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Friday, February 8: Higher Education Challenge Grant Program

Tuesday, February 12: How to Say NO Without Feeling Guilty Seminar

Thursday, February 14: Best Practices & Resources for Teaching ESL Written Communication

Wednesday, February 20: College of Agriculture Spring Career Fair

Wednesday, February 20: Forestry and Natural Resources Career Fair

Thursday February 28: Class of 1937 Scholarship Application Due

Thursday February 28: Best Instructional & Assessment Practices in ESL Oral Communication

Tuesday, March 19: Discussion with Dr. Karen Plaut

Tuesday, March 26: Undergraduate Research Symposium

Thursday, March 28: Teaching & Learning: International TAs’ Perspectives

Friday, March 29: Ag Research Fund Scholarship Application Due

Thursday, April 11: Teaching Opportunities in the Cross-Cultural Classroom

Wednesday, April 17: Advice on How to Get Tenure Seminar

Thursday, April 18: Agricultural Faculty Meeting

Thursday, May 9: International Programs in Agriculture (IPIA) Seminar

If you have an article or photo, relating to our undergraduate/graduate programs, please feel free to share; we will do our best to incorporate them in the newsletter. We do want to try and keep it simple, yet informative. Please note the parameters: we will need any information that you would like to see in this newsletter, one week prior to the first Monday of each month. Please forward to Sayde Uerkwitz at suerkwit@purdue.edu.

Friendly reminder that this newsletter will be linked and archived to the OAP website.

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

Hot Chocolate Social 1

Study Abroad 2

Class of 1937 Scholarship 3

Ag Research Fund Scholarship

3

Spring Career Fairs 3

Undergraduate Research Symposium

4

Higher Education Challenge Grant

5

The College Teaching Workshop, Series II

6

Faculty Orientation Seminar Series

7

Faculty Orientation Seminar Series

8

The February Scoop 9

Academic Calendar 10

Instructor Resources 11

Hot Chocolate Social

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Study Abroad 

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It is not too late for students to apply to study abroad for this summer or    Maymester. This is the last big push since we s ll have spots available.  

Please encourage your students to study abroad. 

Maymester op ons s ll available: China,  Colombia, Ireland, Romania, Sweden, Ukraine 

Summer op ons s ll available:  Taiwan – Na onal Taiwan University,  Brazil – Uni‐versity of Sao Paulo or the University of Vicosa, France – Ecole d’Ingenieurs de 

Purpan 

Students can gladly study for the Semester. 

The Hai  Winter Break callout is February 28th at 5 pm Recep on/6 pm Seminar in Lilly 2‐425.  

Contact Informa on: AgAbroad@purdue.edu – 765‐494‐8458 – AGAD 26 

“Never in my life have I seen a more        beau fully broken country than Hai . Every step I took there was one life‐changing   

moment a er the other. “ 

– Caroline Chumakov 

At the border of Haiti and the Dominican Republic (read more of the 12-13 Haiti Win-ter Break’s blog)   "O en  mes when we think of other countries, we tend to think of the 

differences. A er studying abroad, students focus on the similari es between countries rather than the 

differences." 

‐Kristy Oates  

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Spring Career Fairs The College of Agriculture and the Department of Forestry and Natural     

Resources will each be hos ng a career fair on February 20th from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. The College of   Agriculture Career Fair will be held in the South     

Ballroom of the Union while the Forestry and Natural Resources Career Fair will be held in Pfendler Hall. For more informa on about the COA Career Fair visit Career Services Page here . For more informa on about the FNR 

Career Fair visit the FNR Career Fair Page. 

Ag Research Fund Scholarship 

Do you know students who are interested in undergraduate         research? If so, there are great opportuni es for them to earn 

money while expanding their horizons and building their  resume with the Agriculture Research Fund Scholarship. Applica ons are due by March 29, 2013. More informa on can be found here. For addi onal  informa on contact Carol Brock at brock@purdue.edu 

Class of 1937 Scholarship 

Applica ons are now available to students for the Class of 1937             Scholarship. Each year 15‐20 scholarships are given to students from funds from the Class of 1937, ranging from $500‐$4,000. Selec on is made on the basis of leadership ac vi es while at Purdue.  Applica ons are available at the Office of the dean of Students in Schleman Hall Room 207, the Purdue Student Government Office in the Union, at the Black Cultural Center and here. The deadline for    applica ons to be returned to the Office of the Dean of Students is February 28th at 5 p.m. For more informa on please contact Lou Ann Hamilton at lahamilton@purdue.edu or 765‐494‐1252 

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Undergraduate Research Poster Symposium 

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Higher Educa on Challenge Grant Program 

Deadline February 8, 2013 

The Higher Educa on Challenge (HEC) Grants Program is a program      focused on improving formal, postsecondary‐level agriculture sciences educa on. Guided by cri cal societal issues laid out in the “New Biology for the 21st Century” report, as well as the five compelling NIFA Priority Areas, HEC‐funded projects provide funding to eligible applicants to help ensure a competent, qualified and diverse workforce to serve the food and agricultural sciences system. At the same  me, HEC‐funded projects improve the economic health and viability of rural communi es through the development of degree programs emphasizing new and emerging employment opportuni es. Finally, HEC projects focus on the na onal challenge to increase the number and diversity (i.e., having an               agricultural sciences workforce representa ve of the na on’s              popula on) of students entering other food and agriculture‐related      science, technology, engineering, and mathema cs (STEM) disciplines.  

USDA‐NIFA has refocused its mission to direct agricultural sciences       research, educa on, and extension programs on addressing the following five Priority Areas: Food Security and Hunger, Climate Change,              Sustainable Energy, Childhood Obesity and Food Safety.  

Public ins tu ons of higher educa on are eligible to apply. The deadline is the close of business day on February 8, 2013. Please find the            applica on here.

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The College Teaching Workshop, Series II 

Spring 2013 Workshops 

February 14th – Best Prac ces &  Resources for Teaching ESL Wri en Communica on  at            9‐10:30 a.m. in STEW 314 

February 28th – Best Instruc onal &                Assessment Prac ces in ESL Oral                    Communica on at 1:30–3 p.m. in HIKS 980D 

March 28th— Teaching & Learning:                    Interna onal TA’s Perspec ves at 1:30‐3 p.m. in STEW 322 

April 11th—Teaching Opportuni es in the Cross‐Cultural Classroom at 9‐10:30 a.m. in STEW 314 

For more informa on or to register please click here. 

http://www.purdue.edu/cie/workshop/college-teaching-workshops-series-2.html�

 

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Faculty Orienta on Seminar Series Schedule 

Spring 2013 

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Faculty Orienta on Seminar Series Schedule 

Spring 2013 

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The February Scoop... Did you know? 

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60– St. Paul thought to have been shipwrecked at Malta 

474– Zeno crowned as co–emperor of the Byzan ne Empire 

 

607– Boniface III begins his reign as Catholic Pope 

1537– Pope Paul III routes Cardinal Pole to England  

 

1631– Rhode Island, founder, Roger Williams arrives in Boston from  England 

1794– French Na onal Conven on proclaims abolishment of slavery 

 

1865– General Sherman’s march through South Carolina begins 

1923– Ink paste manufactured for the first  me by Standard Ink       Company 

 

1941– First highway post office makes first trip from Washington DC to Harrisonburg, Virginia 

1969– US female Figure Ska ng Championship won by Janet Lynn 

 

1974– First American Music Award 

2012– Quarterback Eli Manning wins his second Super bowl MVP  

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P A G E 1 0 W I N T E R E D I T I O N , F E B R U A R Y 2 0 1 3

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2012‐13 Academic Calendar 

h p://www.purdue.edu/registrar/Calendars/Academic%20Calendars/2012‐13.pdf 

Purdue University Academic Calendar 2012‐13 West Lafaye e Campus 

http://www.purdue.edu/registrar/Calendars/Academic%20Calendars/2012-13.pdf�

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Office of Academic Programs 

College of Agriculture 615 W. State Street 

West Lafaye e, IN  47907‐2053  

Phone:  765‐494‐8472 Fax:  765‐494‐8477 

www.agriculture.purdue.edu/oap 

It is the policy of Purdue University that all persons have equal opportunity and access to its educa onal 

programs, services, ac vi es, and facili es  without regard to race, religion, color, sex, age, na on‐al origin or ancestry, marital status, parental status, sexual orienta on, disability or status as a veteran.  

Purdue University is an Affirma ve Ac on ins tu on. This material may be available in alterna ve formats. 

Technology in the Classroom

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/facilities/tic/

Technology in the classroom locations

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/facilities/tic/locations/

iClicker information

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/tools/iclicker/

Reserving an Instructional Lab

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/facilities/instructionallabs/resources/request.cfm

Assistive Technology Center (ATC)

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/support/atc/

Instructional Labs

http://www.itap.purdue.edu/learning/facilities/instructionallabs/

Instructor Resources  

 Check out these websites for more informa on  

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