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April 24, 1998

EDITORS: This Purdue calendar will be produced every other week during the summer. It lists selected events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next five weeks. Events are free and open to the public, except where noted, and all are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings have two asterisks (**).

All events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's on-line calendar at http://www.purdue.edu/calendar/

EVENTS

  • Friday, May 1. Violet Haas Award reception for Peggy Sullivan, director of the Span Plan program and assistant dean of students. 4 p.m. Room 116, Whistler Hall of Agricultural Research. The Council on the Status of Women presents the Haas Award to a person or department that promotes the advancement of women at Purdue.

  • Saturday, May 9. Purdue Employment Expo. 8 a.m.-2 p.m. Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. Hiring supervisors from various departments will answer questions about more than 100 jobs currently available at Purdue (excluding faculty positions). Attendees can fill out employment applications and, where appropriate, undergo on-site clerical testing and screening interviews.

  • Sunday, May 10. Commencement for Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. 3 p.m. RCA Dome.

  • Tuesday May 12. Commencement for Purdue North Central. 7:30 p.m. Valparaiso University Chapel.

  • Wednesday May 13. Commencement for Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne. 7 p.m. Fort Wayne Memorial Coliseum and Exposition Center.

  • ** Thursday, May 14. Teacher Recruitment Day for Purdue students and alumni. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms. Recruiters from about 70 school corporations and districts are expected. A list of participating recruiters and the job openings they are seeking to fill is on the Web at http://www.ups.purdue.edu/edplace/studentTRday.html

  • Friday, May 15. ROTC Tri-Service Commissioning Ceremony. 11 a.m. South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union.

  • Saturday and Sunday, May 16 and 17. Spring commencement ceremonies at West Lafayette. 9:30 a.m. and 2:30 p.m. each day. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets, distributed free to each student eligible to graduate, necessary for admission. The schedule: 9:30 a.m. Saturday, May 16, Schools of Agriculture, Education, Management, and Veterinary Medicine; 2:30 p.m. Saturday, May 16, Schools of Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Nursing, and Health Sciences. 9:30 a.m. Sunday, May 17, Schools of Consumer and Family Sciences, Science, and Technology. 2:30 p.m. Sunday, May 17, Schools of Engineering.

  • ** Tuesday, May 19. Commencement for Purdue Calumet at Hammond. 6 p.m. North Lawshe Lawn.

  • ** Wednesday, May 20. Commencement for Purdue North Central. 1 p.m. Westville Correctional Center.

ENTERTAINMENT

  • Tuesday, April 28. PMO Spring Show. 8 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union Ballrooms.

  • Friday-Saturday, May 1-2. Repertory Dance Company's spring collection of dance works by faculty and students in the Department of Visual and Performing Arts and by the Black Cultural Center's Jahari Dance Troupe. 8-10 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, Stewart Center. Tickets are $8 for the public, $6 for Purdue students, at the Loeb Box Office, (765) 494-3933.

  • Saturday, May 9. Percussion Workshop. 8 a.m.-7 p.m. Stewart Center. The free clinics are designed to give students hands-on experience in a variety of percussive styles. CONTACT: Jennifer Tucker, (765) 496-2697.

  • Saturday, May 16. Purdue Varsity Glee Club End of Season Concert. 8:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. Tickets are $8 at the Purdue Box Office in Stewart Center, (765) 494-3933.

LECTURES

  • Monday, April 27. The Internet Architecture: Universal Digital Transport for the World. 4:30 p.m. Room 175, Mathematical Sciences Building. Speaker: Abel Weinrib of Intel Corp. Part of the Distinguished Lecture in Technology series. Sponsored by Purdue and Intel Corp.

  • Monday, April 27. Louis Martin Sears Lecture Series. 7:30 p.m. South Ballroom, Purdue Memorial Union. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Friedman of the New York Times will discuss the state of the Middle East today. This is the last of four lectures in the series, which this year had the theme of "U.S.-Israeli Relations: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the U.S. Recognition of the State of Israel."

  • Thursday, April 30. Leadership in the '90s. 10 a.m. Room 314, Stewart Center. Speaker: Marilyn Haring, dean of the Purdue School of Education. Women's Resource Office Leadership Series.

Conferences

  • ** Thursday, May 21. Aging Well: A Multidisciplinary Perspective. 8 a.m. Room 218, Stewart Center. A seminar about gerontology. Topics will include vitamins, exercise and diet. Registration fee is $75 for professionals, $35 for students. Deadline to register is May 14. CONTACTS: John Wellman, conference coordinator, (765) 494-0243, jmw@purdue.edu, or Marleen Troyer, conference chair, (765) 494-1340, troyerm@cfs.purdue.edu

MEETINGS

  • Monday, April 27. University Senate. 2:30 p.m. Room 302, Stewart Center.

  • ** Friday, May 29. Board of Trustees meeting. 10 a.m. Rooms 224-228, Walb Memorial Union, Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

EXHIBITS

  • Through April 30. Insects in Art: Cartoons to Nature Renderings. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Krannert Building Drawing Room. Original insect cartoons from a collection of John Davis, former head of the Department of Entomology. Also insect art and insect jewelry by local artists.

  • Through May 3. Issues and Answers: Sue Buck and Mary LaPorte. Union Gallery, Main Floor, Purdue Memorial Union. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday, and 1 p.m.-4 p.m. Sunday. LaPorte's large paintings on tin explore the conflicting saintly and sexual roles assigned to women by society. Buck's large-scale drawings search for answers to such questions as "Why are we as humans the way we are? How are we the same as animals and how are we really different?"

  • Through May 3. Faculty Focus. Annual exhibition featuring work in a variety of media by members of Purdue's art and design faculty. Stewart Center Gallery, West Lobby, Stewart Center. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m. Monday-Thursday; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Friday; 1-4 p.m. Sunday.

  • Through May 6. Public and Private: Twelve Artists/Two Rooms. 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Lafayette Savings Bank, 1020 Sagamore Parkway W. Second part of a photography display by students in the 1998 Senior Thesis Exhibition in Advanced Studies in Photography.

OTHER

  • Tuesday-Thursday, April 28-30. International Dinner Series presented by food service management students in Purdue's Department of Restaurant, Hotel, Institutional and Tourism Management. 5:30-7 p.m. John Purdue Room, Stone Hall. Call (765) 494-6845 for reservations or information. This week's menu is Gourmet Nights -- The Best of RHIT 492.

  • Saturday, May 9. Spring semester ends. 9 p.m. Fall semester begins Aug. 24.

  • ** Monday, May 18. Module I of summer classes begins.

  • ** Monday, May 25. Memorial Day. Official university holiday.

Compiled by Frank Koontz, (765) 494-2080; e-mail,
frank_koontz@purdue.edu
Purdue News Service: (765) 494-2096; e-mail, purduenews@purdue.edu

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