February 4, 2008

Events this week

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. Feb. 4-15: "2nd Inklandia Print Exhibition." Fine art prints by contemporary American artists, including original prints from the permanent collection of Purdue University Galleries.

-- 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: Cream of Tomato & Chicken Pot Pie. To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.

Monday, Feb. 4

-- Purdue Women's Club. Visit to Birck Nanotechnology Center in Discovery Park. 10 a.m. Meet at Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. All welcome. Questions: Karen Michler at 743-7052.

-- Coach Sharon Versyp and Coach Matt Painter radio shows. Live from the Harrison Grille, Harrison Hall. Coach Painter Show at 6 p.m.. Coach Versyp Show at 7:10 p.m.

Tuesday, Feb. 5

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Presentation Techniques to Enhance Learning." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 4 of 10 through April 1 except March 4 and 11. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu.

-- OSC Cancer Prevention Seminar. Daniel Sliva, Methodist Research Institute. "Effects of Medicinal and Dietary Mushrooms." Oncological Sciences Center, Discovery Park. 11:30 a.m.-1 p.m. Room 116, Whistler Hall. Lunch provided. Questions: Kris Swank, kswank@purdue.edu or 49-44674.

-- Dow Graduate Seminar. School of Chemical Engineering. Speaker: Ellen B. Stechel, manager, fuels and energy transitions, Sandia National Laboratories. Topic: Moving Beyond a Fossil Fuel Dominated Energy System: Opportunities and Challenges. 3:30-4:30 p.m. G140, FRNY.

-- Men's basketball vs. Penn State. 9 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $22.

Wednesday, Feb. 6

-- Jewish Studies Noon Lecture. Ana G—mez-Bravo, FLL (Spanish). "Jewish Disclosure and Converso Authorship in Late Medieval Spanish Literary Culture." 12:30 p.m. Room 320, STEW. www.cla.purdue.edu/jewish-studies/ or 49-47965.

-- Nano 501 Tutorial. Timothy Fisher, mechanical engineering. "Heat Transfer across Solid Contact Enhanced with Nanomaterials." 2:30 p.m. Room 317, Electrical Engineering Building.

-- Difficult Dialogues. Monthly presentation of research about race and society. Black Cultural Center and American Studies Program. 2 p.m. BCC. First Wednesday of each month.

Thursday, Feb. 7

-- Deadline for RSVP for President France A. Córdova's Cider Social on Valentine's Day. RSVP to Office of Special Events at 49-40900 or events@purdue.edu. Cider Social is 3:30-4:30 p.m. Feb. 14 in the North and South Ballrooms, PMU. All staff may attend the social in pay status with the approval of their supervisor.

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "The Meta-Classroom: Should We Be Teaching more than Disciplinary Content?" Joe Palmer, English. For faculty, staff, grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 4 of  five through Feb. 21. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: CIE@purdue.edu or 49-66422.

-- Chinese New Year celebration: Year of the Rat. Confucius Institute and Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Refreshments include traditional dumplings and rice cakes. 3-5 p.m. Room 131, Stanley Coulter Hall.

-- Books and Coffee. John Duvall, professor of English, on Don DeLillo's "Falling Man." Department of English and Purdue Student Union Board. 4-4:30 p.m.: Coffee, tea, cocoa, baked goodies. 4:30-5 p.m.: Talk. Rooms 302-206, STEW. Series weekly Feb. 7-28. Podcast to be available after event.

-- College of Science Centennial Distinguished Lecture Series. Mildred Dresselhaus, MIT. 4:30-6 p.m. Room 114, Physics Building.

-- Election series. Purdue Student Union Board. Voter registration; election and issue information. 7:30-9:30 p.m. South Ballroom, PMU. 49-48976 or www.union.purdue.edu/psub.

-- Academy of Ancient Music. Convocations, Classics. 7:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW. $26-$16.

-- Women's basketball vs. Ohio State. 8 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: public, $10; student, $5.

Friday, Feb. 8 

-- Krannert Executive Forum. Speaker: Kevin O'Callaghan, human resources/training and development, Target. 11:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. Rawls Hall, Room 1086.

-- Bioethics Seminar Series. Barbara Karn, EPA-National Center for Environmental Research. "Nanotechnologies and Environmental Concerns." 5:30-7 p.m. Room 121, Burton Morgan Center. www.purdue.edu/bioethics.

-- Men's tennis vs. Indiana State. 5 p.m. Schwartz Tennis Center.

-- Wrestling vs. Indiana. 7 p.m. Intercollegiate Athletic Center. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.

-- Aquinas Education Foundation lecture. Robert Orsi, Northwestern Univ. "Growing up Catholic: A Case Study of Catholic Children in Mid-20th Century America." Co-sponsored with Religious Studies Program. 7:30 p.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building.

-- Purdue after Dark. "Cabin Fever." Events for students. Purdue Student Union Board, Division of Recreational Sports, Student Wellness Office (PEEPS). 10 p.m.-1:30 a.m. Ballrooms, PMU.  Various games, novelties, karaoke-DVD making, refreshments, etc. Featuring Christopher Carter, entertainer/hypnotist/mind reader, at 10:30-11:30.

Saturday, Feb. 9

-- Designed by Grace Choir. From Univ. of Southern Indiana; concert of spirituals, hymns and contemporary gospel. Black Cultural Center. 5 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

Sunday, Feb. 10

-- Wrestling vs. Minnesota. 1 p.m. Intercollegiate Athletic Center. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.