V. Sue Molina, tax partner and national director for the retention and advancement of women with Deloitte & Touche, will give a talk at 5 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 14, at Heritage Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.

Her topic is "The Vision for Women in 2005," an overview of the latest initiatives at Deloitte & Touche. Molina's presentation is the first in the Arlene Shapiro Kaplan Lectureship Series from The Smeal College of Business Administration.

Bruce R. Korf, associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, will present the fifth annual Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 13, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.

Korf will discuss "The Human Genome Project: Implications for Medical Practice and Health Policy," A reception immediately follows the lecture.

Although the lecture is free to the public, advance registration is required. For information, call Barbara Fleischer at (814) 863-2900 or baf14@psu.edu.

Leona Samson, Ellison American Cancer Society research professor, director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences, and professor of toxicology, bioengineering and environmental health at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Complex Cellular Responses to Alkylating Agents" in the Life Sciences Consortium's Colloquium Feb. 12. The colloquium, which begins at 4 p.m., will be videoconferenced from Lecture Room D at Hershey Medical Center to 108 Wartik Lab, University Park.

Samson's area of expertise is alkylating agents. They represent an abundant class of chemical DNA damaging agent in our environment and they are toxic, mutagenic, teratogenic and carcinogenic. Since we are continuously exposed to alkylating agents, and since certain alkylating agents are used for cancer chemotherapy, it is important to understand exactly how cells respond when exposed to these agents. The repair of DNA alkylation damage provides tremendous protection against the toxic effects of these agents and her aim is to understand the biology, biochemistry and genetics of numerous DNA repair pathways that act upon DNA alkylation damage.

The Comparative Literature Luncheon, a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty and other members of the University community, has announced the next speaker in this semester's series.

The events begin with lunch from 12:15 p.m. to 12:40 p.m. in 102 Kern Building on the University Park campus. Participants may bring their own lunch or buy something in Kern Cafeteria. Coffee and tea are provided. The speaker will begin at about 12:40 p.m. The events are free to the public.

Vera Mark, assistant professor of French and linguistics, will discuss "What's in a Date? Literary Archaeology and Popular Memory" on Feb. 11.

For information, e-mail Daniel Walden at dxw8@psu.edu.

Jean Trounstine, author of Shakespeare Behind Bars: The Power of Drama in a Women's Prison, will speak at 12:15 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at Penn State Lehigh Valley and at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 12, at the student center at Penn State Berks.

Trounstine is professor of humanities at Middlesex Community College in Lowell, Mass., specializing in writing, literature and theatre courses. She will discuss her experience working with women in prison on dramatic productions.

The event is free to the public.

For information, call the Lehigh Valley campus at (610) 285-5000 or the Berks campus at (610) 396-6000.

Singer/songwriter Peggy Seeger will present a lecture/workshop titled: "A Feminist View of the Image of Women in Anglo-American Traditional Songs" from 1:30 to 3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 9, in 128 Music Building II on the University Park campus.

The event is free to the public. It is co-sponsored by the Women's Studies Program and the Acoustic Brew Coffeehouse Spring 2002 Concert Series.

The Women's Studies Program has announced the following March and April events on the University Park campus:

* Friday, March 15: Pamela Scully, assistant professor of history at Denison University, will discuss "Freed Men in the Archives: The Politics of Masculinity in 19th-Century South Africa" at 4 p.m. in 102 Weaver Building. The presentation is part of the Gender History Workshop. The event is free to the public.

* Friday, March 22 through Sunday, March 24: The Feminist Majority Leadership Alliance and Womyn's Concerns will hold a Conference on Women's Health and Wellness. The time and place will be announced at a later date.

* Monday, April 8: Michelle Fine, professor in the Social/Personality Psychology Program at the Graduate Center at the City University of New York, will discuss "Disappearing Acts: Whither Goes to State and the Implications for Women In and Out of Prison" at 3 p.m. in 102 Kern Building. Her presentation is part of the Feminist Scholars Series. The event is free to the public.

* Thursday, April 11: The Women's Studies Spring Undergraduate Forum will be held from noon to 3 p.m. in Alumni Hall in the HUB-Robeson Center.

* Thursday, April 11: Mary Jo Romeo, Distinguished Alumna Speaker, will give a presentation from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Pollock Gold Room. Romeo, a member of the class of 1981, is publisher of Parents Magazine.

* Tuesday, April 16: The Women's Studies Program will hold its first Senior Research Conference from 1 to 5 p.m. in 102 Weaver Building.

For information on these activities, call (814) 863-4025 or check the Web at

http://womensstudies.la.psu.edu//.

The University Park campus will be the site for the Collaborative Supply Chain Management Research Colloquium, scheduled to take place March 15-16 at The Nittany Lion Inn.

The event is co-sponsored by the Center for Supply Chain Research in The Smeal College of Business Administration and the Logistics Institute at Georgia Tech.

Dawn Russell, assistant professor of logistics, and C. John Langley Jr. of the Georgia Institute of Technology are serving as program directors. The program speakers include Joseph Andraski, senior vice president for OMI International Inc., and adjunct professor at Penn State; Alan Stenger, professor of business logistics; Douglas Thomas, assistant professor of business logistics and operations management; and Donald Warsing, assistant professor of business logistics.

For information, call Russell at (814) 863-2054 or e-mail dmr28@psu.edu.

An informal discussion on how to successfully model academic integrity will be held at noon Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Faculty/Staff Club suite in the lower level of The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.

The lunch discussion, part of a monthly series sponsored by the Teaching and Learning Consortium and the Faculty/Staff Club, is open to all faculty and staff.

For information, call Tammy Homan at (814) 865-8563 or e-mail fsclub@psu.edu. To assist with seating, contact Homan by 9 a.m. Feb. 13.

The African and African-American Studies Department has announced the following lectures for March and April:

David McBride, professor of African and African-American Studies and African-American history, will discuss "Environmental Pollution and Cognitive Development in Black Children in the Americas and Africa" from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 20, in 216 Willard Building on the University Park campus.

Major Coleman, assistant professor of African and African-American studies and political science, will discuss "Who's Qualified and Who's Not: Job Experience and the Impact of Affirmative Action" from 3 to 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 24, in 216 Willard Building.

The events are free to the public. For information, call (814) 863-4243.

Live frogs and salamanders from Central Pennsylvania will be featured at a free public lecture from 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Feb. 9 in 100 Thomas Building on the University Park campus.

The lecture, titled "Frogs, Toads and Other Amphibians as Indicators of Global Change: Translating Global Change into Local Species Loss," by Joseph Kiesecker, assistant professor of biology at Penn State, is the fourth in the series titled "Planet Earth: Our Role in Its Health," the topic of the 2002 Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science.