June 30, 2008

Events this week

Monday-Friday

-- Exhibition: "57/1: Artists from the Premier Edition of the PMC Guild Annual." Purdue Galleries. Artworks, jewelry created by use of precious metal clay. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday-Friday, and by appointment. Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. For class or group visits, contact Mary Ann Anderson at 49-67899. Through Aug. 1.

-- Exhibition: "From the Kitchen to the Classroom: Lillian Gilbreth and Home Economics." Libraries: Archives and Special Collections. Purdue researcher and innovator in efficiency methods. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Room 279, STEW. www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol. Through Aug. 15.

Tuesday-Saturday

-- Exhibition: "Una Herencia Mexicana" (A Mexican Heritage). Works of Mexican Modernists. Sponsors include Purdue University Galleries and Purdue Latino Cultural Center. 11 a.m.-4 p.m. Art Museum of Greater Lafayette, 102 S. 10th St., Lafayette (south off South Street). 742-1128. Through Aug. 29.

Thursday, July 3

-- Summer session Module 2 ends. Grades due at Office of the Registrar by 5 p.m. July 8 (Tu).

Friday, July 4

-- Independence Day. University holiday. Offices closed. ----- Operator Services Office (telephone) closed from 7 p.m. July 3 (Th) to 7 a.m. July 7 (M). In emergency, call 911 or Purdue police at 49-48221. Questions: 49-43050.

-- Stars and Stripes Celebration. Community event for Independence Day. 7 p.m.: Big Swing Band of Lafayette. 8 p.m.: Lafayette Citizens Band and Greater Lafayette Freedom Singers, with break at 9-9:15 for Tippecanoe Fife and Drum Corps. Music will include "Hail Purdue" conducted by President France A. C—rdova and her husband, Christian Foster. About 10 p.m.: Fireworks. Slayter Center. ----- Traffic and parking notes: Stadium Avenue west of Russell Street will be closed. No parking along McCormick Road and Cherry Lane; towing enforced.

Sunday, July 6

-- Materials and nanotechnology lecture. Masa P. Rao, mechanical engineering. Birck Nanotechnology Center, Center for Advanced Manufacturing. "High-aspect-ratio Micromachining of Titanium." 3:30 p.m. refreshments; 3:45 p.m. seminar. Room 1010, Neil Armstrong Hall.

-- Cleaning begins in north section of Northwestern Avenue Garage. Cleaning to be done 10:30 p.m. to 7 a.m. Through July 18. Vehicles left in the garage during cleaning will be towed at the ownerÕs expense.

Who's on campus this week?

A listing of some conferences and camps of notable size, public interest or visibility, or participation of children, youth or others outside Purdue.

Ongoing: Purdue Athletes Life Success Program (PALS), formerly National Youth Sports Program at Purdue. Through July 11. Ages 10-16. http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2008a/080529HarperPALS.html.

Through Saturday: GERI Summer Residential Camp I. Through grades 7-8 (Star), grades 9-12 (Pulsar). Gifted Education Resource Institute; Dept. of Educational Studies. More at www.education.purdue.edu/centers/geri/youth_programs/Summer_Residential/Summer_Residential.html.

Through Wednesday: LEAP II (Love Engineering at Purdue). Girls grades 7-8. Women in Engineering Programs. https://engineering.purdue.edu/WIEP/Programs.

Monday-Wednesday: Day on Campus. Student Access, Transition and Success Programs, with participating colleges and schools for these dates.

Monday-Thursday: Boys basketball Day Camp. Grades 1-9.