SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, April 19
-- "Fences," Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, through May 7. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, April 22
-- Ron White, comedian, 8 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Sunday, April 24
-- Dane Cook, comedian, 8 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Wednesday, April 27
-- August Wilson Play Festival, through May 1. For tickets, call (814) 865-6482.
MUSIC
Monday, April 18
-- Centre Dimensions, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
Tuesday, April 19
-- Jazz Combos, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, April 20
-- Inner and Outer Dimensions, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
Thursday, April 21
-- Jazz @ the HUB, with Inner Dimensions, 6:45 p.m., first floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
Friday, April 22
-- Penn State Philharmonic and Choirs, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Saturday, April 23
-- Glee Club Blue and White Concert, Bruce Trinkley, director, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Monday, April 25
-- Tuba Euphonium Studio Recital, Velvet Brown, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Tuesday, April 26
-- Campus Band, Johnathan Watts and Joe Palmeter, directors, 7 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, (814) 863-0255.
-- Sting, with special guest Phantom Planet, 7:30 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
-- Chamber Singers, Jayne Glock, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
-- Sinfonietta Chamber Ensemble, Leonardo Lebas, director, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Concert Band, O. Richard Bundy, director, 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, April 27
-- String Chamber Music, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Dennis Glocke, director, Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, April 28
-- Bach's Lunch, Chamber Singers, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Jazz @ the HUB, with Inner Dimensions, 6:45 p.m., first floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
-- Symphonic Band, Dennis Glocke, director, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, April 29
-- Kyoko Egawa Piano Recital, 7 p.m., 122 Music II.
-- Horn Studio Recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Saturday, April 30
-- Thompson Symposium Music Education Research Symposium, all day, Music I and Music II.
FILMS
Wednesday, April 20
-- "Ads! Ads! Ads! Journeys through the Expanding Geography of American Advertising," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Wednesday, April 27
-- "Human Geography: People, Places, and Changes, 10-The World of the Dragon," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
SEMINARS
Monday, April 18
-- Nancy Berg on "Requiem for a Baghdad Lost: Israelis Remember Iraq," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Sidney Hecht on "Antitumor Drug Discovery Using Natural Products and Novel Targets," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Dmitri Kharzeev on "Quantum Black Holes, Strong Fields and Relativistic Heavy Ions," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Joseph Dannenberg on "Hydrogen-bonding in Biological Materials: The Importance of Cooperative Interactions for Determination of PeptideStructures," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Tuesday, April 19
-- Wenda Gu, public lecture, 11:30 a.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Partha Mitra on "Quantitative Ethology: A Study of Song Development in the Zebra Finch," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
Wednesday, April 20
-- Luc Blachet on a subject to be announced, noon, 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Phoebe Senger, Shay David and Joseph "Jofish" Kaye, 3 p.m., 102 Chambers.
-- John A. Polo Jr. on "Optical Properties of Noncanonical Sculptured Thin Films," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Roselyn Costantino on "Human Rights and the Murder of Women in Guatemala: An Update," 7:30 p.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.
Thursday, April 21
-- Richard Van Duyne on "Nanoparticle Optics for Surface-Enhanced Sensing and Spectroscopy," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- John Pickles on "Tight Pants/Baggy Pants: Free Trade and Geographies of the 'Race-to-the-Bottom,'" 7 to 8:30 p.m., 112 Walker.
Friday, April 22
-- David Baker on "National Differences, Global Similarities: World Culture and the Future of Mass Schooling," noon, 221 Chambers.
-- LaSalle Swenson on "Hot-electron Injection and Impact Ionization in Relation to Photovoltaic Efficiency," and Michael Russo on "Molecular Structure and Interactions at Aqueous Interfaces," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Mrinalini Sinha on "Hindus, Aryans and Caucasians: How Indians Became Nonwhite," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Monday, April 25
-- Alexander Huang on "Wartime 'Diaspora' of Shakespeare," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Xianfeng Sun on "Asymmetric Halogenation," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Tuesday, April 26
-- Sara Ades on "From Cell Envelope Stress to Sigma Factors: Signal Transduction and Global Regulatory Networks in Escherichia coli," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Wednesday, April 27
-- William Jorgensen on "Computational Bioorganic Chemistry," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Richard Wilson on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 108 Tyson.
-- Jeffrey M. Catchmark on "Ethics of Emerging Technologies," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, April 28
-- Uli Sperhake on "Black Hole Head-On Collision and Gravitational Waves with Fixed Mesh-Refinement and Singularity Excision," 12:30 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Friday, April 29
-- Josef Zwanziger on "The Structural and Optical Consequences of Lone Pairs in Heavy p-block Metal Oxides," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Kevin Ward on "Policies in Motion, Urban Management and State Restructuring: A Short History of a Trans-local 'model,'" 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Monday, May 2
-- Dongwei Cai on "Practical Synthesis of a _-GABA Selective Agonist," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
EXHIBITS
Agricultural Administration Building
-- Forestry and art education display, graphic art poster exhibition on forestry topics, through May.
HUB-Robeson Center
-- Large-scale work of Hung Liu, through April 28.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer," through May 15.
-- "Henry Varnum Poor: Studies for the Land Grant Frescoes," through June 5.
-- "American Prints from the 1920s and 1930s," through May 22.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "A Tradition of Educational Excellence: 150 Years of Penn State Teaching, Research and Service," 104 Paterno Library, through June 6.
-- "Sesquicentennial: 150 Years of Pennsylvania State University Historic Images from the Penn State University Archives," main exhibit area, through May 25.
-- "Focus on Jazz," by Pete Kiefer, 109 Pattee Library, through May 25.
-- "Prints by Brian Conley," Pattee Library lobby, through May 23.
Zoller Gallery
-- Joe Yeon Woo, multimedia, and Veronica Grigorashvily, April 19 to 23.
-- Patricia Howard, photography, April 25 to 30.
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