University Park Calendar
August 29 - September 8

SPECIAL EVENTS SEMINARS CONFERENCES
Public Broadcasting EXHIBITS TIPS


This is one of the 57 paintings from the College of Earth and
Mineral Science's Steidle Collection on display at the Palmer
Museum of Art on the University Park Campus through Dec. 8.
The exhibit celebrates Pennsylvania's mineral industries.


SPECIAL EVENTS

Thursday, September 12
School of Music, 12:10-12:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel. Bach's Lunch concert.

Gallery Talk, 2 p.m., Christoffers Lobby. Glenn Willumson on "Contemporary Art From the Pincus Collection."

Friday, September 13 Department of Geography, 3:30 p.m., 206 Walker. Peter Gould on "The Great Lisbon Earthquake."

Gallery Talk, 2 p.m., Christoffers Lobby. Jennifer Streb on "Highlights of the Palmer Museum."

Saturday, September 14
Gallery Talk, 11 a.m., Christoffers Lobby. Sarah Andrews on "Portraiture in American Art."

Monday, September 16
School of Music, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Daryl Durran, bassoon.

Tuesday, September 17
Biology, 4 p.m., 8 Mueller Lab. Allen Orr on "The Genetics of Speciation in Drosophila."

Wednesday, September 18
Gerontology, noon-1 p.m., 101 HHD East. Cleveland Shields on "Til Death Do Us Part: Later Life Marriages as Attachment-Caregiving Systems."

Thursday, September 19
School of Music, 12:10-12:30 p.m., Eisenhower Chapel. Bach's Lunch Concert.

School of Music, 8 p.m., Recital Hall. Norman Spivey/Robert Hatten.

Hillel, 6:30 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium. Film: The Last Seven Months of Anne Frank.

Friday, September 20
Gallery Talk, 2 p.m., Christoffers Lobby. Patrick McGrady on "Some Thoughts on the Steidle Collection."

Geography, 3:30 p.m., 206 Walker. Robert O'Connor on "So What If We Are All Environmentalists? The Political and Behavioral Fallout."

Saturday, September 21
Zoller Gallery, Playhouse Theatre, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State Scanticon. "Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies 30th Anniversary Celebration."

Center for the Performing Arts, 8 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. Romeo and Juliet.


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SEMINARS

Thursday, September 12
Department of Physics, 3:30 p.m., Osmond Laboratory. Richard Hughes on "Quantum Cryptography."

Ceramics Seminar Series, 11 a.m., 301 Steidle. Xiaoxing Xi on "Processing and applications of oxide superconductor/ ferroelectric heterostructures."

Gravity Center, 11:30 a.m., 339 Davey Lab. Eanna Flanagan on "Backreaction in 4D Semiclassical Gravity & the Averaged Null Energy Condition."

Friday, September 13
Department of Physics, 2 p.m., 339 Davey Lab. Richard Hughes on "Antihydrogen Physics."

Palmer Museum of Art, 3 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium. Eric Schruers on "Coal, Oil, and Steel: Edward Steidle and the Art of Industry."

Sunday, September 15
Palmer Museum of Art, 3 p.m., Lipcon Auditorium. Mary F. Linda on "From the Himalayas to Home: Hindu Temples in America."

Monday, September 16
Gravity Center, 2 p.m., 339 Davey Lab. Erik Martinez on "The Postulates of Gravitational Thermodynamics."

Tuesday, September 17
Architecture, 7:30 p.m., 101 Classroom. Kossman Lecturer: Antoine Predock.

Wednesday,. September 18
Professional Women at Penn State, 12:05 p.m., 110 Henderson. Jackie Krasas Rogers on "The Growth of Temporary Employment: What's in Store for Women."

Thursday, September 19
Gravity Center, 11:30 a.m., 339 Davey Lab. John Baker on "Collisions of Boosted Spinning Black Holes in the Close-Slow Approximation."

Centre County Ministerial Association and The Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower. Anthony Campolo on "Is Jesus a Republican or a Democrat?"

Ceramics, 11 a.m., Steidle. Ahmand Safari on "Designing, Protoyping and Manufacturing of Composite Materials."

Friday, September 20
Economics, 3:30 p.m., 420 Kern Graduate Building. Kaushik Basu on "The Economics of Child Labor."

Philosophy, 4 p.m., 124 Sparks. John E. Smith on "Hocking's Insight into the Individual and the State."


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CONFERENCES

Tuesday, September 17
"Scale-up Strategies for Animal Cell Culture," 8:30 a.m., Frear Lab. Through Sept. 20. To register, call (800) PSU-TODAY (800-778-8632).


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PUBLIC BROADCASTING

WPSU-FM 91.5
"Morning Edition," Mon.-Fri., 6-9 a.m.

"Performance Today," Mon.-Fri., 8-10 p.m.

"All Things Considered," Mon.-Fri., 4-7 p.m.; Sat. & Sun., 5-6 p.m.

"Weekend Edition," Sat. & Sun., 8-10 a.m.

"Fresh Air with Terry Gross," Mon.-Fri., 7-8 p.m.

"Odyssey Through Literature with S. Leonard Rubenstein," Sun., 6:30 p.m.

"Car Talk," Sat., 10 a.m. and Sun., 4 p.m.

"The Thistle & Shamrock," Sun., 3 p.m.

"Piano Jazz with Marion McPartland," Mon., 10 p.m.

"Libri," Sun., 6 p.m.

View program listings from WPSX Television.

Visit National Public Radio home page


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EXHIBITS

HUB
Formal Art Gallery:
"Geography of the Unconscious," Nancy Moore. Through Oct. 19.

Browsing Gallery:
The work of Shalom Noiman, through Oct. 20.

Art Alley Gallery:
The watercolors of Dorothy Grebos, through Oct. 13.

Shaker-style boxes by Steve Strouse, Sept. 13 through Oct. 13.

Kern Exhibition Arena
"Lewis, Untangling Strings," Robert Vander Voort. Through Oct. 15.

Palmer Museum
"Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection," through Dec. 15.

"The Wood Engravings of Warren Mack," through Jan. 5, 1997.

"Cooking for the Gods: The Art of Home Ritual in Bengal," through Dec. 8.

"When Coal Was King: Paintings from the Steidle Collection, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences," through Dec. 8.

Ritenour Lobby:
"Art on the Move: The paintings of Marjut Kauhanen-Katz," Sept. 13 through Oct. 16.

Zoller Gallery
"More is More," Visual Arts faculty collections. Through Sept. 17.

Reflects an international perspective


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TIPS

Information Penn State
Call 863-1234, and enter the number of the message you wish to hear. Messages are listed in the front of the telephone directories. Other messages are Weather -- 234; Arts Line -- 345; University Calendar -- 456.


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Last updated at 9:15AM on September 11, 1996.