February 18, 2008

Events this week

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. 18-29: Art and Design Undergraduate Exhibition. Juried exhibition of undergraduate students in the Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Ceramics, photography and related media, visual communications design, industrial design, interior design, sculpture, metals, painting, drawing, fiber arts and printmaking. --- Reception and awards ceremony: Feb. 21, 5-6:30 p.m.


-- 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, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are Cream of Mushroom & Salmon Cakes. To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.

Feb. 18 - March 7

-- Project Respect. Events are listed under date. Theme: "It Takes Everyone. It Starts with You." Sponsored by many University offices and organizations; coordinated by Women's Resource Office. Description and events also at www.purdue.edu/humanrel/project_respect.

Monday, Feb. 18

-- Open seminar for candidate for associate vice provost P-12 engagement. Candidate: Bernie Oliver, director/professor, University of Florida Alliance, University of Florida. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Dean's Auditorium, Pfendler Hall.

-- Faculty Convocation. Speaker: France A. Córdova. 3:30 p.m. Rooms 302-306. STEW.

-- "Dismantling Stereotypes: Portrayals of Native Americans in Film." Film clips and discussion. American Indian Science and Engineering Society; a Project Respect event. 5:30-6:45 p.m. Room 116, Whistler Hall.

-- "Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales." One-man show by E. Patrick Johnson based on oral histories. Black Cultural Center arts series; also a Project Respect event. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

-- Sears Lecture Series. Tom Ricks, Washington Post military correspondent. "The Iraq War as a Failure of the American System?" Department of Political Science. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW.

Tuesday, Feb. 19

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Micro Teaching: Practice Your Teaching." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 6 of 10 through April 1 except March 4 and 11. This session 9:30-11:30 a.m. (norm is 9:30-11). Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu.

-- Affirmative Action Office workshop. "ADA Audio Conference: Accommodating Older Workers." 2-3:30 p.m. Room 213, STEW. To reserve a space at a session, for more information, or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact AAO at 494-7253 or aao@purdue.edu.

-- Dow Graduate Seminars. School of Chemical Engineering. Speaker: Norman J. Wagner, Dept. of Chemical Engineering, University of Delaware. Topic: The Rheology of Colloidal and Nanoparticle Dispersions:  ÒSTF Armor' -- Nanoparticle Composites for Flexible Ballistic Materials. 3:30-4:30 p.m. FRNY G140.

-- Public Forum on Immigration. College of Liberal Arts with Ivy Tech Lafayette. Moderator: Susan Curtis, history and CLA associate dean. Presenters: Adriela Fernandez, CLA associate dean; James McCann, political science; David Berry, Ivy Tech, history and chair of liberal arts; Ivan Hernandez, Ivy Tech, admissions. 6 p.m. Room 1333, Ivy Hall, Ivy Tech.

-- Coach Sharon Versyp Radio Show 6 p.m. Harrison Grille, Harrison Hall.

-- Online chat from Westwood. President Cordova to host conversation and respond to questions. Moderator: Kirk Cerny, executive director, Purdue Alumni Association. 8-8:15 p.m. Streaming video will be at www.purdue.edu/alumniparty.

Wednesday, Feb. 20

-- Nomination deadline for Violet Haas Award. Presented by the Council on the Status of Women, which works to provide a voice for all women at Purdue.  This award recognizes those individuals, programs, or departments currently at Purdue who have effectively facilitated the advancement of women in hiring, promotion, education, and salary, or have generally enhanced a positive professional climate for women at Purdue. www.purdue.edu/humanrel/wro/events.shtml.

-- Appointments for faculty and staff for one-on-one meeting with a representative from Fidelity Investments, one of five tax-deferred annuity companies having official working relationship with Purdue. Reserve time at www.fidelity.com/atwork/reservations or (800) 642-7131. Appointment dates for March through June are also available.

-- "Whose Feminism Is It Anyway: An Article Reading and Discussion." Article is Emi Koyama's "Whose Feminism Is It Anyway? The Unspoken Racism of the Trans Inclusion Debate.Ó Indiana Transgender Rights Advocacy Alliance; a Project Respect event. 7 p.m. Room 1248, Beering Hall.

Thursday, Feb. 21

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "Simple Technologies to Help Students Learn: The Gospel According to George." George Van Scoyoc, agronomy. For faculty, staff, grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 5 of  five. 1:30-3 p.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: CIE@purdue.edu or 49-66422.

-- Open seminar for candidate for associate vice provost P-12 engagement. Candidate: George Rogers
professor and coordinator of engineering/technology
teacher education, Departments of Industrial Technology
and Curriculum and Instruction, Purdue University. 3-4 p.m. Dean's Auditorium, Pfendler Hall.

-- Physics Department General Colloquium. Speaker: Edward Gerjuoy, University of Pittsburgh. Topic: Recollections of Oppenheimer and Schwinger.  4 p.m. PHYS 223.

-- Books and Coffee. Julio Ramirez, professor of civil engineering, on Thomas L. Friedman's "The World is Flat." Department of English and Purdue Student Union Board; also a Project Respect event. 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.

-- Classical Studies Film Showing: "Alexander the Great, Director's Cut" (2004, Oliver Stone). 7:30-9:30 p.m. Room 2290, Beering Hall.

Feb. 21-24

-- Purdue Theatre. "The Underpants" by Carl Sternheim, adapted by Steve Martin. Marquee Series. 7:30 p.m. Feb. 21-23; 3 p.m. Feb. 23-24. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall. Tickets: public, $17; 62+ seniors, $13; students, $10.

Friday, Feb. 22

-- Krannert Executive Forum. Speaker: Jim Nolan, chief executive officer, Sara Lee Fresh Bakery and executive vice president, Sara Lee Corp. Topic: From Regatta to Cheesecake - Who Knew? 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Rawls Hall, Room 1086.

-- Engineering Education open house. 1-4 p.m. Room 1300, Neil Armstrong Hall. Interactive displays; see Ideas to Innovation Lab. Information on departmental programs such as First-year Engineering, Honors, Interdisciplinary Engineering, Multidisciplinary Engineering, INSPIRE (for P-12 teacher education).

-- "Women's Art, Women's Vision, Women's Dreams É A Womanist Poetry Event!" Campus poets will share poems that honor women. Black Cultural Center and Women's Resource Office; a Project Respect event. 7 p.m. Multipurpose Room, BCC.

-- The movie "Face of Jizo: Chichi to Kuraseba," a 2004 Japanese film with English subtitles, will be shown. Kazumi Hatasa, Purdue professor of Japanese, will lead the discussion after the showing. The talk is part of the Feb. 18 to March 1. Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 7 p.m. Stanley Coulter, Room 239.

-- Flicks at Fowler film series. "Enchanted." Purdue Student Union Board. 7 and 9:30 p.m. Also Saturday. Fowler Hall, STEW. Admission: public, $4; Purdue student ID, $2. Films subject to change. 49-48976.

-- American Music Repertory Ensemble. 8 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW. 49-66785 or kcmatter@purdue.edu.

Saturday, Feb. 23

-- Rube Goldberg machine contest, local competition. Theta Tau. 10:30 a.m.: University division. 2 p.m.: High school division. Armory. (National contest is on April 5.)
-- Women's tennis vs. Virginia Tech. 11 a.m. Schwartz Tennis Center.

--  Sachiko Masuoka, an 85-year-old Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor and Chicago resident, will talk about her experience. The talk is part of the Feb. 18 to March 1 Hiroshima-Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition. Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. 1 p.m. Room 200 of Wetherill Laboratory of Chemistry.

Sunday, Feb. 24

-- Women's tennis vs. DePaul. Noon. Schwartz Tennis Center.

-- Women's basketball vs. Michigan State. 1 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: public, $10; student, $5.

-- Windworks I. Varsity Band and Purdue Concert Band. 2:30 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. 49-66785 or kcmatter@purdue.edu.

-- "Annie." Convocations, special event. 5 p.m. Elliott. $45-$20.

-- Women in Music Concert. Purdue Student Union Board; a Project Respect event. 6-8 p.m. South Ballroom, PMU. www.union.purdue.edu/psub or 49-8976.