A concert by violinist Itzhak Perlman and pianist Rohan De Silva, which had to be postponed because of Perlman's illness, has been rescheduled for 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, at Eisenhower Auditorium, University Park. Tickets for the postponed Center for the Performing Arts presentation, which would have been on Sept. 27, are valid for the new date. If patrons discarded or misplaced their tickets and need to have them reprinted, they should contact the Arts Ticket Center in advance of the April performance.

The Mars Society at Penn State University Park was a major factor in Tim Serge's decision to come to the University. To the senior, an aerospace engineering major from Delaware, its biggest appeal was the fact that it is run solely by undergraduate students. He wanted to make sure he could be active and gain hands-on experience in a field that fascinated him. The main mission of the Mars Society, an international grassroots organization, is to further the cause of human exploration of Mars. Working on their own research and conducting experiments, the Mars Society at Penn State was one of four schools invited to compete this past summer in the inaugural University Rover Competition at the Mars Desert Research Station in Hanksville, Utah.

HealthWorks, a peer outreach program sponsored by University Health Services, is recruiting students this fall for spring 2008 training. The deadline for HealthWorks peer leader applications is Nov. 9.

Students will address issues identified by Healthy Penn State 2010, a series of behavior-oriented objectives based on data collected on Penn State student health. Among these are stress, sleep, colds and flu, high risk drinking, tobacco, safer sex, and nutrition.

The Penn State community is invited to an open house of the newly designed and renovated Digital Commons media production studios on the second floor of Pollock Building, University Park on Oct. 25 from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. At University Park, the Digital Commons offers two studios, the Faculty Multimedia Center for faculty and Studio 204 for students. These free facilities, which provide hands-on assistance from experienced multimedia experts, are part of the Digital Commons initiative of Teaching and Learning with Technology, a unit of Information Technology Services.

The Big Apple Express service offering weekend bus service to and from New York City is available every weekend, departing State College at 2:30 p.m. Fridays and taking passengers right into midtown New York City. The service got off to a roaring start Friday, Oct. 5, with a busload of students hitting the road for a weekend in the city that never sleeps. The bus arrives at 7:15 p.m. at New York's Port Authority Bus Terminal, 625 8th Ave. between 40th and 42nd streets, just in time for a fancy New York City dinner or Broadway show. Tickets for the convenient trip are $40 one way and $80 round trip.