VIII. Miscellaneous

1. PUIDs and Computer accounts. A PUID may be obtained from Room 130 in the Purdue Memorial Union. A picture ID is required and you must know your 10 digit PUID. All mathematics graduate students receive a departmental computer account. Additionally, students are assigned a career account by Purdue University. Students must use their career account to access myPurdue.purdue.edu for course registration, etc.
2. Computer Facilities. The Department maintains a network of Sun workstations and equipment for high-quality graphics output. All graduate student offices contain workstations and there are workstations and printers in computer labs on each ßoor for graduate student use. The computer consultants maintain a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) webpage at : http://www.math.purdue.edu/resources/computing/faq
3. Supplies. Graduate students may obtain paper, pens, and pencils as needed. Paper clips and rubber bands are available from the Math Main Office, room 835, as are envelopes and letterhead for mathematics-related correspondence. Colored chalk, transparencies and pens for classroom use with overhead projectors are also available.
4. MacLane Award. Each year, an award is made in the memory of Gerald R. MacLane, who was Head of the Mathematics Department from 1964-69, to a graduate student who has demonstrated outstanding excellence in mathematical scholarship and/or teaching. The awardee must not have attempted any qualifying examinations more than one year prior to the date of the award. The recipient and the amount of the award are determined by a faculty committee.
5. Teaching awards. The department presents monetary awards each year to mathematics graduate students whose teaching has been exemplary. Nominations are solicited and recipients are chosen by a faculty committee.
6. Each year in early September the department will look at the Mathematics graduate students (and TAs from other departments teaching for us) who have taught some of the most difficult courses available for them in the Department and who have done so very successfully. Those whose records warrant it will thereafter have the title "Outstanding Graduate Instructor."
7. Purdue University encourages people who believe that they have experienced or witnessed sexual harassment to seek assistance within the University. The University offers both informal and formal procedures for dealing with complaints involving sexual harassment. Information is available in the Graduate Office.
8. Students with disabilities. If you are a person with a disability and may require a reasonable accommodation (e.g. modiÞed or special equipment, adjustments to your teaching or class schedule, modiÞed teaching materials, etc.) to enable you to perform your duties as a T.A., please contact Dr. Rita Saerens (MATH 826, 494-1906).
9. The homepage address for the department is http://www.math.purdue.edu/ Much information about the department, seminars and related off-campus links may be found there. (J) The Graduate Office maintains a Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) webpage addressing many questions and issues. Go to http://www.math.purdue.edu/academic/grad/faq