Mario Renato Capecchi, distinguished professor of human genetics
and adjunct professor of oncological sciences from the University of Utah
School of Medicine and professor of biology, University of Utah, will speak
on "How do Hox Genes Specify our Body Plan?"in the Life Sciences
Consortium's Colloquium Oct. 13.
The colloquium will be videoconferenced from 101 Thomas Building to Room L-3621 at The Hershey Medical Center and to several other campus locations at 4 p.m.
Capecchi is best known for his pioneering work on the development of gene targeting in mouse embryo-derived stems (ES) cells. This technology allows scientists to create mice with mutations in any desired gene. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (1991) and has won numerous awards, including the Franklin Medal for Advancing Our Knowledge of the Physical Sciences (1997), the Feodor Lynen Lectureship (1998) and the Rosenblatt Prize for Excellence (1998).
Jerry Greenfield, half of the famous Ben and Jerry's ice cream duo, will offer "An Evening of Entrepreneurial Spirit, Social Responsibility and Radical Business Philosophy," at Penn State Erie at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 13.
His lecture, which will take place in the Reed Union Building Commons, is free to the public.
For many years, Ben and Jerry's has donated 7.5 percent of its annual pretax profits to charitable causes -- the highest percentage of any publicly held company.
The company has become a powerful agent for social change by embracing a values-led business philosophy that accepts responsibility for the welfare of society.
Greenfield's lecture continues the Penn State Erie Speaker Series.
For more information about the Speaker Series, call (814) 898-6000.
Joe Martin, professor, author, national speaker and educational consultant, will present the program "R.A.C.E. 101 Workshop: Reshaping our Attitudes Concerning Ethnicity," at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Penn State Beaver Study Learning Center auditorium. The program is free.
Martin, a communications and public relations professor from Tallahassee, Fla., will conduct what he calls a "get real" open discussion concerning race issues. Audience members will be able to write questions on note cards anonymously and speak out as those questions are addressed.
The R.A.C.E. 101 Workshop is designed to teach the difference between being prejudiced and being a racist, and to help people understand why racism exists.
For more information, call (724) 773-3950.
Lloyd Steffen, university chaplain and professor of religious studies at Lehigh University, will visit University Park in mid-October for a series of talks on abortion and capital punishment and will address drinking on college campuses. He is the first scholar-in-residence sponsored by the Center for Ethics and Religious Affairs.
These lectures are free to the public:
* "Revising the Abortion Debate: The Case for Common Ground," Wednesday, Oct. 14, at 7:30 p.m., 112 Kern Graduate Commons.
* "Alcohol Consumption and Abuse on College Campuses," a brown-bag lunch discussion co-sponsored with the Office of Health Promotion and Education. Thursday, Oct. 15, 12-1 p.m., 16 Ritenour Building.
* "The Moral Challenge of Capital Punishment," Thursday, Oct. 15, 7:30 p.m., Memorial Lounge, Eisenhower Chapel.
During his residency, Steffen will address community values with University faculty, staff and students. He will meet with campus ministers and discuss ethical issues faced by health professionals during an in-service meeting at the Office of Health Promotion and Education. He also will stay at the Scholars House in Atherton Hall and meet with students from the Schreyer Honors College.
Steffen's books reflect his advocacy of finding common ground -- Life/Choice: The Theory of Just Abortion (1994), Abortion: A Reader (1996) and Executing Justice: The Moral Meaning of the Death Penalty, to be published in November. He is working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health to confront the problem of binge drinking on college campuses.
Judith Pollock Klinman, professor of chemistry and professor of molecular and cell biology at the University of California at Berkeley, will present the Russell Marker Lectures in the Chemical Sciences from Oct. 14-16 on the University Park campus. The three-lecture series, titled "Enzyme Catalysis: Beyond the Classics," is sponsored by the Eberly College of Science and is free to the public.
The lectures include: "Moving Through Barriers: Hydrogen Tunneling in C-H Activation" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 14, in 104 Keller Conference Building; "Linking Protein Dynamics to Catalysis of C-H Activation" at 4 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 15, in the Hetzel Union Building Assembly Hall; and "Life as Aerobes: Simple Principles for Dioxygen Activation," at 12:15 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16, in the Hetzel Union Building Assembly Hall.
Klinman is widely recognized for her extensive studies of enzyme-catalyzed oxidation-reduction reactions.
Among Klinman's many honors, she was named a Guggenheim Fellow in 1998, a Fellow of the Japanese Ministry of Science in 1996, and a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993. She served as plenary lecturer in both national and international capacities.
The Palmer Museum of Art will offer a lecture series on the University Park campus in October in conjunction with the exhibition "Musical Notes by Honoré Daumier: Prints from the Collection of Egon and Belle Gartenberg," which runs through Dec. 13.
The lecture series, given by Joyce Robinson, associate curator, will look at "Honoré Daumier and the Legacy of Realism in 19th-Century France and Beyond." Robinson will discuss "Daumier in 1848: An Art for the People," at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 16; "From Laundresses to Café-Concerts: Daumier and the Iconography of Urban Impressionism," at 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 30; and "The Legacy of Daumier: From Pablo Picasso to Red Grooms," at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 13, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
Honoré Daumier (1808-1879) is regarded as one of the most important French artists of the 19th century. This exhibition showcases 42 musically oriented lithographs that parody musical figures of the 19th century.
For more information, call Robinson at (814) 865-7672.
Jack Levin, national expert on serial killers, will present a program titled "Overkill: Serial Murder Exposed" at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26, in the Hiller Auditorium at Penn State DuBois. The program is free to the public.
In his presentation, Levin holds a magnifying glass to the minds and motives of such vicious killers as Jeffrey Dahmer, Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy and the Unabomber. Having co-written the pioneering book profiling the serial killer more than a decade ago, Levin now discusses his latest sequel, Overkill: Mass Murder and Serial Killing Exposed.
Additional details about the presentation are available from student life coordinator Rebecca Strasavich at (814) 375-4766 or by e-mail at rxs163@psu.edu.
In conjunction with its exhibition "Tim Rollins and K.O.S.:
A Paper Retrospective," the Palmer Museum of Art on the University
Park campus is sponsoring Tim Rollins as one of the keynote speakers at
the 1998 Pennsylvania Art Education Association conference.
The Art Education Association conference will be held at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, at 9 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 24. Registration for the Rollins lecture is required. The lecture is free to museum members, who can register by calling (814) 865-7672. Non-members can purchase $5 tickets at the door.
During his tenure as an art teacher in the South Bronx in the 1980s, Rollins established the Art and Knowledge Workshop to allow middle school students to explore alternative avenues of learning through art. The museum also is showing the film "Kids of Survival: The Art and Life of Tim Rollins and K.O.S." and graduate assistant Robin Seymour is conducting gallery talks on "The Art of Tim Rollins and K.O.S."
The film will be shown at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 18; 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 7; 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 15; noon Friday, Dec. 4; and 1 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium.
The Gallery Talks will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6 and 2:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in the Christoffers Lobby. For more information, contact the museum office at (814) 865-7672.
Robin Roberts, one of ESPN's most versatile commentators,
will show how to reach long-term goals in her talk, "Think Big, Focus
Small," on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 8 p.m. in Schwab Auditorium, University
Park.
Roberts is appearing as part of Penn State's Distinguished Speakers Series.
During her eight-year career at ESPN, Roberts has been host for Sunday Sports Day, contributed to NFL Prime Time and provided reports and interviews from the field. Since 1995 she has hosted ABC's Wide World of Sports and often hosts ESPN's SportsCenter. She is play-by-play commentator for ESPN's Women's National Basketball Association games. Roberts also plays a prominent role in ESPN's women's college basketball coverage and remains the network's primary reporter for the Olympics.
Roberts' presentation, which is free to the public, is supported through the student activity fee. No tickets are required.
For more information, contact the Office of Student Activities at (814) 863-3786.
Creating and maintaining private, commercial and public landscapes is the focus of the Natural Habitats workshop at Penn State Berks. The workshop will be held from 8:30 a.m.-3 p.m. Oct. 24.
Participants will learn ways natural habitats enrich our lives and the reasons for their decline; how to develop natural areas that will benefit native plants and animals; and how to encourage the use of integrated pest management techniques. Speakers also will provide sources for native plants.
Keynote speaker Margaret C. Brittingham, associate professor of wildlife resources at Penn State and wildlife extension specialist for Pennsylvania, will speak on the "Basics of Biodiversity."
Other speakers are Jose Alminana, chief urban landscape architect of Andropogon Associates Inc.; Richard Belding, land management group supervisor of four counties with the Pennsylvania Game Commission; Carol Cloen, steamback restoration manager, Schuylkill Riverkeeper; Mark Gutshall and Jim MacKenzie of Octararo Native Plant Nurseries; Donald Marushak, executive director of May Fair Inc. and superintendent of parks for the city of Allentown for more than two decades; and Jean White, project coordinator of the National Wildlife Federation Backyard Wildlife Habitat Program.
The cost is $15 per person or $25 for two from the same household. For more information, call Berks County Conservancy at (610) 372-4992.
Richard A. Easterlin, a professor of economics at the University of Southern California, is the featured speaker for this year's Herschel W. and Eileen Wirtshafter Leibowitz Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences in the College of the Liberal Arts. Easterlin will present "Where Is Economic Growth Taking Us?" at 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 22, in 112 Kern Building on the University Park campus.
In his talk, Easterlin will explore the tendencies of progress, what it means to live comfortably and whether or not global society and economic growth will reach a point when everyone can be satisfied. His views challenge contemporary social scientists, culture watchers and academics, and elicit debate across the humanities.
The author or editor of 12 books and reports and more than 100 professional articles, Easterlin is an economist noted for his multidisciplinary work in population studies. His lecture is open to the public.
The Leibowitz Lectureship is named for Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus Herschel W. Leibowitz, a member of the faculty in the Department of Psychology since 1962, and his wife Eileen Wirtshafter Leibowitz, who established an endowment for the lectureship in the College of the Liberal Arts in 1996.
More than 200 French studies scholars will be gathering at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel as the University hosts the 24th annual meeting of the 19th-Century French Studies Colloquium from Oct. 22-25 on the University Park campus.
The colloquium focuses on all topics relevant to the field of 19th-century French studies. Individual sessions will examine a wide array of literary, cultural, political, scientific and artistic phenomena in 19th-century France.
One of the keynote speakers is Robert Rosenblum, the Henry Ittleson Jr. professor of modern European art, Department of Fine Arts, New York University. He will present "Bouguereau Versus Picasso Art in Paris at the Century's End," during the first plenary session on Oct. 23.
The colloquium is an outreach program of the College of the Liberal Arts. For more information, call Kathryn Grossman at (814) 865-3532, or e-mail kmg2@psu.edu.
For registration information, contact Kristin Owens, conference planner, at (814) 863-5100, or e-mail ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu. Visit the conference Web site: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/FrenchStudies/
Educators in the field of health care should attend the "Strategies for Successful Education of Health Care Providers" conference, Nov. 4-5, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
The conference is appropriate for educators across health-care disciplines, including educators of professional nurses, licensed practical nurses, dental hygienists, radiography technicians, emergency medical technicians, nursing assistants, dental assistants, hospital and nursing home staff and other allied health personnel.
Conference speakers will provide in-depth and hands-on exposure to the latest theories and techniques in teaching. They will address a variety of current health-care topics including classroom and clinical litigation, alternative medicine, hepatitis and nurse aide training in a high school setting.
For registration information, call Kristin Owens at (814) 863-5100; e-mail ConferenceInfo1@cde.psu.edu; or check the conference Web site at: http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/StrategiesForSuccess/