July 7, 2008
Events this week
Here is a list of events happening July 7-13 at the West Lafayette campus.
All week
-- Cleaning 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.
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.
Monday, July 7
-- Summer session Module 3 begins. Through Aug. 1.
Wednesday, July 9
-- Summer Concert Series. Free music; optional ticketed dinner. Purdue Memorial Union. Dinner serving starts at 5:30 p.m.; pay at event; adults, $11; children under 10, free. Music is 6:30-8 p.m. Front lawn, PMU (rain location, North Ballroom). Menu from Flatbreads is "things that make you go hmm"; brie & apples, asian chicken salad; toasted bread salad; cookies & brownies; water, iced tea, lemonade. Music is acoustic by Michael Kelsey (www.michaelkelsey.com). Other information at www.union.purdue.edu.
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 or July 19: GERI Summer Residential Camps. Grades 5-6, Comet (Session I, this week); 7-8, Star II (two weeks); grades 9-12, Pulsar II (two weeks). Gifted Education Resource Institute; Dept. of Educational Studies. More at www.education.purdue.edu/centers/geri/youth_programs/Summer_Residential/Summer_Residential.html.
Through Friday: Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects (STEP). Session 1. Grade 12. Department of Engineering Education. https://engineering.purdue.edu/ENE/InfoFor/FutureStudents/visitUs/STEP.
Through Friday: Pre-Freshman and Cooperative Education (PREFACE). Grades 9-10. Minority Engineering Programs. https://engineering.purdue.edu/MEP/.
Through July 18: Multiethnic Introduction To Engineering (MITE). Grade 11. Minority Engineering Programs. https://engineering.purdue.edu/MEP/.
Monday-Thursday: Technology Advances Girl Scouts (TAGS) I. Grades 6-8. College of Technology in partnership with Girl Scouts of America. www.tech.purdue.edu/camps/TAGS_I/.
Monday-Friday: Boiler Kids Camp. Session 4. Division of Recreational Sports. Ages 5-12. Recreational Sports Center, Boilermaker Aquatic Center, playing fields. http://www.purdue.edu/bkc/.
Monday-July 18: SPIRIT Institute for High School Teachers. Colleges of Technology and Science.
Monday-Aug. 2: Academic Boot Camp. Preparatory courses for incoming multicultural freshmen. Colleges of Engineering, Science and Technology.
Friday-July 13: Volleyball General Skills Camps. Intercollegiate Athletics.