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MAY Confronting Challenging Collective Action Problems » When April 16, 3:30 p.m. » Where Fowler Hall, Stewart Center » Contact Cindy Ream, cream@purdue.edu, 494-0015 » Website www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/dls Elinor Ostrom is a Nobel laureate in economic sciences and a faculty member at Indiana University and Arizona State University. Medici Effect: Groundbreaking Innovation at the Intersection of Disciplines and Cultures » When April 20, 3:30 p.m. » Where Loeb Playhouse » Contact Cindy Ream, cream@purdue.edu, 494-0015 » Website www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/dls Frans Johansson — best-selling author, and founder and former CEO of an enterprise software company — will discuss the Intersection: a place where ideas from different fields and cultures meet and collide, ultimately igniting an explosion of extraordinary new innovations. Conservation and Sustainability in a Human-Dominated World » When April 23, 7-8:30 p.m. » Where Stewart Center, Room 214 ABCD » Contact Cindy Ream, cream@purdue.edu, 494-0015 » Website www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/dls This public lecture by John Robinson from the Wildlife Conserva- tion Society is part of the symposium "Linking Biodiversity and Sustainability across Natural and Managed Landscapes: Can Agri- culture and Natural Communities be Complementary?" A Race to the Future to Save the Wild Cheetah » When April 27, 12:30-1:20 p.m. » Where Lynn Hall, Room 1136 » Contact Cindy Ream, cream@purdue.edu, 494-0015 » Website www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/dls Laurie Marker, founder and executive director of the Cheetah Con- servation Fund (CCF) since 1990, has pioneered new ideas in chee- tah conservation and has formed cooperative alliances on behalf of the cheetah that had never before been possible. She is recognized around the world as one of the leading experts on cheetahs. NSF CAREER Workshop » When » Where May 3, 11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 202 » Contact Sue Grimes, sgrimes@purdue.edu, 494-5858 » Website www.purdue.edu/research/vpr/ rschdev/calender_grantsmanship_ events.php This workshop is for untenured faculty in all disciplines who are interested in developing a proposal for the NSF CAREER competition. Lunch is provided, so registration is required. JUNE IUTAM Summer School on Biomechanics of Tissue-Cell Interaction » When June 5-8 » Where Purdue University » Contact Thomas Siegmund, siegmund@purdue.edu, 494-9766 The goal of the summer school is to introduce participants to the state-of-the-art tissue in the biomechanics of bone, ligament, tendon and soft tissue, to interactions between mechanical loading and cellular response, and to the mechan- ics of interaction between extra-cellular matrices and cells, to the micro- and nano-scale deformation and failure processes of skeletal tissues, as well as to relevant biomedical image modalities. 8th International Purdue Symposium on Statistics: Diversity in the Statistical Sciences for the 21st Century » When June 20-24 » Where Stewart Center » Website www.stat.purdue.edu The International Purdue Symposium on Statistics is a vener- able tradition, an event that has been held every five years at Purdue since the late 1960s, in an effort to further the devel- opment and promotion of the field of statistics. Spring 2012 15