February 18, 2009

Today's events

Wednesday, Feb. 18

-- "A, B, C's of Service-Learning." Center for Instructional Excellence. Service learning's definition, objectives, outcomes and models. Presented by the 2008 Community of Service-Learning Faculty Fellows: Judy T. Chen, pharmacy; Judith A. Myers-Walls, child development and family studies; Linda Prokopy, forestry and natural resources; Dawn Marsh, history; Marifran Mattson, communication. 9-10:30 a.m. Room 314, STEW. To register: www.cie.purdue.edu/workshop/register/index.cfm.

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "Engaging Your Students in a Classroom Full of Laptops, iPods, and Cell Phones." Rosalee Clawson, political science. For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 1:30-3 p.m. Workshop 4 of 5 in series through Feb. 26. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- OIE/HR workshops. Choose any or all of three workshops in Staff Recruitment and Selection Series by Office of Institutional Equity and Human Resource Services Employment. To register online, go to http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/090128_AAOsessions.html and click on the appropriate workshop title by date. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact OIE at 49-47253 (voice), 49-61343 (tty), or equity@purdue.edu.

"Conducting Quality Interviews." Workshop's focus is on role of supervisors and the tools and practices that will help them. 1:30-2:20 p.m. Room 318, STEW.

"A Guide to Reference Checking." Workshop's focus is on the who, what, when, how, and why of reference checking. 2:30-3:20 p.m. Room 318, STEW.

"Diversity in Employment." Workshop's focus is conversation with ten suggestions for recruiting and retaining. 3:30-4:20 p.m. Room 318, STEW.

-- Religious Studies talk. Ann Astell, Univ. of Notre Dame. "Seeking Sanctuary: Virginia Woolf's 'A Room of One's Own' and Edith Stein's Carmel." Religious Studies program and the Aquinas Educational Foundation. 4:30 p.m. Krannert Auditorium, Krannert Building. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009a/090126BayAstell.html.

-- Art History Gala. Art history area, Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. Celebration of the program, events, new Web site and more. 5:30-7 p.m. Room 1197, Pao Hall (first floor). More at www.cla.purdue.edu/vpa /arthistory.

-- Weekly Spanish conversation table. Latino Cultural Center. For those who know basic Spanish but want to practice their conversational skills in a friendly atmosphere. 6-7 p.m. LCC. 49-42530.

All week

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Kristy Deetz: 'Earth Texts.'" Wood relief sculptures based on words and characteristics associated with books. 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 Feb. 22.

-- Purdue University Galleries. "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World: Selections from the Permanent Collection." This is the first exhibition in a new annual format allowing more extensively researched presentation of works contributed by donors, as well as dedicated use of a gallery for this purpose. 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 Dec. 6.

Monday-Friday

-- Project Respect exhibition "To Know My Mother's Name." African American Studies and Research Center, Black Cultural Center. Portraits by Delita Martin, graduate student in visual and performing arts. 10 a.m.-8 p.m. Monday-Friday through Feb. 25. Lounge, BCC.

-- Rueff Galleries: West Gallery. "Sad Girl/Clever Boy." A collaborative performance-based project that seeks to explore two popular trends among emerging contemporary artists, mainly post-feminist representation and prolonged or glorified adolescence, in female and male artists respectively. Brown Bag Lecture by Katherine Cunningham at noon Thursday (Feb. 19) in the gallery. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Pao Hall. 49-62958. Through Feb. 20.

-- Rueff Galleries: East Gallery. "Gardens and Machines: The Suburban Life." Works by five students who examined nature and technology in the American suburbs. Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Friday. Pao Hall. 49-62958. Through Feb. 26.

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are broccoli cheddar (soup) and penna alla vodka (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.

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. More at www.purduesports.com.
 
For Purdue Convocations and Purdue Theatre events and some others as announced, 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.
 
More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic/Welcome.html.