SPECIAL EVENTS
Wednesday, December 8
-- "Measure for Measure," 7 p.m., Penn State Downtown Theatre Center, through Dec. 10. For tickets, call (814) 863-1453.
-- Dance showing, 7 p.m., Playhouse Theatre.
Saturday, December 18
-- Penn State graduation, various times and locations.
MUSIC
Friday, December 10
-- "Victorian Brass," noon to 1 p.m., first floor, HUB-Robeson Center.
-- French horn studio, 5:30 p.m., Esber Recital Hall.
Sunday, December 12
-- Kenny Rogers and friends, 7:30 p.m., The Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
FILMS
Wednesday, December 8
-- "Aspects of Central Place," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
SEMINARS
Monday, December 6
-- Matt Meketa on "Platinum-Catalyzed Skeletal Rearrangements of 1,6-Enyne Systems," 2 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Stuart Raby on "Three Family Models from the Heterotic String," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Paul C. Sereno on "Dinosaurs on Drifting Continents," 8 p.m., Kern auditorium.
Tuesday, December 7
-- Ouri Wolfson on "Spatio-Temporal Resources in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks," 11 a.m., 333 Information Science and Technology.
-- Nitash Balsara on "Searching for the Critical Nucleus in Phase Separating Polymer Blends," 11:30 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Mimi Coppersmith Fredman on "Gender Equity, 63 Years Later," noon, The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.
-- Paul C. Sereno on "Birds as Dinosaurs: The Fossils Speak," 4 p.m., 117 HUB-Robeson Center.
Wednesday, December 8
-- Leiliang Zheng on "Laser Trapping Raman Spectroscopy of Single Biological Particles," and Thomas Mullen on "DNA Nanostructures: Fabrication, Characterization and Applications," 12:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Ivica Smid on "Plasma-facing Materials for Thermonuclear Fusion," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, December 9
-- Antoni Tomsia on "Interfaces in Biomaterials," 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., 135 Reber.
Friday, December 10
-- Hui Jin on a subject to be announced, 2:30 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
-- Surprise speaker on "Geography Abridged: All You Need to Know Was on the Comic Pages," 4 p.m., 301 Steidle.
Tuesday, December 14
-- "Business Etiquette," 1:30 to 4:30 p.m., 319 Rider I.
-- Joshua Blose on a subject to be announced, 4 p.m., 102 Chemistry.
EXHIBITS
Eisenhower Chapel
-- Minseon Gu, paintings, through Dec. 12.
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "Body Bags," Eric Symons, large soft sculpture, Art Foyer, through Dec. 12.
-- Anne Grout, ceramic artist, Exhibit Cases, through Jan. 16.
North Halls exhibit area
-- Lindsay Keiter, sexual assault-related photographs, through Dec. 8.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "Recent Acquisitions," Works on Paper Gallery, through Jan. 23.
-- "The Seligmann Portfolio," by Kurt Seligmann, through Jan. 30.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Ramon del Valle-Inclan: His Life and Work," 104 Paterno Library, through Dec. 31.
-- "Double Vision: Stereo Cards and Their Descendants, The First Visual Mass Media," 201A Pattee, through February.
-- "Shapeshifter: Performance Art Costumes, Paintings 1996-2004," by Pembroke Childs, Music and Media Center, through Dec. 31.
-- "Honoring Recently Promoted and Tenured Penn State Faculty," 109 Pattee, through Jan. 7.
Ritenour Gallery
-- "Focus on Living," photo exhibit by Roslyn Banish, through Dec. 13.
West Halls exhibit area
-- Lindsay Keiter, sexual assault-related photographs, through Dec. 13.
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