SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, January 30
-- "Don't Make Me Look Too Psychotic," Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, through Feb. 14.
Saturday, January 31
-- Comedian Tracy Morgan, 8 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Monday, February 2
-- WWE Raw, 7:45 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Friday, February 6
-- Harlem Globetrotters, 7 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
SEMINARS
Friday, January 30
-- Dina Justes on "Reactions of Group V Metal Oxide Clusters with Various Hydrocarbons," 2:30 p.m., S5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Gene D. Block on "Unwinding the Biological Clock," 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 100 Thomas.
Saturday, January 31
-- Gene D. Block on "Unwinding the Biological Clock," 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 100 Thomas.
Monday, February 2
-- Thomas Hale on "Marriage Should Not Mean Bondage: Women's Songs From West Africa," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Herbert Neuberger on "Modern Challenges for Lattice Field Theory," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Ian Jones on "Testing Gravity Theory Using Binary Pulsars," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Paul Alivisatos on "Nanocrystals as a New Class of Macromolecule," 8 p.m., HUB Auditorium.
Tuesday, February 3
-- Jackie Krim on "The Atomic Scale Origin of Friction," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Paul Alivisatos on "Shape Control and Structural Properties of Nanocrystals," 4 p.m., HUB Auditorium.
-- Michael Lanagan on "Materials and Structures for the Microwave/mm-wave Frequency Spectrum," 4:15 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Wednesday, February 4
-- Harris Wofford on "Fulfilling Penn State's Promise," 11:30 to 1 p.m., Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.
-- William E. Haley on "New Directions in Caregiver Intervention Research," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Paul Alivisatos on "Optical and Electrical Properties of Nanocrystal-Based Materials," noon, S5 Osmond
Laboratory.
-- Helen Nissenbaum on "Privacy as Contextual Integrity," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Gerald I. Susman on "Frontiers in Innovation Research," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, February 5
-- Samuel Finn on "The Non-Equilibrium Physics Underlying Biological Pattern Formation — The Case of the Dictyostelium Amoeba," 3:50 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
-- David R. Riley on "The Duty of Citizens to Learn from Life Experiences, to Act as Stewards of the Environment and Seek Ways to Apply Their Special Skills to Give Back to Their Communities," 4 p.m., Boardroom II, The Nittany Lion Inn.
-- David Atwill on "Islam in China: The Struggle for Accommodation or Autonomy?" 4 p.m., 102 Weaver.
-- Maya Angelou, best-selling author and poet, 8 p.m., Eisenhower. For tickets information, call (814) 863-3786.
Friday, February 6
-- Rodolfo Gambini on "Discrete Quantum Gravity: Recent Developments and Applications," 11 a.m. 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Dezhe Jin on "Cortical Circuits that Implement Finite State Automata for Decoding Spatiotemporal Sequences of Spikes," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Dan Berkowitz on "Arginase and the Aging Cardiovascular System," 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., 127 Noll Physiological Research Center.
Saturday, February 7
-- Abhay Ashtekar on "Time in the Physical Universe: From Antiquity to Einstein and Beyond," 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 100 Thomas.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "Dolls of Distinction," administrative area, through April.
-- "Valuing the Creative Expressions of Women's Work from the Collection of the Matson Museum," first-floor exhibit cases, through July 22.
-- Traditional and non-traditional quilts, Robeson Gallery, through April 30.
-- Grace Pilato and Pasquale Cortese, works in black and white, HUB Gallery, through March 16.
-- Wall sculptures by James Agard, Art Alley, through March 31.
North Halls
-- Abstract paintings by Jake Gillespie, through March.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month," student-designed posters, Pattee Library main exhibit area, through March 1.
-- "Brown v. Board of Education: 50 Years," by Courtney L. Young, 109 Pattee Library, through March 1.
-- "Literacy, Achievement, and African-American Children's Literature," by Melvette L. Melvin, 109 Pattee Library, through March 1.
-- "Dancing by the Book: European Dance and Dance Notation, 1531-1801: Selections from the Mary Ann O'Brian Dance Collection," 104 Paterno Library, through Jan. 30.
-- "Family Collections," historical collections and labor archives, 104 Paterno Library, through March 29.
-- "Selections from the B. and H. Henisch Photo-History Collection," 201A Pattee Library, through March 29.
University Health Services, Ritenour
-- Photographs by Kathy Watkins, through March 5.
Zoller Gallery
-- Student exhibition, Feb. 2 through 10.
For a full listing of University Park activities, including sporting events, go to the Web at http://cac.psu.edu/calendar/. For a detailed listing of upcoming Conference and Institutes' conferences, visit the Web at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/conferences.html.