The first session, from 9-11 a.m. Jan. 20, is planned at Discovery Park's Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. The workshop will be repeated from 9-11 a.m. Jan. 27 at Purdue Research Park's Conference Center, 3000 Kent Ave.

The visits will occur during tours of seven cities from early January to March. For the first time, the public will be able to keep tabs on where Córdova is headed, thanks to an interactive map that will launch on the president's Web page in early January.

The researchers, from Purdue University and The Catholic University of America, also have proposed a mechanism for how the motor works. Parts of the motor move in sequence like the pistons in a car's engine, progressively drawing the genetic material into the virus's head, or capsid, said Michael Rossmann, Purdue's Hanley Distinguished Professor of Biological Sciences.

Farmland owners and their tenant farmers might have to negotiate longer and harder to come up with a mutually acceptable rental rate for the 2009 crop season, Dobbins said. He urged renters to do their homework before entering into negotiations, especially if they plan to reopen existing rental agreements.

The educational workshops, co-sponsored by the Indiana Soybean Alliance and the Indiana Corn Marketing Council, will provide farmers with information about global demand, where opportunities exist and production management in terms of agronomics, as well as the economics.