March 20, 2008

Today's events

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.

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.