SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, November 2
-- "In a Voting Year," Penn State School of Visual Arts faculty, reception, 5 to 7 p.m., Zoller Gallery.
Thursday, November 4
-- "Distant Spaces: Recent Works by Jean Sanders," reception, 4 to 6 p.m., HUB Gallery, HUB-Robeson Center.
Friday, November 12
-- "Noises Off," 8 p.m., The Playhouse Theatre, through Nov. 20. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Monday, November 15
-- "The Colored Museum," auditions, 6 to 8 p.m., The Playhouse Theatre, The Arts Building.
MUSIC
Monday, November 1
-- Yellowcard, 7 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
-- Nittany Valley Symphony, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Percussion Ensemble II, Rick Willis, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, November 3
-- Bale Folclorico de Bahia will perform "Brazilian Rhapsody," 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, November 4
-- Bach's Lunch, Bassoon Studio, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Percussion Ensemble, Dan Armstrong, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Friday, November 5
-- Moldy Figs, noon to 1 p.m., first floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
-- Bill Gaither Homecoming Concert, 7 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Saturday, November 6
-- Mallet Ensemble, Dan Armstrong, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- Steve Larson guest artist viola recital, 8 p.m., 122 Music II.
Sunday, November 7
-- Concert Choir, Lynn Drafall, conductor, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
-- Castalia Trio, 1 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Monday, November 8
-- Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Dennis Glocke, conductor, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
Tuesday, November 9
-- "La Traviata," Stanislavsky Opera Company, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Musica Nova, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, November 10
-- Seymour Lipkin, guest artist piano recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Thursday, November 11
-- Bach's Lunch, Double Bass Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
Friday, November 12
-- Scott Mangene, noon to 1 p.m., first floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
-- Peter Cincotti, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Sunday, November 14
-- Oriana Singers, Lynn Drafall, conductor, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
FILMS
Wednesday, November 3
-- "A Migrant's Heart," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, November 4
-- "Four Days in September," 7 p.m. Nov. 4; 1 p.m. Nov. 7; Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
Wednesday, November 10
-- "Yugoslavia: Before the Fall," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, November 11
-- "Behind the Sun," 7 p.m. Nov. 11; 1 p.m. Nov. 14; Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
SEMINARS
Monday, November 1
-- Karl Mueller and Dave Allara on "Advances in Understanding Chemistry in Confined Environments," noon, S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Bernard Bell on "The Contemporary African-American Novel: Trey Ellis' Platitudes and the New Black Aesthetic," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Jeff Long on "Directed Assembly of Molecular Cluster Magnets," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Carsten Rott on "Search for the Scalar Bottom Quark from Gluino Decays at CDF," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Douglas Biklen on "Constructing Competence: Autism, Voice and the 'Disordered' Body," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
Tuesday, November 2
-- Daniel Lacks on "Energy Landscapes and Stress-Induced Processes in Glasses and Proteins," 11:30 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Judy D. Olian on "Juggling Life and Work: It's Getting Tougher for Both Genders," 2 to 3:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Horst Meyer on "Convection in a Supercritical Fluid: Onset and Transient to the Steady-State," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Stephen Michnick on "Dynamic Visualization of Biochemical Networks in Living Cells," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Wednesday, November 3
-- Research Unplugged: Ken Weiss on "The Promise of Genetics: Feeding the World and Living Forever?" noon, Penn State Downtown Theatre.
-- Adam Davey on "Formal and Informal Care: Cross-National and Regional Perspectives," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Paul Bohn on "Nanofluidics and Mass-Limited Chemical Analysis: Lessons Learned from Spatially-Defined Molecular Spectroscopy," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Anthony Rollett on "Grain Boundary Properties and their Impact on Microstructural Evolution," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, November 4
-- Lynnette Madsen on "Surface Science and the Structure of Materials," 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 135 Reber.
-- Lynne Brown on "How Couple Interaction Affects Dietary Adjustment to Type 2 Diabetes," noon to 1 p.m., 7 Sparks.
-- Anne Andrews on "Serotonin and the Misbehaving Brain," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- David Weiss on "Bosons in 1D: Observation of a Tonks-Girardeau Gas," 4 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
Friday, November 5
-- Surinder Chopra on "Genetics and Biosynthesis of Antifungal Compounds in Sorghum," 12:20 to 1:10 p.m., 101 Agricultural Science and Industries.
-- Jon Plaut on "10-Year Review of the NAFTA Environmental Agreement," 2:30 p.m., 101 Old Botany.
-- Denice Wardrop on "Uncovering Wetlands: Linking Human Activities with Ecological Conditions," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
-- Daniel P. Loucks on "The Great Man-Made River in Libya: Does It Make Sense?" 4:35 p.m., 120 Thomas.
Saturday, November 6
-- Pat Shipman on "To the Heart of the Nile: White Slavery, Black Slavery and the Remarkable Lady Florence Baker," 9 a.m., The Nittany Lion Inn.
Monday, November 8
-- Cecilia Novero and David Pan, panel on the Nobel Prize for Literature, 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Shih-to Fei on "Coordination Polymers," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Peter Saulson on "Gamma-Ray Bursts and Black Holes as Simultaneous GW/EM/NU Signal Emittors," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, November 9
-- Bianca Dittrich on "Partial and Complete Observables for Constraint Systems in Canonical Framework," 1 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Stephen Testa on "Exploiting the Properties of a Self-Splicing Group I Intron for the Development of New RNA-Catalyzed Reactions," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Wednesday, November 10
-- Research Unplugged: Akhlesh Lakhtakia on "Nanotechnology: Issues and Obstacles," noon, Penn State Downtown Theatre.
-- Claude Lechene on a subject to be announced, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Rakesh Sindhi on "Roles that Engineers Can Play in the Modeling of Organ Transplants," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Richard L. Garwin on "Missile Defense and Space Weapons," 4 p.m., 112 Buckhout Laboratory.
Thursday, November 11
-- Gordon W. Gribble on "Novel Indole Chemistry in the Synthesis of Heterocycles," 12:15 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Richard L. Garwin on "Mining the Acoustic Records in the Kennedy Assassination," 4 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Michael Schudson on "Visibility and the Culture of Disclosure: American Public Life Since the 1960s," 7 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
Friday, November 12
-- Shyam Date on "Effective Hamiltonian for Isotropic LQC and its Applications," 9 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Ron Huss on "Managing University Intellectual Property," noon to 1 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Karlheinz Drauz on "Novel Chemo- and Biocatalytic Synthesis of Amino Acids as Peptide Building Blocks," 12:15 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Mike McMullen on "The Flavonoid Pathway and Maize Diversity — Enhancing Our Understanding of the Genetic Basis of Complex Agronomic Traits," 12:20 to 1:10 p.m., 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries.
-- Paul Baltes on "Human Development and Family Studies Colloquium," 2 p.m., The Nittany Lion Inn.
-- Dave Waldeck on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Ron Johnston on "Maps, Votes and Election Outcomes: The Geographical Basis of Electoral Bias," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Monday, November 15
-- Donald Pease on a topic to be announced, 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Amy Yap on "Enantioselective Ketene Aldehyde Cycloadditions in the Synthesis of B-Lactones," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Martin Bojowald on "Quantum Gravity and the Big Bang," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Vilia Tarvydas on "Participatory Ethics: Building a Bridge Between Disability and Professional Ethics," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee.
-- Angela Miller on "Reading Western Genre: Constructions of Regional Identity in the Era of Expansion," 6 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
EXHIBITS
Eisenhower Chapel
Minseon Gu, paintings, through Dec. 12.
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "Body Bags," Eric Symons, large soft sculpture, Art Foyer, through Dec. 12.
-- "Distant Spaces: Recent Works by Jean Sanders," Nov. 2 through Dec. 5.
-- Anne Grout, ceramic artist, Exhibit Cases, through Jan. 16.
North Halls exhibit area
-- Lindsay Keiter, sexual assault-related photographs, through Dec. 8.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "Recent Acquisitions," Works on Paper Gallery, through Jan. 23.
-- The Olympia-Steinway piano, by glass artist Dale Chihuly, through Oct. 30.
-- "Accommodations of Desire: Surrealist Works on Paper Collected by Julien Levy," Special Exhibitions Gallery II, through Dec. 5.
-- "The Seligmann Portfolio," by Kurt Seligmann, through Jan. 30.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Paying Dues: Labor and Diversity in Black and White," main exhibit area, through Oct. 29.
-- "Ramon del Valle-Inclan: His Life and Work," 104 Paterno Library, through Dec. 31.
Ritenour Gallery
-- "Focus on Living," photo exhibit by Roslyn Banish, through Dec. 13.
West Halls exhibit area
-- Lindsay Keiter, sexual assault-related photographs, through Dec. 13.
Zoller Gallery
-- "Invisible" interactive mountain peak by Jesse Bercowetz and Matt Bua, Nov. 4 to Dec. 1.
-- "In a Voting Year," Penn State School of Visual Arts faculty members, through Nov. 2.
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