Lectures
Penn State Intercom......September
20, 2001
Drucker chair to address
leadership challenges
Frances Hesselbein, founding president and chairman of the board of governors for the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management, will deliver the Penn State Forum lecture at noon Tuesday, Sept. 25, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
The topic of her presentation is "Leadership Challenges in a New Century."
Hesselbein has been with the Drucker Foundation since its inception in 1990.
The Penn State Forum is a lunchtime speaker series offered by the Faculty Staff Club and sponsored in part by the Penn State Bookstore. It is open to the public. Tickets are $10 for members and $12 for non-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.
Seminar views the
multiplicity of America
Arturo Arias, faculty member in Latin American studies at the University of Redlands and president of the Latin American Studies Association, will present a seminar on "After the Rigoberta Menchú Controversy: Lessons Learned About the Nature of Subalternity and the Specifics of the Indigenous Subject" from 2:30 to 5:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in 306 Burrowes Building on the University Park campus.
It is one of two appearances Arias will make on the campus that day.
With the collaboration of an international team of practitioners of American studies, this seminar aims to interrogate the multiplicity of America as literary, historical, geographic and cultural phenomenon. The project of "re-thinking" entails a reconsideration of America (United States and non-United States) as national, plural, transnational and international/hemispheric agency in a global context.
The seminar, rostered in the Department of Comparative Literature and cross-listed with the Department of English and the Department of Spanish, Italian and Portuguese, is a project of the Center for Global Studies and a collaborative endeavor with the International American Studies Association.
Arias also will be the guest speaker at the Comparative Literature Luncheon at 12:15 p.m. Monday, Sept. 24, in 102 Kern Building. He will speak on "Latin American Studies in an Age of Globalization."
Lunch is from 12:15 to 12:40 p.m. Presentation and discussion is from 12:40 to 1:20 p.m. Bring a lunch or purchase one in the Kern cafeteria. Coffee and tea are provided.
For information, e-mail Daniel Walden at dxw8@psu.edu. The event is free to the public.
Squadron's flights to be
recounted in 'Huddle'
Carol Reardon, associate professor of history, will discuss "Flying 'Feet Dry' over North Vietnam: One Short Story from America's Longest War," at 9 a.m. Sept. 22 in The Nittany Lion Inn Faculty Staff Room on the University Park campus.
Reardon will share some of her research on the members of the U.S. Navy's Intruder squadron VA-75 and the missions they flew during the 1972-1973 combat cruise. "Feet dry" is naval aviation slang for crossing over the beach after taking off from an aircraft carrier.
The event is free to the public.
The presentation is part of this fall's "Huddle with the Faculty," an Alumni Association outreach program that features presentation by faculty before every home football game. For information, call Mary Jane Stout at (814) 865-LION (5466).
Talk focuses on
changing American landscape
Pierce Lewis, professor emeritus of geography, will speak on "Images in the American Landscape" at 2 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, in 101 Thomas Building as part of the annual Parent and Families Day activities on the University Park campus.
Lewis will discuss the processes that have been occurring over the last hundred years or so that have shaped the contemporary landscape, especially those that signal significant shifts in American architecture in the eastern United States.
The Schreyer Honors College will be host for the event, which is free to the public.
For information, call (814) 863-2635 or visit the college Web site at http://www.shc.psu.edu.
Marker Lecture series
will feature 3 chemists
Three chemists will give the 2001 Marker Lectures in the Chemical Sciences from
1 to 5 p.m. Sept. 25 in the HUB-Robeson Center Alumni Hall on the University Park campus. The three-lecture series is free to the public.
The lectures include "Perspective in Biological Catalysis" by Stephen J. Benkovic, Evan Pugh professor of chemistry and holder of the Eberly Family chair in chemistry; "Making Large and Small Molecules by Olefin Metathesis" by Robert H. Grubbs, Victor and Elizabeth Atkins professor of chemistry at the California Institute of Technology; and "Micro- and Nanofabrication" by George M. Whitesides, Mallinckrodt professor of chemistry at Harvard University.
The Marker Lectures were established in 1984 through a gift from Russell Earl Marker, professor emeritus of chemistry, whose pioneering synthetic methods revolutionized the steroid hormone industry and opened the door on the current era of hormone therapies, including the birth-control pill.
Agricultural applications
will be explored
Douglas D. Archibald, faculty research associate in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences, will discuss "Agricultural Applications of Spectroscopic Quality Assessment Technologies" from 3:35 to 4:25 p.m. Sept. 21 in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the University Park campus.
The Department of Crop and Soil Sciences will be the host for the event. For information, call (814) 863-1601.
Lecture focuses on
advances in telescopes
Roger Knacke, professor of physics and astronomy, will present "The Great Telescopes" at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, in 101 Otto Behrend Science Building on the Penn State Erie campus.
Knacke, director of the School of Science, will describe the very large telescopes that have been built recently or are planned for the future. New engineering techniques now make it possible to construct telescopes that have light-gathering powers hundreds of times greater than those of the largest telescopes built in the past 50 years.
Weather permitting, astronomical observing in the Mehalso Observatory will take place after the lecture which is free to the public.
For information, call the School of Science at (814) 898-6105 or check the Web site http://www.pserie.psu.edu/science/Seminars.htm.
Artistic director to
talk on 'Changing China'
Zhao Ruheng, artistic director of the National Ballet of China, will speak to the Community Academy of Lifelong Learning on "Changing China" at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, at the Centre County Visitor Center on the University Park campus.
The lecture is a prelude to the National Ballet of China's performance at 8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 29, at Eisenhower Auditorium on the campus.
The event is free to the public. For information, call (814) 238-2368.
Large classes are topic
for faculty luncheon
The Center for Excellence in Learning and teaching will hold a luncheon specifically for teachers of large classes from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 26, in the Gold Room of the Pollock Dining Commons on the University Park campus.
The topic for discussion is "Paradise Regained: Resurrecting Intellectual Curiosity in Large Class Sections." Pre-registration is required by Sept. 21. E-mail celt@psu.edu or call (814) 863-2599 to register. For information on other CELT luncheons for the fall semester, see http://www.psu.edu/celt/programs.shtml#lunches.
Sharing planning practices
session scheduled
Michael Dooris of the Center for Quality and Planning will moderate a discussion on "Sharing Effective Planning Practices in Academic Units" from 8:30 to 10 a.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, in the 404 Old Main on the University Park campus.
This session is intended as a collaborative, sharing conversation about planning in the context of academic leadership. Participants may register for this session by calling the Center for Quality and Planning at (814) 863-8721 or by e-mail at psucqp@psu.edu.