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Recruiting Trip
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Department faculty Howard Sypher, Melanie Morgan, Jane Natt and Mohan Dutta meet with students at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The faculty were part of an October recruiting trip to Asia, which included stops in Delhi, India, and Shanghai and Beijing in China, to recruit Asia's top students to the graduate program in the department.
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Fall 2007 marked the third season of the department's popular student produced television news show "FastTrack." This weekly newscast appears on local Insight/Comcast cable television and on Boiler Television. Its anniversary was noted by the Purdue News Service and local media. Look for FastTrack to appear soon on the Big Ten Network!
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Visiting Scholars |
The department welcomed numerous visiting scholars/Fulbright Scholar for the 2007-2008 academic year:
*Marlene Marchiori from the Universidade Estadual de Londrina (Brazil)
*Professor Dong Yang from Communication University of China
*Dr. Monwabisi Ralarala from the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
*Professor Roman Dubovitskiy, Faculty of Sociology, Economics and Law (also Head of the Department of Innovation Educational Projects, Office of International Relations), Moscow State University, Fulbright Scholar
*Mariek Vanden Abeele from Katholieke Universiteit Leuven |
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Department head Howard Sypher (top row, right) joined other dignitaries at a celebration for Purdue's new Confucius Institute, which will offer Chinese language and cultural programs for students and the public. Pictured are top row,
l-r: Greg Hundley, Director of Center for International Business Education and Research; Greg Cutchin, managing director of the center, and Sypher; front row, l-r, Irene Wang, Hanban Chinese teacher at West Lafayette School Corp.; Wei Hong, director of the Confucius Institute at Purdue; and Ye Sun, Hanban Chinese teacher at Lafayette School Corp.
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Making a Difference
In Spring 2007, a group in Assistant Professor Hyunyi Cho's COM353 class (Problems in Public Relations) was assigned to work with the West Lafayette Recycling Center. The center's biggest problem was how little its drop-off and curbside services were being utilized. According to group member Jen Fouts, the students focused most of their efforts on students living on or around campus. In April, in honor of Earth Day, the group set up a booth just next to the bell tower to hand out cans of soda, bottles of water, and literature discussing the importance of recycling and the convenience of the center. "It was a very successful event, and we are glad we were able to help with such a great cause in such a worthwhile class." |
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