January 24, 2008

Today's events

Thursday, Jan. 24

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "How People Learn and Remember!" James Nairne, psychology. For faculty, staff, grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 2 of  five through Feb. 21. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: CIE@purdue.edu or 49-66422.

-- Strategic Plan Open Forum. Part of series; this will be a general forum for discussion on all topics. 10-11:30 a.m. Room 1142, Lawson Computer Science Building.

-- Healthy Purdue wellness screenings offered by StayWell Health Management. 10 a.m.-2 p.m. and 3:30-6 p.m. Drawing Room (lobby), Krannert Building. Register for an appointment at www.purdue.edu/worklife or call 49-45461. The screenings are free. Participants must bring their Purdue ID at the time of the screening.

-- Sears Lecture Series. Shibley Telhami, Univ. of Maryland, Brookings Institution. "America and the Middle East: Where Are We, and Where Do We Go From Here?" Department of Political Science. 8 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

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. Two exhibitions. Jan. 22-Feb. 1: "PLUSHED: art gone soft." From artists working as part of a contemporary "do-it-yourself" craft revolution. Focusing on handmade toys. Jan. 22-Feb. 1: "Fashion Forward: Selections from the Purdue University Division of Theatre Special Collection of Historic Dress." Developments of apparel technology and fashion design from the 1860s to the present.

-- 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. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Stone Hall. This week, the featured specials are New England Clam Chowder and Chicken Marsala To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.