Vol. 18, No. 23

March 4, 1999


THURSDAY, MARCH 11

Business and economics breakfast lecture: "Financial Engineering and the Future of the Insurance Industry," with Robert D. Graham, General Reinsurance Corp. Goodstay Center, 2600 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, 7:30-9 a.m. Cost, $25. For information, call 831-8839.

Career services workshop: "Internships That Lead to Jobs." Raub Hall, 11 a.m. For information, call 831-8479.

J.O.B.S. Orientation: Raub Hall, 2 p.m. For information, call 831-8479.

Physics seminar: "Wave Heating of Solar Corona," with Steven Cranmer, Harvard Center for Astronomy. 217 Sharp Laboratory, 2:30 p.m. For information, call 831-8111.

Baseball: Villanova. Delaware Diamond, Nelson Athletic Complex, 3 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

Career services workshop: "Job Search Strategies for IFS Majors." Raub Hall, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-8479.

"Best Friends" Game: "How well do you know your best friend?," with music and refreshments. Perkins Student Center Scrounge, 6:30-9:30 p.m. For information, call 837-8283.

Poetry reading: Part of Women's History Month. Brown Residence Hall Lounge, 7:30-10 p.m. For information, call 454-7802.

Theatre: Bertolt Brecht's, The Threepenny Opera, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 7:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.

FRIDAY, MARCH 12

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Longwood Graduate Program symposium: "Posies in Prose, Violets in Verse: A Celebration of Garden Writing." Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pa., 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Registration, $80 for AHA members and $66 for UD students. To register or for information, call 831-2517.

Delaware Special Olympics: Bob Carpenter Center/Delaware Field House, 9:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

Chemical engineering lecture: "Chemical Engineering of the Microdefects in Silicon Crystals," with Robert Brown, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 102-103 Colburn Laboratory, 9 a.m.

Entomology and applied ecology seminar: "The Contributions of Time and Eggs to the Cost of Reproduction in Insects," with Jay Rosenheim, University of California. 208 Worrilow Hall, 11:15 a.m.

Nutrition and dietetics seminar: "The Difficulty of Conducting Nutrition Research in an Elderly, Free-Living Population," with Alison J. Kretser, Nestle R & D Center Inc. 236 Alison Hall, 12:20-1:10 p.m. For information, call 831-8976.

NCAA basketball tournament: Blue Hens vs. Tennessee, at Charlotte, N.C., 12:25 p.m. Aired on WDEL (1150 AM) and televised on KYW-TV (CBS).

Legal studies lecture: "Law and Politics: Views from a U.S. Senator's Office and a Governor's Office," with Claire DeMatteis, legal counsel for U.S. Sen. Joseph Biden; and Richard Mroz, legal counsel for New Jersey Gov. Christine Todd Whitman, The Law and You Series. 104 Gore Hall, 12:20-1:10 p.m. For information, call 831-8231 or 831-1236.

Soil science seminar: "Photocatalytic Reactions Sensing and Geographic Information Systems to Land Use Planning and Environmental Studies," with G.W. Petersen, Pennsylvania State University. 308 Gore Hall, 1:25-2:15 p.m. For information, call 831-2535.

Mathematical sciences seminar: "Dirac Operators and the Conformal Group," with John Ryan, University of Arkansas. 436 Ewing Hall, 2 p.m. For information, call 831-2653.

Mathematical sciences seminar: "Error Control of Nonlinear Evolution Equations," with Ricardo H. Nochetto, University of Maryland. 210 Ewing Hall, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-2653.

Mathematical sciences seminar: "On the 2 Method," with Felix Lazebnik, UD. 436 Ewing Hall, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-2653.

Biological sciences seminar: "Assembly, Function and Genetics of Fibrous Sheath Proteins from the Mammalian Sperm Flagellum," with George L. Gerton, University of Pennsylvania Medical Center. 316C Wolf Hall, 4 p.m.; refreshments, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-6977.

Physical/analytical chemistry seminar: "Probing Surface-Protein Interactions by MALDI Mass Spectrometry," with Gary Kinsel, University of Texas. 214 Brown Laboratory, 4 p.m. For information, call 831-2465.

Foreign languages and literatures lecture: "Literature into Film: A Defense of Unfaithful Adaptations," with Millicient Marcus, University of Pennsylvania. 103 Gore Hall, 4 p.m. For information, call 831-6882.

Film: Enemy of the State. Trabant University Center Theatre, 7 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Lecture: "Rock Music History," with Ed Ward, rock historian for National Public Radio's Fresh Air. Rodney Room, Perkins Student Center, 7:30 p.m.

Theatre: Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 7:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.

Concert: Coulter/Phillips Ensemble, Performing Arts Series. Mitchell Hall, 8 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Film: Meet Joe Black. Trabant University Center Theatre, 10 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Commuter and Off-Campus Organization ice skating party: Rust Ice Arena, midnight. For information, call 831-6412.

SATURDAY, MARCH 13

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Delaware Special Olympics: Delaware Field House, 9 a.m.- 4 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

5K for Bruce run/walk: benefiting Coaches vs. Cancer and The Chemo-Care Package programs. Begin at the Phi Kappa Tau fraternity house, 10:30 a.m. Registration fee, $13 in advance until March 13 and $15 day of race. To register or for information, call 266-9042 or 366-8444.

Baseball: Providence (doubleheader). Delaware Diamond, Nelson Athletic Complex, noon. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Theatre: Bertolt Brecht's The Threepenny Opera, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 12:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.

Theatre: Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 7:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.

Film: Meet Joe Black. Trabant University Center Theatre, 7:30 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

WVUD Radiothon '99 concert: The Jam, featuring DJs playing hip-hop and rap. Multipurpose Room, Trabant University Center, 8 p.m.-2 a.m. Donations accepted. For information, call 831-2701.

Film: Enemy of the State. Trabant University Center Theatre, 10:30 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

SUNDAY, MARCH 14

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Softball: Bucknell (doubleheader). Delaware Field, Nelson Athletic Complex, 11 a.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Baseball: Providence. Delaware Diamond, Nelson Athletic Complex, noon. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Theatre: George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 12:30 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.

Women's lacrosse: Old Dominion. Rullo Stadium, Nelson Athletic Complex, 1 p.m. For ticket information, call
UD1-HENS.

Concert: Cellist Charles Forbes, pianist Julie Nishimura, with guest flutist Eileen Grycky. Loudis Recital Hall, Amy E. du Pont Music Building, 2 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

Latino/Latina Student of Distinction reception: Clayton Hall, 3-5 p.m.

Film: Postman (Youchai) (China 1995), International Film Series. Trabant University Center Theatre, 7:30 p.m. For details, call 831-4066.

WVUD Swing Night: featuring Jumpin' Jive. Perkins Student Center Scrounge, 8 p.m. For information, call 831-2701.

MONDAY, MARCH 15

Priority deadline for upper class students to file financial aid application forms for fall 1999

Notification in writing of intention to apply for promotion, department P&T committee begins the process of soliciting peer evaluations (Faculty Handbook III-30)

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Delaware Public Policy forum: focusing on the application of Geographic Information Systems. Clayton Hall, 8 a.m.-3 p.m. Cost, $45. For information or to register, call 831-8971.

Employee and Student Health Fair: Multipurpose Room, Trabant University Center, 10 a.m.-2 p.m. For
more information, call
831-4261.

Academy of Lifelong Learning art show/sale: Arsht Hall, 2700 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For information, call 573-4417.

Career services workshop: "Jobs for People Who Love Animals." Raub Hall, noon. For information, call 831-8479.

Mechanical engineering seminar: "Coating Flow on a Horizontal Rotating Cylinder," with Peter L. Evans, UD. 114 Spencer Laboratory, 12:15 p.m. For information, call 831-4464.

Biochemistry seminar: "Mechanism and Specificity of Protein Tyrosine Phosphatases," with Zhong-Yin Zhang, Albert Einstein College of Medicine. 214 Brown Laboratory, 4 p.m. For information, call 831-2465.

NAACP chapter meeting: 209 Trabant University Center, 7 p.m. For information, call 831-0446.

TUESDAY, MARCH 16

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Academy of Lifelong Learning art show/sale: Arsht Hall, 2700 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For information, call 573-4417.

Consumer Studies Career Fair: Rodney Room, Perkins Student Center, 1-3 p.m. For information, call 831-8479.

Softball: Mount St. Mary's (doubleheader). Delaware Field, Nelson Athletic Complex, 2 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

J.O.B.S. Orientation: Raub Hall, 2:30 p.m. For information, call 831-8479.

Condensed matter seminar: "Perpendicular Magnetotransport and Spin-Relaxation in Metallic Multilayers," with David V. Baxter, Indiana University. 217 Sharp Laboratory, 2:30 p.m.

Baseball: St. Joseph's. Delaware Diamond, Nelson Athletic Complex, 3 p.m. For ticket information, call UD1-HENS.

Economics seminar: "Search and Posted Prices," with Michael Arnold, UD. 118 Purnell Hall, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-1916 or 831-2564.

Career services workshop: "How to Find a Summer Job." Raub Hall, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-8479.

Center for Black Culture forum: "Africanisms and Cultural Carriers to America: Visual and Performance Art Traditions," with James Newton and Ayo Dorsey, UD, in conjunction with the exhibition, "The Wreck of the Henrietta Marie: A Slave Ship Remembered." Center for Black Culture, 4-5 p.m. For information, call 831-2991.

Film: Ringl and Pit, Women's History/Women's Lives Series. 204 Kirkbride Hall, 7 p.m. For information, call 831-8474 or 831-8063.

Poetry reading: with Fleda Brown Jackson, UD, reading from her new book, The Devil's Child. Bacchus, Perkins Student Center, 7:30 p.m. For information, call 831-1974.

Comedy performance: "Amazing Feats of Comedy," with UD alumnus Michael Rosman. Perkins Student
Center Scrounge, 8 p.m.
For more information, call
UD1-HENS.

WEDNESDAY, MARCH 17

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St. Patrick's Day programs: featuring live music and broadcasts, food specials, University Bookstore specials, Personacards, etc. Wear green and get specials. Perkins Student Center, all day. For information, call 831-2428.

Academy of Lifelong Learning art show/sale: Arsht Hall, 2700 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For information, call 573-4417.

St. Patrick's Day program: Paul Kleba's Personacards. Perkins Student Center Concourse, 10:30 a.m.-2:30 p.m. For information, call 831-8192.

Plant science seminar: "The Impacts of Corporate Sponsorships on Non-Profit Museums and Gardens," with Stacey Shackelford, UD. 103 Fischer Greenhouse Laboratory, 11:30 a.m. For information, call
831-2531.

Lecture: "How do You Spell 'Opportunity': Black Professionals' Perceptions Regarding Internal Mobility at UD," Research on Race, Ethnicity and Culture Series. Ewing Room, Perkins Student Center, 12:20-1:10 p.m. For information, call 831-8474.

Irish dancers: Performing in the Scrounge, Perkins Student Center, 12:30 p.m.

Inorganic/organic chemistry seminar: "Selective Alkane Functionalization," with John Hartwig, Yale University. 214 Brown Laboratory, 4 p.m. For information, call 831-2465.

Physics and astronomy/Bartol Research Institute colloquium: "Supernovae and the Fate of the Universe," with Peter Garnavich, Harvard University. 131 Sharp Laboratory, 4 p.m. For more information, call 831-8111.

Theatre: George Bernard Shaw's The Millionairess, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 7:30 p.m. For ticket information and details, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.

Blockbuster film: Dazed
and Confused
.
Trabant University Theatre, 7:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

THURSDAY, MARCH 18

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Academy of Lifelong Learning art show/sale: Arsht Hall, 2700 Pennsylvania Ave., Wilmington, 10 a.m.-3 p.m. For information, call 573-4417.

Career services workshop: "Finding Jobs in Business When You're Not a Business Major." Raub Hall, 2 p.m. For information, call 831-8479.

Physics seminar: "Wolf-Rayet Winds," with John Hillier, University of Pittsburgh. 217 Sharp Laboratory, 2:30 p.m. For more information, call 831-8111.

Softball: Temple (doubleheader). Delaware Field, Nelson Athletic Complex, 2:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

Men's tennis: Lehigh. Delaware Field House tennis courts, 2:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS.

Geology seminar: "Mass Extinction of Grazing Mammals from the Terminal Miocene Global Spread of Abrasive C4 Grasses," with Steven M. Stanley, Johns Hopkins University. 004 Penny Hall, 3:30 p.m. For information, call 831-8750.

History lecture: "The Limits of Historical Scholarship," with Robert D. Hume, Pennsylvania State University. 205 Kirkbride Hall, 7:30 p.m. For information, call 831-2371.

Lecture: "10 Reasons Why Darwin Would Not Write the Origin of Species If He Were Alive Today," with Charles Thaxton. Trabant University Theatre, 7:30 p.m. For information, call 738-9191.

Theatre: Sean O'Casey's Juno and the Paycock, presented by the Professional Theatre Training Program. Hartshorn Hall, 7:30 p.m. For information, call UD1-HENS or 831-2204.