October 13, 2009

Today's events

Tuesday, Oct. 13

-- October break. No classes, offices open. Second and final day.

-- ITaP Technology Open House. Designed to provide convenient means for faculty, staff and graduate students to get answers about software issues and technologies for the office or classroom. ITaP's instructional technology consultants to be on hand for two-hour periods according to technology areas of expertise. Overall event is 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Room 283,  Stanley Coulter Hall. More about two-hour periods and registration (not required but encouraged) is at www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/detail.cfm?newsId=1996.

-- Print and Poster Exchange. Visual Arts Committee. 10:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.: second trading session. 12:30-2 p.m.: new loan session. Room 1154, Pao Hall. Continues Tuesday. More on categories and procedures at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/091008_VACposterexchange.html.

-- OIE workshop for National Disability Employment Awareness Month: "What Role Might Your Disability Play in Your Job Search and in the Work Environment?" Office of Institutional Equity. 3-5 p.m. Room 318, STEW. To reserve a space, for more information, or to request a reasonable accommodation: OIE at 49-47253 (voice), 49-61343 (tty), or equity@purdue.edu.

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

-- 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. Open only Wednesday-Friday this week due to October break; no lunch specials. 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.