SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, March 29
-- Penn State Spring Career Days, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center.
Friday, March 31
-- Clean Energy Expo, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. March 31, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 1, The Bryce Jordan Center.
-- "The Sleeping Beauty," Russian National Ballet, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, April 5
"The Rivals," comedy, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, through April 22. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, April 7
-- Home Builders Show, 3 to 9 p.m. April 7; 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. April 8; 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 9; The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
MUSIC
Thursday, March 30
-- Bach's Lunch: Tuba/Euphonium Studio, 12:10 p.m., Eisenower Chapel.
-- Pittsburgh Symphony Chamber Orchestra, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, March 31
-- Pittsburgh Symphony: Side-by-Side concert with PSU Philharmonic, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Saturday, April 1
-- April Fool's Concert featuring music faculty fooling around with unusual music, surprising instruments and spoofs, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Wednesday, April 5
-- Jazz at Lincoln Center's Afro-Latin Jazz Orchestra, with Arturo O'Farrill, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Saturday, April 8
-- The Banjo Summit, featuring Bela Fleck, Seamus Egan, Mike Seeger, Tony Trischka and Buddy Wachter, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
FILMS
Wednesday, March 29
-- "Faces of Environmental Injustice in Cincinnati," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, March 30
-- "One in Ten" film festival celebrating lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered diversity, scheduled, March 30 through April 2. Details at http://www.clubs.psu.edu/up/psupride/oneinten/ online.
Friday, March 31
-- "Understanding the Odds in Life," 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
Wednesday, April 5
-- "Weathering, Mass Wasting and Erosion," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, April 6
-- Come As You Are film: "Crash," 7 p.m. April 6, 1 p.m. April 9, Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- "Harrison Bergeron," 7 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
Friday, April 7
-- "From Here to Infinity: How Will the Universe Die?" 3:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
Wednesday, April 12
-- "Natural Gas Hydrates: The Fuel of the Future?" 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
SEMINARS
Wednesday, March 29
-- Penn State Forum: Marvin Hamlisch on "My Life as a Musician," 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.
Friday, March 31
-- Gallery Talk:" New Perspectives: An Academic Selection of Works on Paper," by Sarah Holloran, 12:10 p.m., Christoffers Lobby, Palmer Musuem of Art.
Tuesday, April 4
-- American Art Lecture: William R. Kenan Jr. on "Music, Machines and the Modern Banjo Aesthetic by Cecelia Tichi," 6 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
Tuesday, April 11
-- 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.
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," March 30 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.
Penn State Downtown Theatre Center
-- Student sketchbooks and postcards, Woskob Family Gallery, through April 1.
Ritenour
-- Photographs by Hillary Stauffer, March 31 through April 30.
West Halls
-- "Dreamscapes," Aaron Owens, through May 3.
Zoller Gallery
-- "Vagabond in Happyland," Miles Halpern, through April 7.
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