November 4, 2008

Today's events

Tuesday, Nov. 4

-- Election Day. Vote centers in Tippecanoe County are open 6 a.m.-6 p.m. One of the 20 centers countywide is in Room 118, PMU. For more on the county's vote centers, go to www.tippecanoe.in.gov/election_board/division.asp?fDD=14-260. When going to vote, be sure to take proper photo ID.

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Using Subjective Tests and Assigning Grades." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Weekly workshop 9 of 10 through Nov. 18 except Nov. 11. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- University Residences Conference Services open house. Information about meeting space, design of newest residence hall; samples from catering menu. 2-4 p.m. Lower level, Shreve Hall. To confirm attendance, 49-48431 or confres@purdue.edu.

-- Sigma Xi lecture. Jan Allebach, electrical and computer engineering. Topic: Imaging algorithms in electronic printers. 2:30 p.m. Room 206, STEW.

-- Chemical Engineering Dow Graduate Seminar Series. You-Yeon Won, Purdue Univ. "Polymer Micelle-Based siRNA Delivery for RNAi Cancer Therapy." 3 p.m. reception, Atrium, Forney Hall. 3:30-4:30 p.m. lecture, Room G140, Forney Hall.

-- "Rich Indian Racism: Indigenous Peoples Confront New Stereotypes in the Forced Federalism Era." Speaker: Author Jeff Corntassel, a member of Tsalagi, which is the Cherokee nation, and author of "Forced Federalism: Contemporary Challenges to Indigenous Nationhood." Sponsored by the Department of History and the Tecumseh Speaker Series, is in celebration of Native American Heritage Month. 3:30 p.m. Room 310, Stewart Center.

-- Ethics and Sciences Seminar. "The Use of Animals for Research: Animal Ethics Panel" with Bernard Rollin, Colorado State Univ., and Mark Bernstein, the Joyce and Edward Brewer Chair in Applied Ethics at Purdue. 5:30-7 p.m. Room 121, Burton Morgan Center.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- Purdue University Galleries and Latino Cultural Center. "Humanigration: The Cárdenas Latino Collection." Artworks related to theme of immigration, and thus LCC's ongoing Humanigration project, from collection of Gilberto Cárdenas, Univ. of Notre Dame. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU, and Stewart Center Gallery. 49-67899 or galleries@purdue.edu or www.purdue.edu/galleries. Exhibition in these two galleries through Dec. 7. Also: Through Nov. 25 at West Gallery of the Patti and Rusty Rueff Galleries, Pao Hall; 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday.

Monday-Friday

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are lentil soup(soup) and salmon roulade (entrée). 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.