April 23, 2008

Today's events

Wednesday, April 23

-- Purposeful Living in Retirement. Purdue University Retirees Association. 8:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. University Plaza Hotel.

-- Symposium celebrating Center on Religion and Chinese Society. Keynote speaker: Robert Weller, professor of anthropology, Boston university. Topic: Religion and the Public Good in the Chinese World. Symposium is 2-5:30 p.m. Room 129, Burton Morgan Center. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/UNS/hp/YangCenter.html

-- "Nonvolatile Flash Memory: An Overview." Speaker: Souvik Mahapatra, Department of electrical Engineering, IIT Bombay, India. Sponsored by the Network for Computational Nanotechnology. 2:30 p.m. Room 317, EE.

-- Baseball vs. Ball State. 4 p.m. Lambert Field. Tickets: public, $5; students, $2.

Monday-Friday

-- Through April 29. "Chronicling Women's History at Purdue: Selections from the Susan Bulkeley Butler Women's Archives." Artifacts, documents and photographshighlighting the history of University women. The exhibit includes collections on the "Queen of American Agriculture," the "Mother of Modern Management," Amelia Earhart and more. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Room 279, STEW. www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol.

-- Fine Arts Senior Exhibition. Annual exhibition of artworks from seniors majoring in the fine arts including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, textiles and metals. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall. Through April 25.

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials are Gazpacho & Seared Pork with Pineapple Salsa. To access the menu: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.