SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, March 6
-- Penn State Spring Career Days, 1 to 6 p.m. March 6; 1 to 6 p.m. March 7; and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 8; Bryce Jordan Center.
MUSIC
Tuesday, February 27
-- The Chieftains, Celtic band, with special guests Liadan, an all-female Irish band, plus step dancers Jon and Nathan Pilatzke, Irish harpist Triona Marshall, traditional Irish dancer Cara Butler and keyboardist/vocalist Ryan MacNeil, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, February 28
-- "Chicken Little," Opera Intermezzo, 10:30 a.m. and 1 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
-- Scholarship Competition, 7 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
Thursday, March 1
-- Bach's Lunch: Mallet Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
Friday, March 2
-- "Hairspray," musical comedy, 8 p.m. March 2; 2 and 8 p.m. March 3; and 2 and 7:30 p.m. March 4; Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Symphonic Wind Ensemble, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I. Tickets are $4.99 adults/$2 students, at the door.
Sunday, March 4
-- Helen Comber, voice, Aniyia Williams, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
-- Nickelback, 7 p.m., Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Monday, March 5
-- Inner and Outer Dimensions, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
Tuesday, March 6
-- Ysaye Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Symphonic Band and Concert Band, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, March 7
-- Philharmonic Orchestra, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, March 8
-- Bach's Lunch: Bass Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Percussion Studio Recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
FILMS
Wednesday, February 28
-- "Homeland: Four Portraits of Native American Action," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
-- "The Guatemalan Handshake," film screening, 7:30 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
Friday, March 2
-- "The Math Life," 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
Monday, March 5
-- "Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?" 7 p.m., 104 Keller.
Wednesday, March 7
-- "Homeland: Four Portraits of Native American Action," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Friday, March 9
-- "The Dark Side of the Universe," 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
SEMINARS
Tuesday, February 27
-- Jean Sanders on "On-the-Spot Tonglin: From Me to You," 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., 124 Sparks.
-- Jean-Felix Riou on "Atom Lasers: Mean-field Effects and Beam Propagation," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- James Stewart on "The Global Sullivan Principles and AESEDA: Partnering to Harness Georesources for Sustainable Livelihoods in Africa," 4 p.m., 110 Henderson.
Friday, February 28
-- Troy Johnson on "Algorithm Composition using Domain-Specific Libraries and Program Decomposition for Thread-Level Speculation," 10 a.m., 113 Information Science and Technology.
-- Erich W. Schienke on "Greening the Dragon," noon, 502 Keller.
-- Jianwei Qiu on "Understanding the Transition from Dilute Partons to Color Glass Condensate," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Joseph W. Haus on "Nanophotonics," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, March 1
-- Eric McKee on "Watching Waltzer's Waltz and the Musical Visions of Fryderyk Chopin," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 124 Sparks.
-- Madappa Prakash on "Nuclear, Neutrino and Gravity-Wave Physics through the Study of Neutron Stars," 4 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
Friday, March 2
-- Jimeng Sun on "Incremental Pattern Discovery on Stream, Graphs and Tensors," 10 a.m., 113 Information Science and Technology.
-- Jennifer Novotny on "Cardioprotection in the Female Heart: A Role for ERa and PKCe," 11:15 a.m., to 12:15 p.m., 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- Ingrid Hersh on "Predicting Phytotoxicity of Bentgrass Putting Greens from Foliar Fertilizer Applications," 12:20 p.m., 101 ASI Building.
-- "An Introduction to External Funding: Resources for Graduate Students," faculty panel, 3:35 to 5 p.m., 165 Willard.
-- R. Gill Pontious on "Quantitative and Visual Map Comparisons for Geographic Model Validation," 4 p.m., 22 Deike.
Monday, March 5
-- Nergis Erturk on "Surrealism and Turkish Script Arts," 12:30 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Jan C. Heller on "Preliminary Reflections on the Ethics of Disasters," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- David Diodato on "Geologic Aspects of Long-term Isolation of Spent Nuclear Fuel and High-level Radioactive Waste at Yucca Mountain," 4 p.m., 114 EES Building.
Tuesday, March 6
-- Chao Liu on "Statistical Debugging and Automated Program Failure Triage," 10 a.m., 333 Information Science and Technology.
Wednesday, March 7
-- Naomi S. Altman on "Statistical Analysis of Microarrays for Genome-scale Discovery," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, March 8
-- Robert Shaler and Barry Scheck on "What You Don't Know About Forensics," 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.
Friday, March 9
-- Barbara Warnick on "Rhetoric Online: Persuasion and Politics on the World Wide Web," 3:35 to 5 p.m., 165 Willard.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "In Response to Healing," HUB Gallery, through March 4.
-- "E.B. Lewis," exhibit cases, through April 29.
-- Elli Groninger, sculptures, sculpture corner, through Oct. 31.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "Early Soviet Photography," American Works on Paper Gallery, through May 6.
-- "Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar," Special Exhibitions Gallery II, through April 22.
-- "Old Master Prints from the Permanent Collection," Special Exhibitions Gallery I, Feb. 20 through May 20.
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
-- "(Never) Forget: A Reaction to Current Situations in Rwanda," Abram Eric Landes, through April 22.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Graphic Novels: Comics as Art, History and Literature," 109 Pattee, through March 2.
-- "Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month," featuring posters designed by Penn State students, through March 2.
Ritenour
-- Chiu-Jhin Chen, watercolor paintings, through March 4.
-- Molli Brown, artwork, March 5 through May 13.
Stuckeman Family Building
-- "Anxious Climate," featuring the work of three European architecture firms, William G. Rouse III Gallery, through March 1.
Zoller Gallery
-- Fine arts faculty from Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy, through March 7.
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