more ag professors in tomorrow's inaugural events

Friday morning campus will be abuzz with three concurrent symposia from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, EDT. One of those, “Building a New Planet,” will be held just upstairs from the Ag Alumni office, in the Deans' Auditorium of the David C. Pfendler Hall of Agriculture. Moira Gunn, founder and host of Public Radio's Tech Nation and BioTech Nation, will moderate. Gerald "Jerry" Shively, Purdue Professor of Agricultural Economics, will be one of the seven panelists. Portions of "Building a New Planet" will be replayed on Tech Nation; check your local public radio schedule for times.

Also from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon, the symposium "Tiny Technologies for Huge Impacts on Health” will be held in the atrium of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. Two of the six panelists are Purdue Agriculture faculty: Joseph Irudayaraj, Associate Professor of Biological Engineering in the Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering, and Jenna Rickus, Assistant Professor who holds appointments in both the College of Agriculture's Department of Agricultural and Biological Engineering and in the Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. Dr. Rickus is also a Purdue Ag alum twiceover; she graduated from the dual degree program, earning a BS in Biochemistry and a BSAE in Food Process Engineering.

For details on all three of Friday's symposia, visit the inaugural web site.