October 26–December 7
A growing number of artists have sought inspiration in genomics and biotechnology, including choreographer Liz Lerman, whose Ferocious Beauty: Genome (to be performed at the
Williams Center on November 14. The artists included in Nature (Re)Made conduct explorations revolving around genetic research and the effect of biotechnology in health care and environmental concerns.

Thursday, November 13, 4:00-6:00 pm,
Lecture by Ellen Levy, Williams - Room 108

As part of Lafayette's annual participation in International Education Week, the International Students Association is seeking to raise awareness of the grave food crisis in Zimbabwe. To raise financial support for the thousands of starving people there, we are holding a Ten Thousand Villages Festival Sale: Monday November 17-21 at 11-1pm & 5-7pm. This is a great opportunity to buy great gifts for those special people. Free gift wrapping. Come stop by and see what you might find!

Original plays, theater pieces, performance art and a stroll down medieval memory lane with ax and crowbar: something different every evening. College Theater celebrates the new, different, and almost profound in the 16th annual challenge to think about theater in new ways...for free!!

NOTE TIME CHANGE!

Wendy Cramer of the Renfew Clinic will be speaking about eating disorders in the college age group. She will share her years of expertise and experience about the diseases, who they effect and how to help.

LUNCH PROVIDED

Noah Vawter, Creator of Ambient Addition and co-creator of Knee Deep & Risin'
(Grossman Gallery through Dec. 20) will discuss his work at a Brown Bag lunch.

Vawter creates sonic spaces using his skills in electronic music and instrument design. Vawter explores, conceptually and aesthetically, the landscape between acoustic order and disorder. Vawter's work has been featured in the New York Times, the Sundance Film Festival, Wired magazine, IEEE Spectrum, and Discovery TV (Canada), and shown in Rio de Janeiro, New York City, Berkeley, CA and Los Angeles. He has taught numerous workshops on music synthesizer design and audio art around the world. A third-year PhD candidate, he received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute and his master’s degree in media arts and sciences from MIT's Media Lab.

Geography Awareness Week Brown Bag Presentation
Speaker: Ryan Baxter: Information Technology Coordinator for Pennsylvania's Spatial Data Clearinghouse (PASDA)
Based at the Pennsylvania State University, PASDA is Pennsylvania's official geospatial information clearinghouse and the Commonwealth's node on the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). Baxter will give an overview of PASDA and emphasize the different ways to obtain and use data on the site. This will include downloads, tools that can clip and/or reproject data, online map viewers, map services, and integration of PASDA’s data with Google Earth. Lunch will be provided

Geography Awareness Week Workshop
Instructors: John Wilson, laboratory coordinator, department of geology and environmental geosciences, and Patricia Facciponti, instructional technologist
Explore a variety of web sites that make it easy to identify and map environmental data, toxic waste depositories, Superfund sites, industrial contaminant containments, other sources of pollution, even health information. Previous GIS or mapping experience is not required. Registration is required. Follow link below.

The Grossman Gallery, in the Williams Visual Arts Building, is one block from the Delaware River and sits directly over the Bushkill Creek. Both bodies of water have overflowed their banks in recent years. Knee Deep and Risin', created by Jim Toia and Noah Vawter, is a multimedia installation of video and audio feeds from both waterways. Infrared sensors, triggered by visitors' moving the exhibition screens, activate live and recorded video and audio, simulating flood events from fresh perspectives. Knee Deep and Risin' is an interdisciplinary project by Lafayette College's Department of Computer Science, Department of Art, Grossman Gallery, Community Based Teaching Program, and the Lehigh Valley Performing Arts High School.