Lectures
Penn State Intercom......April
30, 2001
Music industry adviser
discusses e-commerce
Barry K. Robinson, senior counsel for corporate affairs for the Recording Industry Association of America, will give a talk on "Music in the Key of E-Commerce: Has the Recording Industry Found Harmony on the Internet?" at the Penn State Forum lunch on Wednesday, May 9, in the President's Hall at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, University Park.
Robinson also has served as senior counsel for international investment and trade in the U.S. Department of Commerce in Washington, D.C. A 1967 graduate of the University's College of the Liberal Arts, Robinson has been a member of the Board of Trustees since his election by alumni in 1989.
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 information, call (814) 865-7590.
Keynote speaker's
theme is 'Life is To Enjoy'
Penn State Fayette Women's Day committee has announced the speaker for the 20th annual Women's Day celebration, which will be from 7:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Thursday, May 17.
This year's theme is "Of Women, For Women." Linda Pulliam of Richmond, Va., will explain how "Life is To Enjoy" as the keynote speaker at the daylong campus event.
The program schedule features a number of workshops with opportunities for personal growth and motivation. Other events include a Community Service and Information Fair and silent auction.
Registrations are on a first-come, first-serve basis. Parking is available on campus. To register or for information, call Harriet Galida at (724) 430-4199.
Conference focuses on
challenges of HIV/AIDS
The School of Nursing is holding a conference on "HIV/AIDS -- Meeting the Challenge" from June 28 to 30 at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
Designed to address the needs of health care and social service professionals involved in planning and/or providing direct delivery of services to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural settings, this conference also will provide a forum for researchers and clinicians to discuss critical issues and innovative approaches for improving the quality of life for people living with HIV/AIDS.
Concurrent sessions will cover topics including how to initiate programs in rural communities that will enhance the psychological status of people with HIV/AIDS, how to implement programs to prevent the disparity of care for people of color, women and other minority populations, and how to implement innovative methods of care delivery that address the quality-of-life issues.
Developing strategies for the prevention of HIV/AIDS in high-risk populations in rural communities also will be discussed.
For information or to request a brochure, call Judy Meder at (814) 865-5100. More information is available at the program's Web site at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/AIDSResearch.
Event looks at news
leadership, copy editing
The Penn State Institute for Editors will offer a training opportunity for seasoned professionals and newcomers to the journalism profession on May 20-23 at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
It will include specialized instruction and practical exercises for supervising editors and copy editors. Supervising editors will learn how to provide leadership, build newsroom morale and coach, counsel and mentor their professional colleagues. Additional instruction will cover techniques used for setting and measuring goals for the newspaper staff. Topics for copy editors include detecting and correcting the common mistakes that writers make, writing better headlines and captions and analyzing the structure of stories.
The keynote address at this year's institute will be given by John J. Curley, recently retired chairman, president and chief executive officer of the Gannett Co., the nation's largest newspaper company.
Other featured speakers include John E. McIntyre, copy desk chief at The Sun in Baltimore; John Winn Miller, senior vice president and executive editor of the Tallahassee Democrat; and Carl Sessions Stepp, associate professor of journalism at the University of Maryland and senior editor of the American Journalism Review.
The institute also also feature practitioners from various fields of the newspaper industry as well as instruction from faculty of the College of Communications.
For information, call Chris Dufour at (814) 863-5100 or visit the program's Web site at http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/Editors.