January 15, 2008

Today's events

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.

-- Sharon Versyp Weekly Radio Show. 7 p.m. Cary Knight Spot Grill.

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

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