Lectures
Penn State Intercom......August
30, 2001
Penn College is regional
site for videoconference
Pennsylvania College of Technology’s
North Campus will serve as a regional host site for the statewide Pennsylvania
Rural Development Council videoconference on Leadership Development on
Friday, Sept. 14.
The conference will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the videoconferencing
center at the North Campus.
The videoconference will include presentations on leadership development,
an update on the state’s “Stay Invent the Future” initiative
and an overview of the state’s Tobacco Settlement Act. Conference
speakers include Pennsylvania Rural Development Council officials; representatives
from community leadership programs across the state; Kim Coon, president
of the Education Resource Group/State System of Higher Education; Mike
Gildea, Brain Gain manager for the state Department of Community and Economic
Development; and W. Russell McDaid, senior policy manager for the Governor’s
Policy Office.
The meeting and lunch are free to the public; however, seating is limited,
and registration is encouraged. To register or receive more information,
call the North Campus at (570) 724-7703 or the Pennsylvania Rural Development
Council at (717) 772-9030. Information also is available on the Web at
http://www.ruralpa.state.pa.us
or http://www.pct.edu/north.
Security conference
aimed at 'weakest links'
A conference titled “Computer
and Network Security 2001: Are You the Weakest Link?” is scheduled
for 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 4, at The Penn Stater Conference Center
Hotel on the University Park campus.
The event is designed to help make the University a more secure computing
environment. Although this conference is intended for all skill levels,
most presentations will assume a basic knowledge of related topics. The
conference will address new types of attacks, writing secure code, securing
an operating system, securing networks, legal and ethical issues, and
other topics.
Registration is required. The cost is $75 per person and includes lunch.
For information, send an e-mail inquiry to SecurityConcerns@psu.edu.
Web-based registration and additional information are available at http://www.psu.edu/dept/NETSEC/conference.html.
Indian activist Winona LaDuke
to speak at Erie
American Indian activist and Harvard graduate Winona LaDuke will discuss her experiences as director of Honor the Earth Fund and co-chair for the Indigenous Women's Network at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, in the Reed Union Building at Penn State Erie.
She also will talk about her struggle to restore the local land base and culture on the White Earth Reservation in Minnesota. Her presentation opens the 2001-2002 Speaker Series.
LaDuke founded the White Earth Land Recovery Project to raise funds to purchase original White Earth land that was illegally taken from the Anishinabe people.
The event is free to the public. For information about the speaker series, call (814) 898-6171.
Alum returns to give
Industry Leaders Lecture 
George Purnell, the chief learning officer for software innovator Legato Systems Inc., will deliver the fall 2001 Industry Leaders Lecture for the School of Information Sciences and Technology.
Purnell's address will be at 1 p.m. Aug. 31, in the Palmer Museumof Art Auditorium on the University Park campus. He will discuss "Customers Come First: Keeping the World's Business Critical Information Available." He is expected to address the trends and integrated solution suites in the data and information storage industry. Additionally, Purnell, a University alumnus, will cover the impact and potential revenue loss caused by an information technology application outage. Other themes will include the collaboration between industry and public education for more effective use of IT and careers in IT.
As Legato's chief learning officer, Purnell is responsible for the California-based corporation's Worldwide Education Initiative, an effort that involves customer, channel member and employee education and training for all product lines, sales and professional services.
Navy diver tells 'the real
story' at Penn College
Carl Brashear, whose life story was recounted in the recent Bill Cosby-produced film, "Men of Honor," will speak Tuesday, Sept. 25, at Pennsylvania College of Technology as part of the Fall 2001 Lecture Series.
Brashear's lecture begins at 8 p.m. in the Klump Academic Center auditorium.
Brashear, who was portrayed by actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in the motion picture, will speak on "The Real Story Behind 'Men of Honor.'"
Brashear became the Navy's first African-American master diver, overcoming a crippling injury and other obstacles. He continued to dive after losing half his leg during the recovery of a nuclear warhead in the Mediterranean Sea in 1966. In 1998, Brashear became one of only seven enlisted men in history to be enshrined in the Naval Archives. A 164-page volume transcribes an oral history of his life and career.
The lecture series, which is sponsored by the Student Activities Office at Penn College, continues on Tuesday, Oct. 30, with Patricia Gagliardo, a clairvoyant, medium, author and talk-show host, who will discuss "Voices from Beyond."
Rounding out the lecture series on Tuesday, Nov. 6, will be former Major League Baseball umpire Dave Pallone, author of Behind the Mask: My Double Life in Baseball, a look at baseball through the eyes of a gay man.
All of the programs begin at 8 p.m. The Brashear and Gagliardo lectures will be held in the Academic Center auditorium; the Pallone lecture will be presented at Penn's Inn on the second floor of the Campus Center.
Admission is free to the public, but tickets are required. For information, call the Student Activities Office at (570) 327-4537, or visit http://www.pct.edu/student_activities/ on the Web.