October 26, 2007

Purdue Events Calendar

Events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar at https://calendar.purdue.edu

EVENTS

-- Oct. 26. 8 p.m. The Seventh Annual Boilermaker Night Train parade. Third and Russell streets. Alumni are invited to march in the parade. Those marching should meet at 7 p.m. at the south end of the Purdue Armory.

-- Oct. 26. 9:30 p.m. Homecoming pep rally. Slayter Hill. Actor Dennis Haskins, known for his role as Mr. Belding on "Saved by the Bell," will emcee the rally. The Purdue "All-American" Marching Band, Spirit Team and Dance Team will perform. Fireworks are scheduled to begin immediately following the pep rally. The parade route and a list of Homecoming court members is at https://www.purdue.edu/uns/x/2007b/071003CernyHomecoming.html. The Homecoming king and queen will be announced and crowned during the pep rally and will be introduced during halftime of the Purdue-Northwestern game on Saturday, Oct. 27.

-- Oct. 26-30. NASA "Vision for Space Exploration Experience" exhibit. Trailer near Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, Stadium and Northwestern avenues.  The exhibit will be open10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 26; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 27; 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 28, with priority given to youth groups that preregister; and 3-7 p.m. Oct. 29 and Oct. 30.

-- Oct. 27. 9-11 a.m. Homecoming events on Purdue Mall. The celebration on the Purdue Mall will feature more than 40 tents housing displays by colleges, schools, departments and divisions. Details are available at https://www.purdue.edu/homecoming.

-- Oct. 27. 10 a.m. Dedication of the Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering. Stadium and Northwestern avenues . Armstrong and other Purdue astronaut alumni will be present. A link to a live Webcast of the dedication will be available on the Purdue home page at https://www.purdue.edu

-- Oct. 28. 1 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Co-hosts of the Discovery Channel's popular television show "MythBusters" will present clips that never aired and answer questions from the audience. Tickets are $18 for the general public and $10 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW.

-- Oct. 29. 4 p.m. Ceremony for Bill and Sally Hanley Hall. Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, State Street and Martin Jischke Drive near Fowler House. Hanley Hall will house the Human Development Institute. A faculty lecture at 2:30 p.m. will precede the ceremony.

-- Oct. 30. 11 a.m. Celebration of the success of fundraising for Marriott Hall to house the Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management. Northwest corner of State and University streets.

-- Oct. 31. 10:30 a.m. Dedication of the Beck Agricultural Center. Purdue Agronomy Center for Research and Education on U.S. 52, located about seven miles northwest of the West Lafayette campus. The building will provide facilities for educational opportunities for all ages.

-- Nov. 2. 4-7 p.m. Morton Community Cetner, 222 N. Chancey Ave. Purdue's Latino Cultural Center celebrates Dia de los Muertos with the community.  There will be crafts, music and food to honor those who have departed. Contact LCC, (765) 494-2530.

** -- Nov. 5. 8 p.m. Hillenbrand Hall. All-Campus Reception for the 2007 Old Masters. The Old Masters include Beth Brooke, Sally A. Brown, Glenn Campbell, Lt. Gen. John Hudson, Mike Jackson, Tom Keiser, Marjorie Randolph, Scott Serota and Carolyn Woo.

ENTERTAINMENT

-- Through Oct. 28. Carole and Gordon Mallett Theatre. Purdue Theatre's "Six Degrees of Separation." The award-winning play first identified the phenomenon that everyone can be connected by a maximum of six people. 7:30 p.m. Oct. 25, 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26, 3 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 27, and 3 and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28. Tickets are $10.50 for the general public and seniors, and $8.50 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933 or (800) 914-SHOW.

-- Oct. 26. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Purdue Jazz Band.  The Jazz Soul of George Gershwin. Admission is free.

-- Oct. 26-28. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. Homecoming 2007 activities with the Purdue Black Alumni Organization include tailgating, dances and open microphone that will feature alumni members of the Haraka Writers presenting a diverse range of pieces including love poetry, social commentary, comic routines and personal confession pieces. Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

-- Oct. 27. 10 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union South Ballroom. Halloween showing of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show." Doors will open at 10 p.m., with a costume contest beginning at 10:30 p.m. The movie will be screened at midnight, with more than 15 actors acting out the movie onstage. Tickets are $5 for the general public, $2 for students with a Purdue ID. Tickets can be purchased in the Purdue Student Union Board office, PMU 268, from 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. or beginning at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 27.

-- Oct. 29. 8 p.m. Matthews Hall, Room 210. Film showing, "The Killer Within," co-produced by Liberal Arts alum Leonard Cox. More information at https://dsc.discovery.com/promo/killerwithin/

** -- Oct. 30. 7:30-9 p.m. Stewart Center, Loeb Playhouse. "An Evening with Joyce Carol Oates." Oates is the author of more than 100 books. Sponsored by the Creative Writing Program and the Department of English. Oates will sign books in the lobby of Loeb Playhouse after her public talk. Books will be available for sale by Von's Book Shop near the Loeb box office. Only cash or check accepted.

** -- Oct. 31. 1-5 p.m. Envision Center. Virtual Haunted Mansion. Admission is free.

-- Oct. 31. 7-11:30 p.m. Union Commons in Purdue Memorial Union. Haunted Hotel sponsored by Purdue Student Union Board.

-- Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Yamato: The Drummers of Japan. These performers transform the ancient tradition of taiko drumming into performance art. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $15-35 for the public and $15-25 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

** -- Nov. 1. 7:30 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom. Michael Moore's "Sicko." Sponsored by the Purdue Student Union Board Film Forum. Admission is free.

-- Nov. 8. 7 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 214. Sterling Plumpp will present poetry based on blues and jazz rhythm. He has won numerous awards including the Richard Wright Literacy Excellence Award.  Plumpp has published twelve volumes of work including "Velvet Be Bop Kente Cloth,"" Blues Narratives," and "Black Rituals." Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

-- CANCELED -- Nov. 9. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. An Evening With Rosanne Cash. Cash, the daughter of Johnny Cash, will intertwine stories with songs, including hits from her new album "Black Cadillac." Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $35. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

** -- Nov. 17. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Stefon Harris. The jazz band will pay tribute to Duke Ellington. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $27 for the public, $22 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

** -- Nov. 18. 3 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Russian American Kids Circus. Trained by members of the Moscow Circus, these circus artists will include acrobatics, tightrope walking, juggling and clowning in their performance. Presented by Purdue Convocations. Tickets are $24 for the public, $15 for students. For tickets, call (765) 494-3933, (800) 914-SHOW or visit https://www.convocations.org

** -- Nov. 30. 7 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. The Black Cultural Center's annual Cultural Arts Festival centers on a semester-long look at the blues. Tickets are $7 for the general public and $5 for Purdue students. Contact BCC at (765) 494-3092.

EXHIBITS 

** -- Through Dec. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Stewart Center Gallery. "Dried – Cracked – Wet – Dripping – Blooming: Installations by Charles A. Gick." Gick, an associate professor of art and design in Purdue's Patti and Rusty Rueff Department of Visual and Performing Arts, has exhibited his interdisciplinary installations nationally and internationally.

-- Through Dec. 2. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday to Saturday; 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Thursdays; and 1-5 p.m. Sundays. Robert L. Ringel Gallery in Purdue Memorial Union. "Does Gender Still Matter?" Exhibit examines current constructs of masculinity, femininity, androgyny, etc., from the viewpoints of seven artists. At 5:30 p.m. Nov. 1, Elizabeth Mix, contemporary art historian at Butler University who helped select the artists for the exhibit, will speak in Purdue Memorial Union, Room 118. A reception will follow the lecture in the Ringel Gallery.

LECTURES

-- Nov. 1-2. 4 p.m. Thursday (Nov. 1), East Faculty Lounge of the Memorial Union and 10:30 a.m. Friday (Nov. 2), Fowler Hall, Stewart Center. Jack E. Dixon, vice president and chief scientific officer of Howard Hughes Medical Institute, will present this year's Varro E. Tyler Distinguished Lectureship. Dixon will present "Protein Phosphatases: Their Roles in Signal Transduction and Disease" and "Bacterial Pathogens: Hijacking Signal Transduction Pathways." A reception beginning at 3:30 p.m. will take place before the Thursday lecture.

-- Nov. 8. 9:30-11 a.m. and 3-5 p.m. Lawson Building, commons. Science Journalism Laureates. Purdue University will honor leading science journalists from around the world during the second annual Science Journalism Laureates Program Nov. 7-9. The laureates will participate in a public town hall meeting and will address the campus.

-- Nov. 12. 8 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Sears Lecture Series. Former CIA director R. James Woolsey will present "Energy, Security and the Long War of the 21st Century."

-- Nov. 16. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Leslie Bauer, director of internal audit, The Washington Post Co. "Personal Choices: Shaping You, Your Career, Your Life."

** -- Nov. 30. 11:30 a.m. to 12:20 p.m. Jerry S. Rawls Hall, Room 1086. Krannert Executive Forum presents Steve Bonta, Indianapolis central site director, Department of Defense Finance and Accounting Services. "DFAS."

STUDENTS 

-- Ongoing. Student registration for spring semester under way. The semester will run from Jan. 7 to May 3. Students should make an appointment with their academic advisers unless the school in which they are enrolled provides them with special instructions for registration.

** -- Nov. 14. 5:30-6:30 p.m. Stewart Center, Room 218. The Ultimate Money Skills presentation shows students how to develop smart money management skills in college. The program shows students how to understand appropriate credit card use; understand the basics of banking; design a budget; take control of student loan debt; minimize debt to maximize wealth; and protect identity. Sponsored by the Women's Resource Office. For information, contact (765) 494-9879 or wro@purdue.edu.

SEMINARS 

-- Nov. 1. 7 p.m. Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. Barry Salzberg, CEO of accounting giant Deloitte & Touche USA, will speak as part of the university's Series on Corporate Citizenship and Ethics. His talk is presented by the Krannert School of Management and the College of Education's James F. Ackerman Center for Democratic Citizenship and sponsored by the Purdue Employees Federal Credit Union and CSX Transportation. Contact Tim Newton,  (765) 496-7271.

-- Nov. 3. Black Cultural Center, 1100 Third St. "Connecting Culturally in Engineering, Math and Technology" with presentations and discussions led by scholars in the field of science and technology. Third in the series offered by the Black Cultural Center Library. For information, call (765) 494-3093.

CONFERENCES

-- Oct. 29-30. Stewart Center. Crossroads Conference on Communicative Disorders. One-day registration is $125, two-day registration is $200 and student registration is $25. Contact Nona Schaler for registration information, (765) 494-2756 or njschaler@purdue.edu. More information is available at https://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/crossroads/. Sponsored by the Department of Speech, Language and Hearing Sciences.

-- Nov. 8. 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Ross-Ade Pavilion. Discovery Lecture Series event, titled "Global Business Development in Life Sciences," will include keynote lecture at 12:30 p.m. by leading life sciences venture capitalist G. Steven Burrill, chief executive of California-based Burrill and Co., and a talk on technology commercialization by Purdue President France A. Córdova. David Johnson, president of BioCrossroads, will moderate a panel discussion at 2:30 p.m. on life sciences intellectual property and the world markets. The morning session includes the Kauffman Campus Initiative workshop on equipping the next-generation of entrepreneurship leaders. Ted Ashburn, senior director of corporate development at pharmaceuticals giant Genzyme Corp., and Michael Kurek, partner at Biotechnology Business Consultants LLC, will lead the Kauffman workshop. Daylong Discovery Park event is being offered in collaboration with BioCrossroads, the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation and Lilly Endowment. For registration information, go to https://www.purdue.edu/dp/dls  

** -- Nov. 15-16. Stewart Center, Hicks Undergraduate Library, West Lafayette Public Library. Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center and the Department of English present inaugural Cancer Culture and Community Symposium, with keynote speaker Terry Tempest Williams, author of "The Power of Story: Finding Refuge in Change," at 7:30 p.m. Nov. 15 at Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. Poet Sue Ellen Thompson will give a poetry reading and discuss the Poetry of Cancer from 10:30-11:30 a.m. and 1:30-2:30 p.m. Nov. 16 in the Hicks Undergraduate Library. Author S.L. Wisenberg will lead a workshop, Capture Your Stories, and read from her work at 10:30 a.m. Nov. 16 in the West Lafayette Public Library. The two-day event is in conjunction with the new Cancer Culture and Community Program, which is exploring the humanity of cancer revealed through literature and the visual and performing arts. For information, contact Kris Swank at (765) 494-4674, kswank@purdue.edu.

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Compiled by Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu

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