SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, April 14
-- "A Brand New Day," ice show, 7:30 p.m., Penn State Ice Rink, through April 15. For tickets, call (814) 865-4102.
MUSIC
Monday, April 10
-- Guest Artist Luciano Carnerio, double bass (Brazil), 8:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Penn State Percussion Ensemble II and Penn State Mallet Ensemble combined concert, Scott Kemerer and Dan C. Armstrong, directors, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I.
Tuesday, April 11
-- Sinfonietta Concert, Rebecca O'Brien and Francisco Varela, conductors, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, April 12
-- Penn State University Horn Ensemble annual spring concert, Lisa O. Bontrager, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music Building I.
Thursday, April 13
-- Bach's Lunch: Horn Ensemble, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Inner/Outer Dimensions, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Saturday, April 15
-- Gladys Davis, voice, graduate recital, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Monday, April 17
-- David Stambler, faculty saxophone recital, Kathy Cinatl, piano, 6:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Centre Dimensions, jazz, Dan Yoder, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Tuesday, April 18
-- Jazz Combos, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets: $4 adults, $2 students.
-- RH Factor, the Roger Humphries Big Band from Pittsburgh, 8 p.m., Heritage Hall, HUB-Robeson Center.
Wednesday, April 19
-- The Art of Music performance: Banjovial, Mike Evock, banjo; Jim Kerhin, banjo; Mike Loewen, tuba; and Roger Munnell, trombone/washboard; 12:10 p.m., Pincus Gallery, Palmer Museum of Art.
Thursday, April 20
-- Bach's Lunch: Hi-Lo's from the Penn State Glee Club, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Beaux Arts Trio, pianist, violinist and cellist, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, April 21
-- Raymond Sage, voice, faculty recital, 5 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
-- Bass Bash, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Percussion Ensemble I, Dan Armstrong, director, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Saturday, April 22
-- Penn State Glee Club, Christopher Kiver, director, 8 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. Tickets: $7 adult/$3 student.
-- Vanessa Bond, voice, graduate recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Sunday, April 23
-- Women's Chorale, Jayne Glocke, director, 2 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets: $4 adult/$2 student.
-- Saxophone Studio Recital, 2 p.m., 128 Music II.
-- Essence of Joy, Tony Leach, director, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets: $4 adult/$2 student.
-- Philharmonic and Chamber Orchestra, Gerardo Edelstein, conductor, 7 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- LIVE, rock-quartet, 7 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
-- Kendra Sampson, voice, graduate recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Monday, April 24
-- Musica Nova, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
FILMS
Wednesday, April 12
-- "Natural Gas Hydrates: The Fuel of the Future?" 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Friday, April 14
-- "Femtosecond Spectroscopy: Beyond the Naked Eye," 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
Tuesday, April 18
-- "To Save the Land and People," 5 p.m., 62 Willard.
-- "Kilowatt Ours," 7 p.m., 62 Willard.
Wednesday, April 19
-- "The Southern Appalachians: A Changing World," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
-- "Buffalo Creek Flood: An Act of Man," 5 p.m., 62 Willard.
-- "Buffalo Creek Revisited," 6:30 p.m., 62 Willard.
-- "The Appalachians," 7:30 p.m., 62 Willard.
Friday, April 21
-- Niels Bohr, 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
SEMINARS
Monday, April 10
-- K.K. Sharma on "Biotechnological Approaches for Biotic and Abiotic Stress Tolerance in Crops of Semi-Arid Tropics," 11:30 a.m., 118 ASI Building.
-- Caroline Eckhardt on "Medieval Ideas of Europe," 12:40 p.m., 306 Burrowes.
-- John Starrett on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Harry Collins on "How Much Math Gets Used in Understanding Physics," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Helen Epstein on "Why are HIV Rates so High in Africa? And What Does this Have to do with Human Rights?" 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Eric Grimm on "Water, Drought and Fire: Implications of Recurrent Drought Cycles in the Central U.S.," 4 p.m., 114 Earth Engineering Sciences.
Tuesday, April 11
-- Bryce C. Tappan on "Combustion Synthesis of Ultra-High Surface Area Metal Foams," 9 a.m., C213 Coal Utilization Laboratory.
-- Marc Ostermeier on "Protein Molecular Switches," 10 to 11 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Johnny Huckans on "Bose-Einstein Condensates in Optical Lattices," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Anne M. Baranger on "Recognition of Single-Stranded RNA by Protein and Small Molecules," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- American Art Lecture: "A Change of Key: The Banjo During the Civil War and Reconstruction," by John Davis, 6 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Keith Woods on "The Perfect Storm: Race, the Media and Katrina," 7 p.m., HUB Auditorium.
Wednesday, April 12
-- Research Unplugged: Dave Lettero on "Walking Lightly on the Earth: Adventures in Sustainable Living," noon to 1 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
-- Dana Spence on "Identifying New Roles for Red Cells in Diabetes, Multiple Sclerosis and Beyond Using an In Vitro Model of the Microcirculation," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Ivan Vitev on "Energy Loss of Jets in Dense Quark-Gluon Plasmas," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Pattie Maes on "'Attentive Objects' and Other Technologies that Expand the Mind," 3:30 p.m., Cybertorium, Information Sciences and Technologies.
-- Judith LightFeather on "Team Teaching and Virtual Classrooms for Nano Science," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, April 13
-- Goetz Veser on "Multiscale Reaction Engineering for High-Temperature Fuel Processing: From Integrated Reactor Concepts to Nanoengineered Catalysts," 10 to 11 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Tom Record on a subject to be announced, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- P.V. Ramachandran on "What is New in Allylboration Chemistry," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Douglas Durian on "Impact Cratering in Loose Gradular Media," 4 p.m., 119 Osmond Laboratory.
Friday, April 14
-- Gallery Talk "European Modernism," by Patrick McGrady, 12:10 p.m., Christoffers Lobby, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- F. Fleming Crim on "Controlling Reactions and Watching Energy Flow in Gases and Liquids," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Monday, April 17
-- Joann Bland on "A Walk in History," 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., Ballroom, The Nittany Lion Inn. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.
-- Amy Yap on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Gary Felsenfeld on "Chromatin Boundaries, Chromatin Domains and Epigenetic Mechanisms," 5 p.m., 100 Life Sciences.
Tuesday, April 18
-- Mark Potsdam on "Rotorcraft Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations Using High Performance Computing," 3:45 p.m., 125 Reber.
Wednesday, April 19
-- Research Unplugged: Nancy Locke on "Art in Society: Impression and the Rise of Consumer Culture," noon to 1 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
-- Andrew Taton on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Jimmy Cefalo, Gery Dulac, Rich Russo and Michael Robinson on "Covering the NFL in Print, Radio and on TV," 3:30 p.m., media room, Beaver Stadium.
-- Melik C. Demirel on "Nanoengineered Sculptured Thin Films Dictate Cell Fate," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Michael Lasser on "Ringing de Banjo: Popular Music and the Minstrel Show," 6 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
Thursday, April 20
-- William Curry on "Impact of a PDA-Based Diabetic Electronic Management System in a Primary Care Office," noon, 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- J. Wayne Rabalais on "Ion Scattering Spectrometry: Elemental Analysis, Structural Analysis and Electron Exchange Phenomena," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Kenneth S. Opiela on "Evolution of Processes and Strategies for Improving Roadside Safety," 3 p.m., 213 Transportation Research Building.
Friday, April 21
-- Beth Parker on "Leg Vasoreactivity: Influence of Age and Estrogen Status," 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- Leo Mazow, Gallery Talk: "Picturing the Banjo," 12:10 p.m., Christoffers Lobby, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Branka M. Ladanyi on "Effects of Molecular Association on Polarizability Relaxation: Benzene, its Fluorinated Analogs and their Mixtures," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Monday, April 24
-- Sunney Xie on "Ever Fluctuating Enzymes: Lessons from Single Molecule Studies," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- 21st Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, HUB gallery, through April 23.
-- Center for Arts and Crafts artists and instructors, art alley, through April 30.
-- "Shower of Stoles," Robeson Gallery, through April 30.
North Halls
-- Photographs by Beth Irvin, through May 1.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "New Perspectives: An Academic Selection of Prints and Drawings," through May 28.
-- "Picturing the Banjo," through June 25.
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
-- Focus on the Living, through May 7.
Pattee/Paterno Library
-- "Celebrating Omega Psi Phi Fraternity," Diversity Room, through May 15.
Ritenour
-- Photographs by Hillary Stauffer, through April 30.
West Halls
-- "Dreamscapes," Aaron Owens, through May 3.
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