Lectures
Penn State Intercom......March
2 , 2001
Fredman to open
Leadership Conference 
The annual Women's Leadership Conference will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 11 and repeated during the same times April 12 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
This one-day conference, titled "Perspectives," will offer a vast array of topics dealing with women's issues such as wo-men's health, women at work, women in transition and women at home. Mimi U. Coppersmith-Fredman, president of the Barash Group, opens the annual event with a session titled "Eat First, Cry Later." Bertice Berry, scholar, comedienne and author, will put her humorous and motivational spin on life's lessons during the closing session of the conference.
The event's networking luncheon weaves together the insights and interests of other women in the community followed by additional opportunities to listen and learn from other female leaders.
Brochures including a registration form will be distributed throughout the University and the community.
For more information, call the Human Resource Development Center at (814) 865-8216.
Todd Blackledge to talk
at Penn State Forum
Todd Blackledge, lead college football analyst for CBS sports, will give a talk on "Becoming a Difference-Maker" on Thursday, March 15, in the Ballroom at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
Blackledge, a seven-year veteran of the National Football League, joined CBS Sports in 1999, after spending several years broadcasting for ABC Sports, ESPN and the Big East Television Network as both a game and studio analyst.
A 1983 graduate of Penn State, Blackledge was an academic All-American and earned Phi Beta Kappa status as a junior at Penn State. He was the starting quarterback for three seasons, guiding the Nittany Lions to a 31-5 record, including three New Year's Day bowl victories and a national championship in 1982. In the spring of 1997, he was elected to the Academic All-American Hall of Fame.
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.
Teleconference focuses
on planning, change
The Center for Quality and Planning and the School of Information Sciences and Technology are co-sponsoring a live teleconference, "Technology-Driven Planning: Principles to Practice in Higher Education," on March 15 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
The program will feature a panel discussion and video profiles of institutions that are planning for and addressing change. Judith V. Boettcher, executive director of the Corp. for Research and Educational Networking is the moderator.
A follow-up discussion will begin immediately after the teleconference. Fred Loomis, director, IST Solutions Institute and associate professor of Information Sciences and Technology; and John Harwood, senior director, Center for Education Technology Services, will be facilitators.
To attend either of these events, R.S.V.P. by March 9 to the Center for Quality and Planning at (814) 863-8721 or via e-mail to psucqp@psu.edu. There is no fee to attend.
Conference examines
multicultural education
The College of Education and the Pennsylvania Chapter of the National Association of Multicultural Education present the Third Annual Multicultural Education Conference from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, March 31, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
The conference is designed to give educators and the community an opportunity to discuss ways to achieve, understand and promote multicultural education and diversity.
The keynote speaker will be Don C. Locke, director of the Asheville Graduate Center at North Carolina State University and director of the center's doctoral program in adult and community college education. Locke is the author of Increasing Multicultural Understanding.
For information about program content, call Andrew Jackson Sr., academic adviser/instructor of education, at (814)
865-1499 or e-mail axj119@psu.edu.
For registration information, call Chuck Herd at (814) 863-5100 or e-mail ConferenceInfo1@outreach.psu.edu. To register, call (800) PSU-TODAY (778-8632). For up-to-date information, visit http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&I/MulticulturalEducation/ on the Web.
Agronomy topic set
to be lambsquarters
Melissa Bravo, doctoral candidate in soil science in the Department of Agronomy, will speak on "A Survey of Triazine Resistant Common Lambsquarters on Pennsylvania Farms" from 3:35 to 4:25 p.m. March 2 in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, University Park.
The Department of Agronomy is the host for the event and may be called at (814) 863-1601 for more information.
'Graduate Melting Pot'
to be explored at Kern
The second get-together in the Spring 2001 Conversations at Kern Series will be from 5:15 to 6:30 p.m. March 14 in 112 Kern Graduate Building, University Park.
The topic will be "International and Domestic Relations: Exploring the Advantages of Penn State's Graduate Melting Pot."
More than one-third of the University's graduate students and a higher percentage of the post-doctoral students are internationals. With the help of the audience, a group of panelists will explore international and domestic relations and the opportunities for enhanced learning and growth provided by this mix of cultures. Panelists include James F. Lynch Jr., director of International Students and Scholars; Joann Dornich, program specialist for University Apartments; and Atsuhito Ennyu, president of the International Student Council.
The Conversations at Kern Series is intended for graduate students, post-doctoral students and faculty members. It serves to facilitate an informal exchange of information and ideas in order to enhance the quality of the Penn State graduate experience. Refreshments are available at 5 p.m. before each event and registration is not required.
Judge, trustee to speak
at women's banquet
Cynthia A. Baldwin, the first black female judge elected to the Allegheny Court of Common Pleas, will be the featured speaker at the Commission for Women's 20th anniversary banquet Monday, March 19, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel, University Park.
A reception will be held at 5 p.m., followed by dinner at 6 p.m. Winners of the Rosemary Schraer Mentor Award and Achieving Women awards will be honored at this event.
The guest speaker is a gubernatorial appointee to the University's Board of Trustees and was recently elected its vice chair.
Tickets for the banquet are $16 for students and $25 for non-students. Departments can reserve tables of 10 for $375. For tickets or additional information, call the Commission office at (814) 863-8493. The reservation deadline is March 5.
Pulitzer Prize-winner
to give keynote address
Michael Gartner, a multi-media journalist who has won the Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing, will give the keynote address for the Spring 2001 Foster Conference of Distinguished Writers at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 27, in Keller Auditoriumonthe University Park campus.
The spring conference,
which runs March 27 and 28, also will feature Ann Gerhart, staff writer
for the Washington Post, and Wil Haygood, staff writer for the
Boston Globe. In addition to meeting with small groups of 
students
in the College of Communications, Gerhart and Haygood will participate
in a general convocation open to the public from 10:10 to 11:30 a.m.Wednesday,
March 28, in the Foster Auditorium in Pattee Library.
A lifelong journalist, Gartner has served at various times during his career as president ofNBC News, page one editor of The Wall Street Journal, editor and president of The Des Moines Register, editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, and general news executive for Gannett Co. and USA Today. In 1997, he wonthe Pulitzer Prize for the editorials he wrote for The Tribune of Ames, Iowa, where he was then the editor and co-owner.
For information about the Foster Conference of Distinguished Writers, call Angie Brown at (814) 865-8801 or e-mail aab7@psu.edu.