January 14, 2008
Events this week at WL campus
Here is a list of events happening Jan. 14-20.
All week
-- Purdue University Galleries. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Two exhibitions through Feb. 17. "Insights into Suburbia." Juried exhibition of 55 works in various media by 27 contemporary women artists. National Association of Women Artists and the Opalka Gallery of the Sage Colleges, Albany/Troy, N.Y. Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. "60 Square Inches: 16th Biennial North American Small Print Competition." Purdue Galleries, competition host. Stewart Center Gallery.
Monday-Friday
-- Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts; Purdue University Galleries. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. 49-62958. Jan. 7-18: "Picturing the Victorians: Photographs from Purdue Galleries." Historic collection.
-- Libraries -- Archives and Special Collections. "Snowflakes and Icicles: Winter Scenes of Campus." Photographs. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Room 279, STEW. Through Feb. 27. www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol/snowflakes/.
-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week: Butternt squash and cod baked in sour cream. To access the menu: http://www.cfs.purdue.edu/HTM/about/restaurants.shtml
Monday, Jan. 14
-- "Service Learning at Purdue: Strengthening the Tradition." Presentations by five 2007 Community of Service-Learning Faculty Fellows. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Room 310, STEW. Register: www.cie.purdue.edu/workshop/register/index.cfm or 49-66422.
-- Women's basketball vs. Indiana. 7 p.m. Tickets: public, $10; student, $5.
Tuesday, Jan. 15
-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Student-Teacher Relationships: Establishing Rapport with Your Students." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 1 of 10 through April 1 except March 4 and 11. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu.
-- Cancer Prevention Seminar. "A New Model of Obesity and Breast Cancer to Define Cancer Prevention Strategies." Ignacio Camarilo, biological sciences. Oncological Sciences Center. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Room 128, Ag Administration Building. kswank@purdue.edu or 49-44674.
-- Affirmative Action Office workshop. "ADA Audio Conference: Best Practices in Design: Balancing Local, State and Federal Requirements to Ensure Accessibility." 2-3:30 p.m. Room 103, PMU. To register or for more information, aao@purdue.edu or 49-47253 (voice) or 49-61343 (TTY).
-- Strategic Plan Open Forum. Part of series; this forum will have two of the working groups: economic development, and large-scale research and infrastructure. 6:30-8 p.m. Room 1142, Lawson Computer Science Building.
-- Panel on biofuels. Center for the Environment. "What Should be the Future of Biofuels? An Open Discussion and Debate." 7-8:30 p.m. Class of 1950 Lecture Hall. Moderator: Bernard Tao, the Indiana Soybean Board Professor in Soybean Utilization. Panelists include Michael Ladisch, director of the laboratory of renewable resources engineering and distinguished professor of agricultural and biological engineering and biomedical engineering; Larry Nies, associate professor of civil engineering specializing in environmental engineering; Wallace Tyner, professor of agricultural economics; and Tony Vyn, professor of agronomy specializing in cropping systems and tillage. Audience members will have an opportunity to ask questions. 49-46160, loliver@purdue.edu.
Wednesday, Jan. 16
-- "Multiphase Gallium Nitride Nanowired and Nanocircuits." Nano 501 Tutorial. Speaker: Virginia Ayres, Michigan State University. 2:30 pm, Room 317, EE.
-- "Speak Up!" workshop on responding to everyday bigotry. Part of Martin Luther King Jr. celebration. Diversity Resource Office in Office of Human Relations. 3:30 p.m. Room 214 AB, STEW. Registration encouraged: 49-47307 or dro@purdue.edu.
Jan. 16-20
-- Purdue Jazz Festival. with guest artists Jon Faddis & Chicago Jazz Ensemble, sax player Eric Marienthal, drummer Steve Houghton and the Ron Jones Quartet. Besides headliner concerts, event includes high school competition and clinics, jazz jams and jazz church service. Purdue Memorial Union/Stewart Center and various Lafayette-West Lafayette sites. Some events free. For details www.purdue.edu/bands/jazzfest.
Thursday, Jan. 17
-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "Effective Communication Starts with Your Voice: A How-to Guide." Richard Sullivan Lee, Purdue Theatre, and Barbara Solomon, Speech-Language Clinic. For faculty, staff, grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 1 of five through Feb. 21. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: CIE@purdue.edu or 49-66422.
-- Discovery Lecture Series. "Advances in Drug Delivery and Tissue Engineering." Robert Langer. MIT. Discovery Park and Oncological Sciences Center. 12:30-2:30 p.m. Auditorium (Room 241), Pfendler Hall.
-- College of Liberal Arts Distinguished Lecture Series. Carlos Azcoitia, founding principal, Community Links Academy and John Spry Community School, Chicago. "Every Student has a Chance to Succeed: Lessons from Chicago." 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.
Friday, Jan. 18
-- Krannert Executive Forum. Speaker: Mike Lewis, senior vice president, Don Schumacher Racing. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Room 1086, Rawls Hall.
-- Wrestling vs. Air Force. 6 p.m. Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.
-- Jon Faddis and the Chicago Jazz Ensemble. In "Celebrating Genius, Commemorating Titans: Happy 90th Birthday to Nat, Diz & Monk." Convocations, Jazz Set. 8 p.m. Loeb. $27-$22.
Saturday, Jan. 19
-- Men's basketball vs. Illinois. 2 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $22.
-- Swimming and diving (men and women) vs. Miami (Ohio). 2 p.m.
Jan. 19-21
-- Men's tennis. Boilermaker Invitational. All day. Schwartz Tennis Center.
Sunday, Jan. 20
-- Women's basketball vs. Northwestern. 2 p.m. Tickets: public, $10; student, $5.
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