Lectures
Penn State Intercom......August 29, 2002

Seminar series ready
to roll with fall speakers

The Noll Lab Seminar Series for fall semester will feature a number of lectures from 4 to 5 p.m. Fridays in 127 Noll Physiological Research Center on the University Park campus.

The schedule follows:

* Sept. 6: Clarke Tankersley, assistant professor of environmental health science at Johns Hopkins University, "Physiological Genomics and Cardiopulmonary Physiology in Mice";

* Sept. 13: Gary Sieck, chair and professor in the Department of Physiology and Biophysics at the Mayo Medical School, "Contractile Protein Expression in Skeletal Muscle: Plasticity and Contractile Function";

* Sept. 20: Jim Hagberg, professor of kinesiology and assistant dean for research at the University of Maryland, "Genetic Variation and Clinical Exercise Training Adaptations";

* Sept. 27: Marlena Tickerhoof, a master of science degree candidate at the University, "Influence of Type-I Diabetes on Coronary Vasoreactivity in Rat Heart";

* Oct. 4: Daryl Neufer, assistant professor of cellular and molecular physiology at Yale University School of Medicine, "Transcriptional Regulation of Metabolic Genes in Response to Exercise";

* Oct. 18: Sean Newcomer, University doctoral degree candidate in kinesiology, "Effect of Age on Endothelial Regulation of Active Muscle Blood-Flow in Humans";

* Nov. 1: Kurt Saupe, assistant professor in the Department of Medicine and Physiology at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, "The Hungry Heart: Myocardial Metabolism and Energetics in Heart Disease";

* Nov. 8: Mary Jane DeSouza, associate professor of physical education and health at the University of Toronto, "Luteal Phase Defects in Active Women: Endocrine and Metabolic Characteristics";

* Nov. 15: Larry Sinoway, professor of medicine in the Division of Cardiology at the College of Medicine, "Orthostatic Tolerance in Human Subjects"; and

* Nov. 22: Brent Egan, professor of cell and molecular pharmacology at the Medical University of South Carolina, "Obesity, Fatty Acids and Vascular Biology: One Face of A Slippery Slope."

For information, call (814) 865-3454.

Symposium focuses
on low-income families

"Work and Family Challenges for Low-Income Parents and their Children" is the theme for the 2002 Penn State Family Symposium to be held Oct. 10 and 11 at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.

The symposium will concentrate on four key issues: how the availability and content of employment have changed for low-income families; the effects on the family of work timing, such as shift work, long hours and seasonal employment; how well child-care needs are being met for low-income families; and how men and women experience the challenges of managing work and family.

Lead speakers will include Jared Bernstein of the Economic Policy Institute, Harriet Presser of the University of Maryland, Aletha Huston of the University of Texas-Austin, Kathryn Edin of Northwestern University and Susan Clampet-Lundquist of University of Pennsylvania.

Twelve policy experts and family scholars will offer perspectives from multiple disciplines on the serious challenges facing low-income and working poor families.

For information and registration materials, go to http://www.pop.psu.edu/events/symposium/2002.htm.

For additional information, call Ann Morris at (814) 863-6607or e-mail amorris@pop.psu.edu.

Technology in Academic
Advising conference set

The Division of Undergraduate Studies will hold a conference titled "Academic Advising at the Speed of Light" from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 12 at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.

Sessions will focus on innovative uses of technology in academic advising, including Web-based assessment, e-portfolios, eLion and other online advising resources, management of advising rosters and course management through ANGEL.

A panel will facilitate discussion about the student-adviser relationship, focusing on this question: What parts of the relationship must be realized through face-to-face interaction, and what parts can be fulfilled in a technology-mediated environment?

To register, call (814) 865-7576 by Sept. 4. The registration fee is $95 and includes lunch at The Gardens Restaurant. For information, call James Levin at (814) 863-3889.

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