Purdue Today

November 30, 2009

Events this week

Here is a list of events happening Nov. 30-Dec. 6 at the West Lafayette campus.

Monday, Nov. 30

-- Matt Painter Radio Show. With host Larry Clisby. 6-7 p.m. From Puccini's on the Levee; with questions from live audience and callers. Carried on Purdue Sports Network stations; flagship station is WHSP-95.7 FM in Lafayette, and list of stations is at www.purduesports.com/sports/m-baskbl/spec-rel/m-bball-radio-network.html. More about the coach's radio show and television show is on that page also.

-- Sharon Versyp Radio Show. With host Tim Newton. 7:10 p.m. From Puccini's on the Levee; with questions from live audience and callers. Carried on WBPE-95.3 FM in Lafayette. More about the coach's radio show and television show (normally at noon Saturday on WLFI) is at www.purduesports.com/sports/w-baskbl/pur-w-baskbl-body.html; under Sport Links on right, click "Radio and TV Information."

 

Tuesday, Dec. 1

-- Vizard 3.0 training course. Vizard is a virtual reality programming and development platform for creating 3-D environments, computer-controlled avatars and interactive activities. 11:30 a.m. Envision Center. More at www.itap.purdue.edu/newsroom/detail.cfm?newsId=2037.

-- Chemical Engineering Graduate Seminar Series. Alexander Couzis, City College of New York. "Spatially Addressable Biosensor Arrays Based on Liposome Self-Assembly into Microwells." 3 p.m. reception, Atrium, Forney Hall. 3:30-4:30 p.m. lecture, Room G140, Forney Hall.

-- Chamber Music Recital I. Purdue Bands & Orchestras. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

-- Men's basketball vs. Wake Forest. ACC/Big Ten Challenge. 7 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $22.

 

Wednesday, Dec. 2

-- 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 secular or non-theist. Room 313, STEW. Program schedule and information at www.purdue.edu/odos/aboutodos/odosdiversitydayinthelifeseriesschedule.php.

-- Legal Issues Webinar. "Employer Defenses Under the ADA." Office of Institutional Equity. 2-3:30 p.m. Room 1057, Young Hall. Online registration for this workshop is at www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/events.shtml; select event title and date. For more information, for registration assistance or to request a reasonable accommodation: OIE at 49-47253 (voice), 49-61343 (tty), or equity@purdue.edu.

-- Student auditions for "Boiler Bytes" host and segment reporters. Program appears on Big Ten Network; segments also appear on Purdue's Web and YouTube sites. If selected, compensation is $50 plus experience. 4-7 p.m. Room B22, STEW. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/091106_BoilerBytesAuditions.html.

 

Thursday, Dec. 3

-- OIE/HR Staff Recruitment and Selection Series workshop: "The Essentials of Staff Recruitment and Selection." Office of Institutional Equity and Human Resource Services Employment. Workshop's focus is on role of hiring supervisors and committees in entire process of hiring staff. 9:30-11:30 a.m. Room 313, STEW. To register online, go to www.purdue.edu/ethics/oie/events.shtml  and click on the appropriate workshop title by date. For more information or to request a reasonable accommodation, contact OIE at 49-47253 (voice), 49-61343 (tty), or equity@purdue.edu.

-- Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship (Pharmacy). Suzanne Hill, secretary to the Expert Committee on Essential Medicines, World Health Organization. "Medicines, Money, and the Millennium." School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice; a 125th anniversary event. Reception at 3:30 p.m.; lecture at 4 p.m. Room  306, STEW. Additional lecture Friday morning. More at www.pharmacy.purdue.edu/tyler/.

-- Physics Department General Colloquium. Elena Aprile, Columbia Univ. "The Search for Dark Matter with the XENON Experiment." 3:30 p.m.: Refreshments in Room 298, Physics Building. 4 p.m.: Talk in Room 203, Physics Building. More at www.physics.purdue.edu/colloq.

-- Purdue on BTN. Big Ten Network. "The Sharon Versyp Show." 5:30 p.m. Summary of Big Ten athletics and Purdue-produced campus programming on BTN is at www.bigtennetwork.com/schedule/Big-Ten-Network-Purdue-programming.asp.

-- Chamber Music Recital II. Purdue Bands & Orchestras. 7 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW.

 

Friday, Dec. 4

-- Open forum with candidate for associate dean for distance  learning, Continuing Education and Conferences. David Blakesley. 9-10  a.m. Room 322, STEW. Open to faculty, staff and students. (Other 
candidate presentations: Dec. 11, 18.)

-- Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship (Pharmacy). Suzanne Hill, secretary to the Expert Committee on Essential Medicines, World Health Organization. "Old Drugs, New Questions: Improving Treatment for Children with TB." School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Department of Pharmacy Practice; a 125th anniversary event. 10:30 a.m. Fowler Hall, STEW. More at www.pharmacy.purdue.edu/tyler/.

-- LA Influentials weekly speaker. College of Liberal Arts. Cindy Fornelli, alumna, executive director, Center for Audit Quality, on "Typing in Russian and Other Lessons Along the Way." 11:30 a.m.-12:20 p.m. Room 2290, Beering Hall. Class meeting; seating for others as available.

-- Networking retreat at student poster research competition. Poster topics are health care systems and products, as well as cancer prevention. Dept. of Foods and Nutrition, Regenstrief Center, Oncological Sciences Center. 1-3 p.m. Mann Hall. More at http://news.uns.purdue.edu/insidepurdue/2009/091119_DP-PosterCompetition.html.

-- Cultural Arts Festival. Black Cultural Center. 7 p.m. Loeb Playhouse, STEW. Admission: public, $7; student, $5.

-- Flicks at Fowler monthly film series. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Purdue Student Union Board. 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW. Admission: public, $4; Purdue student ID, now free. Films subject to change. 49-48976. Also Saturday at same times.

 

Saturday, Dec. 5

-- La Polilla Café. Bilingual book discussion of "Faults: A Novel" by Terri de la Peña. Latino Cultural Center. 10 a.m. LCC.

-- Men's basketball vs. Buffalo. 5 p.m. Mackey Arena. Tickets: $22.

-- Flicks at Fowler monthly film series. "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Purdue Student Union Board. 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Fowler Hall, STEW. Admission: public, $4; Purdue student ID, now free. Films subject to change. 49-48976.

-- Purdue Philharmonic and Symphony Orchestras. Purdue Bands & Orchestras. Featuring pianist Jason Wu in George Gershwin's famous tone poem "Rhapsody in Blue." 8 p.m. Long Center, 111 N. Sixth St., Lafayette.

 

Sunday, Dec. 6

-- Purdue National Poinsettia Trials Consumer Open House. Dept. of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue Extension, others. 1-5 p.m. Horticulture Greenhouse, Marsteller and Harrison streets. Drawings to win poinsettias. Questions: Tammy Goodale at 49-41296 or tgoodale@purdue.edu.

-- Purdue music in Lafayette-West Lafayette Christmas Parade. "All-American" Marching Band (Purdue Bands & Orchestras) and Purdue Musical Organizations. 2 p.m. Downtown Lafayette. More at www.lafayettewestlafayettechristmasparade.com/.

 

ONGOING EVENTS

All week

--Exhibition: "Hard Rain: The Late Works of Mary Hambleton." Purdue University Galleries. Paintings chronicling artist's journey of living with cancer; exhibition in collaboration with Purdue Oncological Sciences Center's annual "Cancer, Culture and Community" events. Stewart Center Gallery. Hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Monday-Saturday, plus until 8 p.m. Thursday; 1-5 p.m. Sunday. Through Dec. 6. 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

-- John Purdue Room Lunch Special. Information on this week's featured specials in the John Purdue Room (soup and entrée) was not available; call or check the link below. 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.