SPECIAL EVENTS
Tuesday, January 30
-- The Adult Circus, Chris Chelko and Michael DuBois, 7:30 p.m., State Theatre. For tickets and additional information, see http://www.thestatetheatre.org/events.htm online.
Tuesday, February 6
-- "Five Women Wearing the Same Dress," with guest Broadway director Sue Lawless, 8 p.m., through Feb. 24, Penn State Downtown Theatre Center. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Friday, February 9
-- Ron White, "You Can't Fix Stupid," 8 p.m., Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Sunday, February 11
-- Harlem Globetrotters, 3 p.m., Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
MUSIC
Monday, January 29
-- Francisco Varela, conductor, graduate recital, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
Tuesday, January 30
-- Tsung-Hui Huang, violin, 8 p.m., Esber Recital Hall, Music I.
Wednesday, January 31
-- St. Lawrence String Quartet with Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano, and Kevin Murphy, pianist, 7:30 p.m., Schwab Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, February 1
-- Michael Flatley's "Lord of the Dance," 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
-- Trace Adkins, 7:30 p.m., Bryce Jordan Center. For tickets, call (814) 865-5555.
Tuesday, February 6
-- King's Singers, 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Thursday, February 8
-- "Classical Savion," 7:30 p.m., Eisenhower Auditorium. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
FILMS
Wednesday, January 31
-- "Crippling Waters," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Friday, February 2
-- "Einstein's Wife," 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
Wednesday, February 7
-- "Perilous Beauty: The Hidden Dangers of Mount Rainier," 12:15 p.m., 105 Deike.
Friday, February 9
-- "Exploring Space: The Quest for Life," 3:30 to 5:30 p.m., 211 Davey Laboratory.
SEMINARS
Monday, January 29
-- Albie Hecht on "Creating New Entertainment Experiences for the Digital Family," 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m., The Nittany Lion Ballroom. For tickets, call (814) 865-7590.
-- Patrice Nganang on "Picturing the Colonized: From an African Theory of Pictures to Colonial Cinema," 12:30 p.m., 102 Kern.
-- Joan Acker on "Is Ethical Capitalism an Oxymoron?" 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
Tuesday, January 30
-- Francisco Hung on "Nanoscience of Liquid Crystals and Porous Materials: Insights from Computational Modeling," 10 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
Wednesday, January 31
-- Campbell Plowden on "Challenges and Opportunities for Amazon Forest-Based Communities," noon, 502 Keller.
-- Joseph Dwyer on "X-ray Emission from Thunderstorms and Lightning," 2:30 p.m., 339 Davey Laboratory.
-- Coray Colina on "From Polymers to Bionanomedicine: Endless Opportunities," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, February 1
-- Constantine Pozrikidis on "Biofluid-Dynamics of Blood Cells," 10 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
-- Paul Steinhardt on "An Endless Universe," 4 p.m., 117 Osmond Laboratory.
Friday, February 2
-- Andrea Mastro on "Trafficking of Metastatic Breast Cancer Cells in Bone," 11 a.m. to noon, 127 Noll Laboratory.
-- Michael Delli Carpini on a topic to be announced, 3:35 to 5 p.m., 165 Willard.
-- Bruce Jones on "Multiple Scale Relationship of Landscape Characteristics and Nitrogen Concentrations in Stream Across a Large Geographic Region," 4 p.m., 22 Deike.
-- Toyin Falola on "The Yoruba in the Comparative World of Slavery," 4 to 5:30 p.m., 102 Weaver.
Monday, February 5
-- H. Samy Alim on "Roc the Mic: The Language of Hip Hop Culture," part of African-American Read-in, 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., Foster Auditorium, Pattee Library.
-- "Retaining At-Risk Students," panel discussion, 1:30 to 3 p.m., 404 Old Main.
-- Peter Klein on "War, Media and Ethics: Through a Journalist's Eyes," 6:30 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn.
Tuesday, February 6
-- Malancha Gupta on "Initiated Chemical Vapor Deposition of Fluoropolymer Coatings for the Surface Modification of Complex Geometries," 10 a.m., 108 Wartik Laboratory.
Wednesday, February 7
-- Jon Plaut on "NAFTA, Trade and the Environment," noon to 1 p.m., 101 Old Botany.
-- Akhlesh Lakhtakia on "Metamaterials and Chirality," 3:35 p.m., 114 Earth-Engineering Sciences.
Thursday, February 8
-- Aditya Bhan on "Kinetics, Mechanism and Site Requirements for Dimethyl Ether Carbonylation on Acidic Zeolites," 10 a.m., Wartik Laboratory.
-- David Atwill on "Lin Zexu and the Boundaries of 'Barbarianism' in 19th-Century Imperial China," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 124 Sparks.
Friday, February 9
-- Michael Saunders on "The Outreach of Knowledge: Extending Specialized Expertise to the Nonspecialist-NetWeaver," 4 p.m., 22 Deike.
Monday, February 12
-- Junot Diaz on "Love in the War Years: A Reading," 3 to 4:30 p.m., 101 Pattee Library.
EXHIBITS
HUB-Robeson Center
-- "In Response to Healing," HUB Gallery, through March 4.
-- "Black Paris," Art Alley, through Feb. 25.
-- "Dolls," from the collection of Ireen Jones, exhibit cases, Jan. 31 through Feb. 26.
-- "E.B. Lewis," exhibit cases, through April 29.
-- Elli Groninger, sculptures, sculpture corner, through Oct. 31.
North Halls
-- Cara Livorio, paintings, through Feb. 27.
Palmer Museum of Art
-- "A Few of Our Favorite Things: Selections by the Staff of the Palmer Museum of Art," Special Exhibitions Gallery I, through Feb. 4.
-- "Early Soviet Photography," American Works on Paper Gallery, Feb. 6 through May 6.
-- "Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley and Alison Saar," Special Exhibitions Gallery II, Jan. 30 through April 22.
Pasquerilla Spiritual Center
-- "The Extinction," Hyunsu Kim, through Feb. 25.
Pattee and Paterno Libraries
-- "Graphic Novels: Comics as Art, History and Literature," 109 Pattee, through March 2.
-- "Celebrating Martin Luther King Jr. and Black History Month," featuring posters designed by Penn State students, through March 2.
Ritenour
-- Chiu-Jhin Chen, watercolor paintings, through March 4.
Stuckeman Family Building
-- "Anxious Climate," featuring the work of three European architecture firms, William G. Rouse III Gallery, through March 1.
West Halls
-- Chiu-Jhin Chen, watercolor paintings, West Halls' cultural lounge, through Feb. 25.
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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