Lectures
Penn State Intercom......January
31, 2002
Post-Sept. 11 challenges are topic
Journalist Thulani Davis, a senior editor at The Village Voice, will present a free lecture, "Gathering News When All The News is Hard," at 6 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in Carnegie Cinema, 113 Carnegie Building, on the University Park campus.
The event is part of African-American Heritage Month activities within the College of Communications.
The lecture focuses on challenges facing editors before and after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Investigative journalist
to speak 
Bob Woodward, Pulitzer Prize-winner for his involvement in reporting the Watergate scandal in the Nixon administration, will speak as part of Penn State's Distinguished Speakers Series at 8 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 5, in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus.
The event is free to the public, but tickets are required. Tickets are now available at the Eisenhower box office .
For information, call (814) 863-3786.
Series focuses on
many health, medical issues
The College of Health and Human Development announces a number of lectures to be held from 3 to 4 p.m. Fridays in 127 Noll Physiological Research Center on the University Park campus.
The schedule follows:
* Feb. 8: "Skeletal Muscle Fat infiltration: Implications for Aging, Type 2 Diabetes and Exercise," by Brett Goodpastor, a member of the Division of Endocrinology and Metabolism in the Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh;
* Feb. 15: "Life Outside the Ivory Tower: Scientists in the Pharmaceutical Industry," by Steve Lindberg, senior vice president and managing director, Cato Industries;
* Thursday, Feb. 28: "Mechanisms of Cardiac Hypertrophy in Health and Disease," by Marvin Boluyt, assistant professor, Department of Kinesiology, University of Michigan;
* March 22: "The Complex Genetic Architecture of Bone Quality," by Neil Sharkey, associate professor, Department of Kinesiology, Noll Lab Affiliate;
* April 5: "Exercise-Induced Cardioprotection," by Scott Powers, professor and director, Center for Exercise Science, University of Florida;
* April 12: "Exercise Quality of Life and Recovery of CD4+ Lymphocytes Following Chemotherapy," by Andrea Mastro, professor micro and cell biology, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Penn State; and
* May 3: "The Role of Phosphorylated Proteins in Myofibril Assembly and Modulation of Contraction in Drosophila," David Maughan, professor of molecular physiology and biophysics, University of Vermont.
Discussion is on
conduct disorder in children
Elia Mpofu, a member of the Educational Foundations Department at the University of Zimbabwe, will speak on "Conduct disorder in children: Treatments, options and cultural efficacy in an African setting" at 4 p.m. Feb. 6 in 209 South Henderson Building on the University Park campus.
The event is being held by the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development.
For information, call Celene Domitrovich at (814) 865-2616 or e-mail cxd130@psu.edu.
Conference topic is
e-commerce, online auctions
The School of Business at Penn State Erie and the Technology Council of Northwest Pennsylvania will co-sponsor a daylong e-Commerce Reverse Auction Conference March 7.
Registration begins at 8:15 a.m. in the Reed Union Building at Penn State Erie.
In addition to reviewing a study that presents a framework for online auction success, the conference presenters will demonstrate popular auction software.
Conference cost is $150 per person. To sign up, call the Penn State Erie Center for Corporate and Adult Learning at (814) 898-6103 or visit the conference Web site at http://www.techcouncilnwpa.org/auction. Registration deadline is March 1.
Science, technology
series begins on Feb. 6
"Contemporary Issues in Science and Technology Studies," a lecture series sponsored by the Science, Technology and Society Program, will be held at 4 p.m. Wednesdays in 124 Agricultural Engineering on the University Park campus.
The series includes:
* Feb. 6: Rayvon Fouche, assistant professor of science and technology studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, on "'Inventing' Black Inventors: African-Americans and Cultural Myths;"
* Feb. 20: Paul L. Rose, professor of military history and fellow in the College of the Liberal Arts, on "Heisenberg and the Nazi Atomic Bomb;"
* March 13: Margaret Weitekamp, assistant professor in the Women's Studies Program at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, on "What Can We Learn From 'Astronauttes'?: Interpreting the History of the Lovelace Women in Space Program, 1959-1963;"
* April 3: Ronald Kline, professor of history of technology, Cornell University, on "Two New Sciences? Debates about Information Theory and Cybernetics in the Early Cold War;" and
* April 17: Alan Block, director of Jewish studies and professor in the College of the Liberal Arts, on "Environmental Organized Crime and Pollution: Wasteful Reflections."
Spring lecture series
covers racism, drug battle
Racism, acquaintance rape and whether to legalize marijuana are among the topics to be explored during Pennsylvania College of Technology's Spring 2002 Lecture Series, which is now under way.
The lectures, with one exception, will be presented at Penn's Inn on the second floor of the Bush Campus Center at Penn College. The March 13 program, "Heads vs. Feds," will be presented at the Klump Academic Center. All programs begin at 8 p.m. The lectures are free to the public. The schedule follows:
* Feb. 26: Preacher Moss, a writer, community activist, comedian and film maker, will present "End of Racism."
* March 5: Ann Poston will present "It Can Happen to You," a discussion of a brutal acquaintance rape she experienced at the University of Richmond.
* March 13: Steve Hager, editor-in-chief of High Times magazine and Robert Stutman, a former special agent for the DEA, will present "Heads vs. Feds," a debate on the legalization of marijuana.
* April 23: Chad Pregracke, who founded the nonprofit Living Lands and Waters organization after spending two summers cleaning up a stretch of the Mississippi River, will present a program.
For information, call (570) 327-4537.
Animal influence on
climate change is topic
Eric Post, assistant professor of biology, will discuss "Mammoths, Moose and How Animals Might Influence Earth's Response to Climate Change" at 11 a.m. Saturday, Feb. 2, in 100 Thomas Building, University Park.
This is the third in the 2002 Lectures on the Frontiers of Science series, "Planet Earth: Our Role in Its Health."
Post will describe how populations of wild animals and the ecosystem changes they cause might influence the climate of the Northern Hemisphere.
The lectures will be videotaped and copies can be obtained by calling Penn State Media and Technology Support Services at (814) 863-4397.
For information, call (814) 863-8453, e-mail science@psu.edu or check http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/frontiers/FrontiersIndex.html.
Soil scientist to talk
about phosphorus trail
Peter Kleinman, research soil scientist, will discuss "On the Trail of Phosphorus: From the Acid Soils of Borneo to the Eutrophic Waters of New York" from 3:35 to 4:25 p.m. Friday, Feb. 1, in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the University Park campus.
The host for the event is the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences.
For information, call (814) 863-1601.
Poet Hass to give
2002 Emily Dickinson lecture
Robert Hass, U.S. poet laureate from 1995 to 1997, will present the 2002 Emily Dickinson Lecture in American Poetry at 8 p.m. Monday, March 18, in Heritage Hall of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus.
Hass is professor of English at the University of California at Berkeley.