Calendar

Events scheduled for Monday, March 4 (after 5 p.m.), through Monday, March 18 (before 5 p.m.)

THE LANGUAGE OF ART--Pictured above is one image from a series of three titled I'm a relentless optimist, by Ken Aptekar whose artwork is featured in Memorial Art Gallery's exhibition Eye Contact. Aptekar merges visual art and storytelling to create images with multiple dimensions. His creations are on view through April 21.

MEMORIAL ART GALLERY EVENTS

MAG--x5-3081; www.rochester.edu/MAG

March 5--What's Up. Susan Dodge Peters, the gallery's MacPherson Director of Education, speaks on "Nydia, The Blind Flower-Seller of Pompeii" by 19th-century American sculptor Randolph Rogers. Her informal talk is followed by an opportunity to ask questions. American Gallery, 5:30 p.m.

March 5--Archaeology Lecture. Paul Gerard Bahn, editor of The Atlas of World Archaeology, speaks on "Big Ladders and Little Fingers: New Advances in Ice Age Art." Free to MAG and AIA members; free with admission to all others. Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.

March 8, 15--Preschool Family Workshop. Weekly thematic workshops featuring art projects, story reading, and gallery tours. Admission fee and registration required. Creative Workshop, ext. 3056, 10:30 a.m. to noon.

ONGOING EXHIBITS AND TOURS

At Memorial Art Gallery

Gallery Highlights Tour--Free with admission. Meet at the admission desk. March 5, 12, 6:30 p.m.

Exhibition Tour--Free with admission. Meet at the admission desk. March 8, 10, 15, 17, 2 p.m.

March 4-April 21--Eye Contact. The exhibition by Ken Aptekar features six paintings inspired by works in the gallery's collection and includes a computer station where visitors can create their own "pictures with text" for a display wall.

March 4-April 21--Breathing Glass. The exhibition by Sandy Skuglund features mosiac encrusted mannequins floating upside down above a blue floor. The backdrop is fifty deep panels, each studded with dozens of handmade glass dragonflies and miniature marshmallows that vibrate on wire filaments.

Long-term installations

Through 2002--New Acquisitions for a New Millennium. Showcases 21 masterworks acquired during the last four years, including one of the most significant acquisitions in gallery history--the Inner Coffin of Pa-debehu-Aset, an Egyptian official of the fourth century B.C.E.

Through 2002--About Face: Copley's Portrait of a Colonial Silversmith. An interactive installation about Colonial American portrait painter John Singleton Copley and silversmith Nathaniel Hurd. Dorothy McBride Gill Education Center.

At Rush Rhees Library

Through March 31--Celebrating Famous February and March Birthdays. This exhibit includes memorabilia gathered entirely from the University's collections including letters, books, records, and artwork of more than 40 famous people born during February and March. Friedlander Lobby.

FILMS

Fairytales & Desire: Variations on Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast--Film series in connection with Professor Russell Peck's course Myth, Fairytale, and the Didactics of Popular Culture. Sponsored by Wilson Commons Student Activities and the Department of English. Free in the Gowen Room, Wilson Commons, 7:30 p.m.

March 17--Pretty in Pink

University Cinema Group--All films shown in Hoyt Hall Auditorium, unless otherwise noted. Tickets available in advance at the Common Market, Wilson Commons. For more information, call x5-5911.

March 6--All About the Benjamins. Free and open to the public. Hubble Auditorium, 9 p.m.

HEALTH AND WELLNESS

CPR Classes--Classes are offered by the Office for Educational Resources (OER) from January through June. Registration fee required. All classes held in the OER Department (2-7500 area of the Medical Center). To register, call x5-7666.

March 6--Basic Life Support Refresher Course, 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

March 14--Basic Life Support Refresher Course, 1-5 p.m.

Noon Hour Health Bites--Informational monthly series of topics related to health and wellness. Sponsored by the Strong Employee Assistance Program. No fee or pre-registration is required. Feel free to bring a lunch. For more information, call x5-4987 or visit www.urmc.rochester.edu/eap/eap.html.

March 12--Adolescents and Stress: Parenting Strategies. Linda Alpert-Gillis, associate professor of pediatric psychiatry and clinical nursing director of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Services, speaks on the sources of adolescent stress and ways parents and adolescents can cope with stress. Ambulatory Care Facility Rooms A & B (2-1322 & 2-1218).

The Center for Lifetime Wellness--Monroe Community Hospital, 435 E. Henrietta Road. Registration fee required. Call Kathy at 760-6600.

March 7--Smart Snackin'! Learn healthy snack ideas. Education Room, 12:30-1:30 p.m.

March 14--Outsmart the Fat Cell. Join in a fitness and nutrition discussion that provides tools for fighting fat cells. Education Room, 5-6 p.m.

MUSIC

Eastman School of Music--24-hour Music Line x4-1100, www.rochester.edu/Eastman.Events are free unless otherwise noted.

March 4--Eastman Wind Orchestra. Evan Feldman, Paul Shewan, and Cindi Johnston-Turner, conductors. Music of Makris, Copland, Husa, and Schwantner. Eastman Theatre, 8 p.m.

March 5--Collegium Musicum. Paul O'Dette and Christel Thielmann, directors. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

March 6--Composers' Sinfonietta. David Gilbert, guest conductor. Kilbourn Hall, 6:30 p.m.

March 6--Eastman Wind Ensemble. Evan Feldman, conductor. Music of Prokofiev. Eastman Theatre, 8 p.m.

March 7--Musica Nova. Bradley Lubman conductor. Music of Wuorinen and Zorn. Kilbourn Hall, 8 p.m.

March 8--Eastman Studio Orchestra. Fred Sturm, director. Music of Danko. Eastman Theatre, 8 p.m.

Eastman at Washington Square--"Thursday Lunchtime Concerts" at the First Universalist Church, corner of South Clinton and Court Streets, 12:15-12:45 p.m. Brown bag lunches are welcome during the performance.

March 7--A Woman's Voice: Published and Unpublished Songs of Rebecca Clarke. Soprano Eileen Stremple, voice faculty at Syracuse University, joins Eastman accompanist Sylvie Beaudette for a program of music by the British/American composer Rebecca Clarke.

Skalny Lecture and Artist Series--Supported by the Lois Skalny Foundation and organized by the Skalny Center for Polish and Central European Studies. For more information on the series, contact the center at x5-9898.

March 17--Penderecki String Quartet. Music by Hayden, Beethoven, and Szymanowski. Admission fee. Reception follows concert. Kilbourn Hall, 3 p.m.

RELIGION

River Campus Interfaith Chapel--x5-4321; www.rochester.edu/chapel/services.html

Roman Catholic Mass

Sunday Mass: March 10, 17, 10:30 a.m., and 7 p.m., River Level.

Tuesday Mass: March 5, 12, 5:30 p.m., Sanctuary.

Wednesday Mass: March 6, 13, 10 p.m., Friel Lounge.

Jewish Services

Conservative: March 8, 15, 6 p.m., River Level; March 9, 16, 10:30 a.m., Commons Room.

Orthodox: March 8, 15, 6 p.m., Conference Room; March 9, 16, 10 a.m., River Level.

Reform: March 8, 15, 6 p.m., Commons Room.

Muslim Services

Daily Prayers: Fajr, Dawn-6:45 a.m.; Zuhr, 12:20-3 p.m. (Monday-Thursday, 12:30-2 p.m., Conference Room); Asr, 3:30 p.m.-Sunset; Magrib, Sunset; Isha, 7 p.m.; and Jumma, Friday, 1:10 p.m., Commons Room.

Protestant Services

Interdenominational Worship Community: March 10, 17, 3 p.m., Sanctuary

Protestant Community Chapel: March 10, 17, 5 p.m., Sanctuary

Medical Center Interfaith Chapel

Roman Catholic Communion Service

March 8, 15, 12:30 p.m.

Interdenominational Protestant Worship

March 10, 17, 10:15 a.m.

Roman Catholic Mass

March 10, 17, 11:15 a.m.

RIVER CAMPUS LECTURES

March 6--How Can the Information Technology Field Attract More Women? Seminar by Adele Mildred Koss, who has had a distinguished 47-year career in computer technology, including application design, development, database technologies, and computer security at companies like Burroughs and Philco as well as Harvard University. Sponsored by the Department of Anthropology, the Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies, and Women in Science and Engineering. 441 Lattimore Hall, 2-4 p.m.

March 7--Verne Moore Lecture Series. Daniel Headrick, Roosevelt University, speaks on "Mind Before Matter: Cultural Origins of the Global Information Age." Morey Hall, Room 321, 8 p.m.

March 27--Neilly Series. Local historical mystery series writer Miriam Grace Monfredo speaks about the women's rights movement in the Rochester area. Free and open to the public. Welles-Brown Room, 4 p.m.

Department of Biology Donut Talks--Hutchison Hall, Room 473.

March 4--Positioning of Basal Bodies in Chlamydomonas. Carolyn Silflow, University of Minnesota. Noon-1 p.m.

March 18--Experimental Evolution of Viruses. Holly Wichman, University of Idaho. Noon & 1 p.m.

Department of Chemistry--Hutchison Hall, Room 473, unless otherwise noted.

March 4--Water in Hydrophobic Channels: From Carbon Nanotubes to Proteins. Physical seminar: Gerhard Hummer, National Institutes of Health, 4:45 p.m.

March 6--Competing Bond Fission Channels of Isomerically Selected Hydrocarbon Radicals. Colloquium: Laurie Butler, University of Chicago, noon.

March 15--Natural Product-Inspired Reaction Design: Lessons Learned from Laulimalide and Rhazinilam. Organic seminar: Scott Nelson, University of Pittsburgh, 9:30 a.m.

March 18--The Trouble with Nitrogenase Catalysis. Inorganic seminar: Dennis Dean, Virginia Technical Institute, 4:45 p.m.

Department of Physics and Astronomy--x5-4351

March 4--Overview of the Protein Bioinformatics Field from a Physical Point of View. Joint Biological Physics and Condensed Matter Physics: Shalom Rackovsky, Mount Sinai Hospital. Baush & Lomb 271, 3:45 p.m.

Frederick Douglas Institute Work in Progress Seminar Series--Multidisiplinary seminars on topics related to African culture. Frederick Douglas Conference Room, Morey 302, 12:30-2 p.m.

March 6--Presentation by Cheryl Hendricks, Frederick Douglas Institute. Refreshments provided.

THEATER

Imperceptible Mutabilities in the Third Kingdom--The International Theatre Program opens its spring season with this Obie Award-winning play written by Suzan-Lori Parks. Admission fee, discounts for senior citizens. Tickets can be purchased or reserved at the box office by calling x5-4088, or online at www.rochester.edu/College/ENG/theatre. Todd Theater. March 7-9, 8 p.m.

MISCELLANY

March 5--Simon School MBA Programs Information Reception. ACF Conference Room A, 2-1322, Medical Center, 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m.

March 12--Parents and Teachers Under Siege: Regaining Control of Our Families and Classrooms. James Garbarino, Cornell University. Sponsored by the Warner Center for Professional Development and Education Reform. Admission fee. For more information and reservations call Jewish Family Service, 461-0110. Fairport High School, 5 p.m.

Information Technology Services--No registration is required. Seating is on a first come, first served basis. Briefings will be held in Rush Rhees G113, noon to 1 p.m., unless otherwise noted.

March 6--Creating Web Forms.

March 7--Creating Digital Video with iMovie.

March 14--Web Site Traffic Log Reports.

ACTIVITIES PROGRAM

Discounts for activities are available to all University staff, faculty, and students through the University Activities Program. All tickets are available at the hospital Cashier's Office and the Customer Service Center in the Susan B. Anthony Halls on the River Campus. The Eastman School and Memorial Art Gallery carry movie theater tickets only. For further information check the University Activities Program flier or call x5-7942. The current list can be accessed at www.rochester.edu/working/services/auxops/Activities1.htm.

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