August 3, 2009

Events this week

Here is a list of events happening Aug. 3-9 at the West Lafayette campus.

Monday, Aug. 3

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 6 a.m.: "Discovery with Delivery." 6:30 a.m.: "In the Spotlight: Band Camp." 2 p.m.: "Purdue Pathways: Space Connection." 10 p.m.: "John Wooden Documentary." 10:30 p.m.: "Boiler Bytes Edition 1." Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.

Thursday, Aug. 6

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 11 a.m.  "Vet School Diaries: Small Animal." 11:30 a.m.: "Vet School Diaries: Large Animal." 7 p.m.: "Purdue Pathways: Space Connection." 3 a.m.: "Boiler Bytes Edition 1." 3:30 a.m.: "Purdue Profiles: Orville Redenbacher." Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.

-- Cyber Center lecture. "Science, Research and Technology at Qatar Foundation: Qatar as a Centre of Middle East's Science Renaissance." Abdelali Haoudi, vice president for research, Qatar Foundation. 10:30 a.m. Room 1142, Lawson Computer Science Building. More at www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/cyber/.

-- First Street Towers public open house. 3-6 p.m. First Street Towers residence hall (east of MacArthur Drive across from Earhart Hall).

-- 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.

Friday, Aug. 7

-- Purdue Day at the Indiana State Fair. More about schedule at www.purdue.edu/events/state_fair/index.shtml. More about exhibits at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/hp/BickerStateFair.html and http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090803AdairPurdueday.html.

Saturday, Aug. 8

-- Commencement. 9:30 a.m. Elliott Hall of Music. By ticket only. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/hp/PassCommencement.html and http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090803DietrichWebcast.html.

-- La Polilla Café. Bilingual book discussion of "Into the Beautiful North" by Luis Alberto Urrea. Latino Cultural Center. 10 a.m. LCC.

Sunday, Aug. 9

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 8 a.m.: "In the Spotlight: Band Camp." 8:30 a.m.: "Boiler Bytes Edition 1." 4 p.m.: "Purdue Pathways: Space Connection." Midnight: "Vet School Diaries: Small Animal." 12:30 a.m.: "Vet School Diaries: Large Animal." Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.

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 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.

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.

-- Exhibition: "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World: Selections from the Permanent Collection." Purdue University Galleries. Through Dec. 6 in the Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. 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.