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Featured items from the September 26th Rose Exchange meeting
October 2, 2012
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The Board of Trustees has approved our new Strategic Plan with
unanimous support and enthusiasm. President Coons thanked the
faculty and staff members which helped during the yearlong process
of engagement with our many constituents which resulted in this
Strategic Plan. The full plan, being called "The Next Steps...,"
outlines six bold goals and forward-looking initiatives. These
steps will help complete The "Great" Debate vision of transforming
the Institute from "best in class" to one of the great science,
engineering, and math institutions in the world. We will move soon
into a focused process to develop our action plans, assign
champions, develop target dates, and progress benchmarks.
• Homecoming was a rewarding experience as hundreds of alumni
re-connected with their alma mater, students continued rich
traditions, academic departments showcased their world-class
facilities, and the football team won a thrilling game. President
Rob Coons and the Office of Alumni Affairs thanked the campus
community for making the weekend such a resounding success.
• Rose-Hulman will host the FIRST Robotics Competition's
Crossroads Regional during Spring Break (April 4-6, 2013) in the
Sports and Recreation Center. This event is expected to bring 50
high-school teams and as many as 4,000 attendees from throughout
the country. Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering
Professor Carlotta Berry, Ph.D., is the regional competition chair.
She will seek assistance from many faculty, staff members,
students, local engineers and local educators to help host this
event.
• A total of 188 companies and over 500 company
representatives are looking forward to meet students at the Fall
Career Fair on Wednesday, October 3, from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the
field house area of the Sports and Recreation Center. Find out the
list of companies planning to attend the fall career fair at http://www.rose-hulman.edu/careerservices/FairAttendees.
Faculty and staff members should encourage students of all majors
to attend this event. A Rose-Hulman Expo, from 9:30-11 a.m. in
Hulbert Arena, will give academic departments, certification
programs and campus organizations an opportunity to showcase
projects to these visiting companies and recruiters.
• Rose-Hulman and Japan's Kanazawa Institute of Technology
(KIT) will celebrate their 20-year collaboration on October 19-20
with educational workshops, social events, and dedication of a new
campus landmark, a cherry orchard with 40 Sakura Japanese cherry
trees in a plaza located adjacent to the White Chapel. (The number
of trees is symbolic to each year in the partnership for both
colleges.) A delegation of KIT administrators and educators will
visit Rose-Hulman for a workshop on inverted classroom techniques
and a session on KIT's state-of-the-art "Factory of Dreams"
Yumekoho Laboratory. A special show by Japanese traditional
instrumental performer Shunsuke Kimura will be hosted on October 20
in the Hatfield Hall Theater.
• Rose-Hulman's undergraduate second-major program in
computational science will get national visibility at the 2013
joint mathematics meetings in January. Mathematics professors Kurt
Brayn, Ph.D., Joe Eichholz, Ph.D., and Jeff Leader, Ph.D., are
organizing a contributed paper session on computational modeling in
the undergraduate curriculum. Our computational science program is
one a few undergraduate programs in the nation.
• A total of 84 people have already registered to attend the
first Rose Startup Workshop on October 27, organized by the new
Rose-Hulman Innovative Student Entrepreneurs organization. The
event, from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. in the Hulman Union, will feature
several successful entrepreneurs and venture capitalist that will
pass along helpful advice on starting business and high-tech
enterprises. Students, faculty and staff members can register at http://dev.rose-hulman.edu/startup/reg.php
through October 13. There is a limit of 200 attendees. This
event is free for Rose-Hulman students.
• The Alcoa Foundation is continuing to support the
Institute's diversity initiatives by providing monetary support to
several student professional chapters and student recruitment
programs. Jolio Jose San Martin Neto, vice president for worldwide
operations human resources, visited campus this week to meet with
students and present a Foundation check to Luanne Tilstra, director
of the Center for Diversity.
• Another week has brought more international groups to campus
in search of developing educational relationships with Rose-Hulman
and learning more about our unique programs. A group of dignitaries
from Japan's University of Aizu visited campus to get a sense of
the flavor from our homecoming festivities. They would like to use
our homecoming as a model to develop long-term relationships with
alumni.
• The EcoCAR2 team unveiled the 2013 Chevy Malibu that will be
re-modified during the next two years as part of this national
engineering automotive design challenge. The Malibu was provided by
the General Motors Corporation. Team members will create a new,
improved vehicle that will achieve four primary technical goals:
reduce petroleum consumption, reduce well-to-wheel greenhouse gas
emissions, reduce criteria tailpipe emissions, and maintain
consumer acceptability in the areas of performance, utility and
safety. Rose-Hulman is one of 15 North American colleges
participating in EcoCAR2: Plugging into the Future.
• Local orthopedic surgeon Gary Ulrich, D.O., has provided the
Athletic Department with updated x-ray equipment that enhances our
sports medicine operations.
• The Office of Global Programs hosted a campus Study Abroad
Fair on September 25. The event was well attended by students
interested in participating in international education
programs.
• Political Science Professor Terrence Casey, Ph.D., head of
the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, moderated a
campus panel discussion on "The Economy and the Election" on
September 25. Economics professors featured were Dale Bremmer,
Ph.D.; Kevin Christ, Ph.D.; and Jong Hun Kim. The session was well
attended by students, faculty and staff members, and was covered by
local media.
• The Office of Business and Finance completed the 2011-12
audit in record time and with no significant findings by the
external review team. Matt Davis, Interim Vice President for
Finance and Controller, saluted his staff for its efficiency and
attention to detail throughout this year's audit process.
• Five former student-athletes will be inducted into the
Athletic Hall of Fame on October 6 during a special ceremony,
starting at 11:30 a.m. in the Multipurpose Room of the Sports and
Recreation Center. This year's inductees are basketball
player Zack Johnson (1998 alumnus), volleyball/basketball player
Jennifer (Krause) Lawrence (2002), track athlete James McTaggart
(1895), baseball player Rob Nichols (1999) and basketball player
David Yeager (1968). The ceremony is free and open to the campus
community.
• Senior chemistry major Kim Secrist has had a paper published
in the Journal of Physical Chemistry on a project completed on
campus with Adam Nolte, interim head of the Department of Chemical
Engineering. The paper covers the topic "Humidity-Responsive Gas
Barrier of Hydrogen-Bonded Polymer-Clay Multilayer Thin
Films."
• Several Homecoming activities earned considerable media
coverage for Rose-Hulman in the key Indianapolis market, including
the dedication of the William Alfred Cook Laboratory for Bioscience
Research, the naming of the Matt Branam Innovation Center, and
announcement of the FIRST Robotics' Crossroads Regional
Competition.
• The campus landscape has a new look this fall through more
than 1,000 plants placed by members of the Greek community during
the recent Brush Up For Homecoming event. These plants include 750
mums (at over two dozen locations), 260 hostas (along the north
edge of Olin Hall), 183 roses (at three locations), 60 ornamental
grasses, over 100 other perennials, and placed more than two
truckloads of mulch (at multiple locations).
Also, check out the Rose-Hulman Innovation Blog. This week's
blog post - "Say No to Cracks" - features work by Adam Nolte
with U. Penn's Daeyeon Lee. http://rosehulman.wordpress.com/