Academic Instructional Media Services, a division of Help Services in the Office of Information Technologies, is taking appointments for its summer clean and check of departmentally-owned equipment.
Types of equipment to be serviced include, but are not limited to, data projectors, slide projectors DVD players, VCRs and sound systems.
Actual maintenance will take place over the summer, by appointment, at the departmental spaces or offices. AIMS offers this service free of charge but departments may have to buy replacement parts, lamps, etc.
Stephanie Elsky, postdoctoral fellow and visiting assistant professor in the department of law, jurisprudence and social thought at Amherst College, will discuss "Custom, Periodization, and Poetic Performance in Sidney's Old Arcadia" on Thursday, April 11 at 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St.
The Renaissance Center's curator, David Katz, will discuss recent donations to the center and display various rare books from the collection on Wednesday, April 17 at 4 p.m.
Erika Lin, assistant professor of English at George Mason University, will deliver a talk on “Erotic Horseplay and Demonic Desires: Festive Performance in The Witch of Edmonton” on Wednesday, April 17 at 4:30 p.m. in the Reading Room of the Renaissance Center, 650 East Pleasant St. 
Republican strategist Karl Rove and former deputy chief of staff and senior advisor to President George W. Bush will speak on "The Future of America and the GOP" on Tuesday, April 9 at 8 p.m. in the Student Union Ballroom. Doors open at 7:20.
A talk by Jacquelynne Eccles of the University of Michigan scheduled for April 22 has been canceled.
Leading scholars on Venezuela and Hugo Chávez will gather in the Campus Center on Friday, April 19, for a conference titled “Venezuela: Change or Continuity? The Legacy of Hugo Chávez and the Future of the Bolivarian Revolution.”
David Demille of Yale University will speak on “Tabletop probes for TeV physics: searching for the electric dipole moment of the electron” at a Physics Department colloquium on Wednesday, April 10 at 4 p.m. in 124 Hasbrouck Laboratory.