Libraries name earth and mineral sciences librarian
Kristi
L. Jensen has been named earth and mineral sciences librarian in the University
Libraries. She brings varied experience in academic librarianship, Web development
and instructional technology to the position, in which she performs reference
service and collection development duties and serves as liaison to the College
of Earth and Mineral Sciences.
Jensen comes to Penn State from the University of Michigan, where she had been a resident librarian since August 1997. Her previous professional experience includes serving as interactive media designer at the University of Nebraska and instructional technology and media specialist at Wayne State College. In addition, while pursuing her M.L.S. at Emporia State University (Kansas), Jensen was a graduate teaching assistant and copyright specialist.
Jensen is a member of the American Library Association, Association of College and Research Libraries, and Special Library Association, among other professional organizations. She received an M.L.S. from Emporia State University in 1996 and a B.A. in philosophy from Creighton University (Nebraska) in 1989.
Libraries appoint Huck Chair for Special Collections
William
L. Joyce has been named the Dorothy Foehr Huck Chair for Special Collections
in the University Libraries. Joyce brings more than 30 years of experience in
rare books and special collection librarianship to his role as head of Penn
State's newly formed Special Collections Library, which includes historical
collections and labor archives, Penn State University Archives, and rare books
and manuscripts. Joyce has chaired numerous national organizations and committees
and recently completed a presidential appointment on the Assassination Records
Review Board.
Before coming to Penn State, Joyce had been associate university librarian for rare books and special collections at Princeton University since 1986. Joyce also has served as assistant director for rare books and manuscripts at the New York Public Library and manuscripts librarian at the University of Michigan. He has taught library science courses at the University of California at Los Angeles and Columbia University. In addition, Joyce spent nine years working for the American Antiquarian Society (AAS) as education officer and curator of manuscripts. While education officer, he developed programs that improved the scholarly use of AAS holdings and increased the visibility of the society, which is an independent research library
focusing on American history, literature and culture through 1876.
Joyce is involved in a number of professional organizations, including serving on the Board of Directors of the Conservation Center for Art and Historical Artifacts. He is the author of seven biographical sketches of early American printers, clergyman and publishers, which appeared in the 1999 edition of American National Biography. Joyce's articles have been published in numerous professional journals. He also is author of Editors and Ethnicity: A History of the Irish-American Press, 1848-1883 and co-editor of Printing and Society in Early America.
Joyce holds a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan, an M.A. from St. John's University and a B.A. from Providence College.
College of Medicine selects chair of Department of Psychiatry
Dr.
Paul A. Kettl has been appointed chair of the Department of Psychiatry in the
College of Medicine.
Kettl is also professor of psychiatry and has most recently served as acting chair of the department. He was named director of the geriatric psychiatry unit in 1991 and previously served as residency training director for the department. Kettl was appointed to the Dr. Joyce D. Kales Chair in Community Psychiatry in the College of Medicine in 1998.
Kettl received his B.A. degree from Johns Hopkins University in 1976, graduated from Temple University School of Medicine in 1980 and completed his residency in psychiatry at Johns Hopkins. While at Johns Hopkins, Kettl was selected as a Maudsley Exchange Fellow and served part of his training at the Institute of Psychiatry in London. He then volunteered to spend two years with the Indian Health Service in Alaska before joining the faculty of Penn State's College of Medicine.
Kettl is board certified in both psychiatry and geriatric psychiatry. His research interests have focused on problems in geriatric psychiatry and issues of violence. He chaired national meetings on TV violence, featuring academic psychiatrists as well as the vice presidents of the three major television networks and HBO.
He also chaired meetings of academic psychiatrists and the Hemlock Society on the topic of physician-assisted suicide.
Mont Alto welcomes director of institutional advancement
Penn State Mont Alto has named Margaret Uhrich Taylor as the new director of institutional advancement on the campus.
Taylor's responsibilities include raising funds for the campus scholarship endowment fund, renovation projects, computer and lab equipment, campus speaker, and faculty research and professorships. Taylor also will oversee the Office of University Relations.
Taylor earned a bachelor's degree in communications from Shippensburg University in 1974. She earned a certificate in economic and community development from Penn State's Institute for Public Affairs in 1994. In 1999 she completed the economic development certification program offered by the National Development Council of New York.
Before coming to Penn State Mont Alto, Taylor served as the executive director of the Fulton Industrial Development Association, McConnellsburg. She was appointed by Gov. Tom Ridge to the Pennsylvania Rural Development Council board, and the Sound Land Use Advisory Committee.