January 31, 2008

Today's events

Thursday, Jan. 31

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "Engaging Your Students in a Classroom Full of Laptops, iPods and Cell Phones." Rosalee Clawson, political science. For faculty, staff, grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 3 of  five through Feb. 21. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: CIE@purdue.edu or 49-66422.

-- Seminar by candidate for director of Energy Center. Jay Gore, the Vincent P. Reilly Professor of Engineering, interim director of the Energy Center. "Plans for Moving the Energy Center Forward." 10:30 a.m. Room 121, Center for Entrepreneurship (MRGN). For more information, contact Ruth Ann Weiderhaft, Discovery Park administration, at 49-66625 or weiderhaft@purdue.edu.

-- John Purdue Room Culinary Cruise. Tropical menu: Brie and walnut quesadilla with tropical salsa, shrimp and chicken skewers with three tropical dipping sauces, pina colada rum cake with coconut ice cream. 5-7 p.m. Reservations: (765) 494-6845.

-- Women's basketball vs. Minnesota. 7 p.m. Tickets: public, $10; student, $5.

-- Deja Vu Blues: An Encore Double Bill with Eric Bibb & Ronnie Baker Brooks. Convocations, Frets on Fire. 7:30 p.m. Loeb. $25-$16.

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. 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. This week: Potage au Pistou & Pork Roulade with Bleu Cheese & Spinach. To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.