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Chancellor to speak at lunchtime forum series David K. Scott, chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, will present "Learning to Change: The University as a Learning Organization" at the Penn State Forum from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, April 17, in The Nittany Lion Inn Ballroom on the University Park campus. Scott, a native of Scotland's Orkney Islands, conducted pioneering research on collisions and nuclear systems at the University of California at Berkeley for seven years. In 1983 he served as associate provost and vice president for academic affairs at Michigan State University. During his six-year tenure, Scott drew on his rural island upbringing to make institutions of learning like Edinburgh, Oxford, Berkeley and Michigan State available to a wider audience. In 1993, Scott became chancellor of the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and has written more than 100 articles on topics in nuclear science and higher education. The Penn State Forum is a lunchtime speakers series sponsored by the Penn State Faculty Staff Club and the Penn State Bookstore. Tickets are $10 and include lunch. A table of 10 may be reserved in advance; tickets will be sold at the door on a first-come, first-served basis. Lunch begins at 11:30 a.m., followed by the presentation at noon. For more information, call (814) 865-7590.

"Amistad" screenings, faculty forum planned The movie "Amistad" will make its debut on the University Park campus the week of April 20 with seven screenings. A Penn State faculty forum on Thursday, April 23, will discuss the movie's many themes and messages. The film screening dates and times are: * Monday, April 20, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., HUB Assembly Room; * Tuesday, April 21, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., HUB Assembly Room; * Tuesday, April 21, 7 to 10 p.m., Paul Robeson Cultural Center; * Wednesday, April 22, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., HUB Assembly Room; * Friday, April 24, 8 p.m., Findlay Dining Commons; * Saturday, April 25, 8 p.m., Pollock Rec Room; * Sunday, April 26, 7 p.m., 121 Sparks Building. The faculty forum will be held from noon to 1 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in the Paul Robeson Cultural Center. The forum will be led by Iyunolu Osagie, author of The Amistad Unshackled, with Charles Dumas, associate professor of theatre arts; James Stewart, vice provost for educational equity; Jeanne Hall, assistant professor of communications; Shari Roberts, assistant professor of communications; Anthony Olorunnisola, assistant professor of communications; and Carey Fraser, assistant professor of African American studies. For more information, call Shannon Hoover at (814) 863-8493.

"Boyz N the Hood" director visits April 30 John Singleton, writer and director of the film "Boyz N the Hood" and the youngest individual and first African American nominated for an Academy Award as best director, will speak at 8 p.m. Thursday, April 30, at Schwab Auditorium on the University Park campus. Singleton is appearing as part of Penn State's Distinguished Speakers Series. Singleton also won a nomination for best screenplay for "Boyz," a film that went on to become one of the highest-grossing African American films in history. Singleton attended the University of Southern California. While still a student, he was signed by Creative Artists Agency after winning the Robert Riskin and Jack Nicholson writing awards two consecutive years. Singleton's presentation is free to the public, but tickets are required. For more information, call (814) 863-3786.

Iron firm executive to speak on raw material challenges In celebration of the 50th anniversary of the David Ford McFarland Award this year, the Penn State Chapter of ASM International and the Metals Science and Engineering Program in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering will honor Richard L. Shultz. Shultz, who graduated from Penn State in 1970 with M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in metallurgy, will present the annual McFarland Award Lecture at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, April 25, in 26 Hosler Building on the University Park campus. His talk is titled "Raw Material Challenges of the Dynamic New Steel Industry, Will They Be Met?" A reception honoring Shultz will be held at 9:30 a.m. April 25, in the EMS Mineral Museum, 112 Steidle Building. Shultz is the vice president of technology for Cleveland Cliffs Reduced Iron Corp. and director of ironmaking technology for Cleveland Cliffs Inc. Before joining Cleveland Cliffs, Shultz spent 24 years with Armco Steel Corp., where he held research and technology and management positions. He is a Fellow of the American Ceramic Society and in 1997 was named a Centennial Fellow of the College of Earth and Mineral Sciences. 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. During McFarland's tenure, the Department of Metallurgy increased in size and stature with more than 400 students graduating in metallurgy while he was department head.

Energy industry executive to give Shoemaker Lecture One of the energy industry's leading executives, E. Linn Draper Jr., will visit University Park on Friday, April 24, to present the seventh annual G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture in Mineral Engineering. He will speak at 4 p.m. on "The New Age of Electric Energy" in Room 22, Deike Building. Refreshments will be served at 3:30 p.m. Draper is chairman, president and chief executive officer of the American Electric Power Co. (AEP) and the American Electric Power Service Corp., an investor-owned utility that provides energy to 2.9 million residential, commercial and industrial customers in seven states, primarily in the Midwest. Some 90 percent of its power generation is fueled by coal. The company is based in Columbus, Ohio, and has holdings in the U.S., United Kingdom and China. He has been AEP's chief executive since 1993. Earlier, he was a member of the faculty of the University of Texas and director of its Nuclear Engineering Program. He serves as an adviser to a number of academic institutions, including Ohio State, Cornell and the University of Texas.

Nobel Laureate to present Marker Lectures April 20-23 Douglas D. Osheroff, a Nobel Laureate and the J.G. Jackson and C.J. Wood professor of physics at Stanford University, will present the 1998 Marker Lectures in the Physical Sciences April 20-23 at University Park. The schedule includes a lecture intended for a general audience: "The Nature of Discovery in Physics," at 8 p.m. Monday, April 20, in 112 Kern Graduate Center; two specialized lectures, "Understanding Superfluidity in Helium-3" at 3 p.m. Tuesday, April 21, in 101 Osmond Laboratory and "Nuclear Spin Ordering in Solid Helium-3: A Model Magnetic System" at 3 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, in S-5 Osmond Laboratory; and a colloquium titled "The Importance of Interactions Between Active Defects in Glasses at Low Temperature" at 3 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in 101 Osmond Laboratory. Osheroff shared the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1996 for the discovery of superfluidity in helium-3 (http://www-leland.stanford.edu/dept/physics/Nobel/osheroff.shtml). This breakthrough in low-temperature physics allowed researchers to study the properties of quantum liquids in detail and to compare these properties with predictions of low-temperature quantum physics to describe matter at the microscopic level. Osheroff earned a bachelor of science degree in physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1967 and a doctoral degree in physics from Cornell University in 1973. He has received numerous honors for his work in low-temperature physics. The Marker Lectures were established in 1984 through a gift from the late Russell Marker, professor emeritus of organic chemistry at Penn State, whose pioneering synthetic methods revolutionized the steroid hormone industry and opened the door to the current era of hormone therapies, including the birth-control pill.

Earl asks if Shakespeare was a fraud The Earl of Burford, Lord Charles Vere, asks the question "Was Shakespeare a Fraud?" on Wednesday, April 22, at 7 p.m. at Penn State Mont Alto in the Multipurpose Activities Center. The public is invited to attend. For more than 200 years, there has been mounting evidence that it wasn't Bacon, Marlowe or Derby who wrote the poems and plays attributed to Shakespeare, but the Earl of Oxford, a poet, playwright and patron of the arts at the Court of Queen Elizabeth. Vere is a direct descendent of Edward De Vere, the 16th-century Earl of Oxford believed to have written the works long attributed to William Shakespeare. During his visit to the area, Vere also will meet with students.

Annual Green Design Conference to be April 26 at University Park The Fifth Penn State Green Design Conference will be held Sunday, April 26, in Café Laura and the Keller Building on the University Park campus. Programs are scheduled from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. The conference is free, but preregistration will guarantee admission. Eric Barron, director EMS Environmental Institute; Karen Thomas, environmental engineer; Toxic Use Reduction Institute; Linda Dolan, design engineer, Lockheed Martin Weapons Division; and Rebecca Lankey of Carnegie Mellon will speak on various topics. The moderator will be Mary Shoemaker, rocket scientist and environmental engineer, formerly with Rocketdyne Corp. Software demonstrations also will be part of the event. For more information, call The Pennsylvania Space Grant Consortium at (814) 863-7688, or e-mail paspace@psu.edu. Research symposium set for April 18 The First Environmental Research Symposium will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, April 18, in 104 Classroom Building on the University Park campus. The symposium is the result of a University-wide competition for graduate and undergraduate students who are actively pursuing environmental research at University Park. Each participant was asked to submit a one-page research proposal describing a project to be completed by April 18. A selection committee from the Center for Environmental Chemistry and Geochemistry affiliates chose 16 proposals to receive $500 awards for the support of the proposed research. All award winners will present the results of their research at the symposium. Four additional $500 awards will be given out at the close of the symposium to those who have excelled in the presentation and completion of their proposed research. Colloquium examines New Zealand cultural landscape Bryan Patchett, a trade promotion officer at the New Zealand Consulate General in New York, will hold a lunchtime colloquium on "Challenging the Nature Conservation Cowboys: Recognizing the Cultural Landscape in New Zealand" at noon Tuesday, April 21, in 319 Walker Building on the University Park campus. Before coming to the United States, Patchett worked with the New Zealand Historical Places Trust. He completed a master's degree in environmental management at Victoria University in Wellington, in which he focused on heritage development and on the protection of New Zealand's cultural heritage consonant with the protection of the natural environment. The seminar is free to the public. For more information, call Patricia Corbett at (814) 863-1603 or e-mail pac9@psu.edu. Breakfast lecture planned April 22 at Berks K. Jack Yost, associate vice president for research and technology transfer at Penn State, will speak on "Technology and Economic Development" at 8 a.m. April 22, in the auditorium of the Perkins Student Center at Penn State Berks. Yost's presentation will describe how businesses can improve their products and services through technology and research partnerships with universities. The presentation, part of Berks' Breakfast With Penn State series, will be preceded by a continental breakfast at 7:30 a.m. in the Freyberger Gallery. Yost is responsible for administering Penn State's $348 million research budget and economic development programs, including technology development and technical assistance programs funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce, the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce and private industry. In cooperation with the Pennsylvania Department of Commerce, he is actively involved with exploring technology-based joint ventures and trade opportunities of U.S. companies within the Pacific Rim. The Breakfast with Penn State series is held monthly during each semester. The talk is free to the public. For reservations, call (610) 396-6050. Baseball great Hank Aaron to speak April 22 The man who holds more batting records than any other player in the history of baseball, Henry "Hank" Aaron, will speak on "Chasing the Dream" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, April 22, at The Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. Aaron's talk is part of Penn State's Distinguished Speakers Series. During his 23 years in the major leagues, Aaron rewrote baseball's record books. At the peak of his career in 1974, he broke Babe Ruth's home run record. Twenty years later, fans voted that 715th homer the greatest moment in baseball history. Aaron was the first player to compile both 3,000 career hits and more than 500 homers. Aaron's autobiography, I Had a Hammer, was a 1991 best seller and the TBS documentary, "Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream," was a 1995 Academy Award nominee. Today, Aaron is a private business owner and corporate leader. He also is the senior vice president for the Atlanta Braves. Aaron's presentation is free to the public. Tickets are not required. For more information, call (814) 863-3786. Seminar looks at Asia's financial meltdown Greg Sheridan, foreign editor of The Australian, will present a seminar on "Asia's Financial Meltdown and New Challenges to Asia's Leaders: An Australian Perspective" at 3:45 p.m. Thursday, April 23, in the Eisenhower Chapel Memorial Lounge on the University Park campus. Sheridan is the foreign editor of the Sydney-based The Australian, Australia's national newspaper of record as well as Rupert Murdoch's flagship paper in the country. Sheridan, who has been with the paper since 1984, has served as diplomatic correspondent, editorial writer, and Washington and Beijing correspondent. He also has written various books, including Living With Dragons, Australia Confronts Its Asian Destiny; his most recent is Tigers, Leaders of the New Asia-Pacific, on which this seminar draws. The seminar is free to the public. For more information, call Patricia Corbett at (814) 863-1603 or e-mail pac9@psu.edu.

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