January 17, 2008

Today's events

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.

Through Jan. 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.

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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