heroes on hold

NovemberDecember 2010

Heroes on HoldHuman Space Flight Placed on Standby

It was 900 am October 7 in Tokyo A message from the secretary of the Purdue Club of Japan came in to West Lafayette instantly at 800 pm October 6 mdash the day a native son of Japan and Purdue chemist Dr Ei-ichi Negishi became Purduersquos latest Nobel Prize winner The message from secretary Kenji Ikeuchi (Mrsquo94) ldquoEvery TV and newspaper in Japan is talking about Purdue Universityrdquo Not only was Japan celebrating Purdue and Dr Negi-shi but back in West Lafayette no fewer than three massive satellite trucks and throngs of reporters from every recogniz-able media outlet were at the Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center for two major press conferences numerous interviews and photo shoots mdash all to celebrate our Herbert C Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Dr Negishi It was a great day for him and for Purdue If one subscribes to the notion that Purdue moves man-kind forward and contributes to the betterment of society Dr Negishi is yet further evidence and another point of pride for Boilermakers everywhere He discovered catalytic reac-tions using transition metals that allow organic compounds to be synthesized widely efficiently and selectively for medi-cine materials development and other fields Itrsquos called the Negishi Coupling Reaction and has contributed greatly to developing compounds that battle viruses and cancer and to the building of other carbon to carbon bonds mdash backbones of organic molecules One reporter asked Negishi ldquoWhatrsquos your favorite mol-eculerdquo He replied ldquoI have no one favorite I like to synthesize them all I like to make anything that exists or can be imag-inedrdquo Isnrsquot that Purdue in a nutshell Boilermakers make things We take an idea and make it real whether itrsquos a chemical reaction or a voyage to the Moon Boilermakers are masters of the often insurmountable chal-lenge of making something out of nothing forging the way forward for the benefit of mankind and society This culture has gone unchanged at Purdue from our founding to this very day Boilermakers make what moves the world forward we are pioneers

Featured in this issue of the Purdue Alumnus are thoughts and perspectives of another important group of Purdue pioneers our astronauts The United States is due to halt sending astronauts up in 2011 and given Purduersquos ldquoplace in spacerdquo our alumni are at the forefront of the manned flight cancellation debate Wersquore proud to offer these perspectives especially as the efforts of thousands of Boilermaker alumni have created the worldrsquos preeminent space program I hope you read this issue Volume 99 No 6 with inter-est and cover-to-cover Your next Purdue Alumnus will mark our 100th year of proclaiming Purduersquos achievements in print and giving voice to proud Boilermaker alumni worldwide

Yours in Purdue

Kirk CernyExecutive Director and CEOPurdue Alumni Association

welcome

Moving Mankind Forward

Kirk Cerny President Coacuterdova and Dr Arden Bement with Purdue Club of Japan leadership

Nobel Prize winner Dr Ei-ichi Negishi at the Dauch Alumni Center

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A fond Hansen memoryOn reading about Dr Hansenrsquos death and life I was reminded of my first and most memorable memory of him In spring 1980 the students at Harrison and McCutcheon ldquowent nutsrdquo during finals week For no known reason (study-ing stress) we all poured out of the dorm chanting and shouting While all benign it was a mass of wired folks Someone decided we should all go to the nearby presidentrsquos house Several hundred marched over there late at night while still loud and boisterous President Hansen and his wife opened their up-stairs window standing in their robes and waved at all of us and wished us well hellip and we all went home happy It was very bizarre but they handled it so well and calmly and it turned into a wonderfully positive experience for everyone

Chad Finn (Arsquo83)Corvallis OR

Kudos and concern I just had the opportunity to read the lead article in the SeptOct issue of Purdue Alumnus which tells about Jim and Roberta Grahamrsquos participation in the Gift of Life pro-gram that I initiated in central Indiana in 1999 Thanks to you and to Jeanne Norberg the author for helping to publicize this very important Rotary program I am grateful to Jim and Roberta for their many efforts in recent years to help third world children I am writing primarily to inquire about the name of your publication I raise the question simply because ldquoalumnusrdquo is the masculine singular form of the word and refers to a single male person Could it be that when the publication

was created there were few if any female students who had graduated from Purdue Would it be more appropriate today to call it Purdue Alumni ldquoAlumnirdquo of course is the masculine plural form that by current practice and usage includes both genders Since we have the Purdue Alumni Association why not have a Purdue Alumni magazine and recognize equally our lady graduates

Bill Hatfield professor emeritusWest Lafayette IN

We hope you read the SeptemberOctober ldquoAnother Viewrdquo article If you didnrsquot or want to learn more about the four generations of alums from the same European village you can visit

httpwwwdvhhorgdeutschbentschekPurduepdf

In addition the editorial staff has learned more about the six first-generation offspring of those immigrants and their contributions to Purdue Two Presidents of Purdue Alumni Clubs Four Purdue Alumni Association Life Members One Purdue Presidentrsquos Council Member One Griffin Society Member One Mechanical Engineering Scholarship FounderIt is easy to see how the loyalty to Purdue of these six outstanding citizens has resulted in an additional 15 Purdue graduates from the succeeding generations mdash so far

you said

SeptemberOctober issue follow up


The end of the Shuttle Program has been a topic hotly debated this year Congress and the Administration want set a new course for US human space exploration and have laid the groundwork with the passage of the National Aeronautics and Space

Administration Authorization Act of 2010 bill Amidst all the debate on one point there is wide agreement within the space community especially among Purdue astronauts US human missions into deep space must resume and as quickly as possible

Photographer Hunter Freeman

On the Cover

volume 99 bull novemberdecember 2010

Purdue Alumni StaffPublisherKirk Cerny

Editor in ChiefKelly Hiller

Art DirectorRyan Gibboney

Chief Marketing OfficerDan Rhodes (LArsquo02)

Editorial AssistantsJamie Goodfellow (Tlsquo06 MS Tlsquo09)

Joey Campbell (LAlsquo07)

The Purdue Alumnus is published by the Purdue Alumni Association for its members

Wersquod love to hear from you Purdue Alumnus

Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center403 W Wood St

West Lafayette IN 47907-2007(765) 494-5175

(765) 494-8290 faxalumnuspurdueedu

wwwpurduealumnusorg

To request an advertising media kit call (765) 494-8038 or e-mail

alumnuspurdueedu

The Purdue Alumnus (ISSN 0033-4502) is published for Purdue Alumni Association members by the Purdue Alumni Associa-tion Inc Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center 403 W Wood St West Lafayette IN 47907-2007 Published six times yearly (January March May July September November) Periodicals postage paid at Lafayette IN and additional mailing offices POSTMASTER Send address changes to the Purdue Alumnus Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center 403 W Wood St West Lafayette IN 47907-2007 Annual membership dues of $50 include $14 for a one-year subscription to the Purdue AlumnusThe Purdue Alumnus does not endorse directly or indirectly any commercial product or service mentioned editorially and may sometimes mention trade names of products or equipment to clarify information No endorsement of named products or ser-vices is intended nor is criticism implied of similar products or services which are not mentioned

Purdue has long helped set standards for excellence and value in higher education It is distinguished

for the breadth and quality of its research as well as for the caliber of its alumni Purdue is raising the bar again Over the past year the University has marked significant

achievements in research and student preparedness Among these exciting achievements is the 2010 Nobel Prize in Chemistry won by Ei-Ichi Negishi our Herbert C Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Negishirsquos research involves creating a method to build the complex organic molecules necessary for numerous purposes from pharmaceutical manufacturing to electronics Thanks to outstanding faculty such as Negishi we have reached record investment in research support mdash a central focus of our ldquoNew Synergiesrdquo strategic plan Awards reached $438 million an increase of $96 million This robust investment of research funding demon-strates sponsorsrsquo confidence in our programs and initiatives and in the power and expertise within our laboratories and classrooms To affect positive change both locally and globally it also is essential that Purdue participate in the national con-versation about the importance of research In September I joined Vice President Joe Biden and a group of university

presidents to discuss our research accomplishments This was a rare opportunity to share information about our pio-neering approach to discovery and the impact it is making Video of our discussion is available at wwwpurdueedupresident Purduersquos place at this table is recognition of our ever-increasing national reputation in using research to jump-start innovation to move the world forward Also this fall a Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters ranked Purdue fourth in the nation for preparing students for the work force We are sending graduates into the work force who are well rounded with a strong work ethic strong leadership skills and real-world experience Recognition like this emphasizes our success as an institution in supporting encouraging and providing the tools and infrastructure for student success The strong foundation Purdue has established in core areas like research and student preparedness is a broad one Alumni are in a unique position to recognize the value in Purduersquos reputation and scope Your character and good work as well as your loyal support and enthusiasm help us advance Purduersquos reputation You are the keepers of that unique Boilermaker pride and each of you is a key stake-holder in our success

Hail Purdue

President France A Coacuterdova

A message from the

President


alumni pride

Easier navigation You wonrsquot get lost on our site The top naviga-tion always stays the same no matter what page yoursquore on

A beautiful dynamic home page featuring intriguing article ldquoteasersrdquo from the current issue of the Purdue Alumnus

Alumni profiles so you can learn more about what makes this university great mdash you

An events page with options to download events to Outlook or other calendar software And you can receive an RSS feed of Alumni Association events so yoursquore always in-the-know about our fun activities and opportunities to get together

Want to find a club near you Thatrsquos easier now too Just click on ldquoFind a club near yourdquo on the Alumni Clubs page search by state and yoursquoll be given a map with Purdue flags marking the closest clubs to you as well as their contact information

Donrsquot forget to socialize There are quick links at the very top of the site to all of our social networking pages including a new Picasa Web album with hi-resolution downloadable photos of our Alumni events

The Purdue Alumni Association has a new home online Check out our redesigned site at our new address

wwwpurduealumniorg

Wersquove Moved With a new home comes new furnishings and gadgets Here are just a few of the user-friendly features yoursquoll find on our new site

So come on over make yourself comfortable and explore Purdue Alumni Associationrsquos new home Please remember to update any favorites or bookmarks to reflect our new address Yoursquore always welcome and our door is open 247 online at wwwpurduealumniorg

2010


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The Purdue Alumni Association is proud to honor Katherine Amick and Ken Sam as the Outstanding Young Alumni Award winners Katherine Amick (LArsquo06) is working as a communica-tions specialist for the PHJC ministry center in Donaldson Indiana Since graduating from Purdue she has served on the Purdue Alumni Club of St Joseph Valley Board of Directors and now helps organize many programs that provide local stu-dents with Purdue scholarships as well as engage local alumni Ken Sam (IErsquo99) is a plant manager for Honeywell and currently is president of the Purdue Club of Kansas City

Before he moved to Kansas City he lived in Memphis where he was the president of the Purdue Club of Memphis Both clubs were inactive before Sam got involved and he converted both clubs to Gold status during his involvement years He is also a volunteer with the PART program Aside from his participa-tion with the alumni club Sam has been involved with Purdue recruiting activities for Honeywell for the past 10 years The Outstanding Young Alumni Award was established in 1999 and honors people age 32 or younger that have given outstanding service to the University the Purdue Alumni As-sociation or a local alumni club

Alumni honored at the 2010 Alumni Leaders Conference Celebration Dinner

Outstanding Young Alumni Awards

The Purdue Alumni Association recognized Sue Wilson and Bob Fox as the 2010 Boilermaker Pride Award winners Sue Wilson (FR) joined the Purdue Club of Indianapolis board in 1997 and was elected president in 2000 Young alumni participation was a focus of Wilsonrsquos during her time as president Realizing that a key connection to the young alumni was to get them as students she organized the clubs first back- to-school picnic Eventually these would attract over 200 attendees Always wanting to give more in 2002 she was elected to the Purdue Alumni board and served until 2005 Still active with the club Sue continues to serve on its board and as chair of the clubrsquos highly successful scholarship program One of the founders of the Purdue Alumni club of East Tennessee in 1996 Bob Fox (ChErsquo57) grew the club to over

200 participants during his time as club president and board member One of his goals for the club was to provide scholar-ships to deserving students attending Purdue Since 2002 Bob has coordinated this effort which to date has given out more than $25000 to worthy students from the club area He has also coordinated club volunteers for the PART program headed up the effort to secure Purdue license plates in the state of Tennes-see and has organized numerous trips to campus for alumni interested in attending football and basketball games The Boilermaker Pride Award was established in 2005 The award was introduced to recognize club leaders who have contributed time and service to the alumni club program and the Purdue Alumni Association over a significant period of time

Boilermaker Pride Awards

Purdue Alumni Award Winners


The Purdue Alumni Association named Charles Krougrill and James Barany recipients of the 2010 Special Boilermaker Award Krousgrill (MErsquo75) is a professor in mechanical engineer-ing at Purdue His has served Purdue as a leading educator in the School of Mechanical Engineering for nearly 30 years and few if any individuals have had a greater impact on Purduersquos engineering students during this time His pioneering efforts in mechanics education have earned him numerous teaching awards and international recognition James Barany (MS IErsquo58 PhD IErsquo61) is a professor in industrial engineering and has served over 6000 students dur-ing his 52 year tenure at Purdue In 2007 he received the Frank and Lillian Gilbreth Industrial Engineering Award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers the highest honor bestowed by the IIE

Purdue Alumni recognizes Special Boilermaker Award recipients

Congratulations to Robin Fichtelberg (Srsquo89) who was honored as the Purdue Alumni Recruiting for Tomorrow (PART) Volunteer of the Year for her volunteer efforts throughout southern California The Office of Admissions selects someone each year to receive the outstanding PART Volunteer of the Year Award The selection criteria is based on the commitment of the volunteer the number of events attended and their ability to coordinate the help of others PART volunteers have represented Purdue at more than 160 college fairs around the country They also play an integral role in inviting new students to local Purdue Alumni Association events

Two PASE members were also honored with the Rising Star and Gold Star awards The Rising Star award recognizes commitment enthusi-asm and leadership potential in a student ambassador serving the needs of Purdue alumni and current students Celeste Morris was the honoree Morris is a junior from Memphis Tennessee majoring in animal science-pre-vet and is a part of the PASE events committee on the PASE Board of Directors The Golden Star award recognizes the student ambas-sador that has shown distinguished service excellence and dedication to the Purdue Alumni Association and its mem-bers Paul Branham was the recipient Branham is a senior from Keller Texas majoring in nuclear engineering and physics He is the vice president of the networking committee for the PASE Board of Directors

Purdue Alumni Recruiting for Tomorrow (PART) Award

PASE Awards


More than $235000 in scholarships were awarded to 231 students through your Purdue Alumni Association Clubs and Groups Scholarship Program for the 2010ndash2011 academic year The 59 participating organizations across the coun-try establish their own criteria and selection process based on academic and leadership qualities Some of the groups award the aid directly to the student(s) while others distribute the monies through the Division of Financial Aid

Purdue Alumni 2010 Scholarships

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The 2010 PASE Networking Dinner was a big hit with 225 students and 130 alumni attending on September 16 The Networking Dinner was held in the Shively Suites of the Ross-Ade Pavilion During a social hour and dinner students had the opportunity to speak with alumni about how their degrees and experiences that got them to where they are today To view photos from the event visit wwwpurduealumorgPASE PASE is the largest student group on campus boasting more than 2600 members PASE is the student membership to the Purdue Alumni Association

More than 125 alumni returned to campus this September to participate in reunion activities They had the opportunity to renew relationships with classmates return and learn during a variety of tours explore the campus and celebrate the Golden Anniversary of their Purdue graduation The highlight of the weekend was the Reunion Reception amp Celebration Dinner at University Place Alumni enjoyed a perfor-mance by the Boilerboys and had the opportunity to listen to keynote speaker John Norberg the advancement communications manager for the University Development Office and a columnist for the Journal amp Courier Many alumni participated in the Engineerrsquos Yell and wore their senior cords Alumni Weekend in 2011 will be held September 15ndash17 and will honor the 50th reunion of the class of 1961 To view details and pho-tos from the weekend visit wwwpurduealumniorgalumniweekend

PASE Networking Dinner a big hit

T-shirts featuring Drew Brees and the No 15 worn by him 10 years ago are now available for Pur-due fans in West Lafayette area shops Proceeds from the sales will support the PALS (Purdue Athletes

for Life Success) Program that benefits underserved children in Tippecanoe County and is supported by the Brees Dream Foundation the charity orga-nization of the former Boilermaker quarterback and his wife Brittany Brees led Purdue to the Rose Bowl at the end of the 2000 season and New Orleans to a Super Bowl Champion-ship in 2010 ldquoA lot of kids in Tippecanoe County need assistance and they will hopefully benefit from the sales of these shirtsrdquo says Brees The shirts in assorted menrsquos and womenrsquos sizes were designed by a

Purdue graduate Lora Stanley who now works for Original Retro Brand a California company that has created the shirts The shirts will be available in the Purdue Pride Follettrsquos Book Stores University Bookstore Univer-sity Spirit and online through wwworiginalretrobrandcom Prices on the shirts may vary from store to store but $4 from the sale of each shirt will go to the Brees Dream Foundation designated for the PALS Program

Brees T-shirts to benefit PALS

Alumni celebrate 50th reunion during

14 purdue alumnus novemberdecember 2010 wwwpurduealumnusorg purdue alumnus 15

There are some new faces at the Purdue Alumni As-sociation The new team members are from left Katie Vanvekoven front office assistant Joey Campbell membership and records assistant Emily Smith engagement and records assistant and April Holajter electronic communications specialist

A new but familiar face has joined the Purdue Alumni team After a 39-year career with Purdue University John Sautter is now serving as a special assistant to the CEO and executive director He will be working on special projects strategic initiatives and representing the alumni association at alumni club and university events

John served as Purduersquos vice president for housing and food services until his retire-ment on June 30 He oversaw operations for University Residences Food Stores the Purdue Memorial Union and its 192-room Union Club Hotel Boiler Television Elliott Hall of Music and Hall of Music Produc-tions Loeb Playhouse Fowler Hall and Slayter Center for the Performing Arts

The Purdue Alumni board of direc-tors selected Thomas E Spurgeon (Mrsquo61) Peoria Heights Illinois as the Purdue alumni trustee nomi-nee His three-year term will begin July 1 2011 The unanimous nominee of the board Spurgeon has served as a trustee since 2006 He is a member of the board of trusteesrsquo executive

committee and the academic affairs committee as well as chairman of the compensation committee Trustee nominees must be graduates of Purdue University and be dues-paying members of the Purdue Alumni Association For more information about the Purdue Alumni trustee selection process contact executive director and CEO Kirk Cerny at kcernypurdueedu or (765) 494-5179

Not getting e-mails from us You may need to update your addressVisit wwwpurduealumniorgupdate and complete the update your information form This will ensure that we have a current e-mail address on file for you

member matters

This is an all-time high and the group is now the largest student group on campus PASE is the student membership of the Purdue Alumni Association

purduealumorgpase

PASE now has 2700 members

Former Purdue VP joins the Purdue Alumni staff

Purdue Alumni directors nominate Spurgeon to serve

Welcoming new Purdue Alumni team members

And the winners are

Congratulations to the winning foursome of the Purdue Alumni Championship presented by University Spirit held on Friday September 24 at the Birck Boilermaker Golf Complex From left James Ballentine Andrew Braatz John Ostojic and Donco Koceski were our winners with a score of 24 under par They represented Purdue at the Acura College Alumni Team Champion-ship at Pinehurst on November 5 2010 The Purdue Alumni Championship also was sponsored by BMW Dow AgroSciences Duke Energy Liberty Mutual and PEFCU Thanks for your support


Simeon David Brown (13 months) grandson of David Belloli (CErsquo78) and Cynthia Henry Belloli (EDUrsquo77) hopes to one day be a Boilermaker himself

Purdue wrestler Tommy Churchard stands with current and incoming first-year students during a Purdue Club of New Jersey event

Three alumnae vacationed together at Sunset Beach North Carolina Pictured from left are Barbara (Tower) Williams (LArsquo67) Susan Hartman (Srsquo81) and Marcia (Gluys) Brock (LArsquo82)

In July Ann Stock (center) was sworn in as the assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural affairs by Hillary Clinton Ann (LArsquo68) cel-ebrated the honorable occasion with her husband Stuart (IErsquo68) and friend and former White House colleague Carolyn Curiel (LArsquo76 HDR LArsquo08)


Purdue Club of Southeast Michigan hosted their first annual Back-to-School Picnic

The Purdue Alumni Club of Marshall County awarded its first Samuel Elliott Perkins IV Memorial Scholarship to fourth genera-tion Boilermaker Josiah (Joe) Portteus for $40000 ($10000 per year renewable) Samuel Elliott Perkins IV left an endowment to the Marshall County Community Foundation with the stipulation that the monies be used for a Marshall County student attending Purdue The awarded scholarships for the current year totaled $44500 and were given to 24 Marshall County students attending Purdue Pictured back row from left Barbara Winters (CFSrsquo59) Patti Kitch (Arsquo97) Bob Beiter (ChErsquo56) Tracey Leeper (Vrsquo81) James Condon principal of Polk High School Karen Schlosser (CFSrsquo73) Tammy Houin president of the Purdue Club of Marshall County and Chester Gut (MErsquo64) Pictured front row from left Ella Portteus Joersquos sister Aimee Portteus (LArsquo89) Joersquos mom Joe Port-teus 2010 Samuel Elliott Perkins IV Memorial Scholarship winner and Dave Portteus (Srsquo89) Joersquos dad

The Purdue Alumni Club of Sarasota (FL) awarded a total of $3000 for scholarships to four local Purdue students at the annual Gulf Shore picnic in July 2010 Pictured from left to right are Heather Steele Wara Rollano Austin Childs and club president Paul Goodwin Unable to attend was four-time winner Hilary Froman

Purdue Black Alumni Organization president Candice Nash (Trsquo93 MS Trsquo94) right and vice president Camille McKinley (ECErsquo91) left attended the National Society of Black Engineers Annual Conference held in Toronto Canada

CollegeSchool Associations

Purdue Ag Alumni Fish FrySaturday February 5 20101130 amToyota Blue Ribbon PavilionIndiana State FairgroundsTickets must be purchased in advance Call the Purdue Ag Alumni Office (765)494-8593 or get details online at wwwagpurdueeduagalumni

Pharmacy 30th Class Reunion WeekendNovember 12ndash13Celebrating the Classes of 1980 and 1981For more information contact nearydpurdueedu or call (765) 494-2632

Purdue Alumni Clubs amp Groupswwwpurduealumniorgclubs

Purdue Alumni Club of Ft Wayne Bucket DinnerwwwpurduealumorgfortwayneDecember 2Goegleins Catering7311 Maysville RdFt Wayne IN 46815To get more information or to RVSP contact Sean Marquardt at (260) 486-0503 or marquardts2stsourcecom

Purdue Alumni Club of Northwest Indiana Game Watch and Food Drive wwwpurduealumorgnwindianaNovember 20 time TBDValparaiso BW3sJoin fellow Boilermakers as they cheer on the Purdue football team as they play the Spartans and bring non- perishable food items Food will be donated to the Food Bank of Northwest Indiana

Purdue Alumni of San Francisco Holiday PartyDecember 5For more information contact Cassie Gray at sfbayareaboilersyahoocom

Purdue Alumni Associationwwwpurduealumniorg

Friday Night Basheswwwpurduealumniorgfridaynightbashes Rally with fellow Boilermaker fans on location the Friday night before each Big Ten away game Local venues host the Purdue faithful as we Boiler Up for the game on Saturday Check the Web site for more information and to sign upNovember 19 Purdue vs Michigan State

Boilermaker BallwwwpurduealumniorgboilermakerballFebruary 25 2011 Mark your calendars for the fourth annual Boilermaker Ball The event will once again be held at the Indiana Roof Ballroom in downtown Indianapolis


From left drum major Aurie Swartz of Charlestown Indiana golden girl MerrieBeth Cox from Roselle Illinois drum major Cherrie Lemon of St Louis and drum major Rich Marzullo of Stamford Connecticut are looking forward to being a part of the Macyrsquos Thanksgiving Day Parade

Watch the Purdue ldquoAll-Americanrdquo Marching Band on NBC on Thanksgiving Day November 25 as they perform in the Macyrsquos Thanksgiving Day Parade Purdue is the first Big Ten band to be invited to participate in the world-famous parade A reception to honor the bandrsquos performance will take place at 100 following the parade at the Grand Hyatt Hotel The reception is open to anyone associated with Purdue University For more information visit wwwpurdueedubands

Purdue All-AmericanMarching Band


TourswwwpurduealumniorgtoursTraveling is a way to create memories that stand apart from other recollections in life What could be better than traveling with those who share a thirst for knowledge and new experi-ences Join fellow Boilermakers as we explore cultures and gain different perspectives on our world through alumni travel

Waterways of Holland amp BelgiumApril 10ndashApril 18 2011

Come celebrate the beauty and spirit of Hol-land in springtime the optimal time to find rippling fields of more than 1000 varieties of

tulips daffodils and hyacinths stretching as far as the eye can see Experience the true character of life in the Low Countries cruising for seven nights along the calm canals through Hol-land and Belgium aboard the deluxe MS Amadolce one of Europersquos most state-of-the-art river vessels Visit picturesque Volendam an Old Dutch fishing town where residents still don traditional attire tour the medieval Flemish cities of Antwerp Ghent and Bruges a UNESCO World Heritage site and see the impressive art collections in the Rijksmuseum Kroumlller-Muumlller Museum and Van Gogh Museum Specially arranged cultural enrichments include the exclusive Village Forumtrade with local residents private canal cruises in Amsterdam and Bruges and expert-guided excursions featuring the artful blooms of magnificent Keukenhof Gardens the engineering marvel Delta Works and the legendary windmills of Kinderdijk a UNESCO World Heritage site

AndaluciaApril 11ndashApril 20 2011

The timeless allure of Andalucia is a sensory experience Marvel at blue sky that stretches from Mediterranean beaches to the craggy

heights of the Sierra Nevada Mountains Feel the cool shade of cobbled lanes that twist amid whitewashed Morrish hill towns Hear the rapid click of castanets and the flip of a Flamenco dancerrsquos frilled skirt Taste the zesty cuisine seasoned with rich olive oil and sweet sun-ripened sherry

Amalfi The Divine Coast April 27ndashMay 5 2011

Here mountains erupt from the waters of the Mediterranean and pastel-painted buildings cascade down their sides Travel a fabled

serpentine ribbon of road from destination to destination Also spend seven nights in Amalfi Italy Explore Campania and the idyllic town of Sorrento See three UNESCO World Heritage sites The Amalfi Coast the archeological sites of Herculaneum and Pompeii and the Greek ruins at Paestum Cross the Gulf of Naples to spend a day on the enchanting Isle of Capri

By John Norberg


When the Shuttle Endeavour and astronaut Andrew Feustel (Srsquo89 MS Srsquo91) return to earth early next year only one more mis-sion will remain in a human space flight program that was formally announced in January of 1972 That was before the final two Apollo missions launched and returned safely from the moon


ldquoSome question why America should return to the moon

lsquoAfter allrsquo they say lsquowe have already been therersquo I find

that mystifying It would be as if 16th century monarchs

proclaimed that lsquowe need not go to the New World we

have already been therersquo rdquo Neil Armstrong (AAErsquo55 HDR Ersquo70) before the Committee of Science and Technology United

States House of Representatives May 26 2010



Since the first shuttle was sent into low earth orbit in April of 1981 the program has supplied people and equipment to build the International Space Station launched interplanetary crafts and deployed satellites and telescopes including Hubble which is helping to unlock mysteries of the universe Eighteen of Purduersquos 22 astronauts were part of the Shuttle Program A 23rd Purdue astronaut is now in training Although its accomplishments have been great the Shuttle Program has not succeeded in all of its prime objectives most notably to make space travel fre-quent inexpensive and routine And the program has been marred by two tragic accidents that took the lives of 14 astronauts With the end of the Shuttle Program there will be a gap in time before NASA once again launches people into space That gap and the future of NASA have been hotly debated this year as Congress and the Administration set a new course for US human space exploration Amidst all the debate on one point there is wide agreement within the space community especially among Purdue astronauts US human missions into deep space must resume and as quickly as possible

The human need to exploreldquoHumans explore mdash that is what we do it is our naturerdquo says Feustel who will be

making his second shuttle mission ldquoWe have learned about our origins in the universe and benefited so much from the development of space systems We will never really know the benefits of living off of this planet until we actually achieve that end goalrdquo Space exploration ldquosatisfies the hu-man intellect to explore and search for what is lsquoover the next hillrsquordquo says Purdue astronaut Jerry Ross (MErsquo70 MSrsquo72) He has more than 1393 hours in space including 58 hours and 18 minutes on nine spacewalks He was the first human to be launched into space seven times Ross currently serves as chief of the Vehicle Integration Test Office at John-son Space Center ldquoRobots can and need to do much of the exploration but there will always be a need to have the human beings intimately involved in the processrdquo Ross says ldquoMuch of our current technologies that are the prime movers in our coun-tryrsquos economy are the direct off-shoot and result of the space program These benefits range through almost every as-pect of our lives from medical advances and communications to entertainment and new materials that are used in many of the products we use every dayrdquo ldquoSpace flight is an inspiration to our youthrdquo says Purdue astronaut Mark Brown (AArsquo73) who has flown on two Shuttle missions and has more than 249 hours in space ldquoWe have a nation-wide

problem right now in the areas of sci-ence math engineering and technology Not enough young people are studying these subjects and pursuing careers in these fields The result has been the US falling behind the rest of the world Space flight clearly demonstrates the application of whatrsquos learned in the class-room to practical applications Anyone who has worked in the space business will tell you it is an exciting field to be in and full of challenges to overcomerdquo

Space program inspires Purdue President France A Coacuterdova an astrophysicist who served as chief sci-entist at NASA from 1993ndash1996 wrote a column that appeared in newspapers throughout the country last spring ldquoAmerica and NASA need a great challengerdquo she said ldquoA great challenge is one that inspires people to look up at the night sky in wonder one that encourages our kids to study math and science so they can be space explorers discover-ers or inventors one that appeals to our desire to know something presently unknownrdquo To Purdue Astronaut Eugene Cernan (AAErsquo56) who flew on Gemini 9 Apollo 10 and commanded the Apollo 17 mis-sion to the moon mdash and prefers to be called ldquothe most recentrdquo rather than the last person on the lunar surface mdash space exploration is a human ldquoromancerdquo that has inspired people in countless ways

ldquoWe canrsquot stop it Exploration is what we dordquo

Andrew Feustel (Srsquo89 MS Srsquo91) astronaut

ldquoThe greatest legacy of the Wright Brothers is not that we can fly higher faster and fartherrdquo he says ldquoItrsquos the inspiration they instilled in the hearts and minds of those of us who followed in their footsteps This has gone on for more than 100 years now and it will continue because space exploration is a romance What in our lifetimes has inspired people more than seeing Neil Armstrong (AAErsquo55 HDRrsquo70) walk on the moon Human space flight is whatrsquos going to inspire kids in the future ldquoAre you going to tell me that going to the moon isnrsquot funrdquo ldquoThe national goal that President Kennedy used to inspire a generation when he said we would go the moon is the kind of thing we need to inspire kids todayrdquo Cernan says ldquoWe need a goal this generation can reach for in the near futurerdquo Astronauts concerned about future Since 2004 NASA has worked on a program called Constellation that included returning Americans to the moon by 2020 and eventually human flights to Mars Concern that Constellation was under-funded and behind schedule led to an administrative plan to halt it rely on the commercial sector to transport Americans to low earth orbit destinations such as the space sta-

tion and begin development of a new rocket and capsule for eventual deep space exploration In late September after much debate including testimony from Armstrong and Cernan there was an Adminis-tration-Senate-House compromise In October President Barack Obama signed the National Aeronautics and Space Ad-ministration Act of 2010 It establishes an overall goal for human space flight to expand a permanent presence beyond low-Earth orbit Next Congress will consider an appropriations act to fund the measure ldquoIt was far more important to have a bill that strengthens our foundation to move forward than to have no bill at allrdquo Cernan says ldquoI feel the passage of the bill gives us a foundation and gives NASA some directionrdquo The compromise extends the shuttle program one more mission from its previous planned end in early March It extends the Space Station to at least 2020 and cancels most but not all of the Con-stellation Program It depends on com-mercial companies to take astronauts into low earth orbit mdash and the Russians to return US astronauts to the Space Station until the private sector is ready Meanwhile NASA will begin work on a new rocket to propel people into deep space asteroids and eventually perhaps Mars Purdue President Emeritus Steven

Beering former chair of the National Science Board serves on a committee looking at the challenges of a Mars mis-sion He says there are many problems to overcome but people at NASA are eager to solve them Among the big problems is protect-ing astronauts from cosmic radiation during the 18-month round trip not including time spent on the surface Beering briefed astronauts on the hazards of the journey to human bones muscles and the potential for developing malignancies He says their response was ldquoYeah but when do we gordquo

Public support for human space flightRoss who plans to retire from NASA sometime in 2011 says the agency needs long-term focused goals and adequate multi-year funding to accomplish them mdash free from annual budget politics He believes the American people will sup-port this ldquoThe American public is very inter-ested in all aspects of robotic and human exploration of space he says ldquoFrom my many years of speaking to the our citizens in every state in the Union I am convinced that they are very supportive and that they are frustrated that the news organizations do not more fully cover all of the things that we are doing in space ldquoHave you ever noticed how many


ldquoWith this current plan wersquore going to lose the leadership position wersquove had for most of the last 50 years Wersquoll see how it plays out But itrsquos not a pretty picture to me Some day humans will wish they had a presence off the face of the earthrdquoMike McCulley (MSErsquo70 MS MSErsquo70) a former astronaut and retired CEO and president of United Space Alliancedifferent types of products from cars to food use space exploration themes to advertise their products on TV and in the printed mediardquo he says ldquoWhy is that Itrsquos because the advertisers are con-vinced the American publicrsquos attention can and is captured by the use of space exploration visualsrdquo Mike McCulley (MSErsquo70 MS MSErsquo70) is a former astronaut and re-tired CEO and president of United Space Alliance He is concerned ldquoI canrsquot imagine the space station surviving as a viable laboratoryrdquo he says ldquoWith this current plan wersquore going to lose the leadership position wersquove had for most of the last 50 years Wersquoll see how it plays out But itrsquos not a pretty picture to me Some day people will wish they

had a presence off the face of the earthrdquo United Space Alliance has been NASArsquos primary industry partner in human space operations including the day-to-day management of the Space Shuttle fleet and planning training and operations for the International Space Station On October 1 about 1200 people were laid off or took retirement from the company as a result of the coming end of the shuttle program Job cuts are also expected at NASA and elsewhere in the space industry Loren Shriver (MS AAErsquo68) is a veteran of three space flights He is vice president of Engineering and Integra-tion for United Space Alliance and is the companyrsquos chief technology officer

ldquoThe end of the Shuttle Program generates very mixed emotions for merdquo he says ldquoExcept for the early design activity of the Shuttle system in the early 1970s I have been involved in almost all of the Shuttle program history since my arrival at the Johnson Space Center in 1978 to join the first Shuttle Astronaut Class ldquoThe very happy and proud feeling I have comes from being a part of this wonderfully productive highly capable program that I feel provided inspiration and motivation to many people and has been a symbol of leadership in hu-man space flight activity for the United Statesrdquo he says John Casper (MS AAErsquo67) has flown on four shuttle missions He is associate

manager for the Space Shuttle Program He hopes NASA will make use of the technology and personnel that has taken it so far ldquoWe have an incredibly talented unique workforcerdquo he says Gary E Payton (AAE MSrsquo72) retired in July as deputy under secretary of the Air Force for Space Programs in Wash-ington DC In 1985 he flew as a payload specialist on the first military flight of the Space Shuttle program He sees a justification for more funding to help NASA meet its goals America deserves first-rate space programDavid Wolf (EErsquo78) has logged 168 days 12 hours 56 minutes 4 seconds in space over 4 separate missions He has conducted a total of 7 spacewalks logging 47 hours and 5 minutes of extravehicular activity He now consults at all levels of NASA management in development of spaceflight policy and program execution ldquoA first rate country deserves a first

class space programrdquo Wolf says ldquoJust as the NASA of the past is in large part responsible for our current quality of life on earth the current NASA will be responsible for our future quality of life In our country with its position of leadership of our planet a balanced set of priorities must essentially include a powerful human spaceflight program There is no force more powerful than the NASA programs to assure excellence in our countryrsquos futurerdquo NASA Administrator Charles Bolden gave the Boeing Lecture on the Purdue campus in September to an over-flowing audience in Fowler Hall ldquoWe will be doing human explora-tion and we plan to develop the capabili-ties needed to go beyond low Earth orbit farther into our solar systemrdquo he said ldquoThis policy will ensure the US remains at the forefront of innovation ldquoIn the upcoming decades we truly hope to witness the first boots on Marsrdquo he said ldquoAs our first astronauts shake the red soil from their boots they will prove

once and for all that all humans are meant to explorerdquo Cernan says in the years ahead there will be much more discussion about the future of human space flight and he hopes a return to the moon will one day take place ldquoWe are all supportive of the efforts to move forward and continue with a planrdquo Feustel says ldquoHuman space explo-ration is still in its infancy mdash more like the Flintstones rather than the Jetsons We have a long way to go and it will happen eventually in spite of ourselves ldquoWe canrsquot stop it Exploration is what we dordquo

John Norberg is the advancement communication manager for the University Development Office and is a columnist for the Lafayette Journal amp Courier Photos by Hunter Freeman


ldquoA first rate country deserves a first class space programrdquo

David Wolf (EErsquo78) astronaut and consultant at NASA


By Tanya Brown

Human Bodythe

When Mike Wright starts talking about Dr Stephen Badylak you can practically hear his ear-to-ear smile

through the phone ldquoDr Badylak saved my liferdquo Wright says of the director of tissue engineering at the McGowan Institute for Regen-erative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh ldquoTherersquos no other way you can say it Irsquoll probably have a longer life expectancy than I ever had before because of him I guess I run on a lot but Irsquom excitedrdquo Wright says he canrsquot help himself Hersquos making up for lost time time he thought might be lost forever He credits his recovery his life and his positive atti-tude to Dr Badylak a Purdue University graduate whose pioneering work into regenerative medicine provided the cure that changed the course of his future

Worst-case scenarioAfter struggling for years with intense acid reflux and a hiatal hernia Wright was diagnosed in 2000 with Barrettrsquos esophagus a thick scarring of the esoph-agus that often leads to cancer In August 2009 one of his routine tests came back

with unsatisfactory results He visited the James Cancer Center at Ohio State University near his home in Columbus Ohio where doctors confirmed his worst fears ldquoThey were very up frontrdquo he says ldquoThey says only pancreatic cancer is more deadly and that Irsquod have to do something about it like yesterdayrdquoAs Dr Badylak points out the treat-ments currently available for esophageal cancer often are worse than the disease Wright began a series of six ablations in which doctors inserted a probe into his throat and attempted to cauterize the cancerous tissue with a laser ldquoI had about two to three weeks between each treatmentrdquo he says ldquoJust when you feel like you can start swal-lowing water again yoursquod have another one I lost 52 pounds in three to four months ldquo In mid-December his doctors ad-vised that the treatment wasnrsquot working fast enough Concerned that the cancer would break through the walls of his esophagus and begin spreading into his body they advised Wright to consent to the removal of a large section of his esophagus

The turning pointFrightened by the thought of a surgery so invasive but terrified of the conse-quences of refusal Wright asked the doctors in Columbus for a little time to think over his predicament He went home with a heavy heart Three days later Wright was watching television when a 60 Minutes segment aired featuring Dr Badylak and his work at the University of Pittsburgh to heal patients by getting their own bodies to regrow diseased or damaged tissue using a product engineered from pigs One of the patients on the seg-ment had esophageal cancer It was the past tense description that had Wright leaning forward in his seat that night Surgeons had removed the cancerous tissue in the manrsquos throat and replaced it with a sheet of ECM or extra cellular matrix designed by Dr Badylak The man speaking to the reporter on televi-sion noted that he was beginning to regain his lost weight and was currently cancer-free ldquoI got online and I got Dr Bady-lakrsquos contact information and I started burning up the phonesrdquo Wright says ldquoI called I e-mailed I faxed Everything

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I could do saying lsquoPlease just look at my case Please help mersquo I had a lot of people from my church and work pray-ing too And then I finally got hold of someone in his officerdquo Meanwhile the doctors in Colum-bus were still worried about the risk of his cancer metastasizing to other organs They set a possible surgery date of Janu-ary 2 2010 ldquoWhen I got through in Pittsburgh the woman on the phone says lsquoWhen can you be in Pennsylvaniarsquo And I said lsquoMy daughter and I can be there in four hoursrsquordquo A couple weeks later he arrived for a scheduled consultation with Dr Blair Jobe a surgeon and director of the Heart Lung and Esophageal Surgery Institute at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center who works closely with Dr Badylak and the McGowan Institute Dr Jobe felt that Wright who was only 53 years old at the time and in otherwise good physical condition was a strong candidate for the burgeoning treatment In March Jobe scraped away the cancerous inner layer of Wrightrsquos esophagus and replaced it with sheets of ECM making Wright only the second person in the world to undergo the new procedure

In the months since the surgery Wrightrsquos own esophagus spurred by the complex restorative properties of the ECM has remodeled itself growing into healthy cancer-free throat tissues ldquoI am 100 percent cancer-free and Irsquove got a whole new esophagusrdquo Wright says his voice smooth and rich ldquoThanks to Dr Badylak with the pig intestine and the pixie dust I am going to live to see my kids get married one day I am going to live to see my grandkids Itrsquos just a miraclerdquo

A stroke of luck and years of workHow was Badylak able to use pig tissue to entice the human body to heal itself in ways previously unknown The discov-ery and the ability to translate it into safe medical treatment has been years in the making Badylak earned three degrees at Purdue mdash his doctor of veterinary medicine in 1976 his masterrsquos of clinical pathology in 1978 and a doctorate in anatomic pathology in 1981 In 1983 he joined the Hillenbrand Biomedical Engineering Center at Pur-due Two short years later he completed his medical doctorate at Indiana Univer-

sity Medical School By the mid 1990s he would become the director at Hil-lenbrand He would continue to explore work in both veterinary and human medicine over the next two decades working as an associate professor of vet-erinary physiology as well as serving as the head team physician for the athletic department at Purdue for 16 years It was during this period of research in Purduersquos biomedical engineering center that Badylak stumbled upon what would become ECM ldquoIf we had thought that the ECM must be a good scaffolding material then I would say we were pretty smart but in fact we were more just luckyrdquo Badylak says Badylak and his research assistants were experimenting with replacing the aorta of a dog with a piece of an intestine Several months after the first transplant took place he noticed that the intestine no longer resembled intestine at all All the way to the micro-scopic level what it looked like was a blood vessel After several years of testing Badylak realized that the key to the puzzle was ECM which is made by the cells that characterize the tissues in the bodies of animals and humans alike

ldquoThe extra cellular matrix is the glue that holds the cells that make up the tissues of our bodies togetherrdquo Badylak explained ldquoAfter several years we realized it might work even better if we got rid of all the cells and just kept the matrix or the gluerdquo Removing the cells from the ECM allowed him to remove the markers and coding within them that would normally trigger the rejection of a foreign substance or tissue in the body It also made the sub-stance portable and usable in a way that is integral for medical treatment in humans ldquoAt first we thought we couldnrsquot cross species linesrdquo he says ldquoBut removing the cells changed that It became something viable something doctors could take off the shelf in an operating roomrdquo The donor for the matrix became swine which were readily available and virtually free in hog-pro-ducing Indiana ldquoWe could go to the slaughter house and pick up what they threw awayrdquo Badylak says ldquoWe realized we could take a throw away part of the agriculture industry and turn it into a sterile medical device that surgeons could use in operating roomsrdquo

Engineering a medical breakthroughBadylak and his team spent several more years test-ing ECM in the growth and replacement of various tissues from the nervous system to muscle and bone With each test they found the same result The ECM became the tissue or system it was implanted in and stimulated the donation site to become whole The possibilities for human application were intriguing but securing funding proved a major challenge ldquoWe could not get fundedrdquo Badylak says ldquoNo-body thought it was worth funding because it was such a crazy idea Why would anyone want to put pig tissue in a humanrdquo Luck intervened again when a representative from Eli Lilly and Co Laylan Thompson saw a poster presentation one of Badylakrsquos students had created The funding sources would change over time with the agreements with Lilly ending and a new relationship beginning with DuPuy an orthope-dic company in Warsaw Indiana With funding in place Badylak and his as-sociates worked on the manufacturing process for ECM learning how best to sterilize the material and exploring what forms it could take ldquoWe learned how to freeze dry it how to make multiple layers of it how to turn it into a powder into a gelrdquo he says ldquoYou canrsquot use a powder to replace a tendon Each application has its own unique needs so the engineering part of tissue engineering came heavily into play thererdquo They also began to explore why ECM was able to remodel tissues in the seemingly miraculous way it did

At a church Christmas party in Hagerstown Maryland in 2008 Marcos and Monica Cardenas witnessed one of those accidents in which time seems to slow down Their then 5-year-old son Juan Jose (J J) caught his finger in the edge of a heavy door The end of his finger was severed The Cardenas family rushed J J to the hospital where doctors explained that while it might be possible to reattach the severed portion of the finger the risk of infection was too high ldquoWe wanted them to put the piece backrdquo Marcos Carde-nas says ldquoBut they couldnrsquot do it They says with him being so small if it got infected it could be really bad for J Jrdquo Worried that their sonrsquos altered hand might cause other children to tease him the Cardenasrsquos scoured the internet for doctors who might be able to help reconstruct J Jrsquos finger at a later age when the risk of infection might be lower Monica Cardenas found information about Dr Stephen Badylak and his work with ECM at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center The couple drove to Pittsburgh but Dr Badylak was not in his office ldquoWe spoke to another doctor who called Dr Badylakrsquos personal number and he answered itrdquo Marcos Cardenas says ldquoHe says the treatment was only for military procedures and not open to the public yet but I guess us being there and all they ended up helping us outrdquo Badylak put the Cardenas family in touch with a company that manufactured ECM and agreed to monitor J Jrsquos treatment if they could find a doctor willing to sign off on the experimen-tal procedure While the treatment wasnrsquot enjoyable for J J mdash doctors had to reopen his wound to insert the ECM into the tissue mdash it did work New growth appeared day by day Eventually Dr Badylak allowed the mother and father to apply the ECM to their sonrsquos finger at home to reduce his anxiety at going to the doctorrsquos office ldquoWe saw how the medicine started working on my boyrsquos fingerrdquo Marcos Cardenas says ldquoThere was new skin coming up every day We were just amazedrdquo In a 10 to 12 week period J Jrsquos finger was once again whole Even the nail bed had grown in normally The finger continues to grow at the same pace as the rest of his hand and other fingers ldquoHe never lost any feeling to the fingerrdquo Cardenas says ldquoHis nail grows as normal You canrsquot even see the difference between that finger and the other ones Even his fingerprint is there Thanks to Dr Badylakrsquos willingness to do good for peo-ple my son got his finger back Wersquore so appreciative of thatrdquo

Healing a child

Dr Badylak works with Vineet Agrawal a doctorate student who is part of the team of scientists investigating regenerative medicine approaches for the restoration of functional limb and digit tissue It is a proj-ect funded by the Department of Defense


Robert Nerem director of the Geor-gia Institute of Technology and Emory Center for Regenerative Medicine served on Purduersquos Tissue Engineering Advi-sory Board during the time Badylak was working on the production of ECM ldquoThe initial work was basically all done at Purduerdquo Nerem says ldquoCertainly Stephen has expanded on that since going to Pittsburgh but it is all about the micro environment of a cell and the substrate to which those cells are adhering It can be a rich set of biological sig-nals With a real ECM it becomes a very important part of whatrsquos dictating the behavior of the cell the function of itrdquo More than a decade since the first patient was treated with ECM Badylak is still working to understand what oc-curs in the body to make ECM not only become the tissue it rests in but grow or heal it as well ldquoWe now know that it does things like recruit your own stem cells to the siterdquo he says Stem cells are cells within the body that have the capacity to be-come any type of cell and are not limited to only one group such as a bone cell or kidney cell ldquoIt changes the bodyrsquos immune response from inflammatory to construc-tive remodelingrdquo Badylak says ldquoRather than harvesting or manipulating stem cells through a complex process out-

side the body ECM recruits them from the inside It also simplifies treatment because itrsquos much easier to get FDA ap-proval with stem cell research when you donrsquot have to harvest themrdquo Using ECM kicks the bodyrsquos own innate ability to try to reconstruct tissue into high gear but Badylak cautions that it is not a fountain of youth or miracle drug It cannot push the body to regenerate itself if it was not well before application ldquoItrsquos not going to be in a pill formrdquo he says ldquoThis is a local application that changes how the body responds to damagerdquo

Saving those who servedThe clinical application of ECM took off when Badylak joined the University of Pittsburgh in 2001 The school offers a blend of the basic sciences with the clinicians who work at the medical school Currently the only patients be-ing treated with ECM are either part of formal clinical trials or are approved for treatment on a case-by-case basis by Dr Badylak and his associates at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center ldquoI get six to eight e-mails a day (from potential patients)rdquo he says ldquoAnd thatrsquos when wersquore not getting this type of publicity The McGowan Institute

gets another six to eight daily We con-nect people with the right physician that handles their type of issue and go from thererdquo Badylak currently is working with the United States government in a clinical trial of 80 military patients who have been wounded and are missing limbs or large portions of tissue Isaias Hernandez a corporal in the Marine Corps is undergoing treatment with ECM in San Antonio Texas as part of that trial Hernandez 25 was injured when his convoy was attacked in Iraq on October 12 2004 On the way to their trucks after a few hours of sleep Hernandez and a fellow Marine were hit with indirect artillery rounds His companion died Hernandez has been recovering from his injuries which included burns and major damage to his leg through treat-ment at Brook Army Medical Center since that time ldquoItrsquos like with when you bite down on a chicken leg and you bite all the way down to the bonerdquo Cpl Hernan-dez says ldquoThatrsquos my leg And the femur fractured alsordquo He had undergone several surgeries and nearly four years of physical therapy with limited success when his doctors told him about Dr Badylak and the possibility of using ECM to help him

ldquoIt had been a while and that leg just wasnrsquot getting any strongerrdquo he says The doctors explained that there was no chance of further problems from rejection of the ECM no possibility of infection ldquoThey says the worst thing that could happen was that it wouldnrsquot work so we did itrdquo he says His surgeons made a small incision in the damaged part of his leg and surgically implanted ECM into it similar to the way one might slide a letter into an envelope Less than six weeks later Cpl Her-nandez began feeling a difference in his leg during physical therapy workouts He began to be able to do more repetitions of exercises with less fatigue Even more inspiring he noticed a bulk of muscle where the ECM was placed that had not been there before ldquoI used to have a hard time walking and going up and down stairsrdquo he says ldquoI can pretty much walk and do stairs fine nowrdquo While the change has been transfor-mative his strength in that leg still lags behind the unwounded one His doctors plan to insert more ECM using a newer version of the matrix that packs more material into the application It is a sort of pillow form with sheets of ECM covering powdered ECM ldquoIt is excitingrdquo Cpl Hernandez says of the technique ldquoYou know that the body does have the ability to regener-ate itself but only to a certain limit Now

therersquos that possibility for more Dr Badylak and his team have proven that it is possiblerdquo Hernandez who hopes to return to active duty with the Marines at some point when he is well canrsquot quite explain how ECM has changed his life ldquoItrsquos just one small part of what this stuff can do but itrsquos made a big positive differencerdquo he says ldquoWith me it seems to be workingrdquo

Changing the future of medicineGail Naughton dean of the School of Management at San Diego State Uni-versity and a longtime colleague of Dr Badylak is the CEO of Histogen a regenerative medicine company Badylak chairs the scientific advisory board of Histogen and sits on the companyrsquos board of directors She sees the military clinical trials as the beginning of vast applications for ECM ldquoECM has a large potential as a device coating to improve tissue integra-tion into the wound and to prevent the foreign body reaction and inflammation currently seen with most materials on the marketrdquo Naughton says ldquoI also believe that ECM as a whole not just a collagen will prove to be an excellent tissue filler and stimulate in-growth of a personrsquos own cells to more permanently fill the defect and

regenerate bone muscle and skin The biggest challenge will be to get regulatory approval for these various applicationsrdquo Wider approvals will come Badylak says as more patients benefit from ECM and live longer lives without side effects ldquoOnce researchers became familiar with it a lot of papers were published onitrdquo he says ldquoWhat we did was expand the number of people working on biologic scaffolds from a very few to a whole bunch We had the chance to set the bar with the FDA There are literally hun-dreds of products on the market made of ECM nowrdquo For Mike Wright the esophageal cancer patient who has testified in front of Pennsylvaniarsquos house and senate to lobby for more funding for education and medical research the great dream is to see ECM developed in a way that helps others ldquoTheyrsquore going to be saving thou-sands of people that had no hoperdquo Wright says ldquoIn five years what they did to me is going to be common place I was at a hopeless spot in my life If it hadnrsquot been for Dr Badylak coming up with the treatment in the first place I probably would not be hererdquo

Tanya Brown freelance writer and director of communications for the College of Law at the University of Tennessee Knoxville maintains her ties to Purdue and the Boilermakers Photos by Andrew Hancock

Pictured left is a trachea scaffold en-gineered from extracellular matrix On the right decellularization chambers contain rat livers being perfused with solutions optimized to remove all cells from the liver tissue while retaining the three-dimensional organ matrix

Dr Li Zhang a research scientist in the Badylak laboratory begins the process of recellularization of the liver scaffold By placing a patientrsquos own liver cells into a three-dimensional bioscaffold it may be possible to create new functional liver tissue for patients with end-stage liver disease

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rising to the

By Jeanne Norberg

While other students sleep in they are up at O-dark-30 several mornings a week for a six-mile run or an eight-mile march topped with pushups pull-ups lunges crunches and weight lifting that would make Atlas cringe While others enjoy a summer break ROTC cadets might cruise the Pacific below the waves in a nuclear sub-marine learn survival skills in the Sierra Nevada Moun-tains parachute out of perfectly good airplanes rappel out of helicopters or put their leadership to the stress test at Fort Lewis Washington For two weekends during the school year Army ROTC cadets take part in field train-ing exercises at Camp Atterbury Indiana where cadets get hands-on experience with everything from tactical patrol-ling to weapons firing While other students party they usher at home football games and the next morning they are combing for litter at Ross-Ade Stadium They learn service early as big brothers or sisters or as companions at the Indiana Veterans

Home They build houses for Habitat for Humanity and organize and run a POW-MIA vigil They present the colors at many athletic and academic events on campus and around town participate in the homecoming parades and speak at veteransrsquo events

Service-before-self is their true northldquoItrsquos really neat to be with the people in ROTC because everyone holds himself or herself to a higher standardrdquo says Hadley Miller a junior in Air Force ROTC ldquoEveryone works as hard as they possibly can and takes on any chal-lenge If you give them a task yoursquoll know they will follow through and do it to the best of their ability You know you can trust themrdquo From the perspective of a Purdue ROTC grad who is a ldquofew years outrdquo Major Gen Erika Steuterman (LArsquo76 MS Mrsquo77) looks back and says ldquoThe thing the ROTC offers that you donrsquot get anywhere on campus is a true network a built-

Some Boilermakersrsquo diplomas are framed in lead-ership and stamped with character Many of these

are earned by the men and women in ROTC the Reserve Officer Training Corps These students virtually take leadership as their second major


in a tactical exercise planning and executing challenging mis-sions Theyrsquoll also tell you they learn to endure ldquodeath-by-Power-Point presentationsrdquo For many though the hardest part is the lack of sleep They learn to live on four to five hours of sleep many nights More than 80 percent take technical majors and all are encouraged to gradu-ate in four years which often means taking a heavier class load than their peers Yet itrsquos more attractive to them than life at the military academies ldquoWe are able to pursue our individual interests and can participate in student organizations and Greek Liferdquo said Paul Marder senior management major from New Jersey who joined Alpha Kappa Lambda fraternity Steuterman joined Purdue Bands served in the flag corps and played French horn for the symphony band The key is time management and caffeine probably helps too

Leadership is woven throughoutAs a freshman you are a leader for the people in your group helping those having difficulty with studies or the aspects of the program such as close order marching or protocol As juniors or seniors cadets are put in charge of about 20 students who they teach mentor and encourage Some oversee their battalion as ex-ecutive officer manage drill teams or the tri-service color guards Massel for example is his NROTC company chief petty officer serving as the liaison between the commanding officer and the 40 members By the time they report to their first duty station as second lieutenants theyrsquore experienced leaders who can step into a very responsible job and do it well even under pressure During their summer emersions Air Force and Army cadets take command in enormously stressful situations ldquoSimulated explosions went off during our mock deploy-ment when I was squadron commanderrdquo Miller says ldquoSenior cadets add to the stress by yelling at you You need to be in charge you need to think clearly and you need to lead Itrsquos hard Not everyone canrdquo As Masselrsquos last semester and commencement approach he realizes he looks forward to graduating with a different perspec-tive than most Purdue students ldquoUnlike most students graduation is not our primary goalrdquo Massel says ldquoReceiving our commission as officers is the goal and graduation is a way to attain thatrdquo That rings true for retired Maj Gen Craig Whelden (LArsquo73) former deputy commander of the Pacific Army and now executive director of Marine Corps Bases Pacific charged with oversight of all Marine Corps bases from California to Japan Whelden who was at the Pentagon on 911 says he would tell graduates ldquoYou are joining the most highly respected institu-tion in the country mdash the United States military mdash as validated in the Harris Poll year after year Be proud of that fact and wear it on your sleeve Wersquove come a long way since the dark days of the post-Vietnam era and it was hard earned Uphold the values of this great institution whether in or out of uniform and treasure the camaraderie and friendships that you will find in few other places They will last a lifetimerdquo

Jeanne Norberg (LArsquo75) is the director of public information for Purdue University Marketing and Media

A band of Purdue ROTC students has created a new class ring to commemorate their shared experience Itrsquos topped with the Purdue Griffin the universityrsquos seal and a symbol of strength On one side is the crest of their service branch and on the other is the Purdue Memorial Union built to honor students who lost their lives in service to their country Eight of Purduersquos 22 astronauts are products of ROTC including Neil Armstrong and Eugene Cernan the first and most recent men to walk on the moon Other Purdue ROTC alumni range from the first African-American commissioned an officer in the Marine Corps to the first female admiral to command a strike group The rings are available for seniors and the more than 12000 Purdue alumni who were com-missioned through ROTC which first came to cam-pus in 1888 Until 1964 male students were required to either join ROTC or band ROTC enrollment at Purdue has ranged from 850 to 3275 during World War II Today about 480 students are enrolled in all three ROTC branches Eighty percent of the ROTC graduates will receive active duty tour Others will serve in the Reserves or National Guard Midshipman Michael Massel chair of the ring committee says they are designed in both gold and stainless steel ldquoBecause of the physical nature of military life our committee asked Balfour to design not only gold rings but also a line made of stainless steel that will hold up while deployedrdquo Massel says ldquoOurs are different than the standard class rings which usually has a colored stone on top Ours is distinctiverdquo Other schools with a ROTC class ring besides the military academies include Texas AampM Vir-ginia Military Institute Virginia Tech and North Carolina State universities More information about the ROTC rings is available at httppurduealumniorgrotc

Purdue ROTC Alumni now have their own class ringin support system people who care about you holistically

They care about your school life and your personal life Your personal life good or bad can affect your work life and in our job wersquore making decisions that can result in life or death so we really have to be focusedrdquo Steuterman who designs overall strategic plans and programs for the Air Force spent much of her career in intelligence She also talks of trust ldquoWhen you are in a uni-form it doesnrsquot matter which service when you go to a new assignment there is an instant camaraderie instant trust

unlike a civilian environmentrdquo she says ldquoYou walk into any situation and know people are going to be there to back you up The fact that you are with that caliber of people in a day-to-day work environment is just incrediblerdquo Steuterman joined the Air Force ROTC in 1972 at the end of the Vietnam War and during the heart of the womenrsquos movement becoming one of the very first women in ROTC in the country ldquoI wasnrsquot a womenrsquos libber I just wasnrsquot interested in traditional jobs for women like nursing and teachingrdquo she says ldquoAnd I wanted equal opportunity and equal pay In-stead of talking about it I just wanted to do it The military offered that opportunityrdquo Some are attracted by scholarships which range up to full coverage of tuition and books Take alumnus Bob Vertrees (Arsquo61) of Louisville an assistant professor emeritus at Ohio State University After graduation he served as an infantry officer in the Marine Corps leading a platoon at Guantanamo Bay during the Cuban Missile Crisis He recalls ldquoMy parents didnrsquot have much money Without my scholarship I probably would not have been able to stay enrolled at Purduerdquo These scholarships also help account for the diligence of the ROTC cadets To keep their scholarship the students must maintain a B average

Miller who majors in aeronautical engineering was drawn to ROTC in her sophomore year after watching the cadets They conquered challenges and she loves challenges Those challenges start with ldquoFreshman 0rdquo a boot-camp type experience the week before classes start Midshipman Mike Massel a senior in professional flight technology from Indianapolis remembers that week as a defining moment ldquoWhile it wasnrsquot the worst possible situation getting up at 4 am to get yelled at until 10 pm and then studying until 12 am Monday through Saturday wasnrsquot exactly funrdquo

Massel says ldquoWhile we were standing at attention in the 90-degree heat we watched the other freshmen having fun in their swim suits during their Boiler Gold Rush orienta-tion and we knew there were only two things you could do You have to laugh on the inside of course at the mistakes you make and befriend others in your squadrdquo

Misery loves company and builds lifelong friendshipsAnd thatrsquos just the beginning of teamwork They know with-out hesitation that as a team you are much stronger than you are as an individual They study together shoot pool and watch TV in the ROTC student lounge pull all night-ers for physics classes mentor one another enroll in core classes together encourage cheer and even sit in judgment when discipline might be necessary ldquoIf you donrsquot learn teamwork you will likely quitrdquo Massel says ldquoWe started with about 80 midshipman in my class and after the first week 20 quit and at the end of the first year our class had shrunk to about 40rdquo About 480 students are enrolled this fall in one of ROTCrsquos three branches mdash Air Force Army and Navy which has a Marine option component They all take ROTC classes wear their uniforms on the same day as their weekly lab course where Army cadets for example lead each other


Quite Comfortable in

CarolinaBy Brian Hudgins

Spencer (CFSrsquo03) started Spencer Special Events three years ago Through that company she has planned family reunions anniversaries and numer-ous weddings Spencer and her husband Case live in Hilton Head South Carolina a location they

settled into when he received a job transfer ldquoI have to pinch myselfrdquo she says ldquoThe opportunities here have been incrediblerdquo Before she set foot in Hilton Head Spencer spent many days growing up in the shadow of the university ldquoGrowing up in West Lafayette I took Purdue for grantedrdquo she says ldquoThen once you leave you realize what a great education you have that you can call your own The (hospitality) industry is a lot of hard work Purdue helps groom you for thatrdquo Spencer secured an internship with Marriott which sent her to Lexington Kentucky That journey served many purposes Spencer learned how to help and reassure hotel guests who were facing a variety of issues far from home ldquoThrough the training at Purdue and Mariott it is great training for customer servicerdquo she says ldquoI have taken those tools How can we serve our clients or guests or vendorsrdquo She also gained a soulmate Case They met at the Grif-fin Gate Marriott in Lexington When Casersquos career called for a move to Hilton Head a new door opened for Spencer

A new callingIn 2003 Spencer took the task of being event manager for the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce She frequently planned meetings and events for chamber members and state officials ldquoMy boss at the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce was a great mentor and it helped guide me to the calling of social eventsrdquo Spencer says Working with politicians and other officials who wanted schedules to be thoroughly planned helped prepare Spencer for that switch ldquoItrsquos a lot of hard work whether itrsquos a wedding a confer-ence or an event for 1000 peoplerdquo she says ldquoWe did a lot of seminars and conferencesrdquo Now the focus is not on coordinating a conference or a seminar Spencer is often locked in on a much more personal event the beginning of a marriage ldquoItrsquos an emotional time for families mdash a stressful timerdquo she says ldquoMy greatest reward is when they come back and meet my husband and son (Griffin) When they come back we are still part of the familyrdquo Spencer became part of a fellow Purdue graduatersquos wedding when Beth (Anderson) Chriscinske (Trsquo04) and Chad Chriscinske planned their wedding to be held in Hilton Head last year The couple wanted to do a destination wedding to allow the guests to take a vacation that would be

West Lafayette native Amanda Spencer never imagined she would be living in the low country area of South Carolina That reality has helped her find her calling and given her more new family members than she can count


One big familyThe Spencersrsquo own wedding was much closer to home mdash at St Thomas Aquinas on campus With both of Spencerrsquos par-ents Dr Larry Horstman and Jane Horstman being Purdue alumni there is a definite Purdue presence in Hilton Head when Spencerrsquos crew comes to town Her brother Joe Horst-man is also a Purdue graduate When Amanda and Case made the move to Hilton Head Amanda found out quickly that she would have some fellow Purdue graduates on hand to help her feel more at home ldquoI didnrsquot know anyone in Hilton Headrdquo she says ldquoI went to an alumni association event and met a person who is now a dear friend Last night Case and I went to a local restaurant and a couple had a Purdue license plate on their car It started a conversation My husband laughs and says it is 12 degrees of Purdue separationrdquo The Spencers are also huge sports fans As Amanda discusses basketball she says about her husbandrsquos alma mater (with laughter) ldquoat least Vanderbiltrsquos colors are also gold and blackrdquo As Spencer continues to plan weddings for families and meet new friends she is now a parent who is often communi-cating with parents of soon-to-be brides ldquoWith the birth of our son the job has changedrdquo Spen-cer says ldquoWe are a family working with people My parents are both Purdue alums They come help out Whatrsquos really neat is the clients love to meet my family and our crewrdquo It is a bond that carries on after the wedding cake has been cut and the honeymoon trip is over ldquoWe have followed the pictures of Amandarsquos babyrdquo Chriscinske says ldquoWhen she calls now itrsquos great With everybody that is at the wedding she took care of everybody and you stay in touch I canrsquot imagine trying to plan it on my ownrdquo

Brian Hudgins is a freelance writer

As family members begin to arrive for holi-day visits effective time management and efficient event planning can play a key part in a happy holiday season Checklists e-mails to party guests text messages and phone calls can all help keep the line of communication open to estimate the number of guests at a party and prevent a scheduling mix-up To keep a holiday party from breaking your budget there are a handful of basic expenses to keep in mind invita-tions food and drinks hiring any party entertainment and possibly a need to rent a facility (depending on the size of the guest list) When planning a holiday meal it is necessary to re-member that some guests will have dietary needs based on food allergies or personal preferences Amanda Spencer says one of the most important things to remember for holiday parties is to use the resources and help that are available locally ldquoMany people are bringing families together from all across the country and the worldrdquo she says ldquoThere are so many pressures with the holidays travel work kids or school My biggest advice is to get help There are so many caterers Get help from a local caterer so you can enjoy the time with your family and so you can do things like enjoying great-grandmarsquos favorite cookies at the dinner tablerdquo Spencer routinely plans destination weddings during the holidays which can turn into parties of their own ldquoI had a wedding this past Januaryrdquo she says ldquoIt was a New Yearrsquos Eve Celebration to kick off the yearrdquo In addition to asking for help Spencer has found another idea to be beneficial Donrsquot try to get too creative or inventive during the holidays If a certain schedule or a specific restaurant has worked well in the past embrace that success ldquoKeep it simple so you are able to catch Purdue basket-ball games and hopefully a (football) bowl gamerdquo

Holiday Party Help


within a reasonable driving distance Hilton Head is a place that Beth Chriscinske had visited many times for annual family vacations ldquoA lot there has not changedrdquo Chriscinske says ldquoThey donrsquot commercialize it or make it overdone It always feels the same Itrsquos one of those fun places We wanted to introduce the rest of our friends to it as wellrdquo

Getting to ldquoI DordquoBefore the marriage vows can be said and families make return visits to see Amanda Case and Griffin there are the details that come with a wedding Spencerrsquos enthusiasm is increased by the variety in her job No wedding is ever the same Spencer thoroughly enjoys touring the low country with her clients in search of the perfect ceremony and recep-tion location There is an additional benefit for Spencer when she evaluates all the pre-wedding details She has the oppor-tunity to taste the dinner entrees or wedding cake ldquoThen of course we must make sure the signature cocktail is the exact color and garnished with the perfect piece of fruit to quench the thirsts of their wedding guestsrdquo she says For Beth and Chad Chriscinskersquos wedding a handful of conference calls enabled Spencer to form a plan for putting together a fun week for the visiting family members ldquoShe found all these awesome vendors and we had reg-ular calls every other weekrdquo Chriscinske says ldquoShe mapped out the week and said lsquohere you gorsquo and we went with it She did it all Just the thought of planning a wedding hellip I wanted to jump in head first But Amanda paced us She said lsquothis week we will set up the DJs and this week we will do thisrsquordquo Some clients look strictly for expertise in partnering them with wedding vendors Some families from other parts of the country bring their own people to help ldquoWe are a coordinator and coach for the entire teamrdquo Spencer says ldquoA lot of clients have second homes in Hilton Head or they have vacationed here Itrsquos special to themrdquo

The natural look of Hilton Head is special to Spencer As she travels down scenic streets that showcase the Southrsquos beauty she enjoys all the sights that are part of the landscape ldquoItrsquos so nice that we are easy to get to with the airport hererdquo she says ldquoThere are darling chapels An island is a ferry ride away There are historic lighthouses Itrsquos a romantic location It shows a southern charm that cannot be replicated anywhere else in the country This area is a great teammate and business partnerrdquo Within the process of planning a wedding and making numerous business decisions Spencer has a wealth of busi-ness knowledge available at a momentrsquos notice The Spencers are able to discuss work situations or leave those questions for later when they are away from work ldquoCase jokes that his role is lifting the heavy things for me and the girls that work with merdquo Spencer says ldquoHis edu-cation is a big part of the success of Spencer Special Events He has a great skill to lead people We know how to discuss things and when to leave it alone I am the hospitality major He was business and economics (Case is a Vanderbilt Univer-sity graduate) We complement each other wellrdquo Those various skills are valuable when dealing with wedding preparations that can take on any size or shape As a newly married couple prepares for the future Spencer is mindful of the significance ldquoItrsquos not just a business transactionrdquo she says ldquoItrsquos such a personal eventrdquo With Hilton Head being a vacation destination for many visitors each year many families get a side benefit of some rest and relaxation while Spencer is handling the details of a wedding or family reunion ldquoI think the current economy has promoted destination weddingsrdquo Spencer says ldquoPeople are taking weddings on the road You donrsquot need a passport (for Hilton Head) and you have homes you can rent People are looking for an excuse to go on vacation Itrsquos a great way to get away with your familyrdquo

Spencer planned a destination wedding in Hilton Head for alumna Beth Anderson (Trsquo04) and her soon-to-be husband Chad Chriscinske


news amp notables

Purdue honors hero pilot alumnus Capt Chesley lsquoSullyrsquo SullenbergerPurdue welcomed home the Hero on the Hudson Chesley ldquoSullyrdquo Sullenberger (MS LArsquo73) on November 12 as its guest of honor for the annual Presidentrsquos Council Weekend Just after takeoff from LaGuardia Airport on Jan 15 2009 a flock of geese took out both engines on his US Airways airliner Sullenberger told his passengers to brace for a hard landing and then set the plane down safely in the Hudson River With the Manhat-tan skyline as a backdrop he stayed on board until all 155 passengers and crew were safely off the plane Among the honors he received at a luncheon for council members that day was be a Distinguished Alumnus Award from the College of Liberal Arts which was home to industrial psychology when he earned his Purdue masterrsquos degree in 1973 President France A Coacuterdova issued the invitation to Sullenberger He also was recognized that evening during the Presidentrsquos Council annual dinner ldquoCaptain Sullenbergerrsquos skill and calm in the face of a singular challenge saved the lives of everyone aboard US Airways Flight 1549 and inspired the entire worldrdquo Coacuterdova says ldquoThe poise and dignity he displayed in receiving the international acclaim that has followed set him apart as a true American herordquo

Courage and honorAt a news conference the day after the landing New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg praised Sullenbergerrsquos pilot-ing skills and courage ldquoThe pilot did a masterful job of landing the plane in the river and then making sure that everybody got outrdquo Bloomberg says ldquoHe walked the plane twice after everybody else was off and tried to verify that there was nobody else on boardrdquo A native of rural Texas who learned to fly as a teenager Sullenberger received his undergraduate degree from the US Air Force Academy in June 1973 Within weeks he was at Purdue taking summer classes to complete his masterrsquos work

Purduersquos influenceIn his book Highest Duty My Search for What Really Matters Sullenberger says his study at Purdue prepared him well for the challenges he would face

He says industrial psychology (human factors) is ldquoa discipline focused on designing machines that take into ac-count human abilities as well as human limitations How do humans act and react What can humans do and what canrsquot they do How should machines be designed so people can use them more effectively ldquoAt Purdue I studied how machines and systems should be designed How do engineers create cockpit con-figurations and instrument-panel layouts taking into account where pilots might place their hands or where eyes might fo-cus or what items might be a distraction I believed learning these things could have applications for me down the road and I was right ldquoIn my later years as I focused on airline safety issues I realized how much my formal education allowed me to view the world in ways that helped me set priorities so I understood the why as well as the howrdquo Sullenberger has retired from US Airways

Jeanne Norberg (LArsquo75)

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Purdue professor wins Nobel PrizeA Purdue University chemist was awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for creating a method to build complex organic molecules necessary for numerous purposes from pharmaceutical manufacturing to electronics Ei-ichi Negishi (pronounced ldquoH Na-gE-shErdquo) the Herbert C Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry was a co-recipient of the prize with scientists Richard Heck of the University of Delaware in Newark and Akira Suzuki of Hok-kaido University in Sapporo Japan They will share the $15 million award Negishi developed metal-based reactions called palladi-um-catalyzed cross-coupling that allow for easy and efficient synthesis of complex organic compounds Examples of appli-cations include drug 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 materials development His work has resulted in dramatically reducing the cost of using such metals like palladium in the synthesis ldquoCatalysts are not lost as they spur a chemical reaction They are recycled and can be used over and over againrdquo he said ldquoThese transition metals are very expensive but when they can be used millions to billions of times it dramati-

cally reduces the cost and makes the mass manufacturing of special complex materials practicalrdquo The National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS) which is part of the National Institutes of Health has supported Negishirsquos work since 1979 The Nobel Prizes will be awarded during ceremonies on December 10 in Stockholm and Oslo

Look for a feature article about Professor Ei-ichi Negishi in the JanuaryFebruary issue

ei-ichi Negishi the Herbert C Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry speaks to the media during a press conference at the Dauch alumni Center

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Pilot Chesley lsquosullyrsquo sullenberger looks right at home in the cockpit aboard US Airways flight 1050 to New York it is his first flight since landing a commercial plane in the Hudson River


Reducing the incidence of heart disease in the high-risk African-American population in Indiana is the aim of a new $15 million grant at Purdue University ldquoHeart disease not only can lead to premature death but also affect the quality of life for many individualsrdquo says Mohan J Dutta professor of health communication and director of the project ldquoUnfortunately improvements in disease prevention are small and this project which will empha-size a community-driven culture-centered approach really positions us to bring about a paradigm shift to improve the effective-ness of public health programs Doing so could help us address the high health disparities experienced by African-Amer-icans by creating participatory spaces for African-American communities to voice their opinions about health issuesrdquo Dutta and his team will collaborate with the Indiana Minority Health Coalition and its affiliates in Lake and Marion counties during the three-year project which is funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality The research team will create a technology hub that will allow partners and patients to post information collaborate online offer feedback and build technology-based community infra-structures This health disparities hub will utilize HUBzero a Web portal environment developed at Purdue During the next three years Dutta and his team will develop and evaluate training for local leaders in African-American communities on how to develop a strategy to promote health information in the community evaluate the health disparities hub and assess how these changes

increased and utilized the underserved African-American communityrsquos capacity to create relevant information about heart disease The researchers will establish an advisory panel conduct focus groups and individual interviews and offer workshops for local community members to create culturally tailored communication solutions on the basis of the research summary guides By taking this kind of community-driven and culture-centered approach the community participates in decision making and strategy development while the academic partner plays a capacity-building role that facilitates collaboration and makes resources available to the community Dutta says

Purduersquos engineering and technology programs rose nine places in the QS World University Rankings Overall Purduersquos ranking remained 87th unchanged from last yearrsquos survey making it the statersquos only public uni-versity ranked in the top 100 In the 2010 QS rankings Purduersquos engineering and tech-nology programs were ranked 28th up from 37th in 2009 In other QS world specialty rankings this year Purduersquos life sciences and biomedicine programs ranked 86th compared to 79th in 2009 and natural sciences ranked 118th compared to 94th in 2009 The complete QS Worldrsquos Best Universities listings are available at wwwtopuniversitiescom

The rankings were based on reviews or data related to peer institutions employers students research performance and international faculty and students More than 15000 academics and employers from around the world responded to the surveys related to these rankings Purduersquos strong presence among various rankings was bolstered in August when USNews amp World Report ranked Purdue 18th among the nationrsquos public universities This was a four-place increase from 22nd in 2009 Purdue also was ranked 56th among all universities an improvement from 61st in 2009

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Improving heart health of African-Americans in Indiana

Rise in world rankings for Purdue engineering and technology programs

mohan J Dutta a Purdue professor of health communication received a $15 million grant to reduce the incidence of heart disease in the high-risk african-american population in Indiana

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The United Nations Development Program has chosen a Purdue University professor to lead an effort to reduce the risks and damage from earthquakes in Haiti Eric Calais a professor of earth and atmospheric sci-ences is taking a leave of absence to serve a one-year term as science adviser for the United Nations Development Pro-gram or UNDP under its Disaster Risk Reduction Program in Haiti ldquoWe are delighted to have Professor Calais as part of our team in Haitirdquo says Jessica Faieta the UNDP senior country director ldquoHis expertise and scientific advice will permit us to widen our ongoing work in helping Haiti to increase its preparedness and reduce its natural disaster risk not only from a climatic vulnerability but also from a now very relevant seismic onerdquo On Jan 12 Haiti was struck by a magnitude 7 earth-quake that caused massive destruction and killed more than 200000 people ldquoThe tragic consequences of the January earthquake showed how vulnerable the country is and earthquakes like these are not isolated events but a permanent and unavoid-able risk for the peoplerdquo Calais says ldquoWe must develop strategies to reduce the potential for devastation and protect peoplersquos lives There is a great need for a better understand-ing of the seismic threat and ways to prepare for itrdquo

As the chief technical adviser Calais will assist the Haitian government in creating the agency and will help officials better understand the potential for earthquakes in the area the risks involved and how to educate the popula-tion about related issues

Professor appointed as a science adviser to UN Development Program

Geophysicist eric Calais stands next to a Global Positioning system station of the sort his research team used to discover movements never before detected in the earthrsquos crust

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A Wall Street Journal survey of corporate recruiters ranks Pur-due University fourth in the nation in preparing its students for the work force ldquoThis confirms that Purdue gets students ready to suc-ceed in the real worldrdquo says Timothy Sands executive vice president for academic affairs and provost ldquoCompanies are hiring the whole student and ours have a solid work ethic strong leadership skills and real-world experience Job recruiters recognize our emphasis on internships learning communities study abroad writing in the disciplines and other programs that give our students a well-rounded educationrdquo In the surveyrsquos specialty rankings Purdue was ranked first in management information systems second in engineer-ing and eighth in computer science In the overall rankings Penn State University was No 1 followed by Texas AampM University and the University of Illinois

The newspaper surveyed 842 top recruiting executives to find the schools that best prepare students to land satisfying well-paying jobs that also have growth potential Responses from 479 recruiters were received As a group the survey participants hired more than 43000 new graduates in the past year A sample of recruiter comments about Purdue men-tioned in the Wall Street Journal story accompanying the ranking included ldquoLongstanding relationships great deal of executive involvement well-rounded programsrdquo ldquoThis is consistent with feedback that we receive from employersrdquo says Timothy Luzader director of Purduersquos Center for Career Opportunities ldquoEm ployers have told us that they know they are getting solid students who have a proven track recordrdquo

Beth M McCuskey a land-grant university veteran from the University of Wyoming has been named Purdue Universityrsquos associate vice president for Housing and Food Services ldquoHousing and Food Services is composed of a number of financially self-supporting units so it is imperative this leader have a strong background in facilities management budget-ing and fiscal management as well as student development and learningrdquo says James Almond senior vice president for business services and assistant treasurer ldquoBeth McCuskey will serve Purdue well with her experience in financial operations and her dedication to student successrdquo McCuskey who is executive director of residence life dining services and the Wyoming Union will begin at Purdue in November She will oversee a broad range of self-supporting units including University Residences the Purdue Memorial Union Food Stores and Hall of Music Productions Housing and Food Services has a work force of approximately 900 full-time staff members 2200 student employees and 300 resident assistants The division also encompasses more

than 31 percent of the campus square footage houses 11000 residents and has an operating budget of $136 million ldquoMy entire career has been spent at land-grant uni-versities and I look forward to bringing my technical skill set to Purdue and its studentsrdquo McCuskey says ldquoLand-grant institutions are committed to educating students and in my role I can reach a number of students by providing more than just a place to live or eat The services in this division create an environment that helps students thrive academically as well as with their peers and in their community Additionally we provide students the opportunity to learn valuable leadership and interpersonal skills through their jobs or resident assistant positions mdash skills that will last their lifetimes I look forward to this new role and building on Purduersquos strengthsrdquo

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Purdue ranked fourth in Wall Street Journalrsquos job recruiter rankings

New associate VP for Housing and Food Services

sponsored by the Purdue engineering student Council the Industrial Roundtable featured more than 265 companies and 5000 students in an outdoor job fair on Purduersquos Memorial Mall

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A packed house of 2474 fans were on hand in Holloway Gymnasium to see history in the making October 8 as the Purdue volleyball team defeated No 4 Penn State 3ndash2 The come-from-behind 21ndash25 18ndash25 25ndash16 25ndash18 15ndash11 victory was Purduersquos first-ever against a team ranked in the top 5 (in 39 tries) and the first over Penn State since 1987 (43 matches) The feat is even more poignant considering none of the current Boilermaker players were born the last time Purdue knocked off the Nittany Lions on December 4 1987 Dave Shondell now has guided Purdue to four victories over top 10 opponents since being hired as head coach in 2003 After three weeks of conference action the Boiler-makers stood 13ndash4 overall and 4ndash2 in the Big Ten High-lighting the non-conference portion of the schedule was a seven-match winning streak and two tournament titles the Pitt Invitational and the Active Ankle Challenge

North University Drive was renamed John R Wooden Drive prior to the Purdue football game against Western Illinois The new street sign is located at the northeast corner of Ross-Ade Stadium where North University Drive and Victory Drive intersect The portion of the road chosen passes alongside Lambert Fieldhouse and between Mackey Arena the

Drew and Brittany Brees Student-Athlete Academic Center and Ross-Ade A banner recognizing Wooden is on display on the west

side of the Brees Center

2010 College Football Hall of Fame Inductee Mark Herrmann

Purdue PoliceText Messaging At Home Football Games

Beginning on November 29 fans can tune to any affiliate of the Purdue Sports Network on Mondays at 6 pm ET to hear host Larry Clisby and Coach Painter break down recent games and discuss the Purdue squad Coach Versyp will follow Coach Painter and discuss the Boilermakers with Tim Newton You can dial into her show at WLFF 953 FM Both shows can be viewed on the web at wwwpurduesportscom The shows which also feature questions from callers and members of the audience will once again originate from Puccinirsquos on the Levee in West Lafayette

November 29 December 6 13January 3 10 17 24 31 February 7 14 21 28March 7 14 Matt Painter Show broadcast from the road

John Wooden Drive unveiled

ESPNrsquos College GameDay Driven by State Farm will make its first-ever appearance at Purduersquos Mackey Are-na on January 22 2011 when the Boilermakers play host to Big Ten rival Michigan State at 900 pm ET In 2011 the popular program will expand to include an extra hour of analysis news and features ESPNU will air the new first hour of College GameDay mdash returning for its seventh season mdash at 1000 am ET and ESPN will continue to televise the show at 1100 am The GameDay lineup will continue to include Saturday Primetime at 800 pm ET before the game of the week tips off at 900 pm

Menrsquos Basketball to Host ESPN College GameDay

Driven By State Farm

Purdue Volleyball Update

Purdue junior David Boudia was honored as USA Div-ingrsquos Athlete of the Year at the United States Aquatic Sports awards banquet It is Boudiarsquos second Athlete of the Year recognition by USA Diving He also won in 2008 Boudia is the two-time national Diver of the Year Big Ten Diver of the Year and Purdue Male Athlete of the Year This past season he added two NCAA and two Big Ten titles to his ever-growing pile The Noblesville Indiana native won the 1- and 3-meter springboard events at the NCAA Championships becoming the first diver in NCAA history to win at least one national crown from all three boards with four NCAA Diving titles to his name Boudia broke NCAA meet records with his scores of 46865 and 49490 from the 1- and 3-meter boards His 1-meter score also was a Big Ten record as were his collegiate season-best totals of 50740 off the 3-meter and 53815 from the platform He won the 3-meter and platform events at the conference championship meet and has amassed five Big Ten titles in his career

Boudia Named USA Diving Athlete of the Year

Crowd members in the stadium can text Purdue police at (765) 414-6453 to report incidents or situations they

encounter such as unruly people broken glass or other safety issues Purdue police Chief John Cox says The technology will be available throughout the remainder of the home football games and will be reviewed after at the conclusion of the season

Dates Set For Matt Painter and Sharon Versyp Radio Shows

The Football Bowl Subdivision Class of 2010 was announced in May and includes 12 players and two coaches The class was chosen from a national ballot of 77 All-America players and seven coaches selected from a pool of hundreds of eligible nominees Herrmann who played for Hall of Fame head coach Jim Young from 1977 to 1980 is the 12th Boilermaker (eight players and four coaches) to be chosen for college footballrsquos ultimate shrine Herrmann is the second Purdue quarterback to be elected in the last five years following Mike Phipps in 2006 and the third overall (also Bob Griese in 1984) ldquoThis is wonderfulrdquo Herrmann said ldquoI am very pleased for Purdue University and for my teammates I could not have accomplished what I did without my teammates and a great coaching staff ldquoI had a fantastic college experience Those four years at Purdue shaped my life and the ongoing interaction with Purdue continues to be a focal point for me and my family Without Purduersquos offer of a football scholarship none of this would have happened I have a degree from a great institution that has continued to support me and my family year after year ldquoI especially want to thank the people in the athletics department and the local chapter of the National Football Foundation for all their encouragement and efforts to make this happen I am thrilled and I look forward to being inducted into the College Football Hall of Famerdquo

Exceptional college careerOver the course of his career Herrmann became the most-prolific passer in NCAA history establishing nine records including passing yards and completions Herrmannrsquos career numbers mdash all Big Ten Conference records at the time mdash included 1309 passing attempts 772 completions 590 completion percentage 9946 passing yards 71 passing touchdowns and 9134 yards of total offense The NCAA did not include bowl games in its statistics until 2002 meaning his national record numbers were 1128 passing at-

tempts 717 completions 9188 passing yards and 8444 yards of total offense He became the first quarterback in NCAA history to throw for 8000 yards and subsequently the first to throw for 9000 yards Senior Joe Metallic started the 1977 season opener at quarterback for the Boilermakers but gave way to Herrmann in the first half Herrmann went on to start 45 of the next 46 games mdash missing only the opener of the 1980 season at Notre Dame with an injured right thumb As a senior Herrmann was named the Big Ten Most Valuable Player and a unanimous All-America selection while finishing fourth in the Heisman Trophy balloting He was the MVP of three straight bowl games 1978 Peach 1979 Bluebon-net and 1980 Liberty

Moved on to the professional ranksSelected by the Denver Broncos in the fourth round of the 1981 NFL Draft Herrmann had a 12-year professional career with the Broncos (1981ndash82) Baltimore Colts (1983) Indianapolis Colts (1984 and 1990ndash92) San Diego Chargers (1985ndash87) and Los Angeles Rams (1988ndash89) Herrmann a Cincinnati native who grew up in Car-mel Indiana and now makes his home in Indianapolis was inducted into the Purdue Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame in 1997 Following his NFL career he served as a radio color commentator for the Colts from 1994 to 2004 and as the associ-ate director of Education Programs for the NCAA from 2002 to 2009 Herrmann has been involved in his community as well spending time on both the Lawrence Township Foundation Board and the National Institute for Fitness and Sport Youth Fitness Board The Class of 2010 will be inducted at the 53rd-annual Awards Dinner on December 7 at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City and will be officially enshrined in 2011

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Over the course of his career All-American quarterback Mark Herrmann became the most-prolific passer in NCAA history establishing nine records including passing yards and completions


In the BackcourtPurdue will have more depth and experience in the post this season with the return of Jones sophomore Sam Ostarello (led team in rebounding last year50 rpg) Woods junior Alex Guyton and sophomore Ashley Wilson (who is recovering from surgery for a lower leg injury and wonrsquot see action until December)

Guyton missed the first 10 games last year due to a stress fracture and offseason surgery has her back to nearly full strength Add in transfer Mingo (Mary-land) a high school McDonaldrsquos All-American who has great post moves and can hit the three-pointer and the post play should be greatly improved


In the BackcourtThe Purdue backcourt will once again be a talented and versatile group capable of jumpstarting the Boilermak-ersrsquo fast-paced transition game and executing their trademark motion offense Moore will again be the anchor of the unit after last season saw him become just the third player since 1971 to lead Purdue in both points and assists Moorersquos effectiveness in setting up his In addition to directing Purduersquos offense the fiery and diminutive Jackson is relied upon to be a disruptive

force on the defensive side of the ball often shadowing the opponentrsquos ballhandler for the length of the court Putting heat on the ball though isnrsquot solely Jacksonrsquos responsibility The lanky and athletic Barlow gained extensive experience in that role last year while Jackson was on the shelf The Boilermakers return two more guards who gained valuable experience last season in junior Ryne Smith and redshirt sophomore John Hart Local products Dru Anthrop and Bubba Day will also be back in the fold this season In addition to the core of veterans that return in the backcourt freshmen Anthony Johnson and Terone Johnson will compete for spots in the guard rotation

Ready for the OpportunityThe 2010ndash11 Purdue basketball season has a chance to be special despite a preseason disappointment The Boilermakers return an All-American in senior ErsquoTwaun Moore who combines with classmate JaJuan Johnson as a pair of powerhouse seniors Unfortunately fellow senior and All-American Robbie Hummel tore his ACL (the same one he injured last season) in practice the morning of October 16 and will miss the entire 2010ndash11 season The duo of Moore and Johnson who each surpassed the 1000-point mark for their careers were among the Boilermakersrsquo top scorers and rebounders from a year ago while Moore also led the club in assists While the losses of Keaton Grant and Chris Kramer will be difficult to absorb Purdue heads into the season with one of its deepest supporting casts in recent memory Guards Lewis Jackson and Kelsey Barlow com-bined to start 18 games and play more than 35 minutes per game last season while John Hart and Ryne Smith both averaged double-figure minutes off the bench in the backcourt and the Boilermakers bring freshman guards Anthony Johnson and Terone Johnson into the fold Up front Johnson will again be bolstered by forward Patrick Bade who saw action in every game last season as a freshman while D J Byrd also returns to provide mismatches in the frontcourt with his ability to shoot from the pe-rimeter Sandi Marcius will get into the fray after taking a redshirt in 2009ndash10 and Travis Carroll joins the roster for his freshman season

In the FrontcourtWhile the Purdue frontcourt will undeniably be led by Johnson the Boilermakers will head into the season with a bigger stronger and more athletic unit up front than Painter has had at his disposal since taking the head-coaching reins All-around force for the Boilermakers up front Johnson returns for his senior season a year after establishing himself as one of the gamersquos elite inside-out threats Like his fellow Indianapolis native and former high school teammate Bade can bang down low or step out on the perimeter to employ a steady mid-range game While Bade provides a reserve compliment to Johnson Byrd will once again be counted upon to do so during his second season in the program Marcius took a redshirt last season after seeing his freshman year plagued with injuries but the Croatian big man is primed for a role in the Boilermakersrsquo frontcourt rotation The Boilermakersrsquo lone addition up front will come in the form of Travis Carroll the 2010 Gatorade Indi-ana Player of the Year Known for his old-school approach to the game Carroll is comfortable with his back to the basket and displays excellent footwork in the paint on both ends of the floor

Young Players Ready to Step up and LeadAlthough the 2010ndash11 womenrsquos basketball team has no seniors this year there are three returning starters ready to lead the Boilermakers The trio includes shooting guard Brittany Rayburn forward Samantha Woods and center Chelsea Jones In addition to bringing strength as a returning starter Woods along with Drey Mingo will represent the team as captains

Rayburn was the leading scorer last season at 146 points per game Sophomore KK Houser has taken on a leadership role on the court with the graduation of four-year starter and Purdue all-time steals leader FahKara Malone Pushing her for playing time will be freshman Courtney Moses the 2010 Indiana Miss Basketball who av-eraged 317 points 48 rebounds 50 assists and 50 steals as a senior at Oak Hill High School

In the FrontcourtAthleticism on the perimeter will be provided by redshirt sophomore Chantel Poston transfer Antionette Howard and freshman Dee Dee Williams Poston is back from an Achilles tendon injury last season She has improved her ballhandling and perimeter shooting and has retained her quickness and jumping ability She will be an offensive and defensive threat Howard who transferred from Florida State is a six-foot wing player with great strength and tremendous ability to pen-etrate and create her own shot Williams is a defensive stop-per who continues to improve her offensive skills She was a two-time class 4A state cham-pion in basketball at Ben Davis including a perfect 30ndash0 record as a junior

For game schedules TV coverage information or to buy season tickets

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A biosensor utilizing black platinum and carbon nanotubes developed at Purdue will help give scientists a better un-derstanding of how the plant hormone auxin regulates root growth and seedling establishment Marshall Porterfield a professor of agricultural and bio-logical engineering and biomedical engineering created a new sensor to detect the movement of auxin along a plantrsquos root surface in real time without damaging the plants The nanomaterials at the sensorrsquos tip react with auxin and create an electrical signal that can be measured to deter-mine the auxin concentration at a single point The sensor oscillates taking concentration readings at different points around a plant root An algorithm then determines whether auxin is being released or taken in by surrounding cells ldquoIt is the equilibrium and transport dynamics that are important with auxinrdquo says Porterfield whose findings were published in the early online version of The Plant Journal A current focus of auxin research is understanding how this hormone regulates root growth in plants growing on sub-optimal soils Angus Murphy a Purdue professor of horticul-ture and the paperrsquos co-author says that worldwide pressure on land for food and energy crops drives efforts to better understand how plant roots adapt to marginal soils Auxin is one of the major hormones involved in that adaptive growth ldquoItrsquos the key effector of these processesrdquo Murphy says Although sensors using similar nanomaterials have been in use for real-time measurement of auxin levels along a root surface for several years those earlier sensors required

application of external auxin at toxic levels as part of the mea-surement process Porterfield and Eric McLamore a former Purdue postdoctoral researcher created a new algorithm to decode the information obtained from the sensor The algo-rithm processes the sensor information to show whether the hormone is moving into or out of cells This allows the sensor to be self-referencing eliminates the need for auxin applica-tion and allows instantaneous and continuous measurements to be made during root growth

breakthroughs

New pump created for microneedle drug-delivery patch

Purdue University researchers have developed a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of ldquomicroneedlesrdquo to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches The current ldquotransdermalrdquo patches are limited to deliv-ering drugs that like nicotine are made of small hydrophobic molecules that can be absorbed through the skin says Babak Ziaie a professor of electrical and computer engineering and biomedical engineering ldquoThere are only a handful of drugs that currently can be administered with patchesrdquo he says ldquoMost new drugs are large molecules that wonrsquot go through the skin And a lot of drugs such as those for treating cancer and autoimmune disorders you canrsquot take orally because they arenrsquot absorbed into the blood system through the digestive tractrdquo Patches that used arrays of tiny microneedles could de-liver a multitude of drugs and the needles do not cause pain because they barely penetrate the skin he says ldquoItrsquos like a bandage mdash you would use it and discardrdquo Ziaie says

Tiny but mightyThe patches require a pump to push the drugs through the narrow needles which have a diameter of about 20 microns or roughly one-fourth as wide as a human hair However pumps on the market are too complex for patches he says

ldquoWe have developed a simple pump thatrsquos activated by touch from the heat of your finger and requires no batteryrdquo Ziaie says The pump contains a liquid that boils at body tempera-ture so that the heat from a fingerrsquos touch causes it to rapidly turn to a vapor exerting enough pressure to force drugs through the microneedles ldquoIt takes 20 to 30 secondsrdquo Ziaie says The liquid is contained in a pouch separated from the drug by a thin membrane made of a rubberlike polymer called polydimethylsiloxane which is used as diaphragms in pumps Researchers have filed an application for a provisional patent on the device Ziaie has tested prototypes with liquids called fluoro-carbons which are used as refrigerants and also in semicon-ductor manufacturing ldquoYou need a relatively large force a few pounds per square inch to push medications through the microneedles and into the skinrdquo Ziaie says ldquoItrsquos very difficult to find a miniature pump that can provide that much forcerdquo The work has been supported with funding from the National Science Foundation Future research may include work to try the pump with microneedles

Emil VenereWhile people across the country have been sickened by a recent outbreak of salmonella poisoning possibly linked to eggs from Iowa producers a Purdue food scientist believes the poultry industry could implement a rapid egg cooling technology to reduce future outbreaks Kevin Keener an associate professor of food science says quick cooling of eggs after they are laid would signifi-cantly reduce the ability of salmonella to grow inside eggs and potentially keep consumers from getting sick There are no federal guidelines for how quickly eggs should be cooled but current industry procedures can take as long as six days to cool eggs to 45 degrees F the temperature at which salmonella can no longer grow Keenerrsquos rapid-cooling technology would take two to five minutes Keener says eggs can be more than 100 degrees F after washing and packaging in cartons Thirty dozen eggs are then packed in a case and 30 cases are stacked onto pallets and placed in refrigerated coolers The eggs in the middle of the pallet can take up to 142 hours to cool to 45 degrees He says scientists estimate that one in about every 20000 eggs has salmonella naturally inside

ldquoThe eggs in the middle of a pallet may take up to six days to cool and if the one in 20000 that has salmonella is in the middle the bacteria will growrdquo Keener says ldquoIn reality some eggs donrsquot cool to 45 degrees until theyrsquore in the refrig-erator in your homerdquo Keener says Food and Drug Administration studies show that if eggs were cooled and stored at 45 degrees or less within 12 hours of laying there would be an estimated 78 percent fewer salmonella illnesses from eggs in the United States each year

Sensor important to understanding root seedling development

Egg cooling would lessen salmonella illnesses

Marshall Porterfield at left and Angus Murphy will be able to better understand how the plant hormone auxin regulates plant root growth and seedling establishment with a biosensor devel-oped at Purdue

Kevin Keener developed a rapid egg cool-ing system that uses circulated carbon dioxide to create a thin layer of ice inside an eggrsquos shell that cools the inside of an egg within minutes

Babak Ziaie a professor of electrical and computer engineer-ing and biomedical engineering shows a new type of pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of ldquomicroneedlesrdquo to deliver a wider range of medications than now possible with conventional patches

Doctoral student Charilaos Mousoulis demonstrates a prototype pump for drug-delivery patches that might use arrays of microneedles to deliver a wider range of medica-tions than now possible with conventional patches

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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 oystersrsquo ability to stick together to form complex reefs would help those trying to boost the dwindling oyster population aid in the cre-ation of materials 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 a 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 A paper detailing the work is published in the current issue of the Journal of the American Chemical Society ldquoWith a description of the oyster cement in hand we may gain strategies for developing synthetic materials that mimic the shellfishrsquos ability to set and hold in wet environ-mentsrdquo says Wilker who has worked on the design of synthetic bioadhesives for more than 10 years ldquoDentistry and medicine may benefit from such a material For instance it would be great to have a surgical adhesive that could replace staples and sutures which puncture healthy tissue and create potential sites for infectionrdquo

Decoding the compositionBy comparing oyster shells with the material that connects the animals to each other the researchers were able to determine its chemical composition The results showed that the adhe-sive had almost five times the amount of protein and more water than what is found in the shell ldquoThe adhesive material differed significantly in composition from the shell which indicates that the oys-ter produces a chemically distinct substance for sticking togetherrdquo Wilker says Wilker who also studies mussel and barnacle adhesion describes the oyster adhesive as more of an inorganic cement-like substance than the organic gluelike material produced by other marine animals ldquoThe oyster cement appears to be harder than the substances mussels and barnacles use for sticking to rocksrdquo he says ldquoThe adhesives produced by mussels and barnacles are mostly made of proteins but oyster adhesive is about 90 percent calcium carbonate or chalk On its own chalk is not sticky So the key to oyster adhesion may be a unique combi-nation of this hard inorganic component with the remaining 10 percent of the material that is proteinrdquo This 10 percent of oyster cement does bear some simi-larity to mussel glue in its composition of proteins and the presence of iron

In earlier studies Wilker found that iron played a key role in the hardening or curing of mussel adhesive and it may serve a similar purpose in the oyster adhesive he says Finding common threads in the sticky substances pro-duced by marine organisms is key to the development of both synthetic adhesives and treatments to prevent the accumula-tion of these animals on ships Hundreds of different marine species attach themselves to ships increasing drag and reducing sailing speeds Prevent-ing and controlling their accumulation called fouling is a major expense for the worldrsquos shipping fleet Wilker says ldquoThe current antifouling methods rely on toxicity and ship bottoms are often coated with a copper-based paint that kills marine organisms in their larval statesrdquo he says ldquoIf we could figure out a non-toxic a way to defeat the adhesives we could keep them off ships without harming the environmentrdquo

Essential to survivalOysters stick together to reproduce and to protect themselves from predators and large waves The reefs can stretch for miles and filter large volumes of water prevent erosion and create a storm wall that strengthens coastlines In addition the reefs create a habitat for hundreds of other species Wilker says ldquoOverfishing pollution and disease have reduced the oyster population by 98 percent or more since the late 1800srdquo he says ldquoMany people are now trying to reintroduce the ani-mals to their prior habitats Perhaps our work will add to the understanding of this shellfish and what is needed for oysters and the larger coastal ecosystem to thriverdquo Wilker and his team will next investigate the interaction of the different components within oyster cement and use this information for developing new synthetic materials

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Cracking open the secret of the oysterrsquos ability to stick together

Synthetic fuels research aims to reduce oil dependence

An oyster reef in the Baruch Marine Field laboratory on the South Carolina coast

Researchers at have developed a facil-ity aimed at learning precisely how coal and biomass are broken down in reactors called gasifiers as part of a project to strengthen the scientific foundations of the synthetic fuel economy ldquoA major focus is to be able to produce a significant quantity of synthetic fuel for the United States air transportation system and to reduce our dependence on petroleum oil for transportationrdquo says Jay Gore the Reilly University Chair Professor of Combustion Engineering The research is part of work to develop a system for generating large quantities of synthetic fuel from agricultural wastes other biomass or coal that would be turned into a gas using steam and then converted into a liquid fuel Other aims are to learn how to generate less carbon dioxide than conventional synthetic-fuel processing methods while increasing the yield of liquid fuel by adding hydrogen into the coal-and-biomass-processing reactor a technique pioneered by Rakesh Agrawal Purduersquos Winthrop E Stone Distinguished Professor of Chemical Engineering Researchers are using the facility to learn how coal and biomass ldquogasifyrdquo when exposed to steam under high pressure

in order to improve the efficiency of the gasification process ldquoWe want to show that our system is flexible for using coal and biomassrdquo Gore says ldquoThe aim is to create a sustain-able synthetic fuel economy Whatrsquos daunting is the size of the problem mdash how much oil we need mdash how much energy we needrdquo Findings published last year showed carbon dioxide might be reduced by 40 percent using the technique And new findings will be detailed in a research paper being pre-sented during a January meeting of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics in Orlando The research is based at the Universityrsquos Maurice J Zucrow Laboratories

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Purdue doctoral students from left indraneel Sircar Brent rankin rohan gejji and Anup Sane created this gasifier to learn precisely how coal and biomass break down in the reactors

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Team uncovers potential prostate cancer markerStudies by a Purdue-led team have revealed 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 analysis 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 identifying 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 Purduersquos Henry Bohn Hass Distin-guished Professor of Chemistry and Timothy Ratliff the Robert Wallace Miller Director of the Purdue Center for Cancer Research led the team ldquoIt was surprising to find a single compound that is dis-tinctly present in cancerous tissue and not present in healthy tissuerdquo says Cooks who is co-director of Purduersquos Center for Analytical Instrumentation Development ldquoWersquove 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 tissuerdquo 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 ldquoAside from skin cancer prostate cancer is the most common cancer in men and is the second leading cause of cancer-related deathsrdquo Ratliff says ldquoUnfortunately the

current screening test has a significant number of false posi-tives because it uses a marker that is present with other non-cancerous conditions As a result many men have unneces-sary biopsies which are invasive expensive and have the potential to cause infection This new compound appears to be highly specific to prostate cancer cells which would mean very few false positivesrdquo The current prostate cancer test screens for a protein called prostate-specific antigen or PSA that is produced by the cells of the prostate Elevated levels of PSA in the blood can signify prostate cancer but non-cancerous conditions such as an enlarged or inflamed prostate also cause an in-crease in its levels he says The findings of the study which was funded by the Pur-due University Center for Cancer Research and the National Institutes of Health were published in the journal Analytical Chemistry The study was performed in collaboration with physi-cian scientists from Indiana University School of Medicine who co-authored the paper They also provided the tissue samples and pathological analysis of the samples to check the new techniquersquos results

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Purdue graduate students Allison Dill and livia eberlin use de-sorption electrospray ionization or DeSi to examine samples


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Officials dedicate new life sciences research facility greenhouse

Purdue Dow AgroSciences LLC the Indiana Economic Development Corporation and greater Lafayette officials dedicated a new life sciences research space and greenhouse in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette Less than one year after announcing the partnership Dow AgroSciences is now occupying 15000 square feet of research and office space in the Herman and Heddy Kurz Purdue Technology Center at 1281 Win Hentschel Blvd In addition Dow AgroSciences is the exclusive tenant of an 11000-square-foot greenhouse complex on the south side of Ross Enterprise Center Approximately 30 scientists and contract research assistants will work in the facilities in the years to come ldquoDow AgroSciences is committed to discovering tech-nology to help address the challenges of feeding a growing population and the work we are doing in these state-of-the-art facilities at Purdue will help us advance our global agricul-tural research effortsrdquo says Antonio Galindez president and CEO of Dow AgroSciences ldquoThe partnership and support of Purdue and the state of Indiana are very important enablers to continuing the momentum of the life sciences in Indianardquo Researchers from Dow AgroSciences will have the op-portunity to collaborate with faculty in the Purdue colleges of Agriculture and Science and have access to some campus research facilities ldquoWe celebrate a powerful partnership among the state of Indiana Purdue Research Park and Dow AgroSciences that will bring new jobs to our community new opportunities to

our students and new discoveries to our worldrdquo says Purdue President France A Coacuterdova ldquoThose goals are at the very heart of Purduersquos land-grant missionrdquo The Indiana Economic Development Corporation sup-ported the Purdue Research Foundation in the construction of the greenhouse research center with a $22 million grant to assist in development costs ldquoWe knew that other sites outside Indiana were re-cruiting the Dow AgroSciences research and development enterprise and as part of our statersquos strategy to promote job growth in Indiana we worked hard to make sure this oppor-tunity stayed in Indianardquo says Mitch Roob Indiana Secretary of Commerce and chief executive officer of the IEDC ldquoWe are pleased to see the construction project completed on time and to see the employment benefit and research expansion come to fruitionrdquo Dow AgroSciences joins the more than 160 companies already based in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette ldquoThis is the first greenhouse we have constructed in the Purdue Research Park of West Lafayette and it is an impor-tant addition to our site because it represents a strong move into the agricultural sector of life sciencesrdquo says Joseph B Hornett senior vice president treasurer and COO of the Purdue Research Foundation which manages the Purdue Research Park ldquoThe dedication of the research facility and greenhouse provides yet another opportunity for park-based companies to collaborate with Purdue Universityrdquo

$16 million for biofuels crop research

NIH seed grant for biodefense technology

Purdue is receiving $159 million in federal funding for a project to conduct a sustainability assessment of energy crops for biofuels The funding is part of a $165 million renewable fuel initiative by the US Department of Energy to provide high-quality biomass while increasing economic viability for producers and improving the environment Purdue researchers will develop strategies to meet the demand for biofuel crops while promoting environmental

quality and ecosystem health says Indrajeet Chaubey associ-ate professor in agricultural and biological engineering ldquoEnsuring a sustainable bioenergy future will require public confidence that river ecosystemsrsquo draining fields that produce energy crops will be adequately protectedrdquo Chaubey says ldquoBut large-scale land use changes may lead to unintend-ed consequencesrdquo

Researchers have developed a technology that has the poten-tial to more quickly identify food-borne pathogens aiding US homeland security officials in responding to a bioterrorist attack or other emergencies The research team which is based at Discovery Parkrsquos Bindley Bioscience Center has received a $13 million seed grant from the National Institutes of Healthrsquos National Insti-tute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases to test the technology ldquoRapid identification of pathogenic organisms is dif-ficult to achieve in clinical environments leading to a delay in response and treatmentrdquo says project leader J Paul Robinson professor of biomedical engineering and veterinary medicine ldquoThis technology creates a national identification system capable of correlating similar organisms identified at hospitals across the nationrdquo

The technology works by creating a signature of each organism isolated from patients using a laser that interrogates bacterial colonies and collects unique scatter fingerprint pat-terns that instantly identify each and every colony on a plate The signatures then are sent to a national biosecurity database network which links major hospitals around the country to be compared with other signatures Robinson says ldquoCombined with other advanced classification tools developed at Bindley this process quickly identifies the organ-isms without analyzing biochemistry reagents or physical transfer of cell culturesrdquo Robinson says ldquoIf similar unknown organisms are simultaneously tracked at multiple centers it might be the result of a bioterrorist attackrdquo

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Dow AgroSciences llC is using the 10000-square-foot greenhouse in the Purdue research Park for early-stage research in developing new technologies that can be used by multiple crops


Abbreviation KeyA AgricultureAAE AeronauticalAstronautical Engineering AAS Associate of Applied ScienceAS Associate of ScienceBA Bachelor of ArtsBM Biomedical ElectricalBS Bachelor of ScienceCE Civil EngineeringCERT CertificateCET Civil Engineering TechnologyCFS Consumer and Family SciencesChE Chemical EngineeringCEM Construction Engineering amp MgmtCNE Construction EngineeringDP Doctor of PharmacyDVM Doctor of Veterinary MedicineE EngineeringECE Electrical and Computer EngineeringEDU EducationEE Electrical EngineeringFR Friend of Purdue AlumniHDR Honorary DoctorateHSC Health SciencesIE Industrial EngineeringLA Liberal ArtsM ManagementMA Master of ArtsMBA Master of Business AdministrationMS Master of ScienceME Mechanical EngineeringMSE Materials Science amp EngineeringNE Nuclear EngineeringNRS NursingP PharmacyPhD DoctorateS Science T TechnologyV Veterinary Medicine - Indicates attendance at PurduePurdue Alumni membersrsquo names are bolded

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1950Joseph G Lancello (MErsquo50) Greenfield IN and his wife Jean celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary on July 8 They were married in New Britain CT in 1950

Frank W Deardorff (Prsquo57) Denton TX and his wife Beverlee relocated from New Jersey to Texas This is the eigth state they have lived in They have visited all 50 states over 100 countries and all seven continents and decided it was time to try another new state deardhome1aolcom

Richard H Pletcher (MErsquo57) Ames IA received the Heat Transfer Memorial Award last November from the American Society of Mechanical Engineers The award recognizes outstanding contributions to the field of heat transfer through teaching research practice and design or a combination of such activities

Jack B ReVelle (ChErsquo57) Orange CA recently published his 20th book the Home Builders Guide to Continuous Improvement Schedule Quality Customer Satisfaction Cost and Safety He is currently working with the American Society for Quality (ASQ) on an online series of over 50 webcasts describing essential quality tools His article ldquoMaking the Connectionrdquo published in 2010 by the journal Quality Progress was translated into Chinese for re-publication by the Chinese Association for Quality in its monthly journal His articles ldquoCommunicating Lean with Customersrdquo and ldquoWhich Comes First Quality Safety or Costsrdquo were published in 2010 by the journal Indus-trial Engineering cactus_statmanyahoocom

1960James (Jim) W Luzadder (Mrsquo68) Hender-sonville NC has retired with his wife Beverly A (Waters) Luzadder (Mrsquo68) to the Blue Ridge Mountains Jim worked as a stockbroker and clinical social worker working with se-verely and chronically mentally ill Bev worked as an executive with Burroughs Corp before finishing her career as a principle consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers in information

technology She enjoys being a Master Gardner jluzadder1gmailcom

Robert (Bob) E Gadomski (ChErsquo69) and Susan (Sue) K (Phillips) Gadomski (LArsquo69) met a Norwegian troll in Purdue gear while

on the Presidentrsquos Council trip to the North Cape of Norway

1970Jon B Anderson (LArsquo70) Chicago IL recently joined Kyosay Global as the director of ShanghaiChina In his new role Jon is involved in market entry executive search and

supply chain sourcing in China

Joel B Ebbertt (LArsquo70) Parkville MO as-sumed the role of senior consultant with CHS located in Inver Grove Heights MN Just prior he operated Ebbertt Consulting LLC and was vice president of consulting with Right Man-agement in Kansas City

Ronald P Egge (MS Mrsquo71) Las Vegas NV received a fellowship to study at Oxford University in England for the summer of 2010 His area of

focus is global strategy and trade

William H Strong (Mrsquo73) Lake Forest IL was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Indiana University by Governor Mitch Daniels on July 1

Rebecca (Cauble) Marshall (Prsquo74) Salem IN celebrated owning and operating the Salem Apothecary for 25 years on August 13 The 130-year-old building that houses the apothecary was also the professional home of Desse Rudder one of the first women to graduate from Purdue School of Pharmacy ysalemapothecarinsightbbcom

James (Jim) W Moll (CErsquo74 MS CErsquo80) Springfield IL recently celebrated 30 years of service at Hanson Profes-sional Services Inc Moll an assistant vice president primarily serves in Hansonrsquos infrastructure market

Michael J Leader (MErsquo75) Chester Springs PA has been named president of the board for Habitat for Humanity of Chester County In his new role Leader is directly involved in the strategic direction which

includes the acquisition of both land and prop-erties of the Chester County affiliate of Habitat for Humanity

Jose H Villarreal (LArsquo75) San Antonio TX the commissioner general for the American Pavilion at World Expo in Shanghai

is pictured wearing a Boilermaker shirt along with a hat he was asked to deliver during a visit to Shanghai in June

Molly (Shaffer) Detwiler (Mrsquo77) Sonoma CA received her MFA in fiction writing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco She lives in Sonoma with her husband David Detwiler (Mrsquo77) a captain with United Airlines

James L Jordan (Arsquo77 MS EDUrsquo82) Somer-ville OH received a PhD from Ohio State University in human and community resource development His dissertationrsquos title is ldquoParental Management of Teen Drivers after Receiv-ing Their First Traffic Citation and Having Attended the 4-H CARTEENS Programrdquo James has been an extension educator of 4-H youth development for 28 years

Larry D Muffet (Arsquo77) Morton Grove IL was awarded a masterrsquos of human resource devel-opment from Clemson University on August 7

Roger K Quillen (MS Srsquo77) Decatur GA chair-man and managing partner of the national law firm of Fisher amp Phillips LLP has been selected by his peers for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America 2011

1980Kenneth R Ostrowski (Srsquo80 MS EDUrsquo82) Huntington Beach CA was part of a team that created a series of educational videos titled Understanding Chemistry in Our World produced by Coast Learning Systems The project earned an Emmy award in educational programming on July 31 in Los Angeles

Douglas G Henry (Prsquo81) Columbia SC and his wife Kelly moved to Columbia SC and bought a new house They both work at the WJB Dorn VA Medical Center Doug works as a pharmacist and Kelly as a registered nurse

Timothy E Scholl (Trsquo82) Tampa FL joined his wife and brother to head back to ldquogood olerdquo Purdue to cheer on the Boilermakers for Homecom-ing weekend on Oct 16 Tim

currently works for ATampT in the Chief Security Office TSS01mecom

Bradford P Anderson (LArsquo84) Pismo Beach CA was appointed associate dean of the Orfalea College of Business at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo CA

Grant E Mabie (LArsquo84) Indianapolis IN former editor of Liberal Arts Magazine is now serving as managing editor at Hilton Publishing Company in Indianapolis

Timothy A Robards (Arsquo85) Dixon CA is a senior scientist with Spatial Informatics Group LLC working on projects and research related to forest carbon sequestration biomass supply

and biometrics trobardssig-giscom

Mark A Ferris (Trsquo86) Garner NC was named chief estimator for D H Griffin Con-struction of Raleigh NC Mark has been with D H Griffin as cheif estimator since Jan 2008

Geoffrey R Martin (MA LArsquo86) Canada is assistant professor of continuous learning and political science at Mount Allison University and co-author of a new book Pop Culture Goes to War Enlisting and Resisting Militarism in the War on Terror

Tony A Gibbens (Srsquo87 MS EErsquo90) Atlanta GA has joined the Fish Richardson Patent Group as an associate in its Atlanta office

Kristal J Slovinski (EDUrsquo87) Elkhart IN earned her masterrsquos in math education for grades six through eight from Walden Univer-sity on June 27

Clentice T Smith (ChErsquo88) Chicago IL climbed Mt Kinabalu 13435 feet in Borneo He carried the name of his alma mater to the top of the mountain He

hopes to have become the first Purdue Bands-man to climb Mt Kinabalu Clenticeaolcom

Matthew E Travis (CErsquo88) Virginia Beach VA was pro-moted to colonel in the US Marine Corps (USMC) on July 1 by Lieutenant General Rusty Blackman USMC

David E Jenkins (IErsquo89 MS Mrsquo99) and Janice (Beer) Jenkins Ann Arbor MI welcomed the birth of their daughter Ava Simone to the Boiler Nation on July 4

Michael E Pape (PhD Arsquo89) Ann Arbor MI is featured in an upcoming book mdash How They Did it Billion Dollar Insights from

the Heart of America This is a book of quotes thoughts ideas and inspiration from 45 of the most successful living company founders ever to come out of the heartland

1990Richard A Carlson (Arsquo90) Wilmar MN was promoted to vice president of quality manage-ment for Jennie-O Turkey Store in Willmar

Timothy J Bordenet (Trsquo91) West Lafayette IN Central Catholic Junior-Senior High School baseball coach was recently chosen by the National High School Baseball Coaches Association as the District 4

Coach of the Year Bordenet is now in the run-ning for national coach of the year honors

James D Molenaar (LArsquo91) Naples FL was conferred with a masterrsquos of business admin-istration from the University of Florida James works at the State Attorneyrsquos Office of the 20th Judicial Circuit in Naples FL and is assigned to the Collier County Economic Crimes Unit as its prosecutor

Zoran Sovljanski (Ersquo91) San Diego CA a senior commis-sioning specialist recently joined Hanson Professional Services Incrsquos Chicago mdash Will County office serving in the companyrsquos govern-ment market

Kathleen M Longo (CFSrsquo92) Minneapolis MN earned the Chartered Advisor in Philan-thropy (CAP) professional designation from the Richard D Irwin Graduate School of The American College in Bryn Mawr PA The CAP program provides an advanced understand-ing of the relationship between the nonprofit sector and the financial services and planning sectors


Business Card Exchange

Questions Call or e-mail Dan Rhodes bull (765) 494-8038 bull (800) 414-1541 bull darhodespurdueedu

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Matthew J Smith (LArsquo92 PhD LArsquo97) Fort Wayne IN was appointed interim dean for the University of Saint Francis School of Arts and Sciences During his nine years at the univer-sity Smith has served as director of writing chair of English and foreign languages and most recently as director of general education

Geir (Liland) Sorensen (MS Mrsquo93) New Canaan CT has been expatriated from Norway to Stamford CT to be controller for the energy company Statoils mdash a worldwide crude and condensate business

Brett M Hoffstadt (AAErsquo93) Media PA released his debut CD of original instrumental music Preludes Reflections

It is available on CDBabycom iTunes Amazon and other internal music sites In his aerospace engineering career he now has

two assignments at The Boeing Company in Ridley Park PA project engineer on the V-22 Osprey at Boeing and also the Boeing Techni-cal program manager with the Vertical Lift Consortium

Tony L Miller (IErsquo93) Columbus IN was appointed to vice president of production engineering design engineering manu-facturing and maintenance

for Toyota Industrial Equipment Mfg Inc

Kevin C Nunning (IErsquo96) and Elizabeth A (Sinnott) Nunning (MErsquo97 MS Ersquo03) Troy MI welcomed the birth of their son Drew on

December 4 Drew joins big sister Maria as future Purdue students

Christine E Carpenter (ChErsquo98) and Brooks C Carpenter (Arsquo00) Woodstock IL welcomed the birth of their second daughter Corinne

Elissa on June 1 She is pictured with big sister Avery

Kathryn A (Eyler) Chellgren (Mrsquo98) Coconut Creek FL and her husband David welcomed the birth of their second child Dan-iel William on May 13

Claudia (Kathy) Heinsohn (PhD Arsquo98) Brunswick MD has served as the National Pest Management Associationrsquos senior entomologist for the past four and a half years and was highlighted in a recent issue of her industryrsquos trade magazine Pest Management Professional To view the article and learn more about her accomplishments visit wwwmypmp-digitalcompmpdigital

Katherine Y Brown (MS EDUrsquo99) Chicago IL will serve as the newly elected president of the National Coalition of 100 Black Women Inc mdash Chicago Chapter She will reign

as the chapterrsquos sixth president since its found-ing in 1990 Katherine is the founder of Dr Katherine and Associates CPR Courses and wwwlearnCPRchicagocom

Detra L Mills (BSrsquo99) Fortville IN is a legal in-tern in clinical excellence at St Vincent Health and recently became a Fellow of the American College

of Healthcare Executives the nationrsquos leading professional society for healthcare leaders

Barry L Padgett (PhD LArsquo99) Brentwood TN was named the James Medlin Chair of Business Ethics at Belmont University in Nash-ville He comes to Belmont after 10 years of teaching at Bellarmine University in Louisville Kentucky He has published two books numer-ous articles and has received several teaching awards barrypadgettbelmontedu

2000Kelly A Eidson (Mrsquo00) Arlington Heights IL was recently awarded the Purdue Bands Or-chestra Shooting Star Award for Young Alumni

Samuel D Montgomery-Blinn (Srsquo00) Durham NC recently published the second issue of the quarterly magazine Bull Spec which he founded in November 2009 The magazine

is named for Durham NC where he now lives in Bull City The magazine includes speculative fiction such as science fiction fantasy etc

Scott W Sabau (Mrsquo01) and Elizabeth G (Sanders) Sabau (NRSrsquo01) Pensacola FL welcomed the birth of their second daughter Charlotte Theresa on March 26

Julie S Albert (NRSrsquo02) Westfield IN has accepted a position as a part-time womenrsquos health nurse practitioner at Northside Womenrsquos Care with Com-

munity North Hospital of Indianapolis starting January 2011

Ammie G (Hudson) Blahuta (CFSrsquo02) Sugar Land TX married Frank Blahuta on May 1 The couple is now expecting their first child due in February

Jan M (Ripberger) Peterson (DPrsquo02) Maple Grove MN and her husband Brent welcomed the birth of their first son Grant James on January 12

Jon K Coulter (Trsquo04) Indianapoilis IN and Amanda M Schoolcraft (current Purdue student and PASE member) were both part of a six-person group to create Zankitcom a clas-sified ad site with a twist using a commission system that rewards a person for referring a buyer to the seller These so-called agents try to get their friends to buy your item They do so by pushing out the ads placed on Zankit to social media sites like Facebook and Twitter

Charles A Moore (Trsquo04 MBArsquo09) Lafayette IN has joined software startup Allegro Dynamics as director of business operations Allegro Dynamics is proud to be

located in the Kurz Purdue Technology Center which is part of the Purdue Research Park in West Lafayette

Jessica (Stensland) Brown (Mrsquo04) married Kevin Brown on May 7 in Tulum Mexico

Sabrina A Cook (LArsquo05) San Fransisco CA has been named vice president at BLASTmedia a technol-ogy public relations agency based in Indianapolis and San Francisco

Andrew P King (LArsquo05) Bentonville AR and his wife Melissa are serving as co-associate pastors at First Presbyterian Church in Ben-tonville AR Their areas of ministry will be Christian education mission and pastoral care

Jon D Wright (Srsquo05) married Casey V (Cavanaugh) Wright (Trsquo06) on May 22 at Ross-Ade Stadium

R Brandon Kiser (Ersquo06) and Nicole A (Rowe) Kiser (Trsquo06) Lexington KY welcomed the birth of their second son and future Boiler-maker Jonathan Cole on July 27 Big brother Brian is now excited that his baby brother gets to come along to all of the Purdue events he attends

Jeff S Ksander (AAErsquo06) and his wife Kimberly (EDUrsquo07) Maineville OH welcomed the birth of their son Brayden Scott on March 12


Three generations of Boilermakers proudly gathered for a WoodruffWeismanBash family photo William Woodruff (Arsquo55) sits in front of his daughter Debra (Wood-ruff) Weisman (Arsquo79) and granddaughter Rachel Bash (HSCrsquo11) Pictured in the back row from left to right are Andrew Weis-man (Mrsquo11) Kyle Weisman (Mrsquo10) Heidi (Woodruff) Bash (CFSrsquo81) and Robert Bash (CErsquo78)

Do you have a large family of loyal Purdue alumni If so please send your family photo to alumnuspurdueedu for a chance at being highlighted in future issues of the Purdue Alumnus Please identify everyone in the photo


Animated Engineer Alum combines technology and storytelling for blockbuster results

When Bob Peterson (MS MErsquo86) comes back to Purdue as part of the Old Masters program in November hersquoll be returning to where he says it all began Thatrsquos high praise coming from a ldquofive-toolrdquo player at Pixar Animation Studios who is an animator a writer a director a technophile and a voice talent He also took his wife to Oscarrsquos red carpet night in 2009 Peterson was the lead writer and co-director for Up which earned him a Best Screenplay nomination The movie won the Oscar for Best Animated feature For Peterson itrsquos been 16 years of hard but fun work at Pixar Hersquos worked his way through the ranks directing commercials working in animation on Toy Story supervising the script on Monsters Inc and finally writing screenplays for Finding Nemo and Up But his voice might ring the most bells Hersquos lent his raspy tones to notable characters like Roz in Monsters Inc Mr Ray in Finding Nemo and Dug the dog in Up Peterson contends however that the Pixar ride would not have been possible without two things he got out of his graduate school days at Purdue 3-D modeling experience in a computer-aided design (CAD) lab and a satirical comic strip in the Purdue Exponent In the former Peterson sought to tailor his research work to his artistic vision He was looking to design a 3-D modeling environment that would better fit the needs of a sketch artist And from 1984 through 1986 he developed his storytelling voice through a daily Exponent strip called ldquoLoco Motivesrdquo On the technological front Peterson could not have picked a bet-ter time to attend Purdue ldquoI got to go to a conference called SIGGRAPH and learn about computer graphicsrdquo he says ldquoIt was an exciting time because it was a new industry I was lucky to come along as it was being invented And Purduersquos CAD lab was an exciting mix of grad stu-dents with different interests encouraged by our great faculty advisorsrdquo Fast-forward nearly a quarter of a century and you find Peterson as part of the creative brain trust at Pixar guiding scripts and review-ing films in progress As a director he still keeps in constant contact with the technical side of animation creation

ldquoBob is one of the jewels of the studiordquo says the producer of Up Pixar colleague Jonas Rivera ldquoI canrsquot help but think that Bobrsquos back-ground in engineering has helped him settle easily into the filmmaking process of computer graphics and animation which contain many technical components He has an understanding of the other side of the building so to speakrdquo And a good understanding of people and what stories they want to see ldquoAt Pixar we strive to never talk down to kids or up to adultsrdquo Peterson says ldquoWe simply create a story that makes us as people laugh or get emotional Wersquore just following our own muses Wersquore adults but wersquove really cultivated our childlike sidesrdquo Anyone who has seen Up would recall an opening wordless montage where the lives of two characters (Carl and his wife Ellie) pass on the screen in several minutes Even without the dialogue Peterson says itrsquos that writing hersquos most proud of So what will he tell students in his role as a visiting Old Master Probably to find and combine their passions ldquoI was able to apply my vocation which was engineering to my avocation which was drawing cartoonsrdquo Peterson says ldquoIf we could all combine what we do in our off hours with what we do at work wersquod all be happy peoplerdquo

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ALUMNI PROFILE

Craig A Ziolkowski (MErsquo06) Victorville CA accepted a position as lead project engineer at GE Aviation Flight Test Operation in Victorville

David A Bond (HSCrsquo07) married Rachel E (Fla-nigan) Bond on June 5 in Greenwood IN David attends IU School of Medicine and Rachel works as a nurse at St Francis Hospital

Justin M Casterline (Srsquo07) and Christine L (Gentleman) Casterline (Srsquo04) got married in 2004 and had their first child William McGregor on February 7 Justin recently earned his MBA at Univer-sity of Indianapolis and is

an operations consultant at Suburban Health Organization in Indianapolis Christy is now a stay-at-home mom

Vance W Lambert (Ersquo07) married Whitney A (Pre-stridge) Lambert (CFSrsquo08) on September 18 in Vernon Hills IL Whitney is employed at Freed-man Anselmo Lindberg and Rappe a law firm in

Naperville IL and Vance is currently a project engineer with Abbott Laboratories in Chicago

Donald R Coats (Trsquo08) and Amber M (Robbins) Coats were married on June 21 in Las Vegas at the Chapel of the Flowers The two are pictured showing off their Purdue pride dur-ing their recent visit to the Grand Canyon

Sara N Jacobs (LArsquo08) Chicago IL is attending DePaul University College of Law with an expected graduation of 2013

Janell S (Brown) Baute (LArsquo09) and Frank A Baute (LArsquo08) were mar-ried on September 12 2009 in Huntington IN

Ben D Bumgarner (Trsquo09) married Taylor J (Richard) Bumgarner (EDUrsquo08) on July 28 in La Jolla beach in San Diego CA

Candace L Curtis (Mrsquo09) Chicago IL works with PRP Wine International Inc as a new wine consultant and would like to offer Purdue Alumni a free in-home wine tasting for anyone living in the Chicago area If interested in this opportunity contact her by e-mail at clcurtis3hotmailcom


Violet A (Gruenwald) Phend (MS Ersquo40) Marco Island FL Jan 3

Carroll A Schory (ECErsquo40) Derwood MD Apr 18

Betty J (Brasaemle) Stark (Srsquo40) Monticello IN July 18

Harold E Todd (ECErsquo40) Washington IL Oct 12 2009

Doris M (Sauvage) Burke (CFSrsquo41) Soquel CA Dec 30 2009

Scott W Hinners (MS Arsquo41) Metropolis IL May 6

Ellis D Verink Jr (MSErsquo41) Wesley Chapel FL Sept 28 2009

Robert F Abell (MErsquo42) LaJolla CA Jan 23

Reid M Bennett (ChErsquo42 MS ChErsquo46) Austin TX Dec 4 2009

William D Blind (Arsquo42) Jacksonville FL Dec 14 2009

Martha A (Dungan) Nichols (CFSrsquo34) Richmond VA Oct 29 2009

Frederick H Test (Srsquo34) Asheville NC Mar 25

Ruth M (Martin) Love (CFSrsquo35) Muncie IN Aug 26

H Regina (Kelly) Schenk (CFSrsquo37) Wheaton IL Oct 29 2009

James F Bourland (MS Srsquo38 PhD Srsquo41) Park Ridge NJ Nov 28 2009

James H Nicholas (ECErsquo38) Inverness FL Dec 12 2009

Wally L Sielski (Prsquo38) Gary IN Sept 12 2009

John R Keck (CErsquo39) Fremont IN Dec 18 2009

1940Robert C Kany (CErsquo40) Orlando FL July 22

Foster C Clark (ECErsquo42) Mount Pleasant SC June 26 He is survived by his wife Carol

Charles W Cole Jr (CErsquo42) South Bend IN July 18

Edith E (Wildermuth) Driscoll (CFSrsquo42) Dublin OH Feb 7 She is survived by her husband William (MErsquo48)

John O Dunbar (Arsquo42 MS Arsquo48 PhD Arsquo54) Manhattan KS Aug 7

Jane L (Julin) Keenan (CFSrsquo42) Minneapolis MN July 14

V Neal Lichtenbarger (Arsquo42) Athens GA July 19

Benjamin C Korschot (Srsquo42) Lees Summit MO July 12

Joanna (Modisett) Lindberg (Srsquo42) Richmond VA Oct 28 2009

Walter S Schalck (CErsquo42) Lake Forest IL May 18

Richard F Sears (MErsquo42) Wilmington NC Mar 26

Norman H Witte (ChErsquo42) Fort Wayne IN June 3

Betty J (Woelffle) Unger (CFSrsquo42) Virginia Beach VA Aug 8

Robert E Buntain (ChErsquo43) Lincoln NE Jan 9

Gilbert E Liming (Arsquo43) Salem OR Nov 27 2009

Betty Ward Seaborg (CFSrsquo43) Matthews NC Dec 17 2009 She is survived by her husband Warren (MS LArsquo48)

Lawrence W Thrasher (MErsquo43 MS MErsquo49 PhD MErsquo54) San Mateo CA Dec 15 2005

W Ray Danford Jr (ECErsquo44) Angola IN Jan 1

Richard D Raub (ECErsquo44) Indianapolis IN Aug 6

Harold E Boren Jr (ChErsquo45) Pacific Palisades CA June 28

Erwin S Hoffer (ECErsquo45) Ridgecrest CA Jan 13

Helen L (Hirsch) Petrie (Srsquo45) Fishers IN July 3

Frank E Skinner (Arsquo46) Albany CA Apr 4

Gordon M Bartage (ECErsquo47) Benton LA May 3

Brooks K Blanchard (ECErsquo47) Waukesha WI July 19

Rodney L Boyer (MS AAErsquo47) Chesapeake VA Aug 1

Elizabeth A (Pryor) Boyle (CFSrsquo47) Belgrade ME Jan 4

Lance A Yoder (LArsquo09) and Wendy M (Buss) Yoder Goshen IN welcomed the birth of their daughter Maya Marie on July 1

Amy L Clemons (PhD LArsquo10) Bellville OH has joined the faculty at Francis Marion University as an assistant professor of English

MEMORIAMS

1930Emil L Brookbank (MErsquo33) Frankfort IN Jan 5

Richard S Brown (AASrsquo34) Valparaiso IN July 2

John R Gretzinger (MErsquo34) West Halifax VT Dec 30 2009

2010Emerging VoiceAwards


The College of Liberal Arts and CLA Alumni Board honored three young alumni with Emerging Voice Awards The Emerging Voice Award rec-ognizes liberal arts alumni who are under 40 years old are rising stars in their fields and have shown true potential to be great leaders

Pictured from left after the awards dinner in the Purdue memo-rial union are irwin Weiser Justin S morrill dean of Liberal arts Kenya davis-Hayes Gerritt Vandermeer marty Welch CLa alumni Board President and Stephen maynard Caliendo

Stephen Maynard Caliendo MA 1995 PhD 1998 Political Science PurdueStephen Maynard Caliendo is the co-director of The Project on Race in Political Communication (RaceProjectcom) which seeks to provide information through social science research and public commentary about the way race and politics interact with language He is the author of two books and is often called upon by various media outlets to share his expertise on national state and local political issues Caliendo is a professor of political science at North Central College in Naperville Illi-nois where he received the Clarence D Dissinger Award for Outstand-ing Teaching by a Senior Faculty Member

Kenya Davis-HayesPhD 2005 American Studies PurdueKenya Davis-Hayes is the resident US historian at California Baptist University and is seeking a masterrsquos of public diplomacy at the Annen-berg School Beyond the walls of academia Davis-Hayes sits on a num-ber of organizational boards and in 2007 was appointed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to the California Council for the Humanities She recently spent the summer in Shanghai and enjoyed deconstructing the cultural messages of the worldrsquos pavilions at the 2010 World Expo

Gerritt VanderMeerBA 1996 German Purdue BS 1996 Engineering PurdueBA 1997 Theatre PurdueGerritt VanderMeer has been building a career as a professional per-former and teacher for over ten years His professional acting experi-ence includes critically acclaimed work in classical contemporary and musical theatre and national exposure in film television and commer-cials Career highlights include appearing nationally as ldquoHarold Hillrdquo in the Broadway touring company of The Music Man debuting at the Sundance Film Festival in a lead role in the film Maid of Honor creating the role of ldquoPaulrdquo in the world premiere of Charles Strousersquos You Never Know with the Trinity Repertory Company and working opposite Whoopi Goldberg as a series regular on the web series Stream


Robert W Hoffman (MS rsquo50) Fairborn OH Nov 20 2009

Bennie A Jacobs (ECErsquo50) South Bend IN Feb 4

Thomas L Kelly (Srsquo50) Terre Haute IN Aug 10 He is survived by his wife Patricia

Robert L McNew (ECErsquo50) Avon IN July 28

John E McGonigle (MS LArsquo50) Lafayette IN Aug 5

Lloyd Q Mettes (CErsquo50 MS CErsquo54) Oxford IN July 30

Robert C Mulvey (CErsquo50 MS CErsquo59) Spring-field IL Nov 1 2009

Charles E Nelson (MSrsquo50) Annapolis MD Oct 24 2009

George H Reussner Jr (MS Arsquo50) Newburgh NY Nov 3 2009

Mary Ann (Adrian) Sigward (Srsquo50) Indianapolis IN May 1 She is survived by her husband William

Clyde P Smith (MErsquo50 MS IErsquo54) West Lafayette IN July 23 He is survived by his wife LouJean

Eugene H Alexander (MS EDUrsquo51) Frankfort IN July 21

Robert T Beck (ChErsquo51) Lakewood CO July 8

Margaret (Jaquess) Bunnell (CFSrsquo51) Evansville IN Aug 9

Frederick O Christ (MS Arsquo51) Santa Ana CA July 21

Robert W Elliott Sr (LArsquo51 MS Ersquo57) Shreveport LA He is survived by his wife Helen

Katherine (Bevier) Funston (LArsquo51) Pacific Grove CA May 28

G Glen Garrison (ECErsquo51) Greensboro NC July 31

Jack K Hale (MS Srsquo51 PhD Srsquo53) Atlanta GA Dec 9 2009

William C Canfield (ECErsquo47) Houston TX Nov 5 2009

Joseph L McKinstray (AAErsquo47) Westfield IN Jan 8

Virgil Nicholas (MErsquo47) Indianapolis IN Nov 3 2009

Kenneth E Wakefield (ECErsquo47) Colorado Springs CO Nov 29 2009

Robert C Amberson (AAErsquo48) Overland Park KS Jan 16

Robert A Allen (Arsquo48) Johnstown PA July 25

Harry E Eccleston (MSErsquo48) Richmond VA July 5

Paul S Clark (ECErsquo48 MS ECE rsquo50) North-ridge CA July 13 He is survived by his wife Audrey

Ralph E Holtman (Arsquo48) Seymour IN Oct 23 2009 He is survived by his wife LaVonna

William H Long (Srsquo48 MS Srsquo51) Marion OH Oct 10 2009

James E Pritchard (DPrsquo48) Bartlesville OK Aug 18

James V Ryan (LArsquo48) Greenwich CT Nov 12 2009

James W Sims (CErsquo48) Albuquerque NM Dec 11 2009

Patricia J (Chase) Wilhauck (Srsquo48) Lafayette IN July 14

Harry F Angrick (AAErsquo49) Michigan City IN Dec 22 2009

I Victor Bartlemay (MErsquo49) Richmond IN July 22 He is survived by his wife June

Alfred C Block (MErsquo49) Oakland CA Oct 10 2009 He is survived by his wife Anne

Calvin K Clauer (ECErsquo49) Colchester VT Jan 8

D Floyd Currier (MErsquo49) Salisbury MD Oct 18 2009

Glen A Dorton Jr (MErsquo49) Mount Vernon OH July 5

Clois E Dudgeon (Arsquo49) Rockford OH June 30

H Leon Harter (PhD Srsquo49) Urbana IL Mar 3

Richard C Hartigan (MErsquo49) Fort Smith AR Feb 23 He is survived by his wife Barbara

Everett L Keener (MS ECErsquo49) Grafton WV Nov 24 2009

Jack F Kuhlman (CErsquo49) Middletown OH Aug 27

Gregory B McCaughan (CErsquo49) San Fran-cisco CA Dec 11 2009

Jerome A W Miller (ChErsquo49 Prsquo52) Fort Wayne IN Mar 9

Harold L Spears (MErsquo49) Anderson IN Feb 22

Donald E Stevens (ECErsquo49) Ridgefield CT Oct 23 2009 He is survived by his wife Helen

Roger L Tam (Prsquo49) Warren IN June 22

Robert L Vautaw (AAErsquo49) Columbus IN July 17 He is survived by his wife Dorothy

Joel T Wareing (AAErsquo49) Zavalla TX Jan 9

1950Wayne S Anderson (Arsquo50) Linden IN Jan 19

Herald L Bailey (Arsquo50) Sharpsville IN Oct 14 2009

Robert O Baker (MErsquo50 MS Mrsquo58) South Bend IN July 22

Bernard B Butcher (ChErsquo50) Midland MI Aug 13 He is survived by his wife Eleanor

Grove C Carnahan (AAErsquo50) Longmeadow MA Aug 6

Thelma L (Phillips) Clugh (CFSrsquo50) Lafayette IN July 16

Raymond C Flood (MErsquo50) Naples FL July 22

School of Education Steve Tripenfeldas Department of Graduate Studies in Education AwardPrincipal Munster High SchoolSchererville IN

Kara Bonin Department of Teacher Preparation AwardPrincipal Salk Elementary School Crown Point IN

School of Liberal Arts and Social SciencesMary Dankoski Department of Behavioral Sciences AwardAssistant Dean for Faculty Affairs and Professional Development Indiana University School of MedicineFishers IN

Diane Schweitzer Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management Award Director of Child Nutrition School City of HammondSaint John IN Larry BrechnerDepartment of Communication and Creative Arts AwardMunster Auditorium Director and Munster Theatre Company ProducerDirector School Town of MunsterHighland IN

April Heltsley Department of English and Philosophy AwardSenior Faculty Lecturer Indiana University Kelley School of Business Bloomington IN

Kevin Cessna-Buscemi Department of Foreign Languages and Literature Award Director National Spanish Examinations Valparaiso IN Melissa Yovich-WhattamDepartment of History and Political Science Award Director of Enrollment Communications Aurora University Aurora IL

School of Engineering Mathematics and ScienceKaren ZmudaDepartment of Biological Sciences AwardMedical Technologist Northwestern Memorial Hospital East Chicago IN Konstantina Sotiroglou Maginas Department of Chemistry and Physics AwardChemistry Department Supervisor DonLevy LaboratoriesCrown Point IN

Jeffrey VaitekunasDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering AwardVice-President of Research amp Development Cybersonics Inc Fairview PA

Sue MauDepartment of Mathematics Computer Science and Statistics Award Faculty IPFW Fort Wayne IN

Stewart McMillanDepartment of Mechanical Engineering AwardPresident and CEO Task Force TipsValparaiso IN

School of ManagementJT EaganDepartment of Accounting AwardSenior Associate KPMG LLPDyer IN

Joshua LyboltDepartment of Finance and Economics AwardVice President Prime Real EstateSt John IN

Judy Serwatka Department of Information Systems AwardProfessor of Management Information Systems (MIS) Purdue University North Central Valparaiso IN

Jason ToppDepartment of Marketing Human Resources and Management Award Financial Advisor Ameriprise Financial AdvisorsCedar Lake IN

School of NursingKathy RichSchool of Nursing AwardCardiovascular Clinical Specialist LaPorte Regional Health SystemChesterton IN

School of TechnologyAraceli Reyna Department of Construction Science and Organizational Leadership Award Senior Managing Consultant BKD LLPPortage IN

Drew Wahlberg Department of Engineering Technology Award Engineering Director Aeromet Industries IncCrown Point IN

John GiobbiDepartment of Computer Information Technology and Graphics AwardCEO ProxenseBend OR

Purdue University Calumet2010 Alumni Leaders Day Honorees

Back row from left John Giobbi Steve tripenfeldas andrew lsquodrewrsquo Wahlberg Jeff Vaitekunas Stewart mcmillan mary dankoski Judy Serwatka Kevin Cessna-Buscemi Jason topp and Joshua Lybolt Front row from left araceli lsquoShellyrsquo reyna Kara Bonin Sue mau Karen Zmuda Konstantina Sotiroglou maginas Larry Brechner melissa Yovich-Whattam april Heltsley diane Sch-weitzer Kathy rich and J t Eagan


Each issue the Purdue Alumnus features a list of books written by Purdue alumni as well as books printed by the Purdue University Press Purdue Alumni members receive a 20 percent discount on University Press purchases

PURDUE ALUMNI BOOKS

The Root of ThoughtAndrew Koob (PhD Vrsquo05)FT Press

If you know anything about brains yoursquove heard of neurons mdash the cells that have long been seen as central to virtu-ally everything your brain thinks feels and does But neurons only represent 10 percent of your brain cells mdash what does the other 90 percent do In The Root of Thought brain scientist Andrew Koob reveals that story Yoursquoll learn what glial cells are how they func-tion and how they might help explain everything from intelligence and creativity to imagination and dreams Then Koob reveals the tantalizing clues about glial cells that could eventually lead to cures for brain injury psychiatric disorders Alzheimerrsquos Parkinsonrsquos Lou Gehrigrsquos disease and even brain cancer

American HoopsCarson Cunningham (LArsquo00 MA LA rsquo01 PhD LArsquo06)University of Nebraska Press

In this fascinating history of Olympic basketball on the world stage and behind-the-scenes Cunningham presents a kaleidoscopic picture of the evolution into the twenty-first century of one of Americarsquos most popular sports From clashes between cel-ebrated egos and thrilling action on the court to the intense rivalries of the Cold War and technologi-cal advances in everything from television to sports equipment off the court American Hoops follows the fortunes of Olympic basketball in the United States and internation-ally as it developed and emerged as one of the most challenging and entertaining sports in the world

Hitlerrsquos Panzer Armies on the Eastern FrontRobert Kirchubel (MA LArsquo09)Pen amp Sword Books Limited

Hitlerrsquos Panzer Armies is a researched account of the operational history of the panzer armies The book provides a graphic insight into the organization tactics fighting methods and morale of the Weh-rmacht at the height of its powers and as it struggled to defend the Reich Using a wide range of sources including many first-hand accounts seen for the first time in English the author reconstructs the operations of the panzer armies from the launch of Operation Barbarossa in 1941 to the German collapse in May 1945

Salmon in the TreesAmy C Gulik (Mrsquo86 MS IArsquo86)The Mountaineers Books

In Alaskarsquos Tongass rain forest one of the rarest ecosystems on Earth everything is intercon-nected Millions of wild salmon feed an abundance of bears and bald eagles while Native cultures and local communities benefit from the gifts of both the forest and the sea Award-winning photographer Amy Gulick captures both the wild and human lives of this rich landscape in this new book

PURDUE UNIVERSITY PRESS BOOKS

Demolition Prac-tices Technology and ManagementRichard J Diven and Mark Shaurette (PhD Trsquo07)

As the built environment ages demolition has become a rapidly growing industry offering major employment opportunities The book covers modern demolition practices the impact of different con-struction types demolition regulations estimating demolition work demoli-tion contracts safety on the demolition project typical demolition equip-ment debris handling and recycling use of explosives demolition contractorsrsquo participation in disaster response and demolition project management

Native Trees of the Midwest Identification Wildlife Values amp Landscaping UseSally S Weeks (Arsquo94 MS Arsquo01) Harmon P Weeks Jr (PhD Arsquo74) and George R Parker

Native Trees of the Midwest gives detailed descriptions and unique insights into identifying all the trees native to Indiana and most of those in the surround-ing states Descriptive text gives invaluable hints on how to identify species in any season and is supported with color pho-tographs of all-important characteristics The book encapsulates the authorsrsquo combined experience of more than 50 years in teaching students how to identify woody plants

Diane I (Schifflin) Hampton (Srsquo51) Milton PA Feb 9

Walter J Handlen (MErsquo51) Mission TX May 12 Leon Jackson (Srsquo51) Winchester VA Dec 24 2009 He is survived by his wife Marjorie

Raymond J Mayer (MSErsquo51) Indianapolis IN Aug 27

Mary K (Burgoyne) Pennington (LArsquo51) Charlotte NC May 21

Robert D Vaughn (ChErsquo51) Portland OR Aug 4

Harlen E Wilkinson (MErsquo51) Sarasota FL Nov 29 2009

Gerald M Batchelder (MS CErsquo52) Stratham NH Oct 29 2009

Allen H Bohls (AAErsquo52) Eugene OR July 28 He is survived by his wife Mary (Srsquo53)

John J Cunningham (AAErsquo52) Washington UT Dec 12 2009 He is survived by his wife Josephine

Robert H Harris (PhD Srsquo52) Bend OR Dec 2 2009

David D Labolt (Arsquo52) Findlay OH July 8

Cornelius R Russell (MErsquo52) Chicago IL Oct 14 2009

Wayne A Smith (Arsquo52 MS LArsquo58) The Villages FL July 15

Frank E Tweedle (ChErsquo52) Manassas VA July 24

Herbert D Wedge (MSErsquo52) Lancaster OH Aug 4

Joseph P Vavra Jr (PhD Arsquo52) Minneapolis MN Oct 3 2009 He is survived by his wife Audrey

Richard P Coapstick (Arsquo53) Frankfort IN July 20 He is survived by his wife Marian (MS EDUrsquo69)

Merle D Coy (MErsquo53) Muncie IN Dec 18 2009

Eugene R Hafner (MErsquo53) Carmel IN Nov 30 2009

Marietta L (Sands) Johannson (CFSrsquo53) Rochester MN July 22

Arlen L Kirklin (CErsquo53) Gaston IN June 1

Robert N Smith (AAErsquo53) Del Ray Beach FL Aug 7 He is survived by his wife Carolyn

Donald P Wiesler (MS Srsquo53 PhD Srsquo57) Bloomington IN Nov 12 2009 He is survived by his wife Helen (CFSrsquo56)

Frederick Baganoff (ECErsquo54) Florissant MO Dec 12 2009

Robert E Dull (Arsquo54) Thorntown IN Aug 5 He is survived by his wife Carol

Visit wwwpurduealumnusorg for links to buy the featured books


Shirley P (Bolin) Keller (LArsquo61 MS EDUrsquo88) Chesterton IN Feb 6

James F Millott (ECErsquo61) Carmel CA Apr 4

John H Postma (Srsquo61) Grandville MI Aug 24 M Desmond Ryan (MS LArsquo61 PhD LArsquo67) Brookfield IL July 22

Jerry P Smith Sr (Srsquo61) Montgomery AL July 23

Freidrich C Werner (AAErsquo61) Zellwood FL Dec 15 2009

Randolph C Heard (MS Mrsquo62) Roanoke VA Nov 6 2009

Michael P Kalleres (Mrsquo62) Jacksonville FL July 18 He is survived by his wife Georgine

James J Galt (LArsquo63 MS LArsquo69) Indianapolis IN July 5 He is survived by his wife Patricia (MS Srsquo71)

Foley A Horkheimer (LArsquo63) South Miami FL Aug 20

James K McNeely (Trsquo63) Martinsville IN Oct 30 2009

Paul Skierkowski (Prsquo63 MS HSCrsquo69 PhD HSCrsquo71) Norman OK Aug 31 He is survived by his wife Sandra (Prsquo63)

Charles H Armstrong (MS Vrsquo64 DVMrsquo66) Naples FL Aug 27 He is survived by his wife Jayne

Stephen V Becker (ECErsquo64) Wilmington NC May 22

Arnold F Martin (AAS Trsquo64) Carmel IN Dec 25 2009

Melak H Mengesha (PhD Arsquo64) Andhra Pradesh India Nov 28 2009 He is survived by his wife Astair (Srsquo63)

Stuart Schube (MS Mrsquo64) Houston TX June 30 He is survived by his wife Priscilla

William C Bohnaker (Mrsquo65) Durham NC Aug 19

Victoria (Huntzicker) Burton (MS EDUrsquo65) Corvallis OR Dec 7 2009

Robert A Carrington (LArsquo65) Avon IN July 25

Gerald P Fritzke (MSErsquo54) Walnut Creek CA July 23 He is survived by his wife Irene

Elmer F Gomes Jr (Prsquo54) Springfield MO July 9

James C Kenny (Trsquo54) South Burlington VT Jan 7

Robert P Christian (ECErsquo55) Simi Valley CA Jan 22

M Robert Kestenbaum (MErsquo55) Albuquerque NM Jan 18

Thomas A Killila (Srsquo55) Marion OH Aug 6

Barbara E (Jackson) Schafer (LArsquo55) Ander-son IN July 23

Thomas I Stuart (MS EDUrsquo55) Lowell IN Nov 19 2009 He is survived by his wife Mary

Carol L (Argenta) Vincent (CFSrsquo55) Vincennes IN Aug 29

Rene D Wernicke (AAErsquo55) San Diego CA May 10 He is survived by his wife Elizabeth

William C Bradshaw (Srsquo56) Crown Point IN Oct 12 2009 He is survived by his wife Catherine (Srsquo57)

Max D Baughman (Trsquo56) Sagle ID Dec 26 2009

Ronald P Kotfila (ECErsquo56) Prescott AZ May 24 He is survived by his wife Louise

Louis E Rittenhouse (AAErsquo56) Tullahoma TN June 16

Charles J Elder (MErsquo57) Brighton MI May 18

Richard E Ellis (MErsquo57) Longmont CO Dec 24 2009

Jack P Etchison (AAErsquo57) Centerville OH May 7

Janet L (Minch) Muller (CFSrsquo57) Punta Gorda FL Aug 15

Daryl D Peter (Srsquo57) Benson AZ July 10 He is survived by his wife Dolores

Arlene M Wilson (CFSrsquo57) West Lafayette IN Aug 11

Charles D Gilmore (ECErsquo58) Tokyo Japan Jan 27

George Kouvelas (Srsquo58) Valparaiso IN Nov 22 2009

Robert D VanHook (ECErsquo58) Aptos CA Oct 29 2009

Barbara E (Turner) Wannemacher (LArsquo58) Troy OH July 10

Robert E Berg (MErsquo59) Indianhead Park IL Jan 18

William D Diffenderfer (MErsquo59) Savannah GA July 6

Wayne A Farrington (MErsquo59) South Bend IN July 17 He is survived by his wife Alice

James J French (Prsquo59) Munster IN Dec 21 2009

Eline M Svendsen (MS Srsquo59) Malta IL Jan 27

1960Donald E Fitz (Trsquo60) Kokomo IN Dec 29 2009

Kenneth E Turner (ECErsquo60) Sarasota FL Nov 15 2009

Thomas L Wilkinson (Arsquo60 MS Arsquo64) Wauna-kee WI Oct 2 2009

Ronald F Wonisch (ECErsquo60) Derwood MD Feb 22

Karl R Crisler (LArsquo61) Muncie IN Nov 6 2009

Ralph Garren Jr (PhD Arsquo61) Corvallis OR Nov 8 2009

John W Hamilton (Arsquo61) Lafayette IN July 13 He is survived by his wife Myrna


Saving Lives by Teaching Others Imagine if a city like Chicago only had three surgeons who could care for patients with serious fractures or childbirth complications Some re-gions of Africa only have one surgeon for every million patients and some of those patients may travel hours or days to reach that surgeon ldquoThe same is true in Africa as it is in the United States mdash you canrsquot recruit people to work in remote areas as physiciansrdquo says Keir The-lander (EErsquo95) who is the medical director at a teaching hospital in the African country of Gabon ldquoIn the United States we want one surgeon for every 25000 peoplerdquo he says ldquoSome of the larger cities in Africa obviously have surgeons but some areas are without As a result 95 per-cent of women who need a C-section donrsquot get it Twenty percent of pediatric deaths could be avoided by surgery What can we do We can make a difference by training surgeonsrdquo

Brain drain taking a tollYes there are many high-quality medical schools around the world for aspiring doctors to attend but Thelander says that many of those attending students donrsquot return home As a result Africa is seeing a ldquobrain drainrdquo in its medical care The Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons operates seven general surgery training programs at mission hospitals in Africa to care for patients and train surgical residents So far 19 residents have completed residencies and 37 are in training The goal is to train 100 surgeons by 2020 ldquoThis is a program that does not only impact the health care of a country but an entire continentrdquo Thelander says

Called to serveThe Bongolo Hospital in Lebamba Gabon where Thelander is medical director opened in 1977 and has trained residents since 1998 Thelander has been there since 2006 when he and his wife Joanna Conquest Thelander (CErsquo95) moved there with their children Luke and Sarah who are now 8 and 6 respectively ldquoIt was very clear I needed to be involved in surgery teaching and I assumed it would be in the United Statesrdquo he says ldquoBut we are Christians and we heard about this Christian training program We were a little nervous about going to Africa but it was clear this is where we needed to gordquo

In addition to home-schooling their children Joanna also is the coordinator for the American surgeons who visit the hospital for two to six weeks at a time to teach their specialties During their visits she helps them learn about the once French-occupied country that is located on the western side of Africa

Meeting regional needsThe country is home to 15 million people and half of its population lives in the capital city of Libreville The city is 300 miles from the hospital and with the rough roads it can take 10 to 18 hours to travel to Bongolo But that drive or more commonly a ride by taxi doesnrsquot stop people from Libreville to seek treatment at the hospital because some medical equip-ment may be lacking in the city About 20 percent of the 1400 surgeries Thelander and his students tend to are from the cityAnd even though the hospital is located in Gabon the majority of the surgical residents are from other African countries mdash the Democratic Republic of Congo Angola Guinea and Madagascar ldquoCross-cultural teaching isnrsquot always easyrdquo Thelander says ldquoAll but one of our residents went through medical school without one book Instead the professor writes on the board and then students write the information in a notebook ldquoBut they are good surgeons when they leave here They know what to do and they do it well Peoplersquos lives are changed and even saved by just some basic training these residents receive at our programrdquo

Amy Patterson Neubert (LArsquo99 MS LArsquo08)

ALUMNI PROFILE


Paul H DeHoff Jr (PhD AAErsquo65) Charlotte NC June 19

Bruce W Foltz (Arsquo65 MS Arsquo67) Olympia WA June 18

William J Hamilton (MErsquo65) Cedar Rapids IA July 26

Richard L Hand (ECErsquo65) Belmont NY Jan 20

Merlyn D Albright (LArsquo66) Paradise Valley AZ Aug 18 He is survived by his wife Donita

Wesley L Baldwin (MErsquo66 MS MErsquo68) Lynch-burg VA May 30 He is survived by his wife Charlotte (MS EDUrsquo72)

Richard B Kinsell (Prsquo66) Miramar Beach FL Aug 13 He is survived by his wife Anne (MA LArsquo59)

Daniel A Norman (IErsquo66) Doraville GA Aug 1 He is survived by his wife Genny

Edward A Patrick Sr (PhD ECErsquo66) Union KY Dec 23 2009

Audrey (Christy) Heasty (AAS NRSrsquo67) Bloomington IN Aug 19

Daniel R Schmidt (LArsquo67) Grand Junction CO Dec 2 2009

Dennis R Bollman (Mrsquo67) Grovertown IN July 4

Charles G Hiam (Prsquo67) Princeton IN Oct 13 2009

Elna U Nielsen (MS EDUrsquo67) Falls Church VA Oct 10 2009

Joe E Shively (Srsquo67 MS EDUrsquo68 PhD EDUrsquo70) Jacksonville FL June 20

John E Bell (Prsquo68) Saratoga CA Dec 28 2009

James A Elter (Mrsquo68) Glenville NY Dec 20 2009

Lennart K Laitinen (Mrsquo68) Kokomo IN July 28 He is survived by his wife Fern

J Chester Long II (Prsquo68) Alexandria IN Mar 24 He is survived by his wife Susan

John T OrsquoConnell (Mrsquo68) Clearwater FL June 18

James B Carpenter (PhD LArsquo69) Augusta GA July 8

John E Gravelle (MErsquo69) Maineville OH Oct 11 2009 Joan E Wild (LArsquo69) Brentwood TN Dec 14 2009

1970Ned C Boatright (MS Mrsquo70 MS LArsquo79 MS EDUrsquo94) Lebanon IN July 18

J Michael Dunn (LArsquo70) Columbus OH July 23

William L Hall (Mrsquo70) Willoughby OH Nov 21 2009 He is survived by his wife Linda

Gerald M Rausch (Arsquo70) Winamac IN Nov 12 2009

Joyce A Rhodehamel (LArsquo70) Carmel IN July 14

Larry L Schmeltz (Arsquo70) Bloomingdale IN Jan 6

Jane R (Tower) Dahl (MS LArsquo71) Crawfordsville IN July 24

Cesar G Queyquep (MS EDUrsquo71) Orange CA Oct 26 2009

Ronald E Swiontek (Trsquo71) Vandalia MI Sept 10 2009

Kay (Miller) Fansler (CFSrsquo72) Fort Wayne IN July 17 She is survived by her husband Gale

Paulette (Angrick) Reynolds (LArsquo72) San Antonio TX Aug 21

James E Sandstrom (MS AAErsquo72) Fort Worth TX Aug 18 He is survived by his wife Jean

Richard W Treder (MS Mrsquo72) Punta Gorda FL Dec 30 2009

Charles H Baumgartner (Arsquo73) West Lafayette IN Aug 10

Stephen A Bender (MS LArsquo73) Boxford MA Dec 30 2009

Richard K Clore (MS Mrsquo73) New Castle IN July 15

Kay L (Keesling) OrsquoSullivan (CFSrsquo73) North Vernon IN Aug 11

Don G Ottolini (Mrsquo73) Indianapolis IN Oct 12 2009

Sheryl S (Davis) Alvis (NRSrsquo74) Shelbyville IN Jan 11 She is survived by her husband Warren

Edward A Carl (AAS Trsquo74) Tavares FL Aug 5

Elizabeth M (Mateljan) Gonzalez (MS EDUrsquo74) Valparaiso IN Nov 29 2009

Roland W Haas (LArsquo74 MA LArsquo76) Peachtree City GA Aug 21

Edward R Hyde Jr (Srsquo74) Menlo Park CA Oct 28 2009

Marilyn J (Bowers) McFadden (MS EDUrsquo74) Edinburg TX Nov 14 2009

Theodore B Werre (LArsquo74) Dekalb IL Jan 3

Douglas A Bedwell (Trsquo76) Greentown IN July 15 Daniel R Clodfelder (AAS Trsquo76) Masontown PA Dec 4 2009 William T Fuller (LArsquo76 MA LArsquo03) Valparaiso IN Aug 24 Sheldon H Kleine (PhD EDUrsquo76) Edmonds WA June 10 Michael C Branstetter (EDUrsquo77) Miami FL Dec 9 2009 Martha (Cluverius) Brown (MA LArsquo77) Ham-mond IN Jan 29 Mattie (Morton) Cunningham (AAS NRSrsquo77) Gary IN Jan 11 Richard M Hansen (ECErsquo77) Glen Ellyn IL Apr 19

Raymond C Vogel (MS ECErsquo77) Henderson NV Sept 30 2009

Michael A Blessinger (Srsquo78) Solvang CA June 1

John E Chovan (Trsquo78 MS Trsquo81) Wabash IN Aug 10


DeForest R Wilkes Jr (Mrsquo93) Crown Point IN Nov 8 2009

Jan R DeMeerleer (MErsquo94) Spokane WA July 18

Abraham L Lynn (Arsquo95) Wabash IN Nov 23 2009

Jason F Lax (Trsquo96) Lowell IN Nov 27 2009 He is survived by his wife Renee (NRSrsquo94 MS NRSrsquo00)

Susan J (Hucksted) Worek (AS Mrsquo97) La Porte IN Nov 15 2009

A Carl Leopold (HDR Arsquo98) San Pedro CA Nov 18 2009

2000Paula R Mendoza (LArsquo01) Munster IN July 12

Scott A Richmond (CErsquo03 MS CErsquo05) Granger IN July 22

Nasser M Kashani (Trsquo04) Valparaiso IN Aug 3

Tameka C (Sullivan-Hall) Sims (DPrsquo04) Fort Wayne IN Aug 31

James E Lynch (AS NRSrsquo07) Gary IN Aug 25

Jia B Lu (PhD EDUrsquo10) West Lafayette IN Aug 13 She is survived by her husband Michael Brzezinski

John E White (AS Mrsquo87) Chicago IL Dec 9 2009

Genevieve L (Pate) Kennedy (AAS NRSrsquo88) Valparaiso IN Nov 23 2009

1990Susan (Humbarger) Bobby (Trsquo90) Dyer IN Nov 12 2009

Terry B Johnson (LArsquo90) Salt Lake City UT July 21

Matthew E Thar (LArsquo90) Tulsa OK Jan 7

Michael J Ward (Mrsquo91) Springfield VA Dec 30 2009

Kandace J Fisher (LArsquo92 MA LArsquo95) Santa Fe NM July 17

Edward A Aleman (Arsquo93) Lakeville MN Nov 18 2009

Scott C King (IErsquo93) Evanston IL Oct 15 2009

John P Rodkey (Trsquo78) Muskego WI Oct 14 2009 He is survived by his wife Patrice (Srsquo77)

Craig E Adelsperger (LArsquo79) Crown Point IN July 13 He is survived by his wife Donna (Mrsquo77)

David H Frisby Jr (LArsquo79) Brownsburg IN Aug 26

Brian D Humphrey (Arsquo79) Springville IN Nov 2 2009

Doressa Milla (Mrsquo79) Gary IN Nov 2 2009

1980John L Emmons (Srsquo80) Pleasanton CA July 20 He is survived by his wife Victoria

Stephen M Grate (Mrsquo80) Issaquah WA Aug 6

Jesse P McHenry III (AAS Trsquo80) Wheeling WV Nov 23 2009

Thomas E Widner (HSCrsquo80 MS HSCrsquo81) Martinez CA July 19 He is survived by his wife Kathleen (LArsquo79)

Robert W Milling (PhD AAErsquo81) Norcross GA Nov 23 2009

Richard D Hoffman (ECErsquo82) Franklin IN Apr He is survived by his wife Vicki (DPrsquo94)

Sophie A Jacko (MA Srsquo82) Lakewood OH Jan 28

Douglas M Steen (Mrsquo82) Crossville TN Oct 28 2009

Dino J Cesario (Srsquo83) Rumson NJ Dec 10 2009

Pamela (Snider) Gunn (Arsquo83) Greenfield IN July 25 She is survived by her husband John (Arsquo79)

Felipe S Magallanez (CFSrsquo83) Albuquerque NM July 23

Brian H Bowman (Srsquo86) Indianapolis IN Aug 2

Wilma (Spencer) Rupe (MS EDUrsquo86) Marshall MI Dec 17 2009

Robert L Erwin (Trsquo87) DeMotte IN Dec 7 2009


a trio of Purdue alumnae hit the road and drove route 66 this summer along the way they stopped at the Grand Canyon and showed their Purdue pride they are pictured from left to right Jennifer thompson (arsquo97) production manager at HJ Heinz Com-pany Jennifer Peters (Larsquo02) health improvement specialist in corporate wellness and marah marshall (mrsquo02) vice president at Goldman Sachs


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It was 900 am October 7 in Tokyo A message from the secretary of the Purdue Club of Japan came in to West Lafayette instantly at 800 pm October 6 mdash the day a native son of Japan and Purdue chemist Dr Ei-ichi Negishi became Purduersquos latest Nobel Prize winner The message from secretary Kenji Ikeuchi (Mrsquo94) ldquoEvery TV and newspaper in Japan is talking about Purdue Universityrdquo Not only was Japan celebrating Purdue and Dr Negi-shi but back in West Lafayette no fewer than three massive satellite trucks and throngs of reporters from every recogniz-able media outlet were at the Dick and Sandy Dauch Alumni Center for two major press conferences numerous interviews and photo shoots mdash all to celebrate our Herbert C Brown Distinguished Professor of Chemistry Dr Negishi It was a great day for him and for Purdue If one subscribes to the notion that Purdue moves man-kind forward and contributes to the betterment of society Dr Negishi is yet further evidence and another point of pride for Boilermakers everywhere He discovered catalytic reac-tions using transition metals that allow organic compounds to be synthesized widely efficiently and selectively for medi-cine materials development and other fields Itrsquos called the Negishi Coupling Reaction and has contributed greatly to developing compounds that battle viruses and cancer and to the building of other carbon to carbon bonds mdash backbones of organic molecules One reporter asked Negishi ldquoWhatrsquos your favorite mol-eculerdquo He replied ldquoI have no one favorite I like to synthesize them all I like to make anything that exists or can be imag-inedrdquo Isnrsquot that Purdue in a nutshell Boilermakers make things We take an idea and make it real whether itrsquos a chemical reaction or a voyage to the Moon Boilermakers are masters of the often insurmountable chal-lenge of making something out of nothing forging the way forward for the benefit of mankind and society This culture has gone unchanged at Purdue from our founding to this very day Boilermakers make what moves the world forward we are pioneers

Featured in this issue of the Purdue Alumnus are thoughts and perspectives of another important group of Purdue pioneers our astronauts The United States is due to halt sending astronauts up in 2011 and given Purduersquos ldquoplace in spacerdquo our alumni are at the forefront of the manned flight cancellation debate Wersquore proud to offer these perspectives especially as the efforts of thousands of Boilermaker alumni have created the worldrsquos preeminent space program I hope you read this issue Volume 99 No 6 with inter-est and cover-to-cover Your next Purdue Alumnus will mark our 100th year of proclaiming Purduersquos achievements in print and giving voice to proud Boilermaker alumni worldwide

Yours in Purdue

Kirk CernyExecutive Director and CEOPurdue Alumni Association

welcome

Moving Mankind Forward

Kirk Cerny President Coacuterdova and Dr Arden Bement with Purdue Club of Japan leadership

Nobel Prize winner Dr Ei-ichi Negishi at the Dauch Alumni Center

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Brittany Rayburn

JaJuan Johnson

KK Houser

samantha Woods




breakthroughs













Bir

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NA

No

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Nte

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JaJuan Johnson

KK Houser

samantha Woods




breakthroughs













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an

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dio

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MEMORIAMS




























































































PURDUE ALUMNI BOOKS







































































































ALUMNI PROFILE

































































































01-21_Interactive

20-39_Interactive

40-49_Interactive

50-57_Interactive

58-76_Interactive
























Tom Schott

sP

OR

ts IN

fOR

mat

ION
















Brittany Rayburn

JaJuan Johnson

KK Houser

samantha Woods




breakthroughs













Bir

CK

NA

No

teC

hN

olo

gy

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Nte

r

MA

rK

SiM

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MEMORIAMS




























































































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ALUMNI PROFILE

































































































01-21_Interactive

20-39_Interactive

40-49_Interactive

50-57_Interactive

58-76_Interactive















Brittany Rayburn

JaJuan Johnson

KK Houser

samantha Woods




breakthroughs













Bir

CK

NA

No

teC

hN

olo

gy

Ce

Nte

r

MA

rK

SiM

oN

S

toM

CA

MP

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01-21_Interactive

20-39_Interactive

40-49_Interactive

50-57_Interactive

58-76_Interactive




breakthroughs













Bir

CK

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olo

gy

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Nte

r

MA

rK

SiM

oN

S

toM

CA

MP

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MEMORIAMS




























































































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ALUMNI PROFILE

































































































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MEMORIAMS




























































































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ALUMNI PROFILE

































































































01-21_Interactive

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58-76_Interactive


































































































William Meiners

Pix

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ALUMNI PROFILE




























































MEMORIAMS




























































































PURDUE ALUMNI BOOKS







































































































ALUMNI PROFILE

































































































01-21_Interactive

20-39_Interactive

40-49_Interactive

50-57_Interactive

58-76_Interactive

















































MEMORIAMS




























































































PURDUE ALUMNI BOOKS







































































































ALUMNI PROFILE

































































































01-21_Interactive

20-39_Interactive

40-49_Interactive

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PURDUE ALUMNI BOOKS







































































































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