Horticulture
Mar 20, 3:30 pm, HORT 117
Edward N. Ashworth
"Responses of Woody Plant Cells to Freezing: Investigations on the Role of the Cell Wall"
Mar 27, 3:30 pm, HORT 117
Clint C.S. Chapple
"Analysis of Phenylpropanoid Metabolism in Arabidopsis"
Plant Cell and Molecular Biology
Mar 18, 4 pm, ARB 116
Brenda Shirley
"Defining the Biochemical Genetics of Flavonoid Synthesis in Arabidopsis"
Biological Sciences
Mar 19, 4 pm, LILY G-126
Joann Otto
"The contractile ring & cytokinesis"
Botany & Plant Pathology
Mar 19, 3:30 pm, ARB 116
Donald Scott
"Down Memory Lane - Pathogens"
Forestry & Natural Resources
Mar 18, 3 pm, HORT 117
Phillip E. Pope
"The Indiana Sea Grant Program"
Focus on Teaching Lecture Series
Mar 19, 3:30 pm
East & West Faculty Lounges, PMU
Robert L. Ringel
"An Emphasis on Learning and Teaching"
Monsanto Lecture Series
Mar 27, 3:30 pm, Krannert Auditorium
Diana W. Freckman
Colorado State University
"Invertebrate Diversity in Soils"
AG FACULTY MEETING
March 18, 3:30 pm
STEW 302
"Japanese Garden Design"
Marc Peter Keane
March 19, 7 pm
Krannert Auditorium
Free and open to the public
Dr. Doh-Hoon Kim has joined K.G. Raghothama's lab as a visiting scholar. Dr. Kim is an Associate Professor in the Department of Agronomy, Dong-A University, South Korea and will be working in Ragu's lab through January 31, 1998.
This year's Purdue University Horticulture Gardens T-shirts are now available. See Connie Holderfield in the main office if you wish to purchase one.
Reminder-if you have problems with your new telephone, the help number is 496-8100. Telephone User Guides are available from Marilyn VanHoosier in the main office.
Take your old telephone to the VENDING AREA on the first floor and leave it by the recycling bins.
Peter Goldsbrough has been promoted to the rank of Professor of Horticulture. Congratulations, Peter!
Congratulations to Bruce Bordelon who has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Horticulture.
Rob Sovinski has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture. Congratulations, Rob!
Wisniewski, Michael, Steven E Lindow, and Edward N Ashworth. 1997. Observations of Ice Nucleation and Propagation in Plants Using Infrared Video Thermography. Plant Physiol. 113:327-334.
Simon, James E, Amots Hetzroni, Bruce Bordelon, Gaines E Miles, and Denys J Charles. 1996. Electronic Sensing of Aromatic Volatiles for Quality Sorting of Blueberries. Journal of Food Science 61(5):967-969 & 972.
Lange, Diana L and Adel A Kader. 1997. Changes in Alternative Pathway and Mitochondrial Respiration in Avocado in Response to Elevated Carbon Dioxide Levels. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 122(2):245-252.
Lange, Diana L and Adel A Kader. 1997. Elevated Carbon Dioxide Exposure Alters Intracellular pH and Energy Charge in Avocado Fruit Tissue. J. Amer. Hort. Sci. 122(2):253-257.
Lange, Diana L and Adel A Kader. 1997. Effects of Elevated Carbon Dioxide on Key Mitochondrial Respiratory Enzymes in `Hass' Avocado Fruit and Fruit Disks. J. Amer. Soc. Hort. Sci. 122(2):238-244.
Glenn Sullivan was in Toronto, Canada February 17 where he was the keynote speaker at the Foodland Ontario Retailer Award Luncheon.
Glenn Sullivan was in Leamington, Canada March 6 where he was a speaker at Leamington Tomato Days.
Rene Heynssens gave a presentation on "Residential Landscape Design" to Master Gardeners on March 4.
Greg Pierceall was in Anderson, IN March 5 and spoke to the Indiana Cemetery Association on Landscape Opportunities.
Greg Pierceall presented "Landscape Design" to Master Gardeners in Crown Point, IN March 6.
Shawn Chase and Polly Kaufmann were in Chicago, IL March 11 to attend the Chicago Garden Show.
Jim Simon was in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada March 10-12 to attend the Prairie Medicinal and Aromatic Plants Conference `97.
Rosie Lerner was in Chicago, IL March 13 on a field trip with Tippecanoe Master Gardeners to attend the Chicago Flower Show.
Diana Lange was in Gainesville, FL March 9-15 to attend the Florida Postharvest Institute and Industry Tour and make a slide set of Florida produce operations/industries.
David Rhodes was in Washington, DC March 8-14 to chair the"Plant Responses to the Environment" panel meeting for the USDA-NRICGP.
Jules Janick was in Lisbon, Vilamoura, Portugal and Cordoba, Spain March 8-22 to present the keynote address at II Congress Iberoamerican and present lecture at the University of Cordoba.
Bob Joly and Cary Mitchell were in Cairo, Egypt March 7-15 to participate in the bi-national workshop on advanced technologies for utilization of wild Egyptian plants. This is a joint Purdue University/Ain Shams University Workshop.
Bonnie McClain was in Madison, WI and San Francisco, CA March 6-12 to attend NASA Workshop at Madison and Inter-Center Working Group Meeting-NASA Life Sciences Education at Ames Research Center.
Don Molnar was in Philadelphia, PA, Washington, DC, Charlotte, NC, Jacksonville, Fort Lauderdale, and Orlando, FL, and Atlanta, GA March 3-14 to visit co-op offices and students.
Bonnie McClain was in Dayton, OH March 1-2 to speak at the Great Lakes Region Aviation and Space Education Conference.
Randy Woodson was in University Park, PA March 2-5 to participate in a review of the Horticulture Department at Penn State University.
Mar 17 - Classes resume
Mar 18, 5:30 pm, HORT 210 - Pi Alpha Xi Social Meeting with Initiates.
Mar 24 - Last day a course assignment may be cancelled (with passing or failing grade)
Mar 25, 5:30 pm, HORT and MCL Cafeteria - Pi Alpha Xi Initiation Banquet.
(See the Job Opportunities bulletin board on the 2nd floor for additional information about these and other positions.)
Assistant Professor of Agriculture. PhD. Western Illinois University. Application deadline: April 14, 1997.
Extension Educator of Urban IPM Programs. MS or BS. NY State IPM Program, Cornell University. Application deadline: May 15, 1997.
Extension Fruit Specialist. PhD. The University of Vermont. Application deadline: March 31, 1997.
Assistant/Associate Professor, Horticultural Marketing and Management. PhD. Michigan State University. Application deadline: April 15, 1997.
Extension Agent - Consumer Horticulture (Assistant Professor rank). MS. Oregon State University. Application deadline: March 28, 1997.
Assistant/Associate Professor of Landscape and Urban Horticulture. PhD. Arkansas State University. Application deadline: April 30, 1997.
The latest version of Fetch, the popular and useful FTP software, is available on the Horticulture Fileserver on the Horticulture Programs volume in Communications:FTP:
Fetch version 3.0.3 adds support for resuming an interrupted download and other useful features.
You can run Fetch on the fileserver, or you can download it to your own computer for faster performance. Just drag the whole Fetch folder to your harddrive, or run the Fetch Installer (located in the same folder).