Events this week

October 5, 2009

Events this week

Here is a list of events happening Oct. 5-11 at the West Lafayette campus.

Monday, Oct. 5

-- ASME International Manufacturing Science and Engineering Conference. American Society of Mechanical Engineers. Welcome by Richard Buckius, vice president for research, at 8:30 a.m. Fowler Hall, STEW. Conference continues through Tuesday. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/hp/ShinConference.html.

-- PURA monthly luncheon. Purdue University Retirees Association. Food line open at 11 a.m.; program begins at noon. MCL Cafeteria, 521 Sagamore Parkway West. $ for meal. More about PURA at www.purdue.edu/retirees.

Tuesday, Oct. 6

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 1: Basics of Teaching. "Creating the Engaged Classroom: Discussion Techniques." For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Weekly workshop 6 of 10 through Nov. 10 except Oct. 13. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- HTM's Darden Series: Executives in the Classroom. Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Steve Bauman, vice president of talent acquisition, Marriott International Inc. 10:30 a.m. Room 114, Physics Building. Series information at www.cfs.purdue.edu/HTM/industry/Darden.shtml.

-- Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series. Peter Monson, Univ. of Massachusetts. "Molecular Modeling of the Thermodynamics and Dynamics of Adsorption in Mesoporous Materials." 3 p.m. reception, Atrium, Forney Hall. 3:30-4:30 p.m. lecture, Room G140, Forney Hall.

Wednesday, Oct. 7

-- Pre-enrollment benefits information session with CIGNA. HRS Staff Benefits. Presentation of 20-30 minutes by CIGNA (Purdue's 2010 medical plan administrator) followed by Q&A. 9-11 a.m. Room 1142, Lawson Computer Science Building. More including list of all pre-enrollment session times at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/091002_CIGNASessions.html.

-- Breast Cancer Awareness Day events. Sigma Xi, Purdue Breast Cancer Discovery Group, and Purdue Center for Cancer Research. Two events: (1) Lecture by Mina Bissell, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Noon-1 p.m. Deans Auditorium, Pfendler Hall. Reception following. (2) Presentations by three women in Indiana who are involved in the fight against breast cancer: Dr. Sue Clare, Indiana University Simon Cancer Center, on
"The Susan G. Komen for the Cure(r) Tissue Bank at the IU Simon Cancer Center: How Normal Breast Tissue Can Facilitate Breast Cancer Research"; Meghan McDonough, health and kinesiology, and Purdue Breast Cancer Discovery Group, on "Moving Forward: Physical Activity and Breast Cancer Survivorship"; and Claudia Kruggel, consumer advocate, member of Consumer Advocates in Research and Related Activities in the National Cancer Institute (NCI-CARRA), on "The Impact of Consumer Advocate Involvement in Research." 6-8 p.m. YWCA, 605 N. Sixth St., Lafayette. Reception following.

-- A Day in the Life brown bag lunch talk. Discussion of student experiences and identities. Office of the Dean of Students with others. Noon-1:30 p.m. on alternate Wednesdays. This week: students who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, or questioning (LGBTQ). Room G066, Haas Hall. Program information and schedule at www.purdue.edu/odos/dayinthelife.html.

-- "Global China Forum: Images of China." Confucius Institute at Purdue, others. 1 p.m. opening; continues to 9 p.m. Thursday. Rooms 202 and 206, STEW. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090026. Also at www.purdue.edu/crcs/itemMeetings/globalChinaForum/2009/global%20china%20forumPPT.pdf.

-- Diaspora Discussion: "The Diversity of Blackness: Identifying Cultural Norms of Blacks from West Africa, the Caribbean, and the United States." Black Cultural Center. 2 p.m. Multipurpose Room 1, BCC.

-- Demonstration of no-added-oil radiant food fryer. Kevin Keener, food science. Those attending should meet just before 2 p.m. outside the Food Science Pilot Lab, Room 1135, Food Science Building. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090930T-KennerRadiant.html.

-- Puppy owner orientation session for owners and prospective owners. Animal Behavior Clinic. Session covers development, communication, learning and socialization, and is prerequisite for four-week ABC Puppy School. Meet at 5:25 in reception area of Small Animal Clinic, Lynn Hall. Orientation offered again Oct. 21.

-- Diversity Café Film Screening: "Under the Same Moon (La Misma Luna)." (2007, drama, Patricia Riggen, 106 min.) Diversity Resource Office; Latino Heritage Month event. 7 p.m. Room 1142, Lawson Computer Science Building.

-- Women's Studies 2nd Annual Film Festival. Theme: "Iraq and Afghanistan: Women and the War on Terror." Women's Studies Program, others. Event 1 of 4 weekly events: "My Home, Your War" (2006, 52 minutes). 7 p.m. Room 303, University Hall. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090010.

-- "Waiting for Godot": The Classical Theatre of Harlem's production of Samuel Beckett's play. Convocations, Theatre. 7:30 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW. With Experience+ options. Tickets: $28-$20. Also Thursday. More at www.convocations.org.

Thursday, Oct. 8

-- Symposium on Vaccine Research: New Developments and Opportunities. Center for Global Research and Intervention in Infectious Diseases, an affiliate of Bindley Bioscience Center. 8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Room 121, Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship. Keynote at 9 a.m.: Gregory Poland, director of Mayo Clinic's Vaccine Research Group and editor-in-chief of the journal Vaccine. Free, but registration required: www.purdue.edu/discoverypark/C-GRIID/fall09symposium.php. Questions: 49-42276 or lml@purdue.edu.

-- OIE/HR Staff Recruitment and Selection Series workshops. Choose any or all of three workshops (see next paragraphs below) by Office of Institutional Equity and Human Resource Services Employment. To register online, go to www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/events.shtml and click on the appropriate workshop title(s) 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. 9-9:50 a.m. Room 204, STEW.

* "A Guide to Reference Checking." Workshop's focus is on the who, what, when, how, and why of reference checking. 10-10:50 a.m. Room 204, STEW.

* "Diversity in Employment." Workshop's focus is conversation with suggestions for recruiting and retaining. 11-11:50 a.m. Room 204, STEW.

-- College Teaching Workshop Series 2: Expanding Your Teaching Toolkit. "How to Get Your Students to Take Responsibility for Their Learning." Pete Bill, basic medical sciences. For faculty, staff and grad students. Center for Instructional Excellence. 9-10:30 a.m. Workshop 4 of 5 in series through Oct. 22. Registration required: www.cie.purdue.edu. Questions: 49-66422 or CIE@purdue.edu.

-- "Global China Forum: Images of China." Confucius Institute at Purdue, others. All day to 9 p.m. Rooms 202 and 206, STEW. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090026.

-- Purdue campus programming on BTN. Big Ten Network. 10:30 a.m.: "Boiler Bytes 3." 4:30 p.m.: " Boiler Bytes 3." Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.

-- Physics Department General Colloquium. Kameshar Wali, Syracuse Univ. "Styendra Nath Bose (1874-1974) and S. Chandrasekhar (1910-1995)." 3:30 p.m.: Refreshments in Room 242, Physics Building. 4 p.m.: Talk in Room 203, Physics Building. More at www.physics.purdue.edu/colloq.

-- Author lecture. Helena Maria Viramontes, Cornell Univ. Latino Cultural Center, Latin American and Latino Studies, others. 4 p.m. Room 218C&D, STEW. See also book reading on Friday. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090029.

-- Philosophy colloquium. "Modes of Knowing: Autism, Fiction, and Second-person Perspectives." Eleonore Stump, Saint Louis University. 4:30-6:30 p.m. Room 1268, Beering Hall. An Experience Liberal Arts month event.

Friday, Oct. 9

-- Book reading. Helena Maria Viramontes, Cornell Univ. Latino Cultural Center, Latin American and Latino Studies, others. Noon. Anniversary Drawing Room, PMU. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More at www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090030.

Atrium White Elephant Sale and Silent Auction. Sponsored by Purdue United Way Campaign team captains from the College of Engineering. A basketball autographed by men's basketball head coach Matt Painter and a football autographed by football head coach Danny Hope will be in the silent auction. All proceeds go to the United Way. 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Atrium of Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering.

-- LA Influentials weekly speaker. College of Liberal Arts. Earl Major, director of human resource practices at Humana. 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Room 2290, Beering Hall. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. More information available at: http://www.cla.purdue.edu/alumni/gs300/. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. Information about the month is available at http://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/

-- W. Edwards Deming Institute Fall Conference. Registration and reception Friday evening. Program Saturday and until noon Sunday. STEW and PMU. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/x/2009b/090909OLSConference.html.

-- Department of Biochemistry 75th anniversary celebration. Welcome reception 5 p.m. Program events on Saturday. More at www.ag.purdue.edu/biochem/department/Pages/75thWelcome.aspx.

-- Purdue on BTN. Big Ten Network. "The Danny Hope Show." 5 p.m.

Saturday, Oct. 10

-- Unofficial start of October break. No classes Monday or Tuesday (Oct. 12-13).

-- Men's tennis. Purdue Fall Invitational. All day. Schwartz Tennis Center.

-- Softball. Purdue Fall Tournament. Three-game round robin: 10 a.m.: Purdue vs. IUPUI; 12:30 p.m.: Heartland vs. IUPUI; 3 p.m.: Purdue vs. Heartland. Varsity Softball Complex. Tickets: public, $5; student, $2; group of 15 or more, $1 per ticket. (on game day, tickets sold at xite starting one hour before play).

-- Swimming and diving (M&W). Indiana Intercollegiates. Noon. Boilermaker Aquatic Center.

Sunday, Oct. 11

-- Men's tennis. Purdue Fall Invitational. All day. Schwartz Tennis Center.

-- Softball. Purdue Fall Tournament. Three-game round robin: 10 a.m.: Purdue vs. Saint Joseph's (Ind.); 12:30 p.m.: IU Southeast vs. St. Joseph's (Ind.); 3 p.m.: Purdue vs. IU Southeast. Varsity Softball Complex. Tickets: public, $5; student, $2; group of 15 or more, $1 per ticket. (on game day, tickets sold at site starting one hour before play).

-- Soccer (women’s) vs. Minnesota. 1 p.m. Varsity Soccer Complex. Tickets: adult, $5; student, $2; groups of 15 or more, $1 each (on day of match, tickets are sold only at site starting one hour before play).

-- Just Walk for the Health of It!/Walk Across Indiana. Department of Health and Kinesiology, Extension, and local sponsors 1-3:30 p.m. Tippecanoe County Fairgrounds, 1010 Teal Road, Lafayette. An Experience Liberal Arts month event. Information about the month at http://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- Exhibition: “Living Stone: The Casts Project.” Purdue University Galleries. Setting in keeping with studio practice, using prints by Jim Dine, plaster casts, and artworks from classes and visitors. Through Sunday (Oct. 11) in Stewart Center Gallery. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus until 8 p.m. Thursday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

-- Exhibition: Rotating Selections from the Permanent Collection. Purdue University Galleries. Current: "Shrouds, Masks, and the Floating World." Robert L. Ringel Gallery, PMU. 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus Thursday until 8 p.m.; and 1-5 p.m. Sunday. More about Galleries is at www.purdue.edu/galleries.

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.

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. This week, the featured specials in the John Purdue Room are cream of mushroom (soup) and salmon cakes (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 two hours before ticketed events there. The Stewart Center box office is open 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Monday-Friday and two hours 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 two hours before ticketed events there.

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