collge of science: insights fall 2010

Purdue College of Science|fall 2010

Ei-ichi NEgishi2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

:: Combining Art + Science

:: Field Notes From Haiti

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Julie Rosa, director of publications

Linda Thomas Terhune, editor

Mike Esposito, designer

Eric Nelson, production coordinator

Mark Simons and Andrew Hancock, photographers

Dan Howell, copy editor

Kim Medaris Delker, marketing consultant

Contributing writers: Eric Calais, Kim Medaris Delker, Andy Freed, William

Meiners, Robert Sabol, Linda Thomas Terhune; research briefs drawn from

Purdue External Relations

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Jeffrey Roberts Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science

Joseph S. Francisco Associate Dean for Research

and Graduate Education

George P. McCabe Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Dennis Minchella Associate Dean for

Undergraduate Education

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Richard J. Kuhn Biological Sciences

Paul B. Shepson Chemistry

Sunil Prabhakar (interim) Computer Science

Jon Harbor Earth and Atmospheric Sciences

Rodrigo Bañuelos Mathematics

Nicholas J. Giordano Physics

Rebecca W. Doerge Statistics

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FuN with FractalsThis psychedelic image is a fractal, a term used to describe fragmented geometric shapes that can be split into parts, each a reduced-sized copy of the whole. The term was coined by Benoit Mandelbrot in 1975, dervied from the Latin word fractus, which means fractured. Fractals exist at the boundary of art and science; as mathematical visualization that stands on its own as art. This fractal was created by Insights magazine desginer Mike Esposito.

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Dear editor,

I enjoyed reading your article “Great Issues: Lessons on the inextricable ties between science and society” in the spring 2010 issue of Insights, which told readers about Professor Andy Hirsch’s efforts to teach a course on this topic. It’s a great idea. In fact, my favorite course at Purdue was very similar to this and taught by J. Alfred Chiscon, a professor of biological sciences honored in Purdue’s Book of Great Teachers. He captivated a huge lecture hall of stu-dents with his timely research of current events tied to the life sciences. He challenged us with thought-provoking questions and helped prepare me for my career as a member of the National Association of Science Writers and as an editor of science news. The class, which welcomed nonmajors for many decades, was fundamental in preparing us as informed, voting citizens in this complex world. I’m glad that Al’s legacy will continue with Professor Hirsch’s efforts.

Jeanne Phillippi NorbergCLA 1974

Greetings,When Purdue chemistry professor Mahdi Abu-Omar was an undergraduate at Hampden-Sydney College in the early 1990s, he encountered a visiting lecturer who discoursed on science and art. The speaker was Nobel laureate Roald Hoffmann, a Cornell faculty member, chemist, poet, playwright, and philosopher. He produced a television course in introductory chemistry titled “The World of Chemistry” and hosted a monthly cabaret in Manhattan featuring scientists crossing over with their disciplines to dance, magic, literature, film, and more where discussion ranged from pure science to the far reaches of art.

Science, it turns out, has direct ties to art — from the chemistry that creates paint hues to the physics underlying the vibrations of piano wires that lead to soaring symphonies. In this issue of Insights magazine, we introduce faculty, students, and alumni who not only make discoveries in the classroom and laboratory, but also use the same curiosity and drive in pure acts of creativity. We also celebrate our new Nobel Laureate, Ei-Ichi Negishi, the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry.

I, myself, have an affinity for chemistry in the kitchen. Mathematician Greg Buzzard, whom you’ll meet as one of the faculty profiled in “Art+Science,” has studied the violin since childhood and plays in the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra. Physicist Nick Giordano not only plays piano, he also recently published a book on the physics of the instrument. The College of Science can also proudly claim two of the three drum majors in Purdue’s “All-American” Marching Band.

I am also pleased to include in this issue two articles written by faculty members who traveled to Haiti not long after the January 2010 earthquake. Eric Calais and Andy Freed were able to mine valuable data from the disas-ter, and learned a lot personally from this life-changing experience. Their personal essays on research and reflections on life in Haiti offer a truly valuable perspective.

Last, but not least, I’m proud to welcome Dennis Minchella into the role of associate dean for undergraduate education, whom we introduce on page 4. Dennis, a longtime Purdue researcher in biological sciences, is a passionate teacher and advocate for science education.

Read on, enjoy, and join us in celebrating the creativity, whether through science or personal pursuit, that leads to profound discovery.

Jeffrey T. Roberts Frederick L. Hovde Dean of the College of Science

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Nobel Laureate Ei-Ichi Negishi’s contributions to the

world of chemistry have had lasting effect in disciplines

ranging from medicine to material development with

the potential to impact lives on a global scale.

(Photography by Andrew Hancock)

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Letter to the Editor

Ei-ichi Negishi, the Herbert C. Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, has received the 2010 Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating a method to build complex organic molecules necessary for numerous pur-poses, from pharmaceutical manufacturing to electronics.

Negishi developed metal-based reactions, called palladium-catalyzed cross-cou-pling, that allow for easy and efficient synthesis of complex organic compounds. Examples of applications include drug

For 35 years, Dennis Minchella has in one way or another been associated with Purdue. He began his graduate studies in biological sciences at Purdue in 1975, received a PhD in 1981, and has been here ever since.

This Rochester, N.Y., native and professor of biological sciences says that what has kept him at Purdue all these years is constant change and opportunity.

“Every five or six years, I am presented with a new challenge,” he says, noting his evolution from graduate student to admin-istrator. “Purdue has provided me with so much opportunity, there has been no need to move,” he says.

And true to his timeline, Minchella has yet a new oppor-tunity in front of him. In July, he became associate dean for undergraduate education. Minchella is now responsible for the college’s core curriculum and oversees undergraduate advising, recruiting and reten-tion efforts.

As associate dean, Minchella has a variety of goals for the col-lege. One focus is on increasing what he terms the “value” of a science degree.

“It’s important that our majors are special in some way, possi-bly through a unique experience such as research, an internship, or study abroad,” he says.

Another priority is ensuring that the curriculum, which was revamped a few years ago, is

where it needs to be for students to excel after graduation. Part of this goal will likely include improving foundational courses in math and science that the col-lege offers to students in every discipline, not just science.

“Our college plays a critical role in building an academic foundation for many majors and we need to find ways to increase student success in these early courses.” he says.

Other priorities for Minchella include improving the recruit-ment and retention of under-represented students and creat-ing new ways of engaging with students, such as partnerships with residence halls or other innovative programs that take place outside the classroom.

Minchella feels strongly about providing a solid learning expe-rience to students. In his own teaching experience, he strives to ensure that every class has an interactive element, and he would like to see that type of teaching implemented through-out the college.

Minchella, whose outstanding teaching efforts have landed him in the Purdue Book of Great Teachers, is passionate about teaching and believes that when a professor cares about the development of each student, great things can happen, even when teaching a large class. He has taught Biology 121 — the entry-level biology course for biology majors — for years. Even though classes usually contain a

few hundred students, he makes the class as personal as pos-sible. For instance, the first week of class, he takes a snapshot of every student in the class to help him remember each student’s name and face.

Since a large classroom format limits what he can do to make the experience special, Minchella doesn’t let the lec-ture-room walls hold him back. Instead, he creates memorable experiences outside the time and place of class.

Don’t be surprised to find Minchella among a group of students having lunch in a residence hall. And you just might find him among a group of students in an even less-conventional space. During the toughest few weeks of Bio 121, Minchella vows this to his stu-dents: If students can get a group of 10 or more students together,

he will lead a help session at any place, at any time. This can place him in some interesting settings.

“The most memorable one was in the kitchen of a student’s grandmother’s home,” he says. “She even baked homemade chocolate chip cookies for us.”

Minchella’s plate won’t hold cookies this fall, but it will be piled full of new duties. And he does plan to keep teaching Biology 121. The course holds a special place for him, and helping students learn is a big reason why he decided to be a professor.

“I was a first generation col-lege student and struggled in my first year,” he says. “I had a lot of trouble juggling studying with the social life, so I understand what many of my students are going through. It’s a great feeling to help a student succeed.”

Kim Medaris Delker

Biologist to lEad uNdErgraduatE EducatioNFor 35 years, Dennis Minchella has in some way been associated with Purdue.

chEmistry proFEssorWins Nobel Prize in Chemistry

“Catalysts are not lost as they spur a chemical reaction, they are recycled and can be used over and over again,” he says. “These transition metals are very expensive, but when they can be used millions to billions of times, it dramatically reduces the cost and makes the mass manufac-turing of special, complex materi-als practical.”

Negishi likened the innovation to playing with a LEGO game, altering the building blocks of molecules and using transition metals as catalysts to promote the reactions needed for the synthesis.

“We found catalysts and cre-ated reactions that allow com-plex organic compounds to, in effect, snap together with other compounds to more economi-cally and efficiently build desired materials,” he says. “LEGOs can be combined to make things of any shape, size and color, and our reactions make this a pos-sibility for organic compounds.”

The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), which is part of the National Institutes of Health, has supported Negishi’s work since 1979.

“This methodology has vastly improved the possibilities to cre-ate sophisticated chemicals and has broad implications for the medical, electronic and agricul-tural fields,” says NIH director

Francis S. Collins. “It has already allowed chemists to synthesize compounds to fight the herpes virus, HIV and colon cancer.”

Negishi grew up in Japan and received a bachelor’s degree

in organic chem-istry from the University of Tokyo in 1958. He moved to the United States in 1960 to attend graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania as a Fulbright-S m i t h - M u n d t scholar, earning

a doctorate in organic chemistry in 1963. Negishi went to Syracuse University in 1972, where he was an assistant professor and then an associate professor before return-ing to Purdue in 1979.

The Nobel Prize was bestowed primarily on the strength of 10 seminal papers published from 1976 to 1978, according to Negishi, who came to Purdue in 1966 as a postdoctoral researcher under the late Herbert C. Brown, who won the Nobel Prize in 1979.

Negishi was a co-recipient of the prize with scientists Richard Heck of the University of Delaware in Newark and Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. He is the third Purdue professor to share in a Nobel Prize and one of two of Brown’s students to win the prize this year. Co-recipient Suzuki also studied under Brown.

Elizabeth K. Gardner and Emil Venere

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manufacturing, fluorescent marking that has been essential for DNA sequencing and creating materials for thin LED displays.

He discovered catalytic reactions using a number of transition metals that allow various organic compounds to be synthesized widely, efficiently and selectively for use in fields ranging from medicine to materi-als development. His work has resulted in dramatically reduc-ing the cost of using such metals, like palladium, in the synthesis.

Negishi likened the innovation to playing with a LEGO game.

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As a mathematician, Greg Buzzard works with com-plex variables and dynamical systems. As a violinist and member of the Lafayette Symphony Orchestra he traverses the world of complex musical scores. These two activities form the libretto of his professional life.

Buzzard, who joined the College of Science faculty in 2002, began playing violin at the age of nine, and hasn’t stopped since.

He played in his high school orchestra in Fort Wayne, Indiana; with the All-City Orchestra there; and in the strings section of the Fort Wayne Philharmonic. He continued at Michigan State University, where he enrolled as a computer science major and joined the orchestra. The pull of his musical roots was too strong, though, and he soon transferred to the St. Louis Conservatory of Music, only to find that although the program was great, job prospects weren’t.

“I got worried about making money,” he recalls. So he returned to Michigan State, where he earned two bachelor’s degrees — one in computer science, the other in music.

As a researcher, Buzzard focuses on dynamical systems, or, systems that change over time with an evolution influenced by any number of variables. His current work is in physiology, a thrust begun during a three-year postdoctoral study at Cornell University. While in Ithaca, he worked with Gene Network Sciences, a biotech startup devoted to computational modeling of biological systems. He joined scientist Jeff Fox, who focused on creating models of heart cells and electrical activity in the heart. The topic suited Buzzard’s interests.

“It combined my interests in computer science and modeling,” he says of the project. “There are still a lot of questions about what goes on when a heart fails. You can couple the model with experiments and it could have a big impact on a lot of people.”

Though Buzzard is no longer concentrating on cardiac electrophysiology, he remains in the health arena. He has partnered with Ann Rundell of Purdue’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering to model signaling events in the T-cell system and develop ways to produce an immune system response. And he works with David Umulis of agricultural and biological engineering on signaling mechanisms for drosophila embryo development.

The unknown — the variables — intrigue him. “Biology is so mysterious,” he says. “There is a lot we don’t know. How do the dynamics change when you change part of the system?”

From grade school through graduate school and at post-graduate stops at Indiana University and Cornell along the way, Buzzard has carried his music with him. He played in the Ithaca Cayuga Chamber Orchestra, the Indiana University student orchestra, and the Lansing Symphony. It made perfect sense, then, for him to open the phone book when he landed in West Lafayette and place a call to the local symphony.

“I like the social aspects of making music with other people. Violin combines the solo and the group, and it’s sort of meditative to me to practice. Music resonates with me in a physical and metaphysical way,” Buzzard says.

Buzzard plays seven or eight concerts a year, rehearsing on the evenings in the week leading up to each concert. For those in the concert audience, his work as a musician no doubt fulfills one of his personal goals as a mathematician. “I hope,” he says, “that my work will impact people’s lives in a positive way.”

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Nickgiordanophysics+Piano

Nicholas Giordano plays the piano — all 19 of the pianos that fill his recreation room.

Grand, square, upright, some with felt hammers, some with leather, each one carefully collected for its place in piano history and its unique acoustic attributes.

For Giordano, the Hubert James Distinguished Professor of Physics and head of the physics depart-ment, the piano is both a musical hobby and the focus of professional study. As a researcher, he has explored the physics of why the piano sounds like a piano, using Newton’s laws to calculate the motion of the individual parts and sound pressure produced.

In July, the fruit of years of exploration was pub-lished in Giordano’s book “The Physics of the Piano” (Oxford University Press). The book examines the science of acoustics, and also contains a history of how and why the piano came to be invented. A con-versation with the author on this subject reveals his deep knowledge of the history of the instrument and its place in the world. Little wonder, then, that his house is full of pianos.

Giordano’s scientific fascination with the piano emerged some 15 years ago when he began taking les-sons and got curious about the inner workings of the instrument. Using his background as an experimental physicist, he applied some simple measurements to satisfy this curiosity. When Giordano’s piano teacher suggested he broaden his repertoire beyond Bach, the research project blossomed. Giordano agreed to branch out, but not beyond Bach. Instead, he would play the music on an instrument of its time period, a harpsichord, and — with the help of a master builder — Giordano built one. He was hooked.

“I realized I really enjoyed the building process,” he recalls. And he wanted to do it again, so he found and bought an early Steinway piano (1857 or so), which he restored. The reverse engineering involved in the project fascinated him, as did the way in which sound is produced.

Harpsichords, for example, are plucked string instruments and produce a uniform sound amplitude.

There is no note-to-note control of the sound dynam-ics. Musicians wanted a more diverse sound, which led in the 18th century to the development of the first pianos, which introduced hammers and more varied sound. Pianos evolved over time to be made of differ-ent materials, grow from four octaves to more than seven, contain wire made of new materials, and so on.

“As I was restoring, I got interested in how the technology changed and problems were solved and re-solved in different ways as the instrument evolved,” Giordano says.

He was intrigued, for example, by the evolution of piano wire from brass and iron mixed with elements such as carbon to modern-day steel. It was a topic he could study applying physics to examine how the material affected the vibration of the strings. His goal was to create a physical model of the piano by apply-ing computational physics to each part of the piano. The dimensions of the soundboard, the lengths of the strings, the compression characteristics of the hammers, combined with Newton’s laws to calculate the motion of each when a note is played and create a composite of the sound produced:

“The question was: Can we take all we know about the piano, the physics of the hammers, the flexibility of felt or leather hammers, the construction of the soundboard and calculate what the sound will be when it reaches your ear?”

Giordano has now moved on to other topics includ-ing computational neuroscience, with a focus on the physics, biophysics and neuroscience of how signals are generated and propagate in the brain and how the brain processes them. He nonetheless remains musically inclined.

So is another project: the restoration of the rarest of his pianos, a recent acquisition that Giordano says is perhaps the earliest piano ever made in the United States.

“I love sitting down and playing in the evening. It’s relaxing. But so is working on the pianos. I could easily spend hours and hours rebuilding a single hammer.” Or, perhaps, just thinking about its physics.

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MinouBinachemistry+Painting

As a child in Iran, Minou Bina was told she had no artistic talent. None. The art teacher literally wanted to refund her class fee. That experience didn’t break her spirit. Instead, now working as a world-renowned scientist on the human genome, she has returned to art for art’s sake.

Bina, who has been on the Purdue faculty since 1979, has a background in theoretical chemistry and a passion for DNA that began during graduate work at Yale University on stability of nucleic acids. For many years, her research focused on experimental work, but for the last decade the professor of biochemistry has concentrated on bioinformatics. She collects and analyzes sequences from promoter regions of human genes to discover the codes in DNA that regulate gene expression.

Raised in Tehran, Iran, Bina moved to the United States at the age of 20. She left behind a group of friends who were painters and artists. She also left behind the memory of a not-so-encouraging art teacher. In 1990, when she began work on the Human Genome Project, she started to paint again.

“I thought, if I love art, why not do it? I don’t have to be a Picasso or Rembrandt. Why not do it? Before, I was afraid to try,” she says.

Bina began by giving a modern interpretation to traditional Persian motifs on vases and decorative textiles, such as horses and imaginary birds. She now works in acrylic on canvas, favoring any subject that is in motion; horses remain a favorite.

Bina is fascinated by the similarity of the thought process in designing an experiment and composing a painting.

Bina, who says she paints mostly in the winter to beat the blues, keeps her art for herself or gives it to friends and family members. “I question my talent, but I’m fascinated by art,” she says, then laughs, “if you like my art, check out my science!”

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++Chip Killian’s life as a computer science professor might seem a stretch from the days he donned tights and a cap to perform in North Carolina State’s annual madrigal dinner, but “have voice, will travel.”

Killian, who joined the Purdue computer science faculty in 2008, has juggled music, math and science throughout his life. He excelled in math and science as a child, attending North Carolina’s rigorous public residential math and science high school. By senior year, he was taking calculus III, discrete math and math modeling. In college at North Carolina State University, he studied computer systems and net-working and discrete math. His doctorate came from the University of California, San Diego.

He also excelled musically. Young Chip began piano lessons in first grade, dabbled in banjo for a year, and graduated to trumpet in sixth grade, vying to compete with his older sisters, who were in the high school marching band.

It was in college that Killian made the decision to focus on his voice, which, he explains, was easier to transport and keep in tune than a trumpet. It was also familiar territory; his father sang barbershop. Killian minored in vocal performance at North Carolina State and joined the university’s glee club, concert choir, and 15-member co-ed a capella group. His goal with the music minor, he says, was to sing in weddings.

He realized that dream in July, with his first profes-sional paying gig as a wedding singer — no, not the Hollywood kind. “Weddings are fun,” he explains. “It’s

Chipkilliancomputer science+Vocals

a really joyous occasion, so if you’re picking one event at which to sing, it’s a good one.” Among the sacred music the baritone performed at the July wedding were pieces like “To Believe in Love.”

As a researcher, Killian focuses on ways to make it easier to build large-scale high-performance dis-tributed systems. This is software that runs across multiple systems, such as that used by businesses with a large number of clients and numerous beds of computers.

“The kind of person I am lends itself to both music and the kind of research I do,” he says. “Both music and computer systems are composed and designed, then performed/executed according to instruction. Performing music well requires understanding how the various parts, lines, and harmonies work together, just as building complex distributed systems requires understanding how independent processes and com-puters interact and coordinate with each other. In both cases, there are formulas and patterns which tend to lead to good outputs, but clever design also finds exceptions to the rules to produce exciting and new compositions.”


“I got to see firsthand

the difference you can make

in a community through

medicine.”

As he packed his bag to go to Quatar this summer, Ahmed Elmagarmid made sure to include his role as a faculty member in the nation’s oldest computer science depart-ment, researcher in the world’s largest data-base faculty group, and solid track record for founding and directing leading computing and cyberinfrastructure centers.

Elmagarmid headed to Qatar in August for two years to work with the Qatar Foundation — a private organization established by His Highness Sheikh Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, emir of Qatar. His assignment? To establish a top-tier computing research center in the oil-rich Middle East nation.

Elmagarmid has long been committed to building prestigious learning and research centers. In 1988, when he joined the Purdue faculty, he set immediately to work with the State of Indiana to create the Indiana Center for Database Systems, designed to promote leading-edge research in database technol-ogy and applications.

Under Elmagarmid’s watch as founding director, the center developed a strong core of researchers with a broad swath of interests: database systems, information retrieval, machine learning, database secu-rity and data mining.

“The vision that you grow a center by not only growing the core, but also the inter-faces, is a key to its visibility and success,” he says.

In 2003, Elmagarmid put this philosophy to work once again as the founding director of the Cyber Center at Discovery Park, an organization designed to focus on appli-cations and create a cross-disciplinary research team drawn from the sciences, engineering, agriculture, nanotechnology, and, eventually, the social sciences.

Projects that have emerged from the Cyber Center include an information managing sys-tem created with Purdue horticulturist David Salt, who focuses on ionomics (study of how plants take up, transport and store nutrient and toxic elements). The Purdue Ionomic Information Managing System has become the primary conduit of information exchange for the international ionomics community and has brought high visibility to Purdue’s plant sciences research, Elmagarmid says.

The Cyber Center also drew on its cross-disciplinary framework to help Purdue win in November 2009 its largest grant ever: a $105 million National Science Foundation grant supporting the George E. Brown, Jr. Network for Earthquake Engineering Simulation. As part of the effort, research-ers at the Cyber Center will build a network connecting earthquake engineering centers around the globe.

It was these cumulative successes — from building an outstanding database group to dreaming of and realizing high-visibility

For Henry Chou (BS ’07, biological sciences), the trick to surviving the trials and tribula-tions of medical school is to somehow keep all that serious business light. Now in his fourth year in the Indiana University School of Medicine, Chou settles his nerves through music, exercise, and the steady belief that things will work out for the best.

The Lilly Purdue Alumni Scholar and College of Science responder at commence-ment was unsure of his career path when he enrolled at Purdue. In high school he thought he might like to be an architect. He enter-tained serious thoughts of becoming a doctor during a medical service trip to Ecuador. “I got to see firsthand the difference you can make in a community through medicine,” Chou says of his undergraduate experience with the Timmy Foundation.

How tosuccEEd iN mEd school (without really stressing)

Computing magic makerahmEd Elmagarmid has taken his show on the road – to Qatar.

Science graduate Henry Chou — now a fourth-year medical student at the Indiana University School of Medicine — interacts with a child at a rural health clinic in Mbale, Kenya. Chou trav-eled to Africa after his first year in medical school and worked alongside Kenyan medical students. (Courtesy photos)

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Now in the home stretch of medical school — with residency on the horizon — Chou aspires to diagnose and treat disease as a future radiologist. He says the opportunity to work with a variety of patients is most appealing to him.

The very nature of a healing profession makes it difficult to keep things as carefree as he would like. The 25-year-old spent part of his summer working in an emergency room, getting his hands bloody in a trauma setting. But is emergency medicine and hospital life anything like it’s portrayed on television?

Chou claims this part of his real life is not as epic as shows like “ER”, and maybe not as whacky as “Scrubs.” “But we do have our funny moments,” he says.

Outside the rounds and coursework, Chou tries his hand at guitar, teaching himself to play via tablature. Some alternative and metal, he says, but Eric Clapton may top his list of guitar gods. Regular exercise seems to soothe his soul as well; he lifts weights and plays badminton.

And though Purdue’s tough science cur-riculum prepared him for medical school challenges, Chou says it’s the ability to keep things in perspective that leads to success. “You have to remember to have fun and step away from books to spend time with friends and family,” he says. “Undoubtedly, patient care comes first in medicine. But the better you can take care of yourself, the better you can take care of your patients.”

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computing centers — that drew the attention of the Qatar Foundation. In 2005, Elmagarmid began working with the foundation as it developed research institutes, including the Sidra Medical and Research Center — one of the world’s first totally digital hospitals — set to open in 2012.

The new Qatar Computing Research Institute, with Elmagarmid at the helm as executive director, will be located in Qatar’s Education City, a unique collection of satellite campuses from six international institutions designed to offer undergraduate and graduate opportunities to the Middle East region. Among the universities repre-sented are Carnegie Mellon, Weill Cornell Medical College, Texas A&M, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Northwestern.

Initially, the new institute will be housed on the Carnegie Mellon campus and will include six centers: Arabic language tech-nologies, Internet computing, databases, bioinformatics, high-performance computing and cyberinfrastructure. It will liaison with other Qatar research institutes in biomedi-cal research and sustainability. Elmagarmid will continue to serve as an IT advisor to the Sidra Medical and Research Center.

“Qatar is investing the wealth from its natural resources in advancing society,” Elmagarmid says. “They are putting a huge emphasis on education, healthcare and research. There is a realization that you need to develop society through innovation and not reliance on natural resources. I was so impressed with the vision that they had that I thought it was something I could be a part of.”

Linda Thomas Terhune


Q&AWhy marChing band?

Notre Dame got me involved. My cousin was a piccolo player in its band and we went to visit her when I was little. It was big, it was loud, and everyone seemed to have a good time doing it. I was a drum major in high school.

your FirSt time on the Field WaS in 2007 during the Purdue–eaStern illinoiS game. What WaS it like?

It was one of those Top 10 moments in life. Like a dream come true. You spend all your time working on the pregame and halftime show, then to get out there in front of thousands of people is amazing.

tight Community, iSn’t it?

Once you join the marching band, your section becomes your family. All the saxophones hang out, all the trumpets hang out. You automati-cally have 30 or 40 best friends. I live with one of the alto sax players. I have about 350 best friends.

then it’S true What they Say about marChing band memberS being FanatiCS?

My freshman year, when we cel-ebrated the 100th anniversary of the Block P, we had close to a 1,000 people between the alumni marching band and the marching band on the field for one formation. It’s amazing. Old band members came out of the woodwork.

Without band, I don’t know what I would be doing with myself. When

we have a practice canceled or the day off on a Monday, we twiddle our thumbs, like, “Now what do we do?”

there’S more to liFe than band, iSn’t there?

I like the research aspect of biology and biochemistry. Two summers ago, I worked at Estee Lauder in the research and development labs. I saw how much of what I had learned in basic labs carried over into industry. Last summer and this summer I worked at Memorial-Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York City doing pre-surgical patient procedures.

What’S the beSt Part oF being a drum major?

“Hail Purdue!” It’s always fun being up on the ladder in the end zone. When there’s a touchdown, everyone goes crazy, and you count off “Hail Purdue!” It’s really exciting. That’s what it’s all about.

hoW about thoSe big bear Fur hatS you Wear? hot?

They’re pretty toasty, but they have a wicker frame so there not as heavy as they look.

notre dame got you Started in band. When Purdue PlayS the Fighting iriSh thiS Fall, What Will you be thinking?

I found a photo recently from when I visited Notre Dame way back when. It’s like coming full circle but in the opposite direction.

name:

Cherrie LemonhometoWn:

St. Louis, Missourimajor:

Chemistry, junioryearS aS drum major:

1yearS in band:

2 (in clarinet section last year)height:

5’0”

name:

Rich MarzullohometoWn:

Stamford, Connecticutmajor:

Biochemistry, senioryearS aS drum major:

3yearS in band:

4 (in alto saxophone section freshman year)height:

6’ 4”

With a name like Cherrie lemon, Were you Fated to be a drum major?

I was in concert band in eighth grade. One day I asked the director if I could conduct. She told me I should be a drum major in marching band.

What doeS a drum major do?

We cue the drum line so they can start the band. We have conduct-ing responsibilities using whistles. We carry maces for flash. I’m 5’ 0”; my mace is 4’ 9”. We also teach the drill show and come up with our own drum major formation for each game, like dancing to “Sweet Georgia Brown.”

you Seem Pretty high energy. iS that Why you like being in the band?

My favorite part of marching band is getting up and doing the show. I love the crowd, the action. I love seeing how my hard work from the week has paid off.

or maybe it’S your love oF StruCture?

I’m really big on structure and order and how things are supposed to be. I love order, and, apparently, I love being in charge. I thought about being a criminal defense lawyer,

then a neurosurgeon, then returned to my interest in law: It’s all about the rules. This is how it’s going to be. There is no changing them.

you alSo love PeP band. iS that beCauSe you’re PePPy?

I love it when women do traditionally male roles. I told people I was going to be the first woman in the NFL.

liFe Can’t be all band, Can it?

I LOVE chemistry. I’m a first-generation college student. I started chemistry in eighth grade and loved it, and said, ‘This is what I want to do for the rest of my life.’ I like to analyze things. I plan to go into the Navy after graduation and use chemistry or forensics. I did research this summer on gunshot powder residue.

aS the univerSity’S FirSt aFriCan ameriCan drum major and only the Sixth Female drum major — What Will be going through your mind on game day oF the SeaSon oPener?

There’s a moment when we march on the field and have to stand still. I may cry during that time. I’ll be think-ing to myself, ‘I REALLY did this. This is my spot, my time. I’m making his-tory.’ To see African Americans and young girls watching the game and watching a female drum major. It will really mean a lot.

Q&a with sciENcE’s drum majors


aNd thE BaNd playEd oN

Steve now directs the Get a Life Marching Band, a 100-or-so member group that marched in President Barack Obama’s inauguration parade in 2009, and in February will march in New Orleans’s Mardi Gras celebrations. In addition to his responsibilities for choosing most of the music the band performs, running rehearsals, and overseeing logistics, Steve choreographs the marchers. “It’s not a very big responsibility,” he jokes. “Getting down the street in a straight line is about all we can do.”

The band’s credo, in fact, is well aligned with the upcoming Mardi Gras parade: Let the good times roll. Casual, spirited, the Get A Life Marching Band is all about fun. When faced with the presidential inauguration parade’s 47-page rule book, which mandated strict formation details and behavior, “the band was scared straight,” Steve says. The musicians faced a challenge of a different sort this summer. “I got an e-mail from someone who said they wanted a marching band for their wedding. I said, ‘I bet you don’t.’ Turns out they do,” he says. The result? A pro-cessional with bride, groom and wedding guests to the tune of the 1970s Commodores funk hit “Brick House.”

“The result? A processional with bride, groom and wedding guests to the tune of the 1970s Commodores funk hit ‘Brick House.’”

Computer science and math grads still marching after all these years

In his day job at Intel, Steve focuses on trusted platform architecture. He’s developing better security technologies that will combine the flexibility of PCs with the security of set-top boxes and smart phones.

Play, Steve says, is informed by work: “The inau-guration experience convinced me that a lot of what I’ve done at Intel has been a perfect warm-up for what it takes to run the bands: organization, people and decision-making skills,” he says.

And work is informed by play.

“The sense of joy I derive from the marching band is hard to get in other ways. There are not so many things that really bring such deep fulfillment. It’s not only entertaining, but also comes with a deep sense of emotion. When we marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in the inauguration parade, playing ‘We’re an American Band,’ I almost clutched,” he says. “Plus, it really turns your brain off. You have to flush the daily junk out of your head and that, alone, is worth it.”

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“At some point, it became impossible to avoid each other,” Steve says. As graduate students at Purdue, band dropped to a lower priority. The spark never fully died, though, and in 1992 — 11 years after moving to Oregon — the fire blazed again.

“We were at the Rose Festival Parade in Portland and this thing rolled down the street,” Steve recalls. “It was the biggest band we had ever seen: bright yellow, Mickey Mouse ears on gleaming tubas; the band members were having more fun than anyone should ever have. We looked at each other and said, ‘We HAVE to do that.’ ”

The ‘that’ was Portland’s One More Time Around Marching Band, a 500-member corps of former high school and college marching band alums ranging in age from 20 to 85. The band, perhaps the largest permanent marching band in the world, was, indeed awe-inspiring — the average college marching band, in comparison, has about 200 members. By 1994, the Tolopkas were marching with the group, but the short season left them hungering for more, so they joined a smaller side group, the Get a Life Marching Band.

Oh, the trials and tribulations of living next door to Steve and Janet Tolopka.

You have to endure weekly marching band practices on the street, with 50 or 60 gen-somethings practicing tunes like Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs’ “Wooly Bully” and K.C. and the Sunshine Band’s “That’s The Way (I Like It).”

In exchange, you get a coveted invite to the couple’s annual Margarita Madness driveway party, an olive branch extended as thanks to tolerant neighbors. Entertainment is provided by another Tolopka ven-ture, an 18-piece Big Band Ensemble.

Unusual? Not if you know the Tolopkas. By day, Steve (MS ’76 and PhD ’81, computer science) is a senior principal engineer at Intel; Janet (MS ’78, mathematics) is a senior management analyst for Metro, Portland’s regional government. By night, they are band fanatics — marching band, rock band, jazz band, big band.

The couple met as undergraduates at Western Kentucky University, where they were both math majors and played saxophone in the marching band.


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it would be great to have a surgical adhesive that could replace staples and sutures, which puncture healthy tissue and create potential sites for infection.”

By comparing oyster shells with the mate-rial that connects the animals to each other, the researchers were able to determine its chemical composition. The results showed that the adhesive had almost five times the amount of protein and more water than what is found in the shell.

Wilker and his team will next investigate the interaction of the different components within oyster cement and use this informa-tion for developing new synthetic materials.

Purdue-IU team uncovers potential prostate cancer marker

Collaboration between a chem-ist, the Purdue Center for Cancer Research, and researchers at the Indiana University School of Medicine has resulted in the dis-covery of a potential marker for prostate cancer that could be the starting point for less invasive testing and improved diagnosis of the disease.

The team used a new analy-sis technique to create a profile of the lipids, or fats, found in prostate tissue and discovered a molecular compound that appears to be useful in identify-ing cancerous and precancerous tissue. The profile revealed that cholesterol sulfate is a compound that is absent in healthy prostate tissue, but is a major fat found in prostate cancer tumors.

Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, and Timothy Ratliff, the Robert Wallace Miller Director of the Purdue Center for Cancer Research, led the team.

“It was surprising to find a single compound that is distinctly present in cancerous tissue and not present in healthy tissue,” says Cooks, who is co-director of Purdue’s Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development. “We’ve been able to differentiate cancerous from healthy tissue using this new method in the past, but the difference was in the amounts of the same chemical compounds found in healthy tissue. There was no single differentiator of which one could say if it was present there was cancerous tissue.”

Ratliff says this characteristic makes the compound a potential marker for the disease, which could lead to new blood or urine tests to screen for prostate cancer.

The team used a mass spectrometry analysis technique developed by Cooks and co-workers called desorption electrospray ionization, or DESI, to measure and compare the chemical characteristics of 68 samples of normal and cancerous prostate tissue.

Purdue and four Indiana school districts have received the first three years of a five-year, $6.7 million National Science Foundation (NSF) grant to improve science learning in third through sixth grades.

The work will focus on the use of engineering design-based teach-ing. The concept teaches problem solving in math and science through design projects. Over the five years, engineering, science, technology and education faculty will interact with 200 elementary and intermediate school teachers, 100 student-teachers and 5,000 students. In the final year, the project will be expanded to additional school districts.

Goals of the project are to improve science learning in grades 3-6 through implementation of engineering design, prepare practicing and prospective teachers to use a design-based curriculum, adapt existing materials and tasks and develop new ones where neces-sary, and provide an understanding of how engineering design is used by teachers to teach science and students to learn science.

Partnering in the effort are Purdue’s colleges of Education, Engineering, Science and Technology; the Discovery Learning Research Center; regional industries; and the Lafayette, Tippecanoe, Taylor Community and Plymouth school corporations.

rEsEarchEr cracks sEcrEt oF oystErs’ aBility to stick togEthEr

Graduate students Allison Dill and Livia Eberlin use desorption electrospray ionization to exam-ine samples as part of research examining prostate cancer mark-ers. The research team is led by Graham Cooks, the Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry. (Courtesy photo)

Chemists may have found a way to combat drug-resistant malaria strains, a discovery that could greatly improve life for nearly half of the world’s population, which is at risk for malaria.

Chemistry professors Christine Hrycyna and Jean Chmielewski are investigating a technique that could lead to inexpensive and readily available antimalarial drugs.

Malaria is an often-fatal disease caused by plasmodium parasites that multiply in red blood cells and are spread from person to person through the bites of infected mosquitoes. In the past century the parasite has developed widespread resistance to the drugs available to treat the disease. The resistance is due to reduced accumulation of the drugs in the digestive system of the parasite through an adaptation that allows the parasite to push the drugs out of its system, according to Chmielewski.

“By finding a new way to use previously successful drugs that are known to be safe and effective, we have a head start that reduces the cost and lets us get the treatment to people faster,” she says.

breakthroughS

A Purdue-led research team has uncovered the chemical components of the adhesive produced by oysters, providing information that could be useful for fisheries, boating and medicine.

A better understanding of oysters’ ability to stick together to form complex reefs would help those trying to boost the dwindling oys-ter population, aid in the creation of materi-als to keep boat hulls clean without harming the environment, and bring researchers one step closer to creating wet-setting adhesives for use in medicine and construction.

Jonathan Wilker, professor of chemistry and materials engineering, led the team that analyzed the most common oyster in the United States, Crassostrea virginica, known as the common Eastern oyster.

“With a description of the oyster cement in hand, we may gain strategies for developing synthetic materials that mimic the shell-fish’s ability to set and hold in wet environ-ments,” says Wilker, who has worked on the design of synthetic bioadhesives for more than 10 years. “Dentistry and medicine may benefit from such a material. For instance,

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chEmists aim to trEat drug-rEsistaNt malaria

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purduE, school districts gEt $6.7 millioN graNt to improvE sciENcE EducatioN

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Saugata baSu, professor of mathematics, was named a University Faculty Scholar by Purdue’s Office of the Provost.

eriC CalaiS,professor of earth and atmospheric sci-ences, is taking a leave of absence during the 2010-11 academic year to serve a one-year term as science adviser for the United Nations Development Program under its Disaster Risk Reduction Program in Haiti.

jean ChmieleWSki, the Alice Watson Kramer Distinguished Professor of Chemistry, was honored for teaching excellence in April as a 2010 Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award given in memory of Charles B. Murphy.

kyoung-Shin Choi,associate professor of chemistry, has been honored with the 2010 Iota Sigma Pi Agnes Fay Morgan Research Award. This award is given for research achievement by a female chemist or biochemist who is 40 or under.

rebeCCa doerge, professor of statistics and agronomy and director of the Statistical Bioinformatics Center, has been named head of the Department of Statistics, succeeding long-time department head Mary Ellen Bock.

joSePh FranCiSCo, the William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry, has been nomi-nated by President Barack Obama as a member of the President’s Committee on the National Medal of Science.

Clark gedney, director of the Bio Media Center for Instructional Computing, has been select-ed as an associate fellow of the Purdue Teaching Academy.

arun ghoSh, the Ian P. Rothwell Distinguished Professor of Organic Chemistry/Medicinal Chemistry, has received the 2010 IUPAC-Richter Prize in recognition of his outstanding use of

The following professors have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences:

r. graham CookSthe Henry Bohn Hass Distinguished Professor of Chemistry

joSePh FranCiSCothe William E. Moore Distinguished Professor of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences and Chemistry

Freydoon ShahidiDistinguished Professor of Mathematics

structure-based design of HIV-1 protease inhibitors using his novel concept of “back-bone binding” to withstand drug resistance.

jurgen honig, professor emeritus of physical chemistry, received an honorary doctorate for distin-guished productivity in research from the Technical University in Krakow, Poland.

ralPh martin kauFmann, associate professor of mathematics, has received a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. The fellow-ship supports long-term research projects conducted in cooperation with research institutions in Germany. His project is titled “Stringy Structures in Geometry and Topology and their Symmetries,” and will be conducted at the University of Hamburg with Bernd Siebert.

jeFF luCaS has been named associate head for under-graduate studies in the Department of Biological Sciences.

Svitlana mayboroda, assistant professor of mathematics, has received a 2010 Sloan Research Fellowship.

maureen mcCann, professor of biological sciences, has been named director of the Energy Center, the University’s center in Discovery Park lead-ing interdisciplinary research efforts in advancing alternative energy sources and approaches.

denniS minChella, professor of biological sciences, has been named associate dean for undergraduate education. He will oversee undergradu-ate advising and recruiting, the College of Science Honors Program and coordination with departmental and University-wide programs.

ken ridgWay, jim ogg and john CuShmanof the Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences have been named Fellows of the Geological Society of America.

Freydoon Shahidi, Distinguished Professor of Mathematics, has been elected to the 2010 Class of Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

jie Shen, professor of mathematics, has won a 2010 Chang Jiang Chair Professorship by the Ministry of Education of China. The award will support visits by Shen to Xiamen University, where he will conduct collab-orative research in numerical analysis and scientific computing.

mark daniel Ward, assistant professor of statistics, received a Teaching for Tomorrow Award for 2010-11. Every year, the Office of the Provost selects a new group of up to 12 assistant professors and three senior faculty members as men-tors. The program allows faculty to share common experiences and helps them to further improve student learning.

Qianlai Zhuang, professor of earth and atmospheric sci-ences and agronomy, has been named a William F. and Patty J. Miller Associate Professor in the College of Science.

breakthroughS aWardS & honorS

As heavy rains and winds from Hurricane Earl pummeled their operations base in St. Croix, Virgin Islands, in late August, three Purdue students collected data that may lead to a better understanding of the conditions that promote or hinder hurricane development.

Graduate students Alexandria Johnson, Brian Murphy and Paytsar Muradyan worked with Jennifer Haase, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sci-ences, and James Garrison, professor of aeronautics and astronautics. The team is studying the moisture-uptake process to find early characteristics that drive a storm to form a hurricane, and developed the GPS Instrument System for Multistatic and Occultation Sensing (GISMOS) to mea-sure satellite signals as they travel through the atmosphere. The signals’ speed varies depending on atmospheric conditions, and, through small signal delays, the team can

Jennifer Haase, assistant professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, works at a bank of measure-ment equipment onboard a research aircraft. Haase leads a Purdue team that is part of a National Science Foundation project to better understand the conditions that promote or hinder the formation of hurricanes. (Courtesy photo)

determine the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere.

“If the moistening process is understood, then we may be able to identify which storm systems are the most critical to track and improve forecasting,” Haase says. “We hope to make it possible to forecast hurricanes further in advance, for example five days rather than the current two or three.”

The scientists hope that results from the project eventually will be able to give people more time to prepare or evacuate to save lives and reduce the destruction when a hurricane makes landfall.

The instrument has been installed on a Gulfstream V research aircraft owned by the National Science Foundation and run by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. The jet can reach an altitude of about 43,000 feet, enabling scientists to take observations near the tops of storms that form thousands of miles off the coast.

hurricaNE study may lEad to EarliEr warNiNgs, savEd livEs

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Dennis Minchella, associate dean for under-graduate education, is leading a $1.5 million grant from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute that will enrich undergraduate sci-ence education.

The grant will support an innovative, multidisciplinary project to integrate sta-tistical reasoning and data evaluation into the undergraduate biology curriculum. Minchella believes that life science students who will be responsible for solving the global challenges of tomorrow need an innovative educational experience to keep pace with advancing technology that can generate mas-sive amounts of data.

“Through this project, we will equip stu-dents with these quantitative skills early in their academic careers and will enrich the biology curriculum at all levels with statistics and experimental analysis,” he says.

Minchella is partnering with other Purdue faculty members to develop “plug and play” modules that instructors can work into existing courses to introduce statistical techniques.

The four-year grant also will provide sum-mer research opportunities for life science students at Purdue and throughout Indiana and will support training for the state’s high school biology teachers.

The project, called “Deviating from the Standard: Integrating Statistical Analysis and Experimental Design into Life Science Education,” builds on a strategy developed through a 2002 Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant to integrate mathematics and life science.

Members of the project team are Edward Bartlett, assistant professor of biological sci-ences and biomedical engineering; James Forney, professor of biochemistry; George McCabe, professor of statistics; Nancy Pelaez, associate professor of biological sci-ences; and Ann Rundell, associate profes-sor of biomedical engineering. In addition, Purdue’s Center for Instructional Excellence and the Discovery Learning Research Center will support the program.

Grant Supports Student Learning

American Academy of Arts & Sciences


David Himmelberger’s westward ho began at a small liberal arts university in Pennsylvania, took him through graduate school at Purdue, and ultimately settled him in the San Francisco Bay area.

There, in the land of both Google and the Golden Gate Bridge, he has managed to merge his scientific expertise with his tremendous passion for art. He’s a bio-statistical scientist by day and the owner of the Himmelberger Art Gallery — full time.

Himmelberger (MS ’72 statistics, Distinguished Science Alum ’10) is president of Health Outcomes Group, working primarily with people who have chronic diseases. These conditions, including asthma, arthritis and migraine headaches, may not be life threatening, but certainly are debilitating. Through statistical analysis, Himmelberger’s group measures treatment and pain from a patient’s perspective to evaluate their effects on the daily quality of life.

But it’s a worldwide artistic perspective that com-pelled him to open the Bay Area art gallery in his name. Traveling to up to 25 countries to obtain statisti-cal data from patients afforded him the opportunity to explore galleries galore.

“I saw a lot of great art,” Himmelberger says. “It reflected people in their environment and their cul-ture, but mostly how each artist sees the world and himself. Most Americans have never had the perspec-tive I had, so that’s something I wanted to integrate from my travels.

“I brought that back in the form of an art gallery. You don’t need to speak Finnish, or Spanish or Hindi. You can just look at something, and by that visual experience come to understand quite a bit about the artist’s culture and background.”

Himmelberger first opened a gallery in 1987 in Palo Alto. The location today, in the heart of Silicon Valley, is a “good and difficult place to have something like an art gallery,” he says. The technophile neighbors are

often more interested in the latest iPod rather than work of an abstract artist from Switzerland. Still, his doors are open for exhibitions and by appointment, and just happen to be close to his Health Outcomes Group office.

What type of art does he represent? “It has to have some sort of personal significance to me. I’m not just looking for something that sells,” Himmelberger says. “I wanted to create an atmosphere to see if people can slow down, step into my world and have a dialogue with the artist.”

That world currently exhibits several Italian art-ists, perhaps reflecting, or echoing, the Renaissance painters of an “older-world” setting. Patrons will also find black and white photography, sculptures, and more. And since he’s not a broker, Himmelberger only works with contemporary artists, getting to know each one of them personally. A cinematographer recently helped him complete a series of short films (eight to 15 minutes) on some of the artists he’s showcased.

The crossover balance between technology and art isn’t as difficult as many would think. “People sometimes ask if it was a choice between medicine or Michelangelo,” says Himmelberger, who thinks scientists and artisans share more similarities than differences.

“In this country, neither the scientist nor the art-ist is really valued in society,” Himmelberger says. “They’re sort of sitting in the background. People don’t understand what they’re doing until a masterpiece is created.”

But for Himmelberger, whether it’s gaining a greater understanding of the pain of a patient with gastro-intestinal problems, or somehow connecting with a Polish artist who has survived many horrors, both become a matter of a perspective shared.

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“People don’t understand what they’re doing until a masterpiece is created.”

oF mEdiciNE & michElaNgEloDistinguished alum showcases global perspectives in his art gallery

Above: Gallery owner David Himmelberger (left) is pic-tured with artist Leo Holub, who founded the depart-ment of photography at Stanford University and was a pioneer in helping estab-lish photography as fine art. Holub’s wife, Florence, is also shown.

At right: the Himmelberger Gallery (Courtesy photos)


My first encounter with Haiti dates from 1988, as a graduate student. I was tracking the fault that marks the contact where the Caribbean and North American tectonic plates rub against each other, locus of very large earthquakes and first-class natural laboratory for geophysics. We found the fault, mapped it on land and offshore — this became part of the PhD thesis I defended a few years later. I also found a rich and intriguing island, people and culture. I knew I would be back.

The opportunity came in 2001 with an invitation from Dr. Y. Surena, then head of the Haitian Civil Protection Agency, who wanted seismic hazard to be included in disaster risk management. I provided the scientific arguments needed to make the case, explained the major seismic faults, and the tools at disposal to quantify their threat.

The United Nations Development Program (UNDP), Agency in support of the Civil Protection Agency, then funded a brief field visit to Haiti in 2003. Professor Ken Ridgway, Professor Darryl Granger and myself investigated the so-called “Enriquillo fault,” a major break that runs within a few kilometers of the capital, Port-au-Prince, home to 3 million people. It is assumed to have caused two magnitude ~7.5 earthquakes in 1751 and 1770 that destroyed the city both times. We confirmed the seismic nature of the fault and my group initiated its monitoring with geodetic techniques.

We eventually received a National Science Foundation grant under which we augmented the fault monitoring in collaboration with the Bureau of Mines and Energy in Haiti. First results came out in 2006 — the Enriquillo fault was indeed building up elastic energy, to be released in earthquakes to come. Additional measurements led to a more certain conclusion, published in 2008: “The Enriquillo fault in Haiti is currently capable of a magnitude 7.2 earth-quake if the entire elastic strain accumulated since the last major earthquake was released in a single

As a geophysicist who spends most of his time staring at a computer screen, I do not generally conduct fieldwork, let alone in a country that has just been devastated by an earthquake. But following the January 2010 earthquake that killed over 200,000 people in Haiti, several colleagues, including gradu-ate student D. Sarah Stamps, and I took part in a GPS survey of Haiti, the objective of which was to measure how much the earth moved during the earthquake. This helps us understand how seismic hazards in Haiti have been altered.

The fieldwork, however, turned into something more. It became an outreach mission to inform a poorly educated population about the tectonics and seismic hazards of their country, and how to prepare for the inevitable next earthquake.

Though no major earthquakes had occurred in Haiti for 150 years, the potential for such events is well-known within our research group. We briefed the Haitian government as recently as 2008 that a magni-tude 7+ earthquake was expected to occur in the Port-au-Prince area, though we could not say when. With no major earthquakes within several lifetimes, there was little awareness of seismic hazards by most of the population. This would prove deadly for many.

One of the things we learned in talking with many Haitians is that they grew up with two primary hazards, hurricanes and civil unrest, and through these experi-ences developed an instinct to seek shelter whenever peril strikes. Thus, a significant number of Haitians who were outside when the earthquake hit followed their instincts and ran indoors, only to perish when the building collapsed. Earthquake education could have helped.

event today.” Both times the information was passed to the Haitian government and its international partners.

On Jan. 12, 2010, at 4:53 p.m., a magnitude 7.1 earth-quake struck the Enriquillo fault, killing more than 200,000 people, leaving more than 1.5 million home-less, and destroying most governmental, technical, and educational infrastructure in the Port-au-Prince region of Haiti. This single event caused an estimated $8 billion in damage — about 120 percent of the country’s GDP, five times more than the seven cat-5 hurricanes that struck the country over the past decade. In the field two

weeks after the event, witnessing incredible destruction and suffering — but also respect and resilience — it became clear to me that I needed to do more than collect data.

Purdue recently granted me a leave of absence to work in Haiti for the next 12 months as science advisor to the U.N. disaster risk

management program. We know that an earthquake similar to — or larger than — the Jan. 12 event will occur in Haiti. My ambition is to ensure that a culture of seis-mic safety is built into the country’s reconstruction. It means building better, but also educating the population, training local scientists, and effectively informing the land-use planning process. This will be my “drop in the bucket” of the long-term development of this wonderful people and culture. █

Haitians need to understand that the January 2010 earthquake was not an isolated event, that more and potentially larger events are on the horizon. They need to prepare in terms of better construction prac-tices and how to react when shaking begins. This will require a cultural shift that will take decades, made all the more difficult because of abject poverty. But this can be accomplished. It can begin with a concerted effort to educate the Haitian people about seismic hazards.

During our fieldwork into the Haitian countryside only weeks after the earthquake, Sarah and I made it our mission to educate Haitians about seismic haz-ards. Whenever our instruments were collecting data we looked for opportunities. We visited high schools, sat down with displaced university students, talked live on Haitian radio three times, and even went live on Haitian television. Though perhaps only a drop in the bucket, we reached many more people than we could have imagined, in no small part because the Haitians are eager to learn. We learned, too, that Haitians are a remarkable, resilient, hospitable, and most unexpectedly, optimistic people.

Though I am back now in front of my computer screen, my thoughts never wander far from the plight of our Haitian neighbors. I plan to return soon to con-tinue our research and seek new opportunities to help Haitians learn to live in earthquake territory. █

Andrew Freed, associate professor of earth and atmospheric sciences, reflects on his experience in Haiti following the Jan. 12, 2010, earthquake:

Eric Calais, professor of earth and atmospheric sciences:

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me that I needed to do more than collect data.

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Andy Freed tests a GPS receiver under the watchful eye of a curious child in a tent city in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. (Courtesy photo)Eric Calais (in yellow shirt) trains local collaborators

how to install a GPS antenna to survey ground motion

caused by the Haiti earthquake. (Courtesy photo)

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Never underestimate the power of inspired women of science. Their creativity, genius and dedication have changed the world. In the College of Science, a special group of women is helping ensure the future of programs that nurture the next generation of science leaders.

Science Women for Purdue has formed a charitable Giving Circle, a philanthropic organization in which women network, collaborate and promote sciences at the University. Members include Purdue Science alumnae, parents and friends who recognize that women as donors have the capability of making a tremendous impact on the College of Science, its students, faculty and staff.

“The Giving Circle is a great opportunity for a meaningful gift with its impact magnified using a collective voice,” says Lauren Reising, associate director of development in the College of Science. “Women give for different reasons; this gives them a unique outlet.”

The central activity of the Science Women for Purdue Giving Circle is the annual distribution of funds to selected science programs through a voting process. Each member is entitled to one vote to select the projects and programs to which grants are awarded.

Following the first funding cycle, which ended spring 2010, grant proposals were funded for the Science Diversity Office, Women in Physics, and the Women in Mathematics student groups.

“I encourage everyone to look at the amazing opportunity the Giving Circle gives to influence science and students at Purdue and seriously consider being a part of this dynamic organization,” says Giving Circle member Katerina Damjanoska, (BS ’99, biology), now a project manager for Abbott Diagnostics.

For more information, please contact Bente Weitekamp at 765-496-3525 or by email at [email protected].

“All the arts, especially music, are math-ematical and repetitious just like the sci-ences,” she says. “All of the sciences have a connection to music.”

Although one of Lorenz’s only direct con-nections to music was playing the French horn in her high school band, she says a love of music was one thing that brought her and husband Art (BS ’56, mechanical engineer-ing) together.

“We have different interests, different ways of thinking about things, different mindsets, but music has been there since the beginning,” Lorenz says.

The family ties to music and Purdue grew even stronger when the couple had children,

two of whom attended Purdue. Their daugh-ter, Kathy (BS ’82, animal sciences), sang in the Choral Club and their son, Joe (BS ’85, industrial engineering) joined the Varsity Glee Club. After witnessing the growth and joy their kids experienced in those activi-ties, the Lorenzes began actively supporting Purdue Musical Organizations (PMO).

“PMO was a wonderful, invaluable pro-gram for our children,” Lorenz says. “We decided to give to the musical part of the University because of what we had experi-enced as parents and audience members.”

The Lorenzes, who traveled to Europe with Purdue’s Varsity Glee Club and have seen the ambassadorship and impact of

PMO firsthand, understand that PMO not only inspires those in the program, but many others around the world as well. Wanting to help PMO traditions live on, Lorenz says their contributions are a way of saying thank you to PMO.

The Lorenzes began their regular contri-bution to the University in 1977. Their sup-port has expanded over the years to include the College of Science, PMO, the School of Mechanical Engineering and the School of Veterinary Medicine.

“We’ve gotten to know people in each of these areas, and that’s all the encourage-ment we need to continue contributing from year to year,” Lorenz says. “The standard of

siNgiNg thE praisEs of Art and Science

With a passion for science and research, it is no wonder that Kathryn Lorenz (BS ’58, biology) gives annually to Purdue’s College of Science. She finds it equally important to support the arts.

excellence and the sense of pride in Purdue keep us wanting to give.”

Lorenz, along with other Science Women for Purdue members, sponsored the electron microscopy laboratory in Hockmeyer Hall of Structural Biology. She also endowed the Josef Ruzicka Undergraduate Fellowship in the College of Science in honor of her father.

“Our contribution to Purdue is small in comparison to all the joy the University has brought us through meeting people,” Lorenz says. “It’s not so much about writing a check. Sometimes the greater gift is find-ing the right people to move you in the right direction, whether it be in support of the arts or sciences.”

Mackenzie Greenwell

www.science.purdue.edu/sciencewomenforpurdue

Kathryn and Art Lorenz with members of the Purdue Glee Club. The couple’s ties to music led them to support Purdue Musical Organizations. (Courtesy Photo)

Women collaborate to support science



1940Joel Spira (BS ’48, Physics), chair-man, founder and director of research of lighting control manufacturer Lutron Electronics, recently donated items related to Lutron’s 50-year history to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, DC.

1950Robert L. Payne (EE’48, MS EE’50) and wife, Virginia (BS ’54, Science), Laguna Woods, CA, celebrated their 65th wedding anniversary on Feb. 26.

1960Ann L. Onton (BS ’65, Science), Woodbridge, CT, is a senior scientist for NanoViricides Inc., which special-izes in synthesizing materials for thera-peutic antiviral drug-delivery agents. She also competes on the national and world level in swimming.

1970Terry R. Orr (BS ’73, Science), Reno, NV, served as the team physician for the U.S. Men’s Alpine Ski Team at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.

Jane A. Hamblin (BS ’74, Mathematics), Knox, IN, was recently named executive director of Mortar Board National College Senior Honor Society.

Roger K. Quillen (MS ’77, Mathematics), Decatur, GA, was re-elected chairman of the Management Committee at the national labor and employment law firm Fisher & Phillips LLP. Roger was also named to “The Top 100 Most Powerful Employment Attorneys” by Human Resources Executive magazine.

David A. Smith (BS ’77, Computer Science), Highland, IN, celebrated his 25th anniversary of ordination as a Maryknoll priest on Sunday, June 27, 2010.

1980Roberto Feliberti (BS ’85, Mathematics), San Juan, PR, was appointed by the governor of Puerto Rico to serve as an appeals judge before the Puerto Rico Court of Appeals.

1990William W. Metcalf (PhD ’91, Biology), Savoy, IL, was elected to Fellowship in the American Academy of Microbiology.

Michael D. Love (PhD ’92, Chemistry), Augusta, NJ, was named a 2010 NISOD winner at Sussex County Community College’s faculty and staff annual recognition awards ceremony in January.

Christine A. (Bell) Heim (BS ’94, Actuarial Science), Glen Ellyn, IL, completed the requirements to become a Fellow of the Society of Actuaries. She is currently a principal at Mercer.

Ann T. Taylor (PhD ’98, Chemistry), Crawfordsville, IN, was named the first William J. and Wilma M. Haines Professor in Biochemistry at Wabash College.

2000Stephen Parker (BS ’01, Biology), a senior resident in the Duke University Neu r o su r ge r y Training Program, was the winner of this year’s

Holt Young Physician Leadership Award from the Southern Medical Association. This award is presented to a senior or chief resident who has exhibited excellent leadership traits early in their career and shows the promise of a future career of outstand-ing leadership in healthcare.

Matthew M. Sears (BS ’02, Mathematics), Boyne City, MI, was selected to receive $175,000 through the Career Awards for Science and Mathematics Teachers grant program. The award recognizes Sears’ demon-strated knowledge in mathematics and his outstanding performance in educating children.

Eric R. Tkaczyk (BS ’03, Mathematics), Ann Arbor, MI, received both a Fulbright Fellowship and a Whitaker Scholarship. Having graduated with MD and PhD (electri-cal engineering) degrees in May, he plans to work in Estonia on develop-ing portable and affordable cataract assessment technology.

Jessica J. Baumetz (BS ’05, Biology), Hutchinson, MN, gradu-ated in December with a doctorate of physical therapy from Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine. She will begin her career as a physical therapist at St. Elizabeth Regional Hospital in Lafayette, IN.

Eleanor (Ellie) E. Hattery (BS ’06, Chemistry), Cincinnati, OH, climbed the Koko Crater Railway Trail on the island of Oahu in February over her spring break from the University of Cincinnati Medical School.

BirthsSteven J. Gruneisen (BS ’89, Physics) and wife Lynn (Perrone) Gruneisen (P’ 91) of Prospect, KY, welcomed daughter, Kayla Rose, on Aug. 14, 2009. Kayla joins older sister, Hannah, and brother, Ethan.

Jeffrey A. Dubois (BS ’96, Mathematics) and Melinda A. (Ashcraft) Dubois (BS ’96, Actuarial Science), Dayton, OH, welcomed the birth of their daughter, Anna Sophia, on March 16.

Scott E. Freeman (BS ’00, Computer Science) and Courtney A. (Faint) Freeman (A’98) of Hillsborough, NJ, welcomed daughter, Robin Katherine, on July 29, 2009.

Todd W. Geders (BS ’01, Biology, PhD ’07, Biology) and Abigail A. (Nesbitt) Geders (NRS’04) of Minneapolis, MN, welcomed daughter, Jilian, on Sept. 8, 2009.

Erin (Lakin) Hensley (BS ’04, Biology) of Arvada, CO, and her husband, Jesse, welcomed their first child Jonathon Wyatt on Oct. 17, 2009.

Brad D. Tucci (BS ’06, Mathematics) of Hasbrouck Heights, NJ, and his wife, Maria, welcomed son Matthew David on Aug. 28, 2009.

MarriagesRyan B. Helms (BS ’05, Biology), Indianapolis, IN, married Megan P. (Sliger) Helms on June 6 in Lafayette, IN.

Ryan F. Shartle (BS ’05, Biology), Dublin, OH, married Charise L. Pettit-Shartle (S’05) on Oct. 3, 2009, in the Hocking Hills region of Ohio.

Morgan R. Barron (BS ’09, Biology), Valparaiso, IN, married his high school sweetheart, Amanda J. (Banasiak) Barron (LA’09) on Aug.15.

In Memoriam

1930Thomas J. Davis (BS ’34, Science), Albany, GA, Mar. 6, 2009.

Charles M. Campbell (BS ’35, Science), Naples, FL, May 14. He is survived by his wife, Cynthia.

Georgianna (VanHoese) Carter (BS ’36, Science), Carmel, IN, Jan. 25

Martha J. (Spring) Mueller (BS ’37, Science), Indianapolis, IN, Jan. 1, 2009.

Robert T. Reid (BS ’38, Science), Indianapolis, IN, Apr. 2.

Clinton H. Hobbs II (MS ’39, Biology, PhD ’42, Science), Kent, OH, Oct. 26, 2009.

1940Bernard J. Freedman (BS ’41, Science), Los Angeles, CA, May 25.

Nell M. (Morris) Krantz (MS ’41, Chemistry), Davis, CA, Nov. 15.

Mary E. (Irwin) Bacharach (BS ’42, Biology), Fair Oaks, CA, Mar. 6.

Laura E. (Gregory) Bowman (BS ’42, Science), Urbana, IL, Aug. 22.

Robert L. Britt (BS ’42, Science), West Lafayette, IN, Jan. 9.

Charles E. Keene (BS ’42, Science), Fairfax, VA, Jan. 12.

Mary K. (Gee) Melzer (BS ’43, Science), Kalamazoo, MI, Feb. 5.

M. Janet (Glatz) Rush (BS ’43, Science), West Lafayette, IN, June 14.

Elvin H. Seaton (BS ’43, Science), Surprise, AZ, Feb. 22.

Mary F. (Doty) Strain (BS ’44, Science), Heltonville, IN, June 3.

Frank J. Eurs (BS ’47, Science), Grosse Pointe Woods, MI, Mar. 20.

Betty Lou Kinnett (BS ’47, Chemistry), Northbrook, IL, Jan. 7.

Jack F. Rettberg (BS ’47, Statistics), Baton Rouge, LA, Dec. 8, 2009.

Arthur G. Zupko (MS ’48, Chemistry, PhD ’49, Pharmacology/Toxicology), North Fort Myers, FL, Jan. 21.

Andrew R. DeVolder (BS ’49, Science), Kalamazoo, MI, Sept. 24.

Stanley M. Pier (MS ’49, Chemistry, PhD ’52, Chemistry), Federal Way, WA, Apr. 20.

1950Ruth A. (Davidson) Farkas (BS ’50, Biology, MS ’51, Biology), Indianapolis, IN, Jan. 4. She is sur-vived by her husband, Eugene.

Oliver W. Kaufmann (PhD ’50, Biology), Bradenton, FL, May 6. He is survived by his wife, Katherine (MS CFS’49).

Mary Ann (Adrian) Signward (BS ’50, Science), Indianapolis, IN, May 1. She is survived by her husband, William.

Jack N. Sparks (BS ’50, Science), Eagle River, AK, Feb. 8.

Louis P. Doyle (BS ’52, Biology), Flemington, NJ, Dec. 18.

Stanley J. Kazeniac (MS ’52, Chemistry, PhD ’56, Science), Narberth, PA, Jan. 22.

Marjorie J. Brines (MS ’53, Chemistry), Plymouth, MI, Jan. 22.

N. Ann (Letsinger) Collings (BS ’54, Biology), Sun City West, AZ, Nov. 11. She is survived by her husband, Dale (A’51).

David G. Mehrtens (MS ’54, Chemistry, PhD ’57, Chemistry), Thornton, PA, Jan. 11. He is survived by his children, Russell and Emilie.

Sadie (Garrett) Curtis (MS ’55, Chemistry), Severna Park, MD, Apr. 28. She is survived by her husband, William (MS ’55, Chemistry).

Louis D. Fatta (BS ’56, Science), Ingleside, IL, Oct. 28, 2009. He is survived by his wife, Barbara.

Banadakoppa T. Lingappa (PhD ’57, Biology), Worchester, MA, Feb. 20. He is survived by his wife, Yamuna.

Lee Pelty (BS ’57, Science), Chicago, IL, Nov. 29.

Michael P. Britton (PhD ’58, Chemistry), Kalispell, MT, Sept. 2.

1960John C. Guyon (PhD ’61, Chemistry), Carbondale, IL, Mar. 17.

Nancy J. (Buhler) Buczynski (BS ’62, Biology), Hilton Head Island, SC, Sept. 29.

Edward J. Kusel Jr. (MS ’65, Physics), Denver, CO, Mar. 3, 2009.

Ellen L. Daniels-Anson (MS ’66, Biology), Livermore, CA, Aug. 4.

Vincent M. Joly (BS ’66, Chemistry), Gary, IN, Jan. 20.

Joseph T. Krzys Jr. (MS ’66, Computer Science), Naples, FL, Mar. 10.

Alvin Bryant (MS ’67, Biology), Hampton, VA, Feb. 5.

James H. Owen (BS ’69, Science), Plainfield, IN, May 20. He is sur-vived by his wife, Kathryn (BS ’69, Science).

1970Richard G. Miller (BS’73), Carmel, IN, Nov. 9.

J. David Girard (BS ’74, Interdisciplinary Science), Remington, IN, Mar. 17.

Lawrence E. Magee (BS ’74, Mathematics), San Jose, CA, Nov. 18.

Harold P. Hooper (BS ’74, Biology), Lafayette, IN, Jan. 1.

Jennifer J. Wilson (BS ’74, Mathematics), Saint Louis, MO, Nov. 13. She is survived by her husband, John.

James D. Kiefner Jr. (BS’77), Elizabethtown, IN, Jan. 22.

Dennis Leonard Berent (BS’78), Hillsboro, OR, Sept. 11.

1990Robert D. Chapman (BS ’91, In terd isc ip l inary Science), Georgetown, MA, Feb. 26.

Harold E. Vollmer Jr. (BS ’91, Actuarial Science), Gumee, IL, June 17.

2000Jennifer A. Berke (BS ’00, Mathematics), Fairport Harbor, OH, Jan. 23.

ClaSS noteS

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ACCOMPLISHED, no matter how difficult! I realized my body can function on six hours of sleep or less (before I arrived at STEM ABC, six hours was a catnap). I also realized you can bond and create a family with people from all over the country as you embark on an academic journey together. I’m so grateful for this experience, made possible by contributions from the College of Science, Lilly, Abbott and LSAMP (Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation). And I’m especially grateful for the encouragement offered by

Zenephia Evans, director of Multicultural Programs

I am ready to begin the year as an incoming student in the College of Science at Purdue University and continue to create lifelong friendships, cherished memories, and earn a prestigious degree in biology. STEM ABC provided contacts, connections, and a glimpse at what it will take for me to be successful as a Boilermaker. I am outgoing, I more than a name. I am determined, and I am a survivor of STEM Academic Boot Camp 2010!

I am Morgan Nicole Banks

from Fort Wayne, Indiana,

and I want to study biology

at Purdue.

program thinking it would have hard classes, but that they couldn’t be that much different from the AP classes I had taken in high school.

I was wrong … I underesti-mated the academic rigor of the program. I was frustrated and mentally exhausted. During the second week, I began to question my decision to attend Purdue and major in biology. My confidence was shaken, and the academic results at the time were less than stellar. In a con-versation with my mom about quitting the program, though, she encouraged me to reach beyond the limits and set higher expectations.

To continue in STEM ABC, I had to make changes; I had to do better than my best. During my five weeks at Purdue over the summer, I learned a lot about myself. I realized that when it comes to academics, there are no limits. I realized that anything that is set in front of you, CAN BE

Although I did not have to a travel a long distance to join the College of Science family at Purdue, the thought of leaving the familiarity of home and entering the unknown of the university experience was a bit overwhelm-ing. That all changed in July, when I attended the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics Academic Boot Camp (STEM ABC), an intensive summer transitional program for incoming students sponsored by the Multicultural Science Programs Office.

Before STEM ABC, my typical response when asked, “Who are you?,” was giving my name and perhaps my hometown: I am Morgan Nicole Banks from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and I want to study biology at Purdue.

This response changed how-ever, after attending STEM ABC. The program was not at all what I expected. I knew it would be rigorous, but just how hard could it be, I wondered? I entered the

laSt Word

I am a maker. I thInk work should be about makIng thIngs work.

better. Faster. smaller. smarter. so I buIld brIdges

between what’s known and what’s not. I tInker. I toIl.

I wrIte poetIcally In an abundance oF languages

(IncludIng code). I hack. I dIssect. I have an InsatIable

desIre to un-complIcate the complIcated. I am

easIly InspIred. I belIeve that just because It hasn’t

been thought oF doesn’t mean It won’t be. potentIal Is

my thrIll rIde. ImagInatIon Is my most-used tool.

I am a maker. and I am what moves the world Forward.

purdue.edu/makers

We are Purdue. makers, all.

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High school students who attended the World Institute in Science and Engineering (WISE) in July got an introduction to fuel cells when they built and test fuel cell cars. The two-week camp, for those entering 12th grade, is sponsored by Purdue’s Women in Science and Women in Engineering programs. (Photo by Andrew Hancock)

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