SPECIAL EVENTS
Thursday, March 17
-- National Acrobats of Taiwan, Chinese acrobatic artistry, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Sunday, March 20
-- The Graduate Exhibition Poster Presentations and Visual Arts Display, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., HUB-Robeson Center.
MUSIC
Monday, March 14
-- Symphonic Wind Ensemble, Dennis Glocke, conductor, Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
Tuesday, March 15
-- Nelly, featuring Murphy Lee, Ali and Kyjuan of the St. Lunatics, 7:30 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Wednesday, March 16
-- Artis Quartet, Center for the Performing Arts, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, March 17
-- Bach's Lunch, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Jazz @ the HUB, featuring Inner Dimensions, 6:45 p.m., first floor lounge, HUB-Robeson Center.
Friday, March 18
-- Graduate Exhibition Performances, 7 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Saturday, March 19
-- "An Evening of Swing," 7 p.m., Palmer Museum of Art. For more information, call (814) 865-7672.
Sunday, March 20
-- Oriana Singers, Lynn Drafall, conductor, 4 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
FILMS
Wednesday, March 16
-- "The World: A Television History, 15-Africa Before the Europeans, 100-1500," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, March 17
-- "Je Chanterai pour toi (I'll Sing for You)" by Jacques Sarasin, 6:30 and 9 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
-- "A Panther in Africa," viewing and discussion, 7 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- "42nd Street," 7 p.m. March 17, 1 p.m. March 20, Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
SEMINARS
Monday, March 14
-- Jetze Tepe on "Synthesis of Biological Active Heterocycles: Exploring the Effect of NF-xB Regulation," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Steinn Sigurdsson on "Coalescence and Retention of Black Holes in Globular Clusters," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Felipe Herrera, poetry reading, 7:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
Tuesday, March 15
-- Dejan Kostic on "Mesh-based Data Dissemination," 10 a.m., 333 Information Science and Technology.
Wednesday, March 16
-- Research Unplugged: Cary Libkin on "Staging Romeo and Juliet as a Rock Musical," noon, Penn State Downtown Theatre.
-- Donna Fick on "Delirium Superimposed on Dementia: Prevalence and Health Outcomes," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Cecil Giscombe on "North and Further North: Rail Trasport, 'the Land of Little Trees' and the Failure of Place," 12:15 p.m., 102 Kern Building.
Thursday, March 17
-- Jeanne Marecek on "To Die For: Gender, Suicide and Moral Personhood in a South Asian Village," 3 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Elaine Safer on "Mocking the Age: Philip Roth's 'The Human Stain' and 'The Plot Against America,'" 4 p.m., 118 Pasquerilla Center.
Friday, March 18
-- Ken Gray on "Conceptual Framework for Comparing Workforce Education Systems," noon, 221 Chambers.
-- Lorraine Dowler on "Women on the Frontlines: Rethinking War Narrative Post 9/11," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Philip Jenkins on "Is God Going South? The Emergence of Global Christianity," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Monday, March 21
-- Paul Hergenrother on "Small Molecule Modulators of Cell Death: Identification of Novel Anti-Cancer, Anti-Neurodegenerative and Anti-bacterial Compounds," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "Calculations for the Perfect Woman," by Donnamaria Bruton, through March 16.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "An Intimate Eye: Selections from the Collection of James and Barbara Palmer," through May 15.
-- "Henry Varnum Poor: Studies for the Land Grant Frescoes," through June 5.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Changing the Joke/Slipping the Yoke: Humor in African-American Fiction," by Pia Deas, 109 Pattee Library, through March 11.
-- "Endangered Peoples: Struggling to Survive in a Global World," 109 Pattee Library, through March 11.
-- "Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month," featuring posters designed by Penn State students, Pattee Library exhibit area, through March 11.
-- "American Prints from the 1920s and 1930s," through May 22.
-- "A Tradition of Educational Excellence: 150 Years of Penn State Teaching, Research and Service," 104 Paterno Library, through June 6.
Zoller Gallery
-- The International Rapid Prototyping Sculpture Exhibition, through March 26.
-- School of Visual Arts students exhibit, through March 26.
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