July 6, 2009

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.

Tuesday, July 7

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 9:30 p.m. "Discovery with Delivery." Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.

Wednesday, July 8

-- Summer Concert Series. Purdue Memorial Union. 5:30 p.m.: meals for purchase. 6:30-8 p.m.: free music. Outside the Union (rain location is the North Ballroom). Meals: choose one of four grilled items plus two sides and a drink for $5; or select from a la carte options and the Pappy’s ice cream cart. Music: Michael Kelsey (acoustic rock); more at www.michaelkelsey.com. Series continues July 15, 22, 29; more on series at www.union.purdue.edu.

Thursday, July 9

-- Purdue presence at Indiana Black Expo. Through July 19. Indianapolis.
 
-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 2:30 p.m. "Discovery with Delivery."

-- Farmers market on campus. Physical Facilities. Fresh fruits and vegetables, baked goods, other items from area growers and merchants. 3-6:30 p.m. Thursdays through Aug. 13. Lot on southeast corner of intersection of Sheetz and Woods streets, just west of Dauch Alumni Center. More on this and other local farmers markets at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/090505_FarmersMarket.html.

-- Book fair with Scholastic books. Benefit for children and families of the Patty Jischke Early Care and Education Center. 6-8:30 p.m. At the center, 90 Nimitz Drive (in Purdue Village area). Information: Nicole McLeland at (765) 743-6503 or nicole.mcleland@childrenschoice.com.

Friday, July 10

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 11:30 a.m. "Discovery with Delivery."

Saturday, July 11

-- Purdue Day in Chicago. Reception and exhibit tour with President France A. Córdova. 6 p.m. Art Institute of Chicago. $30. More including RSVP instructions at www.purdue.edu/events/events/PurdueDayinChicago.shtml.

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. For more about camps, see www.conf.purdue.edu/attend/ or www.purduesports.com.

Through Thursday: Tennis Camp, session II.

Through Friday: Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects (STEP). School of Engineering Education. Grade 11 completed.

Through Saturday: GERI Summer Residential Camp – Comet I for grades 5-6 (completed). Gifted Education Resource Institute; Dept. of Educational Studies, College of Education.

Through July 18: GERI Summer Residential Camp – Star II for grades 7-8 (completed) and Pulsar II for grades 9-12 (completed). Gifted Education Resource Institute; Dept. of Educational Studies, College of Education.

Through Aug. 7: ABC (Academic Boot Camp). Incoming first-year students. Programs by the colleges of Engineering, Science and Technology with the Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation.

Monday-Friday: Purdue Athletes Life Success Program (PALS). Week 4. Department of Health and Kinesiology. Ages 10-16.

Monday-Friday: Purdue Guitar Workshop. High school seniors and adults.

Friday-Sunday: Volleyball General Skills Camp. Ages 11-18.

Sunday (July 12) through July 17: INSPIRE Summer Academy. Institute for P-12 Engineering Research and Learning. School of Engineering Education. For teachers.

Sunday (July 12) through July 17: Pre-Freshman and Cooperative Education (PREFACE). Minority Engineering Program. Grade 9 or 10 completed.

Sunday (July 12) through July 17: Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects (STEP). Second session. School of Engineering Education. Grade 11 completed.

Sunday (July 12) through July 18: GERI Summer Residential Camp – Comet II for grades 5-6 (completed). Gifted Education Resource Institute; Dept. of Educational Studies, College of Education.

Sunday (July 12) through July 24: Multiethnic Introduction to Engineering (MITE). Minority Engineering Program. Grade 11 completed.

ONGOING EVENTS

Note: Purdue University Galleries will be closed during July. The exhibition "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World: Selections from the Permanent Collection" will reopen Aug. 3 and continue through Dec. 6. It is in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Purdue Memorial Union. For Aug. 3-21, the gallery will observe summer hours of 10 a.m.-2 p.m. Monday-Friday and by appointment. Beginning Aug. 24, it will resume normal hours of 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. On Aug. 31, "Living Stone: The Casts Project" will open on the same normal hours in the Stewart Center Gallery. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

Monday-Friday

-- Exhibition: “Portrait of a Founder: John Purdue and Purdue University.” Libraries Archives and Special Collections. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, fourth floor, STEW. Through July 16. More at www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol.

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.-4 p.m. Monday-Friday during the summer. The Pao Hall box office is closed during the summer.

More about box offices and venues is at www.housing.purdue.edu/HTML/HallOfMusic/Welcome.html.