SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, March 28
-- Penn State Spring Career Days, 1 to 6 p.m. March 28, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. March 29, The Bryce Jordan Center.
-- "Splinter," a postmodern drama about the life of Jesus of Nazareth, 8:15 p.m., 102 Thomas.
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.
-- 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
Tuesday, March 28
-- "Art of the Audition," 7:30 p.m., The Playhouse. Free tickets required. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Pennsylvania Quintet, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
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.
-- Yogesh Singh on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
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.
SEMINARS
Monday, March 27
-- "Practice Talks for Site Visit," noon, S-5 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Robert Caserio on "Modernist Realism and Imperial Romance," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Hubert Dreyfus on "Can There Be a Better Source of Meanign than Everyday Practices? Reinterpreting Division I of Being and Time in the Light of Division II," 3:30 p.m., Assembly Room, The Nittany Lion Inn.
Tuesday, March 28
-- Mark Rzchouski on "Interactions at Magnetic Interfaces," 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Momoko Tajiri on "Structural Biology of Double-strand Break Repair Proteins in Radioresistant Archaea," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Tom Verducci of Sports Illustrated, 7 p.m., HUB Auditorium.
Wednesday, March 29
-- Steve Lopez, Los Angeles Times, 10:10 a.m., Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library.
-- 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.
-- Duarte Morais on "Domestic Tourism, Indigenous Revitalization and Internal Colonialism in China," noon to 1 p.m., 502 Keller.
-- Research Unplugged: Mary Preuss on "Once Upon a Myth: Exploring Yucatec-Mayan Stories," noon to 1 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
-- Martin Pohl on "Diffuse Galactic Gamma Rays and Dark-matter Searches," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Mark Meyerhoff on "Nitric Oxide Releasing/Generating Polymers: Preparation, Characterization, and Biomedical/Bioanalytical Applications," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Sanjiv H. Naidu on "Prosthetic Joint Replacement of the Hand," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, March 30
-- Thomas Lubenski on "Rotational Brownian Motion," 4 p.m., 119 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Jeremy Isenberg on "Engineering for Security," 7:30 p.m., Applied Research Laboratory Auditorium.
Friday, March 31
-- Scott Sayres on "Frequency Comb Spectroscopy," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Joseph E. Inikori on "The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Evolution of the Market Economy in West Africa," 4 to 5:30 p.m., 113 IST Building.
Monday, April 3
-- Ulf Schmidt on "Nazi Medicine and the Legacy of the Nuremberg Doctors' Trial," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Alex Vilenkin on "Probabilities in the Landscape," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, April 4
-- Patricia L. Clark on "Vectorial Protein Folding During Nascent Chain Synthesis and/or Secretion," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- 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.
Wednesday, April 5
-- Research Unplugged: Bruce Logan on "Future Fuel? On the Road to a Hydrogen Economy," noon to 1 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center.
-- Yogesh Singh on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Ying Liu on "Physics of One-dimensional Superconductors," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Edward Pines on "Ethics for the Global Engineering/Manufacturing Enterprise," 4:15 p.m., 201 Thomas.
Thursday, April 6
-- Kelvin Lee on "Enhancing Protein Secretion: The Old, the New and the Unexpected," 10 to 11 a.m., 111 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Virginia Cornish on a subject to be announced, 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Friday, April 7
-- Ed Cussler on "Flake-filled Barrier Membranes," 10 to 11 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Lindsay Baker on "Research in Progress Presentations," 11:15 a.m. to 12:15 p.m., 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- Perspective Unbound: Anne Rose on "Woodland Interior, Near Germantown, Pennsylvania by William Trost Richards," 12:10 p.m., Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Patrick Roach and Patrick O'Connor on "Applications of THz Spectroscopy" and a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Monday, April 10
-- 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 "Public Health and Human Rights: Strange Bedfellows," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- 21st Annual Graduate Research Exhibition, School of Visual Arts, HUB gallery, through April 23.
-- "Dolls," from the collection of Irene Jones, exhibit cases.
-- Center for Arts and Crafts artists and instructors, art alley, through April 30.
-- "Shower of Stoles," Robeson Gallery, April 4 through April 30.
North Halls
-- Photographs by Beth Irvin, March 29 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.
Ritenour
-- Photographs by Hillary Stauffer, March 31 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