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University Park Calendar of Events: April 3 to April 17, 2006

SPECIAL EVENTS

Wednesday, April 5
-- "The Rivals," comedy, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, through April 22. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

Friday, April 7
-- Home Builders Show, 3 to 9 p.m. April 7; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. April 8; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 9; The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.

Friday, April 14
-- "A Brand New Day," ice show, 7:30 p.m., Penn State Ice Rink, through April 15. For tickets, call (814) 865-4102.

MUSIC

Wednesday, April 5
-- Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, with Arturo O'Farrill, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

Saturday, April 8
-- The Banjo Summit, featuring Bela Fleck, Seamus Egan, Mike Seeger, Tony Trischka and Buddy Wachter, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

-- Cross Currents, a concert of computer music and interactive multi-media, 7 p.m., Stuckeman Family Building's Forum North. Free.

Sunday, April 9
-- Penn State's Concert Choir, Oriana Singers, Glee Club and Philharmonic Orchestra, Ein deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 by Johannes Brahms, 2 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.

Monday, April 10
-- Penn State Percussion Ensemble II and Penn State Mallet Ensemble combined concert, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I. Free.

Wednesday, April 12
-- Penn State University Horn Ensemble annual spring concert, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I. Free.

FILMS

Wednesday, April 5
-- "Weathering, Mass Wasting and Erosion," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.

-- Yogesh Singh on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

Thursday, April 6
-- Come As You Are film: "Crash," 7 p.m. April 6, 1 p.m. April 9, Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.

-- "Harrison Bergeron," 7 p.m., 113 Carnegie.

Friday, April 7
-- "From Here to Infinity: How Will the Universe Die?" 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.

Wednesday, April 12
-- "Natural Gas Hydrates: The Fuel of the Future?" 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.

Friday, April 14
-- "Femtosecond Spectroscopy: Beyond the Naked Eye," 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.

SEMINARS

Monday, April 3
-- "Practice Talks for Site Visit," noon, S-5 Osmond Laboratory.

-- Gonzalo Rubio on "Textual Promiscuity and Scribal Artifacts in Mesopotamia," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.

-- Ulf Schmidt on "Nazi Medicine and the Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.

-- Alex Vilenkin on "Probabilities in the Landscape," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.

-- Debbie Smith, "DNA: a Science, a Tool, a New Life," from 6 to 7:30 p.m., HUB-Robeson Auditorium, room 117.

Tuesday, April 4

-- Penn State's Commission On Racial and Ethnic Diversity (CORED), "What's Diversity Got To Do With It -- the 2006 Symposium on Promotion and Tenure," 2 to 7 p.m., Founder's Room, Bryce Jordan Center.

-- Jongsoo Yoon on "Mystery of the 2D Metallic Ground State," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.

-- Patricia L. Clark on "Vectorial Protein Folding During Nascent Chain Synthesis and/or Secretion," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- American Art Lecture: William R. Kenan Jr. on "Music, Machines and the Modern Banjo Aesthetic by Cecelia Tichi," 6 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.

-- Paul Simpson, "Sustainable Community Design and Health," 7 p.m. 119 Osmond Laboratory.

Wednesday, April 5
-- Research Unplugged: Bruce Logan on "Future Fuel? On the Road to a Hydrogen Economy," noon to 1 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.

-- Yogesh Singh on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- Gerd Kunde on "Heavy Ion Physics at LHC," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.

-- Ying Liu on "Physics of One-dimensional Superconductors," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.

-- Edward Pines on "Ethics for the Global Engineering/Manufacturing Enterprise," 4:15 p.m., 201 Thomas.

Thursday, April 6
-- Kelvin Lee on "Enhancing Protein Secretion: The Old, the New and the Unexpected," 10 to 11 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.

-- Virginia Cornish on a subject to be announced, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- Kurt Gibble on "Laser-Cooled Atomic Clocks," 4 p.m., 119 Osmond Laboratory.

Friday, April 7
-- Edward Cussler on "Flake-filled Barrier Membranes," 10 to 11 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.

-- Lindsay Baker and Kelly Dougherty on "Research in Progress Presentations," 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., 127 Noll Laboratory.

-- Perspective Unbound: Anne Rose on "Woodland Interior, Near Germantown, Pennsylvania by William Trost Richards," 12:10 p.m., Palmer Museum of Art.

-- Patrick Roach and Patrick O'Connor on "Applications of THz Spectroscopy" and a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

Monday, April 10
-- John Starrett on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- Harry Collins on "How Much Math Gets Used in Understanding Physics," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.

-- Helen Epstein on "Public Health and Human Rights: Strange Bedfellows," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.

Tuesday, April 11
-- Marc Ostermeier on "Protein Molecular Switches," 10 to 11 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.

-- Anne M. Baranger on "Recognition of Single-Stranded RNA by Protein and Small Molecules," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- American Art Lecture: "A Change of Key: The Banjo During the Civil War and Reconstruction," by John Davis, 6 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.

-- Keith Woods, The Poynter Institute, Oweida Lecture in Journalism Ethics, 7 p.m., HUB Auditorium.

Wednesday, April 12
-- Research Unplugged: Dave Lettero on "Walking Lightly on the Earth: Adventures in Sustainable Living," noon to 1 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.

-- Dana Spence on "Identifying New Roles for Red Cells in Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis and Beyond Using an In Vitro Model of the Microcirculation," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- Judith LightFeather on "Team Teaching and Virtual Classrooms for Nano Science," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.

Thursday, April 13
-- Goetz Veser on "Multiscale Reaction Engineering for High-Temperature Fuel Processing: From Integrated Reactor Concepts to Nanoengineered Catalysts," 10 to 11 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.

-- Tom Record on a subject to be announced, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

-- P.V. Ramachandran on "What is New in Allylboration Chemistry," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

Friday, April 14
-- Gallery Talk "European Modernism," by Patrick McGrady, 12:10 p.m., Christoffers Lobby, Palmer Museum of Art.

-- F. Fleming Crim on "Controlling Reactions and Watching Energy Flow in Gases and Liquids," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

Monday, April 17
-- Joann Bland on "A Walk in History," 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ballroom, The Nittany Lion Inn. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.

-- Amy Yap on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.

EXHIBITS

HUB-Robeson Center
-- 21st Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, HUB gallery, through April 23.

-- Center for Arts and Crafts artists and instructors, art alley, through April 30.

-- "Shower of Stoles," Robeson Gallery, April 4 through April 30.

North Halls
-- Photographs by Beth Irvin, through May 1.

Palmer Museum of Art
-- "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.

Zoller Gallery
-- "Vagabond in Happyland," Miles Halpern, through April 7.

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

Last Updated March 19, 2009

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