Lafayette has been selected to offer a Tournees Festival for the second consecutive year. Funded through a grant from the French Cultural Services (FACE), the festival is part of an initiative to help bring contemporary French cinema to college and university campuses across the US. This year's selection of films includes an array of genres from documentaries to dramas, co-productions that represent the Francophone world, as well as films by directors ranging from unique new voices to established figures.

A short discussion will follow each screening. For the full list of dates and places, go to: http://sites.lafayette.edu/tourneesfilmfest/2009-schedule/

An exhibition marking the 150th anniversary, on November 24, of the publication of Charles Darwin’s “On the Origin of Species," is comprised of three related sections. In "A Habit of Deciding Influence" are 18 photographs of Darwin’s pigeon specimens at the Natural History of London/Tring. Darwin took up the study of domesticated pigeons in 1855 and his observations of artificial selection in pigeon breeding was invaluable to his understanding of the way species change in natural environments. 2)"Coop" is a mixed-media installation based on Darwin’s five-sided pigeon coop. 3)"Frameworks of Absence: The Extinct Birds of John James Audubon” includes 10 altered prints from “Birds of America.”

Your first opportunity to have senior portraits taken will be held in Farinon Marlo Room West. To schedule your sitting log onto www.ouryear.com enter school code 10 or call 1-800-687-9327.

Get your Blackout gear @ the College Store - 20% off
for Saturday's football game!

Bring your lunch and enjoy informal performances by Lafayette instrumental and vocal students and faculty. Dessert will be provided.

REES 241 will be offered for the first time in Spring 2010. This course includes a FREE TRIP TO RUSSIA over spring break (students will only be responsible for visa and passport expenses, plus some meals and personal expenses). Course enrollment is limited to 18 students, and registration requires the signature of either Prof. Sanborn or Sinkevic. Come to this meeting to learn more and to sign up if interested! Lunch will be provided. If you are interested but cannot make it, please contact Prof. Sanborn or Sinkevic directly.

The Kirby Government & Law Society is sponsoring a debate between the College Democrats, College Republicans and College Libertarians. They will be debating the important issue of the job market and the economy. At the conclusion of the debate, a panel of professors will announce the winner.

Food will be provided.

The artwork in this exhibition represents collaboration between students and faculty in the art and computer science departments through the Emergent Patterns project, exploring the complex patterns and processes that can emerge in visual structures. They worked with software programs to produce different forms of recurring, natural patterns. These organic structures and patterns were then combined in layers of transparent surfaces. The multiple-layered works allow the viewer to see the evolutionary track back through the surface to the less complex visual systems from which the final image emerges.

Headed by Ed Kerns, Eugene H. Clapp II Professor of Art, and Chun Wai Liew, associate professor, head of computer science. Student participants included Rhodes Baker '10, computer science; Imogen Cain '12, art; Long Ho '10, mathematics and computer science; Khine Lin '11, pursing a B.S. in electrical and computer engineering and an A.B. in mathematics; and Scott Lyttle '10, art.

Nonlinear Optics: from molecules to materials to devices

Local author Sung J. Woo will discuss and sign copies of his debut novel, EVERYTHING ASIAN on Wednesday Nov. 4 @ 7 pm, room 329 Pardee Hall.

Mocktar, a Nigerian peasant who lost his entire family in a terrible accident, tries to rebuild his life. He goes to Essakane, a dusty gold mine in Northeast Burkina Faso, to look for work and to forget the past that haunts him. He is quickly introduced to the small community of miners and begins working in the dangerous tunnels of the mine. Little by little, Mocktar discovers that the gold rush ended twenty years before, and the inhabitants of this wasteland manage to exist simply from force of habit. In Essakane, the life of the whole population revolves around the irrational expectation of finding gold. Hope makes them surpass the threat of the mines. Among the inhabitants, the beautiful Coumba is still courageously struggling to raise her daughter. She takes care of her alone as her husband died in the mine. As he falls in love with Coumba, he fights not only to survive, but also to provide a better future for her and her child.

"Building the First Wind Project on the Galapagos Islands: After This one, Global Electrification Should Be Easy", Lecture by Paul Loeffelman, American Electric Power, and Jim Tolan, Project Manager, E8 Wind Project, Galapagos Islands. Lecture on sustainable ecologically-minded energy systems: At the invitation of the UN, American Electric Power led an international team of companies through institutional, public policy, financial, environmental, and engineering challenges to develop, construct and support the operation.
Open To Public