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Alexander Pines, professor of chemistry at the University of California
at Berkeley and faculty senior 
scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley
National Laboratory, will present the 1997 Joseph Priestley Lectures from
April 23 to 25 at the University Park campus. The three-lecture series,
"Magnetic Moments," is sponsored by the Eberly College of Science
and by a grant from Exxon Research and Development Laboratories.
The lectures, which are open to the public, include: "NMR/MRI: All Lit Up" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 23, in 102 Thomas Building; "Magic and Other Angles" at 4 p.m. Thursday, April 24, in S-5 Osmond Laboratory; and "Gauge Kinematics of Spins and Cats" at 12:15 p.m. Friday, April 25, in S-5 Osmond Laboratory.
Pines, whose main research interests include nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) theory and experiment, has developed techniques that are widely used in chemistry and materials science.
Pines received his doctoral degree in 1968 in chemical physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then joined the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley in 1972. He is faculty senior scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and professor of chemistry at the University of California, where he holds the President's Chair in Undergraduate Education.
The Priestley Lectures are named in honor of Joseph Priestley, the 18th century English chemist who discovered oxygen and eventually settled in central Pennsylvania. These lectures were established by the late Professor Wheeler P. Davey in 1926.
The Science, Technology, and Society Program will play host for a visit by physicist and social activist Vandana Shiva to the University Park campus. A public lecture, "Women, Biodiversity and Biotechnology," will be held at 7 p.m. Monday, April 21, in 101 ASI Building.
Shiva was a scientific researcher at the Indian Institute of Management in Bangalore. She is the science and environment adviser of the Third World Network and the Asia Pacific People's Network, (APPEN), associate editor of the Ecologist and a board member of a number of other national and international bodies. In 1993 she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, also known as the alternative Nobel Prize. For the past 10 years, Shiva has been a spokesperson for socially responsible science, particularly in the area of plant resource use and preservation and respect for indigenous agricultural knowledge. She is a critic of agricultural biotechnology and advocate for the preservation of farmers rights and conservation of biodiversity. Shiva is currently the director for the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Natural Resource Policy in New Delhi, India, and has authored several books.
Shiva's visit also is being supported by the College of Agricultural Sciences, The Penn State Sigma Xi Chapter, Women Studies Program and the WISE Institute. For more information contact Hector E. Flores, director, STS Program, at (814) 865-3043.
One of Pennsylvania's leading executives, John T. Ryan III, will
visit University Park on Friday, April 
25, to present the
sixth annual G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Mineral Engineering.
He will speak at 4 p.m. on "Business in the '90s: A Contrarian View" in 22 Deike Building. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m.
Ryan is chairman and chief executive officer of Mine Safety Appliances Co., manufacturer of equipment and systems for worker and plant protection, with products ranging from filtered respirators to detection devices for toxic substances. The company was founded in Pittsburgh by two Penn State alumni in 1914.
Ryan is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a director of the Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania and a member of the executive committee of the Allegheny Conference on Community Development. He is a graduate of Notre Dame and holds an M.B.A. from Harvard University.
This lecture series was established in 1992 to honor the memory of G. Albert Shoemaker, a distinguished alumnus of Penn State, former Penn State trustee and president of the Board of Trustees from 1970 to 1972. The series is administered by the Department of Mineral Engineering.
Karl P. Kimmerling, vice president of manufacturing-steel at the Timken Co. in Canton, Ohio, will present a lecture in conjunction with receiving the David Ford McFarland Award presented annually to a Penn State graduate who has achieved distinction in the field of metallurgy, from the Penn State Chapter of ASM International.
Kimmerling's technical presentation on "Profitable Growth Through Teamwork and Technology," will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, April 26, in 112 Walker Building on the University Park campus. He will be honored that same day at a banquet.
As vice president of manufacturing-steel, Kimmerling is responsible for all of Timken's steel manufacturing operations supporting four steel making facilities, 3,000 employees, and annual steel sales of $1 billion. He received his B.S. degree in metallurgy from Penn Sate in 1979 and began his career with Timken's Harrison Avenue melt shop. While carrying out his metallurgical and managerial responsibilities there, he attended Kent State in pursuit of his MBA, which he received in 1982. After receiving his J.D. in corporate law from the University of Akron in 1987, he was promoted from general supervisor of melt shop operations to assistant superintendent of labor relations.
In 1989 he was transferred to Latrobe Steel (a subsidiary of Timken) as superintendent of labor relations and became business manager for tool and die steels, and then general manager of primary operations and engineering.
In 1995 he was promoted to president of Canadian Timken, Ltd., and in 1996 returned to Canton to assume his current position.
The McFarland Award is named in honor of David Ford McFarland who joined the Penn State faculty in 1920 as head of the Department of Metallurgy, a position he held until his retirement in 1945.
A workshop on Ethics in University Research and Education will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Monday, April 28, at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus. Up to three representatives from each graduate program, including at least one graduate student, are expected to attend.
The purpose of the workshop is to raise awareness of the importance of responsible conduct in research and education. The workshop will serve as a forum for identifying issues and for developing strategies for advancing ethics in research and education at Penn State.
Rodney Erickson, vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, will open the workshop, followed by the keynote address, "Research Integrity: National Issues, Local Challenges," by C. K. Gunsalus, associate provost at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
The workshop will conclude with a luncheon, during which the use of case study scenarios will be discussed by Joan Lakoski of the College of Medicine at The Hershey Medical Center.
The Workshop on Ethics in University Research and Education is organized by the Graduate Council Committee on Research and the Graduate School. For more information, contact Mary Hosband, 114 Kern Building.
The ninth international conference on High Temperature Materials Chemistry (HTMC IX) will be held May 1923, at the Penn State Conference Center Hotel, at University Park. The conference will include invited lectures and contributed papers on topics related to understanding and predicting the chemistry of the processing, fabrication, behavior and properties of high temperature gaseous and condensed materials.
For more information, call (800) 778-8632, or visit the Web at: http://www.cde.psu.edu/C&I/HTMC-IX/
The Fourth Penn State Green Design Conference will be held from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, April 20, at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus. All students, faculty, staff and environmentalists interested in sustainable and unique design concepts for buildings, industry and Penn State are invited to attend.
As part of the five-hour event, there will be speakers, interactive presentations and a poster session on pollution prevention. The keynote address will be given at noon by William Coperthwaite, social designer and president of the Yurt Foundation. He will discuss "Designing with a Conscience."
For more information on the conference, sponsored by The Leonhard Center, the Center for Sustainability, CE477 and the Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium, call Geraldine Russell at (814) 863-7688.
Charles M. Rick Jr., will present "Chasing the Wild Tomato: Collecting, Maintaining and Utilizing Germplasm" at 12:45 p.m. Monday, April 21, in 101 Agriculture, Sciences and Industry Building on the University Park campus.
Rick examines the depletion of genetic diversity within traditionally cultivated tomatoes and how breeders are increasingly relying on exotic sources -- particularly related wild species -- for desired traits.
This lecture is sponsored by the research/training programs in plant stress and in root biology, the Science, Technology and Society Program, The Life Sciences Consortium and various departments. For more information, call Janice Kennedy at (814) 865-3155.
Pennsylvania attorneys who practice family law can earn CLE credits at the "Family Law Update Interactive Videoconference," on Saturday, April 26. The daylong seminar is a joint offering of Penn State and the Dickinson School of Law.
The seminar, which will cover equitable distribution, alimony, support, custody and ethics issues in family litigation, has been approved by the Pennsylvania Continuing Legal Education Board for five hours of substantive law, practice and procedure credit and one hour of ethics credit. The seminar will be presented at the following locations: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College; New Kensington campus; University Park; Penn State Harrisburg; Worthington Scranton campus; and Penn State Great Valley. The use of interactive video technology will enable participants at these different sites to interact with one another and the presenters.
For information about program content, contact Karen Brutz by phone at (717) 240-5272 or by e-mail at kbrutz@dsl.edu. For information about registration, contact Jean McGrath at (814) 863-8306.
Rural communities must play a role in providing firms with a technically skilled workforce, according to Penn State expert David Passmore.
Passmore, a professor of education and senior scientist in the Center for Trade, Technology and Economic Growth at the University Park campus, will focus on how a technical skills deficit can impede economic development during a free noontime presentation April 30 at the Penn State Downtown Center in Harrisburg.
He will explain how a technical skills deficit in a workforce in a rural Pennsylvania community can have a devastating effect on economic development and can impede competition for attracting new business.
For more information on the Penn State Downtown Center lecture, call (717) 783-0433.
Dr. Toni Miles, director of the Center for Special Populations and Health, will speak as part of the lecture series, Prognosis For the Decade -- The Future of Health and Disease in Pennsylvania, on "Projections on the Health Care Needs of Pennsylvania's Minority Population" from 8 to 9 a.m. Tuesday, May 6.
Dr. Julian Biebuyck, associate dean for academic affairs, professor and chair of anesthesia at The Hershey Medical Center, will continue this lecture series, sponsored by The Hershey Medical Center, as he speaks on "Health Care Providers: Will the Demand Equal the Supply?" from 8 to 9 a.m. Monday, June 2.
These lectures are designed to inform members of the state Legislature, state government agencies and those involved in health care policy about projections on health and disease throughout Pennsylvania in the near future.
Both lectures will take place in the Penn State Downtown Center in Harrisburg. To register, call the center at (717) 783-0433.
A workshop titled "Menopause: Making the Transition" will be presented at the Penn State Conference Center Hotel at University Park on May 10, from 8:45 a.m. to 12:45 p.m.
This one-day workshop is a continuing and distance education service of the College of Health and Human Development and is supported by the Dr. Thomas M. Nardozzo Community Service Endowment.
The following topics will be addressed:
-- Keynote presentation: "Perspective on Menopause -- Body Image," Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield, professor of women's studies and health education, Penn State;
-- "Hormone Replacement Therapy -- Is It Right for You?" Dr. Karen Bascom, Internal Medicine Associates;
-- "Mind Over Menopause," Judy Zarit, clinical psychologist; and
-- "Healthy Transition -- Your Body -- Nutrition and Fitness," Kristine Clark, director of sports nutrition, Penn State.
The $69 registration fee includes instruction, handouts and a food and beverage break.
Health America (HMO) members note: partial reimbursement is available for this program. To register, call (800) PSU-TODAY.
As the world's stock markets are increasingly intertwined, the opportunities for U.S. investment in foreign corporations are increasing. But, while foreign stocks may sound glamorous, there are a number of risks which need to be understood by an investor in America.
The next installment in the "Current Issues in Business" lecture series, sponsored by the Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration, will feature a look at international investing with assistant professor of professional accountancy Robert Larson.
Larson, chair of the Professional Accountancy Program at Penn State Harrisburg and a certified public accountant, will offer his advice at a noontime presentation May 13 at the Penn State Harrisburg Eastgate Center, 1010 N. Seventh St. in Harrisburg. A question-and-answer period will follow.
For information or a reservation, contact the Penn State Harrisburg Eastgate Center at (717) 772-3590.
A free conference, "Challenges and Achievements VII" for women faculty, students and staff in the sciences and engineering, will be held at the Nittany Lion Inn from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday, April 19. While the conference is geared toward women, men also are welcome.
Patricia Wright, director of the Institute for the Conservation of Tropical Environments of the State University of New York, Stony Brook, will talk about her life in science at her 9 a.m. keynote address.
Challenges and Achievements is a series of annual "how-to" workshops to increase the preparation of women for work or study in non-traditional fields.
All workshops will be held in Keller Building near the Nittany Lion Inn. To register, e-mail the WISE Institute at wise@psu.edu or call (814) 865-3342 for more information.
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