SPECIAL EVENTS
Sunday, April 30
"Taking Chances: A Cabaret Journey," by Spence Ford, 3 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
Thursday, May 4
-- Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey Circus, through May 7, Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets and times, call (814) 865-5555.
MUSIC
Monday, April 24
-- Musica Nova, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Tuesday, April 25
-- Tuba Studio Recital, 5 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- The Penn State Campus Band, Matthew Stombaugh and Jonathan Watts, conductors, 7 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets required.
-- Chamber Singers, Christopher Kiver, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets: $4/adult and $2/students, at the door.
-- The Penn State Concert Band, O. Richard Bundy, director, Gregory Drane and Joseph Scheivert, assistant conductors, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets: $5/general admission and $3.50/students, at the door.
Wednesday, April 26
-- The Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Dennis Glocke, director, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets: $5/general admission and $3.50/students, at the door.
Thursday, April 27
-- Bach's Lunch: Saxophone Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Musica Nova, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- The Symphonic Band concert, Dennis Glocke, director, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Tickets: $5/general admission and $3.50/students, at the door.
Friday, April 28
-- Trumpet Studio Recital, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- Saxophone Studio Recital, 5 p.m., 128 Music Building II.
-- Horn Studio Recital, 6 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- Trombone Studio Recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Sunday, April 30
-- Black Eyed Peas, 7 p.m., Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Monday, May 1
-- Rob Nairn, double bass, faculty recital, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
Saturday, May 6
-- "Stir-r-ring Serenade," featuring the string choir of the Pennsylvania Centre Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
FILMS
Wednesday, April 26
-- "Fire at Dotiki," "Contributions of the American Miner," and "It All Starts Here: Preserving Geoscience Collection," 12:15 p.m., 104 Deike.
Thursday, April 27
-- "Andromeda Strain," 7 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
Friday, April 28
-- "The Passionate Statistician: Florence Nightingale," and "Everything Under the Sun: Astronomy, Mathematics and Islam," 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
SEMINARS
Monday, April 24
-- Gary Taylor on "Patterning for Nanoelectronics," noon, S-5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Sunney Xie on "Ever Fluctuating Enzymes: Lessons from Single Molecule Studies," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Jinghui Wang on "Enemies and Barbarians: Ibsen and Coetzee," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Jeff Johnston on "The Development of New Reactions and Reagents for Chemical Synthesis," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building.
-- William McDonough on "Renewing Hope: A Design Strategy for the Next Century," 5 p.m., HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium.
-- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie on "Ever-Fluctuating Enzymes: Lessons from Single Molecule Studies," 8 p.m., 100 Life Sciences Building.
Tuesday, April 25
-- Yuri Pozdeev Freeman on "The Physics of Tantalum and Niobium/Niobium Oxide Capacitors," 10:30 a.m., 250 Materials Research Laboratory.
-- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie on "Probing Gene Expression in Live Cells: One Molecule at a Time," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Britton Plourde on "Superconducting Flux Qubit: Scalability and Controllable Coupling," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Se-Hwa Kim on "Photodynamic Therapy for Cancer," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building.
-- Ronald Seifer on "A Vision of the Social Sciences at Penn State," 4 p.m., Berg Auditorium, Life Sciences Building.
-- Peter G. Schultz on "An Expanding Genetic Code," 6 p.m., 100 Life Sciences.
Wednesday, April 26
-- Peter G. Schultz on "Synthesis at the Interface of Chemistry and Biology -- From Antibodies to Stem Cells," noon, 100 Life Sciences.
-- Jeff Nelson on "First Accelerator Neutrino Results from the MINOS (Main Injector Neutrino Oscillation Search) Experiment," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Akhlesh Lakhtakia on "Negative Refraction," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Xiaoliang Sunney Xie on "Visualizing the Invisibles: CARS Microscopy for Biomedicine," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Thursday, April 27
-- Randy Vander Wal on "Nanostructure of Soot: Definition, Quantification and Consequences," 3:30 p.m., 213 Coal Utilization Laboratory.
-- Amand A. Lucas on "Diffraction by DNA, Carbon Nanotubes and other Helical Nanostructures," 4 p.m., 119 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Ann Crouter on "A Vision for the Social Sciences," 4 p.m., Berg Auditorium, Life Sciences Building.
Friday, April 28
-- Rong Tian on "AMP-Activated Protein Kinase and Cardiac Metabolism," 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- Rupert P. Amann on "From Galileo and Purposefulness to Globalization and the Ambition Gap," 12:20 p.m., 324 Agricultural Sciences and Industries.
-- Ymene Fouli on "Crop Intensification Effects on Yields and the Water Balance in Southeastern PA," 12:20 p.m., 101 ASI.
-- Zeev Rosenzweig on "Luminescent Quantum Dot FRET-Based Probes for Cellular Analysis," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building.
-- Martin Zanni on "Membrane Peptides and Mid-IR Pulse Shaping: Two New Applications for Ultrafast 2D IR Spectroscopy," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry Building.
-- J. Craig Venter on "Genomics: From Medicine to the Environment," 4 p.m., 100 Thomas.
-- Edward Stone on "Exploring the Final Frontier of the Solar System," 8 p.m., 104 Keller.
Tuesday, May 2
-- Indraneel Ghosh on "Designing Ambidextrous Proteins and Peptides for Functional Applications," 4 p.m., 301A Chemistry.
Thursday, May 4
-- M.G. Finn on "Viruses and Click Chemistry: Bricks and Mortar on the Nanochemical Scale," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Friday, May 5
-- Zeev Rosenzweig on "Luminescent Quantum Dot FRET-based Probes for Cellular Analysis," 2:30 p.m., 301A Chemistry.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- Center for Arts and Crafts artists and instructors, art alley, through April 30.
-- "Shower of Stoles," Robeson Gallery, through April 30.
North Halls
-- Photographs by Beth Irvin, through May 1.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "European Modernism," through May 21.
-- "New Perspectives: An Academic Selection of Prints and Drawings," through May 28.
-- "Picturing the Banjo," through June 25.
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
-- Focus on the Living, through May 7.
Pattee/Paterno Library
-- "Celebrating Omega Psi Phi Fraternity," Diversity Room, through May 15.
Ritenour
-- Photographs by Hillary Stauffer, through April 30.
West Halls
-- "Dreamscapes," Aaron Owens, through May 3.
For a full listing of University Park activities, including sporting events, go to the Web at http://events.psu.edu/ and for a detailed listing of upcoming Conference and Institutes' conferences, visit the Web at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/conferences.html