September 22, 2008

Events this week

Listings for exhibitions and other ongoing or weeklong events are at the bottom. Also there is information about ticket procedures for most ticketed events.

Monday, Sept. 22

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 4 a.m. "Discovery with Delivery."

-- Jewish Studies Evening Lecture. Anita Norich, professor of English and Judaic studies, University of Michigan. "How Tevye Learned to Fiddle." 8 p.m. Room 310, STEW. 49-47965 or wengera@purdue.edu or www.cla.purdue.edu/jewish-studies/.

Tuesday, Sept. 23

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Presentation Techniques to Enhance Learning." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Weekly workshop 4 of 10 through Nov. 18 except Oct. 14 and Nov. 11. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- McCoy Distinguished Lectures. Recipients of the 2008 Herbert Newby McCoy Award for research contributions to science. Lectures in Fowler Hall, STEW. Joint reception between lectures at 2:30-3:30 p.m. in Stewart Center Gallery.

• 1:30-2:30 p.m. Scott McLuckey, the John A. Leighty Distinguished Professor of Analytical Chemistry. "Ion/Ion Reactions in the Gas Phase: New Chemistry for Bio-analysis."

• 3:30-4:30 p.m. Richard Kuhn, professor of biological sciences and department head, and the Gerald and Edna Mann Director of the Bindley Bioscience Center. "Pursuing Dengue Virus: A 21st Century Scourge."

-- Chemical Engineering Dow Graduate Seminar Series. Alan Gent, Univ. of Akron. "Non-Linear Elasticity: 100 Years of the Poynting Effect." 3 p.m. reception, Atrium, Forney Hall. 3:30-4:30 p.m. lecture, Room G140, Forney Hall.

-- Latino Heritage Month film. "Gaijin: Roads to Freedom" (1983, Portuguese and Japanese with English subtitles, 112 min.) Japanese immigrants settle in Brazil; related to LHM 2008 theme of connections between Latino and Asian cultures. 7 p.m. Room 1010, Neil Armstrong Hall.

Wednesday, Sept. 24

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 10 a.m. "Discovery with Delivery."

-- CTSI Retreat. Itroduction to the Indiana Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CTSI). Learn about applying for pilot grants, research core support, graduate student stipends, help with managing projects. 10:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Burton Morgan Center. http://www.indianactsi.org/news/page/puretreat

-- Graduate School New Faculty Mentoring Workshop. 2-4 p.m. Room 322, STEW. 49-46963.

-- Spanish Conversation Table. Latino Cultural Center weekly table for fall semester. For those who know basic Spanish but want to practice their conversational skills in a friendly group atmosphere. 6-7 p.m. LCC. 49-42530.

-- New Orleans Black Mardi Gras Indians: Performative Street Ritual of Resistance. Presented by Joyce Marie Jackson, geography and anthropology, Louisiana State Univ. 7-8:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

Thursday, Sept. 25

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "When Students Challenge Your Authority." Susan Prieto-Welch, Counseling and Psychological Services; and Tom Turpin, entomology. For faculty, staff, grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Weekly workshop 3 of 5 through Oct. 9.  Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- Physics Department General Colloquium. Speaker: Anatoly Spitkovsky from Princeton University.   Title:  "The Physics Collisionless Shocks." 4 p.m. PHYS 203.  Refreshments at 3:30 p.m. PHYS 242.

-- Proposal writing workshop. Peter Dunn, associate vice provost of research, director of university research administration and compliance, will provide tips, advice and instruction on how to write grants for funding. 7 p.m. STEW 214. Register at www.purdue.edu/gradschool/workshops.

-- PSUB Outdoor Music Series. Performance by Emphasis. Purdue Student Union Board. 7 p.m. Front lawn, PMU. (Rain location: Union Commons, ground floor, PMU.)

-- Bang on a Can All-Stars with special guest Glenn Kotche (of Wilco). Convocations, Catalyst. 7:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse. Tickets: $26-$19.

Sept. 25 - Oct. 5

-- Purdue Theatre. "You Can’t Take It With You" by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; directed by Richard Sullivan Lee. Marquee Series. 7:30 p.m. Sept. 25-27, Oct. 1-4; 3 p.m. Sept. 27, Oct. 5. Nancy T. Hansen Theatre, Pao Hall. Tickets: public, $17; 62+ seniors, $13; students, $10 (Sept. 25 preview, $6).

Friday, Sept. 26

-- Tickets sales open for O.A.R. concert. Student Concert Committee. Concert is Nov. 2. Ticket sales open Friday at 10 a.m. for Purdue faculty, staff and students and Ivy Tech Lafayette students, with current ID. Elliott and Stewart box offices and at 49-43933. For general public, ticket sales open Saturday at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster 743-5151 or www.ticketmaster.com. (Complete box office hours at bottom of this page.)

-- Pioneer Speaker Series. Dr. Judith Monroe, Indiana health commissioner. "Indiana's Public Health Priorities." Purdue Regenstrief Center for Healthcare Engineering. 11:30 a.m. Room 121, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. More at http://www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/rche/.

-- Symposium: "Family Relations and Late Life Health." Topics include stress, chronic illness complications and depression in family caregiving. Center on Aging and the Life Course. 1-5 p.m. Room 206, STEW. Free for Purdue faculty, staff or students and those 65 and older. Registration $40 for general public. For information or to register, http://www.purdue.edu/aging/.

Friday-Saturday (26-27)

-- Flicks at Fowler monthly film series. "Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull." Purdue Student Union Board. 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW. Admission: public, $4; Purdue student ID, $2. Films subject to change. 49-48976.

Saturday, Sept. 27

-- Book Club: La Polilla Café. "Adios to Tears: The Memoirs of a Japanese-Peruvian Internee in U.S. Concentration Camps" by Seiichi Higashide. Latino Heritage Month event on theme of connections between Latino and Asian cultures. 10 a.m. Latino Cultural Center.

-- Shakespeare in Academy Park. Seven scenes selected and performed by auditioned cast of students. Purdue Student Union Board. 3-5 p.m. Academy Park (behind PMU).

-- Delta Phi Mu Latino Heritage Show. A Latino Heritage Month event. 7-9 p.m. Room 210, Matthews Hall.

Sunday, Sept. 28

-- "Birdhouse Factory" by Cirque Mechanics. Convocations, Lively Arts. 3 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Tickets: $35-$15.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Li’l Heads, Too!" Images of heads, small portraits, various media. Visitors can make and add their own work on computer. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Stewart Center Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition through Oct. 12.

-- Purdue University Galleries. "'No Danger' Airplane Show." Paper or other lightweight airplanes, 4 to 20 inches, displaying fine art printmaking. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Robert L. Ringel Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition through Oct. 12.

Monday-Friday

-- 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 Friday.

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are Soup Cream of Tomato ; Entrée: Chicken Pot Pie. 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Stone Hall. Reservations encouraged; call 49-46845. To access the full menu and learn about other dining options from the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management: www.cfs.purdue.edu/htm/about/restaurants.shtml.

TICKETS

Events are free unless noted (except that conference registrations may be omitted here). Ticket prices are for single events, not any series or discount offers. An exception to the following will be noted in the listing.

For varsity athletics tickets, call the Athletic Ticket Office, (765) 494-3194 or (800) 49-SPORT [497-7678]; or visit the office in the Intercollegiate Athletic Facility. The office is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events at IAF, Mackey Arena and Ross-Ade Stadium. For ticketed sports events at other Purdue venues, tickets will be on sale before the event at the venue.

For Purdue Convocations and Purdue Theatre events and some others, go to ticket offices in Elliott Hall (lower level, northeast end by Hovde Hall) or Stewart Center (west lobby), or call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW [914-7469]. The Elliott Hall box office is open 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and before ticketed events there.

Purdue Theatre tickets are sold also at the Pao Hall box office. It is open 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday and before Purdue Theatre performances there.