SPECIAL EVENTS
Friday, February 11
-- Comedian Larry the Cable Guy, 8 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
-- Orlando Consort, "Food, Wine and Song," 8 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Saturday, February 12
-- Pat Metheny Group, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Monday, February 14
-- The Harlem Globetrotters, 7 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Tuesday, February 15
-- "Sweet Charity," Playhouse Theatre, through Feb. 26. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Monday, February 21
-- World Wrestling Entertainment, 7:45 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
MUSIC
Tuesday, February 8
-- "Romantic Wanderer," Nittany Valley Symphony concert, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Wednesday, February 9
-- Natural Horn Ensemble, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Thursday, February 10
-- Bach's Lunch Graduate Woodwind Quintet, 12:10 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel.
-- Flute Studio Recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Saturday, February 12
-- Marian Garcia Piano Competition, 9:30 a.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
-- Pat Metheny Group, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Sunday, February 13
-- Saxfest, Esber Recital Hall, through Feb. 14.
Tuesday, February 15
-- Ysaye Quartet, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Centre Dimensions, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall. Tickets required.
FILMS
Thursday, February 10
-- "8 Mile," 7 p.m. Feb. 10, 1 p.m., Feb. 13, Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
Wednesday, February 16
-- "A World of Ideas with Bill Moyers 1: Peter Berger," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Thursday, February 17
-- "Les Invasions barbares (The Barbarian Invasions)," 6:30 and 9 p.m., 113 Carnegie.
-- "Style Wars," 7 p.m. Feb. 17, 1 p.m. Feb. 20, Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
SEMINARS
Monday, February 7
-- Robert Tierney on "The Colonial Eyeglasses of Nakajima Atsushi," 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Shikchya Tandukar on "Catalytic Degradation of Volatile Organic Compounds," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Tanmay Vachaspati on "Simulating Cosmology in the Laboratory," 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
Tuesday, February 8
-- Marie Sierra on "Where Nature Begins," 2:30 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art.
-- Jun Zhu on a subject to be announced, 3:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Henry Nothnagel on "System of Entry for Anthrax Toxin into the Cell Cytoplasm," 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Wednesday, February 9
-- Claire M. Kamp Dush on "The Role of Family of Origin Structure and Instability in Romantic Relationship Development in Young Adulthood," noon to 1 p.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- "A World of Differences: Understanding Cross-Cultural Communication," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
-- Thomas Dickinson on "Atomic Force Microscopy Studies of Simultaneous Application of Chemical Agents and Mechanical Stress," 2:30 p.m., 108 Tyson.
Thursday, February 10
-- Brent Waters on "Fuzzy Identity-Based Encryption -- Privacy for the Unprepared User," 10 a.m., 333 Information Science and Technology.
-- J. Thomas Dickinson on "Photonic Defect Generation in Wide Bandgap Single Crystals: 'The Road to Ruin,'" 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Andy Kent on "Quantum Spin Dynamics in Molecular Nanomagnets," 4 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Edward McAuley on "Physical Activity and Aging: Psychological Outcomes and Underlying Processes," 4:30 p.m., 110 Henderson.
Friday, February 11
-- Doug Burrin on "New Insights into Glucagon-like Peptide 2 Receptor Function," 10 a.m., 101 Agriculture and Industries.
-- Abhay Ashtekar on "Semi-Classical States for Constrained Systems," 11 a.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Weiping Song on "Intermolecular Interactions and Local Density Augmentation in Supercritical Solvation," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Suzanne Miers on "Freedom is a Good Thing But it Means a Dearth of Slaves," 3 p.m., The Nittany Lion Inn.
-- Yiider Tseng on "Molecular Biomechanics and Cell Motility," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
-- Richard Parizek on "DOE's Yucca Mountain Project: No End in Sight," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Monday, February 14
-- James Dunkerley on "Americas Plural -- Old Wine in New Bottles?" 12:40 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Yiying Hong on "Interactions of Atmospheric Trace Gases with Ice Surfaces," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Ben Owen on "How Big a Bump Can You Make on a Neutron Star?" 3 p.m., 318 Osmond Laboratory.
-- Joseph Dannenberg on a subject to be announced, 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
Tuesday, February 15
-- Margot Iverson on "Establishing a Native American Genetic Research Program: The Role of the International Biological Program," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Alex Jones, 7 p.m., HUB-Robeson Center.
Thursday, February 17
-- Nadine B. Smith on "Noninvasive Ultrasound Mediated Glucose Sensing and Insulin Delivery," noon, 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- Matt Millen, Ira Miller and Jon Saraceno, panel discussion about sports journalism, 3:30 p.m., Beaver Stadium.
Friday, February 18
-- "The Future," Robin Clausen, coordinator, noon, 221 Chambers.
-- Kate Ryan on "Biological Applications of Perturbed Angular Correlations of y-Ray Spectroscopy," 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Christopher Byrne, Timothy Lenoir and Steven A. Walton on "Ethics and Taboos of War," 3 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
-- Tania Slawecki on "Materials Research and Healing : Unconventional Medicine," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Monday, February 21
-- Matt Dirmyer on "Ink-Jet Printing of Polymers," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- Artist Eugene Grigsby Jr. and sculptor Woodrow Nash, Robeson Gallery, through Feb. 27.
-- "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.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Double Vision: Stereo Cards and Their Descendants, The First Visual Mass Media," 201A Pattee, through February.
-- "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.
Zoller Gallery
-- Juried exhibition, Penn State undergraduates, through Feb. 16.
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