July 20, 2009

Events this week

Tuesday, July 21

-- ADA Audio Conference. "ADA Update: 19 Years Later." Office of Institutional Equity. 2-3:30 p.m. Room 1057, Young Hall. To see description, go to  www.purdue.edu/humanrel/aao/events.shtml; to register online, click on event title on that page. For more information, for registration assistance or to request a reasonable accommodation: OIE at 49-47253 (voice), 49-61343 (tty), or equity@purdue.edu.

Wednesday, July 22

-- 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: Laugh at Linus (acoustic funk); more at www.myspace.com/laughatlinus. Also Roothog (psychedelic, Americana); more at www.myspace.com/roothogmusic. Series continues July 29; more on series at www.union.purdue.edu.

Thursday, July 23

-- 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.

-- Big Ten Network program note from Penn State. "Expert Opinion: The College Student as Athlete" is third of three-part series "Expert Opinion with Graham Spanier," PSU president. 7-8 p.m. Among Spanier's guests is Morgan Burke, Purdue athletics director. For more on the series, go to http://live.psu.edu/story/40487.

Saturday, July 25

-- Big Ten Network football replay of particular note in "Rivalries/Trophy Games" category. Indiana at Purdue from Nov. 22, 2008. 3 p.m.

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: TECh (Technology Experiences Cheerleading). College of Technology. Girls grades 7-12.

Through Friday:  Seminar for Top Engineering Prospects (STEP). Session 3. School of Engineering Education. Grade 11 completed.

Through Friday:  Exciting Discoveries for Girls in Engineering (EDGE). Session I. Women in Engineering Program. Girls, grade 9 or 10 completed.

Through Friday: Multiethnic Introduction to Engineering (MITE). Minority Engineering Program. Grade 11 completed.

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: Purdue Bowling Fundamental Skills Day Camp.

Wednesday-Friday: Purdue Bowling Player Development Camp.

Sunday (July 26) through July 31:  Exciting Discoveries for Girls in Engineering (EDGE). Session II. Women in Engineering Program. Girls, grade 9 or 10 completed.

ONGOING EVENTS

Monday-Friday

-- Exhibition: "Purdue's Place in Space: From the Midwest to the Moon."  Libraries Archives and Special Collections. Includes items from Neil Armstrong, Eugene Cernan and other Purdue astronaut alumni in celebration of 40 years since the first moon landing. 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Monday-Friday. Virginia Kelly Karnes Archives and Special Collections Research Center, fourth floor, STEW. Through Oct. 30. More at www.lib.purdue.edu/spcol. For a group tour, call 49-42839.

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.

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.