March 17, 2008

Events this week

All week

-- Through April 20. "Autotelematic Spider Bots." Stewart Center Gallery. Made by artist Ken Rinaldo, an associate professor of art and technology at Ohio State University, the Spider Bots are five spider-like sculptures that interact with the public in real-time and self-modify their behaviors based on their interaction with the viewer, themselves and their environment. They will function for 15-minute periods at 10:30 a.m. and at 12:30, 2:30 and 4:30 p.m. daily. Sponsored by Purdue Galleries. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

-- Through April 20. "Machinic Drift." Robert L. Ringel Gallery in the Purdue Memorial Union. Various interactive works and imagery by artist Ken Rinaldo, including robotic fish and electronic sound work sculptures. Sponsored by Purdue Galleries. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m., and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

-- Through April 29. "Chronicling Women's History at Purdue: Selections from the Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives." The exhibit will feature artifacts, documents and photographs highlighting the history of university women and coinciding with Women's History Month. The exhibit includes collections on the "Queen of American Agriculture", the "Mother of Modern Management," Amelia Earhart and more. In Stewart Center, Room 279.

Monday-Friday

-- John Purdue Room lunch special. This week, the featured specials will be Tortilla soup & Chicken Tamales. To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml

-- Industrial Design Seniors from the Visual and Performing Arts Department present an exhibition of their work. Through March 21. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Yue-Kong Pao Hall of Visual and Performing Arts. Open 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday through Friday.

Monday, March 17

-- Open forum. Candidate for Purdue provost: Don P. Giddens, dean of the Colege of Engineering and Lawrence L. Gellerstedt Jr. Chair of Biomedical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology. Noon, South Ballroom, PMU.

-- "Own Your Future: A Woman's Guide to Success." Women's History Month reception and panel. Speakers: President France A. Córdova, trustee Susan Bulkeley Butler, Indiana Lt. Gov. Becky Skillman. Women's Resource Office and Panhellenic Association. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

-- Freedom to Vote: Protecting the Ballot. Sponsored by the Purdue Liberal Arts Community Engagement program, which is known as PLACE, the Unitarian Universalist Church and the American Civil Liberties Union in Indiana. 7-9 p.m. Unitarian Universalist Church, 333 Meridian St., West Lafayette.

Tuesday, March 18

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Using Objective Tests." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. Workshop 8 of 10 through April 1. 9:30-11 a.m. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu.

-- Women's History Month talk. "Sex, Gender, and Nation: Musings on the Five Wives of Idi Amin." Alicia Decker, history. Women's Studies Program and Dept. of History. Noon-1 p.m. Room 1197, Pao Hall. Beverages and Cookies will be provided.

-- Open forum. Candidate for Purdue provost: Randy Woodson, the Glenn W. Sample Dean of Agriculture at Purdue. Noon, South Ballroom, PMU.

-- Affirmative Action Office workshop. "ADA Audio Conference: The Nature and Scope of Discrimination in Hiring Under ADA Title I." 2-3 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.

-- School of Chemical Engineering 2008 Kelly Lecture. Speaker: Pablo Debenedetti, Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University. Topic: Water in Confinement. 3:30-4:30 p.m. Room G140, Forney Hall.

-- Master Planning Process Public Meeting. Status update on West Lafayette campus master planning process. 6:30 p.m. Room 314, STEW.

Wednesday, March 19

-- School of Chemical Engineering 2008 Kelly Lecture. Speaker: Pablo Debenedetti, Class of 1950 Professor in Engineering and Applied Science, Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University. Topic: Statistical Characteristics of Structure in Complex Systems. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Room B124, Forney Hall.

-- Open forum. Candidate for Purdue provost: Camilla Persson Benbow, dean of the Peabody College of Education and Human Development and professor in the Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University. Noon, South Ballroom, PMU.

-- Jewish Studies Noon Lecture. Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, graduate student, English. "Dangerous Illusions: Moses and the Wandering Jew in Paul Wegener's Der Golem." 12:30 p.m. Room 313, STEW. www.cla.purdue.edu/jewish-studies/ or 49-47965.

-- Network for Computational Nanotechnology lecture. Speaker: Wei Wang, University of Albany. Topic: Exploring CMOS-Nano Hybrid Technology in Three Dimensions. 2:30-3:30 p.m. Room 317, EE.

-- Softball vs. Miami (Ohio). 3 p.m. Varsity Softball Complex. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.

-- The Chronic Care Crisis. Speaker: Robert Kane, MD., Minnesota chair in long-term care and aging, division of health policy and management, University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Sponsored by the Department of Health and Kinesiology and Center for Aging and the Life Course. 3:30 p.m., Room 202, STEW.

-- Purdue Literary Reading Series. Writer Peter Ho Davies will talk about fiction writing. 4 p.m. Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall.

-- Purdue Literary Reading Series. Writer Peter Ho Davies will read from his work. Room 140, KRAN.

Thursday, March 20

-- Affirmative Action Office workshop. "ADA for Supervisors." 10 a.m.-noon. Fu Room (Room 234), Potter Engineering Center. 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.

-- Center for Instructional Excellence workshop. "Integrating Clickers into your Everyday Teaching. 1:30-3 p.m., Room 202, Stewart Center. Facilitators will briefly introduce Clickers as a technology, but the focus of the workshop will be on how to integrate them into
different classroom learning activities.
Registration is open online at http://www.cie.purdue.edu/workshop/register/index.cfm

-- "Sweatshop Workers Speak at Purdue." Purdue Organization for Labor Equality. 7 p.m. Room G016, Krannert Building. Manuel Pujols and Julio Castillo will be visiting Purdue from the TOS Dominicana textile factory in the Dominican Republic. Workers in this factory are subject to sweatshop conditions including forced and upaid overtime, verbal harassment and abuse, and threats and systematic firing for practicing freedom of association. A question-and-answer session will follow a talk by Pujols and Castillo. For more information, contact shahmad@purdue.edu.

March 21-22

-- 2008 Purdue Student Pugwash Midwest Regional Conference. "Energy and the Environment: Powering Future Responsibility." Various campus locations. Peter B. Lyons, commissioner of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission will be the featured speaker. Registration is $25 for the general public, $20 for Purdue students and $10 for high school students. For information: http://www.purdue.edu/pugwash

Friday, March 21

-- Krannert Executive Forum. Speaker: Bradena Payne, procurement project manager, IBM. Topic: "I've Been Moved (IBM)." 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Room 1086, Rawls Hall.

March 22-23

-- Baseball vs. Western Illinois. Saturday: Noon and 3:30 p.m. Sunday: 1 p.m. Lambert Field. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.