Today's events

Tuesday, Nov. 18

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Dealing with Cheating: Prevention and Response." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Weekly workshop 10 of 10. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- High Energy Physics Seminar. Department of Physics. Steve Sekula, Ohio State Univ. "The White Elephant: Upsilon Physics at the Babar B-factory." Refreshments at 3 p.m.; talk at 3:30 p.m. Room 242, Physics Building.

-- Men's basketball vs. Georgia or Loyola-Chicago. Monday’s losers at 4 p.m., winners at 7 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $20. ----- NOTES: Team advancing from this bracket advances to semifinal at 7 or 9 p.m. Nov. 26 and either the consolation game at 1:30 p.m. or championship game at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 28 at Madison Square Garden in New York. All four games from New York are to be televised on ESPN2. ----- A PDF of the entire 16-team bracket is at http://nit.org; link is at top of left column.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- Purdue International Week. In observance of International Education Week. Office of International Students and Scholars. Events listed at http://purdueinternationalweek.web.officelive.com/events.aspx. Also note entry above at noon Friday.

-- Fall Harvest Food Drive. Boiler Volunteer Network. Through Friday. Drive supports Food Finders Food Bank, which provides help in 16 counties including Tippecanoe. Collect non-perishable foods, then take them to collection point at west end of Stewart Center. Collection times, for which volunteers will be needed (shifts in one-hour increments), are noon-7 p.m. Nov. 20, noon-7 p.m. Nov. 21, and 9-11 a.m. Nov. 22. To volunteer or learn more: 49-62450 or bvn@purdue.edu.

-- 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 senate bean (soup) and Irish pork (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.