Founder Of Accuweather To Address Penn State Forum
January 9, 2001
University Park, Pa. — Joel N. Myers, founder, president and chief executive officer of AccuWeather, Inc., the world's leading commercial weather service, will give a talk on "Some Impacts of Technology and the Internet on the Roles of Private Enterprise, Government and Institutions" at the Penn State Forum at noon on Thursday, Jan. 18, in the President's Hall at the Penn Stater.

Myers founded State College-based Accu-Weather in 1962, one year after completing his undergraduate education at Penn State. He served on the University's faculty for 19 years and by his retirement in 1981, Myers had taught weather forecasting to approximately 17 percent of all practicing meteorologists in the United States.

A member of Penn State's Board of Trustees, Myers has received numerous awards and has been named by Entrepreneur magazine as one of the top 500 entrepreneurs in American history. He has authored more than 75 papers and articles, appeared on many national radio and television shows, and has been quoted in National Geographic, Time, Forbes, Newsweek, U.S. News & World Report, and The Economist and more than 250 other newspapers and magazines. He has also testified before Congress as an expert on the weather industry. Myers recently became a Commodity Trading Advisor and started a new company called Weather Prophets, Inc., which is involved in managed futures.

The Penn State Forum is a lunchtime speaker series offered by the Faculty Staff Club and is sponsored in part by the Penn State Bookstore. It is open to the public. Tickets are $11 for non-members and $9 for members, and include lunch. Reservations can be made by mail or by stopping by the Faculty Staff Club office at 103 HUB-Robeson Center. Tickets will be on sale at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m. followed by the speech and a question-and-answer session at noon. For more information call (814) 865-7590.

?The next Penn State Forum speaker is Allan E. Goodman, president and CEO of the Institute of International Education, who will speak on "I Sell Goats: The Future of Education a Borderless World" on Thursday, Feb. 1, at the Nittany Lion Inn.

Contact: Amy Neil, Department of Public Information, at (814) 865-7517 or email aen4@psu.edu.