Purdue Events Calendar

August 15, 2008

EDITORS: This calendar lists events on Purdue's West Lafayette campus or involving people or programs off campus during the next four weeks. Events are free, except where noted, and are open to news media coverage. New or updated listings are designated by two asterisks (**).

Events in this calendar, plus many others, are listed in Purdue's online calendar at http://calendar.purdue.edu

EVENTS

** -- Aug. 24-27. 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Purdue Memorial Union North Ballroom. Annual Panhellenic Plant Sale. A wide variety of plants from Bennett's Nursery will be available. Proceeds go to the Purdue Panhellenic Association. For information, call (765) 496-2346 or e-mail pr@purduephc.com.

ENTERTAINMENT

-- Aug. 28. 9:30-11:30 p.m. Slayter Center of Performing Arts. Free Movie on the Hill featuring "Iron Man." The Purdue Student Union Board is sponsoring an outdoor movie. "Iron Man" will be projected onto a large screen at Slayter Center. For information, call (765) 494-8976.

-- Oct. 2. 7:30 p.m. Elliott Hall of Music. Robin Williams' Weapons of Self-Destruction. Presented by Purdue Convocations in cooperation with Jam Productions. Tickets are $85, $65, and $49.50; prices include a facilities fee. Tickets go on sale to Purdue and Ivy Tech Lafayette students, and Purdue faculty, staff and retirees with a current ID card at 10 a.m. Aug. 22 at the Elliott Hall of Music and Stewart Center box offices. No phone orders will be accepted. Tickets through Ticketmaster will go on sale beginning at 10 a.m. Aug. 23 at (765) 743-5151 or online at http://www.ticketmaster.com. Tickets for the general public will go on sale at 10 a.m. Aug. 25. Friends of Convocations can order advance tickets through noon Aug. 18 by calling (765) 494-9712.

Exhibits

** -- Sept. 2 to Oct. 12. Stewart Center Gallery. Li'l Heads, Too! Purdue Galleries will present images of the head and small portraits during the second installation of the Li'l Heads exhibition. The exhibit primarily is composed of printmaking and photography from the 16th through the 20th centuries, small sculptural pieces and masks. An opening reception for the exhibit will take place at 5:30 p.m. Sept. 4 in the Stewart Center Gallery. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 pm. Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday, 10 to 8 p.m. Thursday and from 1-5 p.m. Sunday.

LECTURES

** -- Sept. 2. 7:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Loeb Playhouse. Peter H. Raven, one of the world's leading botanists and president of the Missouri Botanical Garden and George Engelmann Professor of Botany at Washington University in St. Louis, is the first speaker in Sigma Xi's series of Distinguished Lectures on climate change and global sustainability. The Purdue chapter of Sigma Xi, a national research society, is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year. A reception will follow the lecture, which is free and open to the public, in the main floor lobby of Loeb Playhouse. Event sponsors include Office of the Provost, Botanicals Center and Sigma Xi. For information, call (765) 494-1566 or e-mail janle@purdue.edu.

** -- Sept. 12. 3:30 p.m. Stewart Center's Fowler Hall. Nobel Laureate Phillip A. Sharp, a geneticist and molecular biologist who co-discovered gene splicing, is keynote speaker for Discovery Lecture Series. His talk is titled "The Roles of Short RNAs in Cancer and Biology." Sharp, the Institute Professor for the David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, shared the 1993 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for landmark work on the molecular biology of gene expression relevant to cancer and the mechanisms for splicing ribonucleic acid (RNA). Event sponsors include Discovery Park's Oncological Sciences Center, Purdue Cancer Center, College of Science and other campus units. For information, visit http://www.purdue.edu/dp/dls/sharp/

Students

-- Aug. 18. 5:30 p.m. Schleman Hall, Room 112. Orientation for adult students. Span Plan will offer a special orientation program for adult students only. The event will include a panel of seasoned adult students sharing their experiences, an overview of Span Plan Adult Student Services and information about getting started at Purdue. Attendees will receive an orientation packet and light refreshments. RSVP for the program by noon Aug. 18 to (765) 494-1257 or by e-mail at spanplan@purdue.edu. For information, contact Dorothy Hughes, Span Plan coordinator, at (765) 494-1257.

Compiled by Christy Jones, (765) 494-1089, christyjones@purdue.edu