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Riley Hospital for Children
Indianapolis, Indiana
Riley Physician Update newsletter

Riley Hospital for Children and Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center (SJRMC) have announced a long-term partnership that will enhance outpatient pediatric specialty care and complement the children’s primary care services currently available in Michiana. Riley Hospital for Children at SJRMC will offer expanded services in several outpatient pediatric specialty areas. Riley will coordinate with SJRMC and with physicians affiliated with both institutions to provide outpatient pediatric management, consultation, education and telemedicine services.

Riley already contributes to SJRMC’s Pediatric Specialty Clinics, including cardiology, endocrinology and diabetology, gastroenterology and rheumatology. Other elements of the partnership include new services to SJRMC’s Pediatric Specialty Clinics, such as neurology, with selected services potentially being offered through telemedicine technology. more

Purdue Technical Assistance Program
West Lafayette, Indiana
Annual report

Della Jules and Yvette Jules founded Jinsitec, LLC, on the premise that they could improve people’s lives. But to push their innovative medication timing devices through a crowded marketplace, they also needed segmented target markets, appealing packaging, and a savvy logo. They got just those elements by collaborating with TA P’s industrial design and business consultants. Now, the sisters are talking to a manufacturer in China, courting a major pharmaceutical chain, and discussing partnership opportunities with the Zimbabwe government — milestones they attribute in part to the fine-tuning that TAP provided. more

Purdue University Office of the Provost
West Lafayette, Indiana
Brochure (2007 ADDY award winner)

Educational equity is intrinsic to the character of any academic institution. As American culture becomes increasingly global, its establishments are redefining what equality and inclusion mean for all people — men and women of diverse races, ethnicities, religions, national origins, sexual orientations, abilities and skills, knowledge and ideas, life experiences, and perspectives.

When consciousness expands, dynamic cultures evolve.

Center for Advanced Manufacturing
West Lafayette, Indiana
Annual report

When an airplane sets off a warning signal on the runway, technicians must spend hours dismantling the engine — often to discover that the problem was simply a loose connection or a load change that occurred during routine maintenance. As a frequent flyer and structural health monitor, Prof. Doug Adams is aiming to prevent such delays, which not only irritate passengers but also cost airlines millions in lost productivity. Last year, Adams and his team developed an integrated diagnostic system that electronically senses faults deep inside the engine without the need for a teardown. more

Purdue Cancer Center
West Lafayette, Indiana
Annual report

For many years now, researchers have blamed the deadliest form of pancreatic cancer on the duct cells that transport digestive enzymes to our intestines. Last year, Prof. Stephen Konieczny put a big question mark on that assumption. Studying pancreatic cancer in mice, the biological sciences professor and his team of researchers discovered that another main cell type — the acinar cell, which produces the enzymes that make digestion possible — is really the culprit in pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. Because more than 90% of pancreatic cancers are discovered in the late stages of the disease when medical intervention is largely ineffective, the findings could spell big changes down the road. more

Bindley Bioscience Center, Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Dedication program

In the 20th century, scientists transformed our lives primarily through innovations made in narrowly focused laboratories. Where one discipline left off, another took over, often in a far-distant facility.

While that model succeeded in the past, today our scientists stand at a crossroads where even more complex questions loom: How do we detect tumors in their earliest stages, alter plants to pack more nutrition, or regenerate tissue damaged by disease?

Science Bound program, Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Annual report

With the lightning-fast strokes of athletes taking center stage, most spectators at the 7th World Swimming Championships didn’t give much thought to the technology behind the pool’s construction. But Science Bound students did. Last fall, when the competition came to Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, the youth donned hard hats and grabbed calculators as they studied the complexities of constructing a temporary 300,000-gallon pool on top of an NBA basketball court.

The School in the Pool curriculum was one of many after-school activities designed specifically for Science Bound. Twice a month, students supplemented their daily science and math instruction by analyzing crime scenes, engineering Lego robotics projects, and designing for the Bridge Bust competition, among other career-building pursuits.

Fred and Mary Ford Dining Court, Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Dedication program

Throughout history, marketplaces have been gathering places where people celebrate the similarities that bind them together as well as the richness of their cultural and individual diversity. Now, Purdue's University Residences is pleased to present a state-of-the-art dining experience that supports this marketplace concept: the Fred and Mary Ford Dining Court.

Located at the intersection of Stadium Avenue and Russell Street, the new dining court fulfills part of the University Residences Food Service Master Plan, which seeks to offer more choices to today's increasingly sophisticated group of students - along with faculty and staff.

Riley Children's Foundation
Indianapolis, Indiana
Annual report

Unlike many academic physicians who study the patients they treat, Mervin Yoder, M.D., leads a seemingly dichotomous life. One hour, this thoughtful pediatrician may be touching the tiny hand of an infant born at 29 weeks gestation. The next, this passionate scientist might be peering through a microscope at the stem cells of mice, searching for ways to reproduce much-needed blood cells for bone marrow transplants.

Still, while the bone marrow of his patients will hopefully never be compromised, what Dr. Yoder has discovered under the lens about fetal development is already making those critical early weeks at Riley Hospital a little easier for these fragile newborns.

Department of Foods and Nutrition, Purdue University
West Lafayette, Indiana
Annual report

Judging from the one-size-fits-all children’s multivitamins that have been on the market for years, it’s easy for parents to assume that all children’s calcium needs are the same. In reality, children at various ages require different amounts of calcium for peak bone mass, and boys’ needs differ from girls in their peer groups. Those are the conclusions that Purdue University Foods and Nutrition researchers have been drawing through their extensive studies into children’s calcium intake.

Hancock Memorial Hospital and other facilities, Indiana
Consumer health newsletter (for Marketing Innovations, Prospect, Kentucky)

With the possible exception of politicians, most of us feel a few butterflies when giving a speech or attending a party where we only know a few guests. For someone with social anxiety disorder, such normal uneasiness becomes so profound that it’s incapacitating.

Also called social phobia, social anxiety disorder typically begins during childhood or early adolescence and occurs in women twice as often as men; some may have been excessively shy as children. People with the disorder are intensely afraid of social situations such as public speaking, eating in front of others, meeting people or even using public restrooms. more

Guide Corporation, Pendleton, Indiana
Web site: HID Headlamps section

As a matter of design, we strive to minimize glare in our products. Guide Corporation considers glare beyond federal lighting standard requirements, limiting glare to a margin significantly below the legally allowed maximums. This practice helps us to account for manufacturing variations.

In order to minimize glare in the final product, we have designed our OptiMaX software package to accurately predict photometric glare during the design phase. We have now had a lengthy history of successfully predicting glare levels with it, and can design lamps confidently, knowing that predicted glare levels will accurately represent production parts. more

Putnam County, Indiana
Visitor’s Guide

Some people honor loved ones by naming children after them. Dick Wells names orchids. Co-owner of Hilltop Orchids along with his wife, Sandy, Wells propagates more than 90,000 in his 11,000 square foot greenhouse in rural Cloverdale. Many of the hybrids he’s developed pay tribute to his wife, sons and their families.

There’s the Sandy Wells with its moth-shaped white petals and lemony crowns. Darrin’s Ruby, a mottled crimson and yellow variety. And for his future daughter-in-law, a deep burgundy orchid that’s intensely fragrant at night, Allyson’s Wine.

Will Allyson be carrying orchids down the aisle? “You betcha she will be,” enthuses Wells, grinning. more

Wabash College, Crawfordsville, Indiana
Campaign newsletter

When Tom Jennings ‘47 discusses history, he talks on a personal level. Instead of offering up the minutiae of a Civil War Battlefield he’s visited or describing the onion-domed buildings he viewed on his early-1970s trip to Russia, he’s more apt to tell you about his or someone else’s own place in history.