dos Santos Jorge, associate professor from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in Belo Horizante, Brazil. Title: "Affirmative Action in Brazil: Affirming Rights or Ideologies."
— Oct. 1. 6-7 p.m. Room B124, Forney Hall. Speaker: Lynne Brown, accessibility expert and business development specialist at the IBM Human Ability and Accessibility Center. Title: "Accessibility in the IT Environment: Emerging Issues."
— Oct. 1. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecture Series and Experience Liberal Arts. Speaker: John Coatsworth, professor of history and Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs and interim dean at Harvard University. Title: "Inequality, Intervention and Immigration: The Future of U.S.-Latin American Relations."