April 20
Tetsuo Najita from the University of Chicago will speak on ?Translating the Untranslatable: Some Implications for Teaching Asian Civilization? at 10:45 a.m. in Orson Spencer Hall, Room 255.
As part of the Rainbow Bag Lunch Series, the Marriott Library Diversity Committee will hold a lecture by Karen Dace, associate vice president for diversity, at noon in the J. Willard Marriott Library Gould Auditorium.
The Student Green Party and Movimiento Estudiantil Chicana/o de Aztlan will hold a panel discussion, featuring U faculty, on the Free Trade Area of the Americas at 1 p.m. in the Francis A. Madsen Building auditorium.
Debra Rolinson, adjunct professor of chemistry, will lecture on ?Isn?t a Millennium of Affirmative Action for White Men Sufficient?? at 3 p.m. in the Marriott Library auditorium.
The ASUU Presenter?s Office will hold a Coffeehouse Series open-mic poetry slam, ?Poetry Under the Stars,? at 8 p.m. on the A. Ray Olpin University Union patio.
April 22
The U?s Mount Olympus Honors String Quartet will present its spring recital at 4 p.m. in Gardner Hall, Room 400.
Film Front will show the Taiwanese film ?The Hole? at 7 p.m. in the OSH auditorium.
April 23
Peter J. Stang, professor of chemistry, will lecture on ?Nanoscale Molecular Architecture: Design and Self Assembly of Metallocyclic Polygons and Polyhedra via Coordination? at 4 p.m. in the Henry Eyring Building, Room 2006.
World Marketing Alliance will host a financial education seminar at 7 p.m. in the union Ballroom.
April 24
Rehan Basta, a graduate student of chemistry, will lecture on ?Transition Metal Mediated Oligomerization and Hydroformylation Reactions in Ionic Liquids? at 10:45 a.m. in 2006 HEB.
The Middle Eastern Studies Student Advisory Committee will hold an organizational meeting for next year from 11:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. in 153 OSH.
Wylie Burke from the University of Washington will speak on ?Screening for Iron Overload: Ethics and Efficacy? at 4 p.m. in the Eccles Institute of Human Genetics auditorium.
Anthony G. M. Barrett from the Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine in the United Kingdom will speak on ?Alkene Metathesis: Applications from Small Molecules to ROMPgels? at 4 p.m. in 2006 HEB.
April 25
Wilfred Samuels, professor of English, will give a lecture titled, ??A Pantry Full?: Domesticity and Black Masculinity in Claude McKay?s Home to Harlem? at noon in Carlson Hall, Room 115.
Alexander E. MacDonald, from NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory in Boulder, Colo., will speak on ?Diagnosis of Mass, Motion and Moisture from a Surface Network of GPS Receivers? at 2 p.m. in the Intermountain Network and Scientific Computing Center, Room 110.
Tian Xu from Yale University will speak on ?Tumor Suppressors and Mechanisms of Size Control? at 4 p.m. in the Huntsman Cancer Institute George S. and Dolores Dor Eccles Auditorium.
The International Center will hold a lecture by Barbara Richards on ?Hosteling Around the World? at 4 p.m. in the union Den.
University of Utah Facilities Management will hold a meeting with university planners to discuss current physical facilities projects and planning issues at 5 p.m. in the University Services Building.
April 26
Today is the last day of Spring Semester classes.
David Valle from Johns Hopkins University will lecture on ?The Human Genome: What?s There and What Does It Mean for Medicine?? at 8 a.m. in the Primary Children?s Medical Center third-floor auditorium.
Earl White, vice president of operations at American Gilsonite Co., will speak on ?Operations at the American Gilsonite Co.? from 10:45 to 11:35 a.m. in the Engineering and Mines Classroom Building, Room 101.
Joan Broderick from Michigan State University will speak on ?Adenosylmethionine-dependent Iron-Sulfer Cluster Enzymes: Unraveling a New Mechanism for Biological Radical Generation? at 10:45 a.m. in 2006 HEB.
The Student Alumni Association will have a house party to honor graduating seniors with music, food, dancing, prizes and games from 6 to 11 p.m. at the Alumni House. All students are invited to attend.
April 27
Red Butte Garden is offering free admission as part of its Garden Gift Days program.
The department of medicinal chemistry will hold a lecture by Pamela Dominick titled, ?The Chemical and Biological Analysis of Novel Thiazolidine Prodrugs of L-Cysteine,? at 4 p.m. in L.S. Skaggs Hall, Room 316.
April 29
Film Front will show the Taiwanese film ?Puppet Master? at 7 p.m. in the OSH auditorium.
May 1
Aubrey Hooks, special coordinator for African Crises Response Initiative and former U.S. Ambassador to The Republic of Congo, will speak on ?U.S. Interests in Africa? at 10:45 a.m. in 255 OSH.