March 27, 2008
7:00 pm

Pease Public Library, Downtown Plymouth

Environmental Science Professor Steve Kahl will speak on “Sustainable Water Resources: From the Mountains to the Sea.” Kahl’s presentation is part of “Sustaining the Quality of Our Lives in New Hampshire,” a lecture series sponsored by the Young Ladies Library Association Endowment Committee.

For more information, contact Steve Kahl at jskahl@plymouth.edu.


March 26, 2008
4:00 pm

Boyd 001

This semester’s environmental science colloquiums continue with “The Sunlit Earth: Land Surface Reflectance and Albedo from Satellite Sensors.” Crystal Schaaf, a research associate professor from Boston University’s Department of Geography and the Center for Remote Sensing, will discuss the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MODIS) Albedo and Reflectance Anisotropy products that have been available in recent years. With eight years of newly reprocessed data available by this summer, the MODIS Albedo and Reflectance Anisotropy products are being used extensively for climate and biogeochemical model initialization and tuning, land cover and land use characterization, vegetation phenology monitoring, cryrospheric, and hydrologic monitoring and weather forecasting. An update will be presented on the latest version of the data and on the validation efforts underway.

For more information, contact Steve Kahl at 536-3154.


March 28, 2008
8:00 pm

Boyd, 144 

PSU’s International Film Series presents The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. This silent German film from the 1920s is considered to be a classic, and in this case will be presented with a live jazz soundtrack by Devil Music Ensemble (DME).  Admission is $1 for PSU students, $5 for all others.

For more information, email film_series@plymouth.edu or visit plymouth.edu/filmseries.


March 25, 2008
4:00 pm

Hyde Hall 220

The American Marketing Association welcomes Steven Boyd, vice president of the Northeast Region for Coca Cola. Boyd will be talking about how to brand yourself, as well as his personal experiences in the work force. This event is free to all faculty and staff. There will be appetizers as well as Coke products. There will also be a drawing that will give four people the opportunity to dine at the Common Man Inn with Boyd and the AMA officers.

For more information, contact Gina Pappa at gmpappa@plymouth.edu.


April 3, 2008
2:00 pm

Commons Cafe, Lamson Library and Learning Commons

Anthropology Professor Katherine Donahue will be discussing her book Slave of Allah: Zacarias Moussaoui vs. the USA. Donahue’s session will be the inaugural event in a series of book talks that will highlight the work of published authors on campus and in the community. Donahue will also sign copies of her book, which will be available for purchase at the event. Refreshments will be served. The campus and surrounding community are all welcome.  

For more information, contact Anne Kulig at annek@plymouth.edu.


May 6, 2008
7:00 pm

The Village Shops, Main Street, Lincoln

The Spinelli Archives is co-sponsoring this event with the Upper Pemigewasset Historical Society in Lincoln featuring Kathleen Marden, the niece of Betty Hill.  Betty Hill and her husband Barney, an Exeter couple, said that they had been abducted by aliens near Campton in 1961.  Marden is the author of Captured! The Betty and Barney Hill UFO Experience.

For more information, contact Alice Staples at astaples@plymouth.edu or 535-2961.


March 26, 2008
12:00 pm

Hartman Union Building Student Senate Room 

Health and Human Performance Professor Anita Lee will give a presentation on her native Hong Kong at this Brown Bag Lunch event.  Brown Bag Lunches are a fun and informal way for international students and faculty to share information about their native lands with the PSU community.   

For more information, contact Jane Barry at 535-3177.


April 5, 2008
9:30 am

Front of Hartman Union Building 

The University Police and the S.A.G.E. Center are teaming up to sponsor “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes.”  This is a march to stop rape, sexual assault, and gender violence. Walkers will meet in front of the Hartman Union Building and will proceed to several surrounding streets. 

For more information, contact Officer Jennifer Frank at jfrank1@mail.plymouth.edu or 535-2330. For more information about the event, visit walkamileinhershoes.org.


March 25, 2008
6:30 pm

Boyd Hall Room 137

NASA Solar System Ambassador Sally Jensen will speak at PSU’s Mark Sylvestre Planetarium.  Her presentation will focus on the rituals and lore created by ancient Native Americans as a result of their close observations of the sky. Jensen will also present images from a number of sources, including the Hubble Space Telescope, the Chandra X-Ray Observatory, and some that she took herself at the McDonald Observatory in Texas. No charge for admission.

For more information, contact Dennis Machnik at 535-2748.


March 10, 2008
6:00 pm

Smith Recital Hall, Silver Center for the Arts.

PSU Music Professor Carleen Graff presents a lecture and piano performance, featuring selections by Bloch, Griffes, and Riegger.

Free tickets are available at the door or by calling 535-ARTS.



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