Lectures
Penn State Intercom......October 17, 2002
EDUCAUSE president to discuss
IT transformation at Forum lunch
Brian L. Hawkins, president of EDUCAUSE, will deliver the Penn State Forum lecture at noon Tuesday, Nov. 12, at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
The topic of his presentation is "The IT Transformation in Higher Education."
Hawkins has been president of EDUCAUSE, a nonprofit association of more than 1,850 colleges and universities, since its inception in 1998. He is responsible for all aspects of the association's mission to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.
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 $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.
WISE conference
targets middle-school girls 
The Women in the Sciences and Engineering (WISE) Institute will hold the 13th annual Expanding Your Horizons Conference in Science, Mathematics and Engineering Saturday, Oct. 26, with the opening session in 101 Thomas Building on the University Park campus.
The conference is geared toward sixth-, seventh- and eighth-grade students, as well as their teachers and parents). The conference's primary goal is to interest young women in scientific or technical careers by providing them with knowledge and experiences related to these types of careers. It is designed to present this information at a time when students are making important academic decisions about taking mathematics and science courses in school. This year's conference is co-sponsored by the Professional People of Color Network.
This year's conference features a special activity for participants, PHYSICS OLYMPICS, by Dominic Dickson, a Teaching Fellow at the University of Liverpool, U.K., and an internationally-known physics educator. In addition, workshop topics this year will include entomology, animal and dairy science, math, nuclear engineering and architectural engineering.
The program fee is $7 per participant and includes lunch. For more information or a registration form, call the WISE Institute at (814) 865-3342, fax (814) 863-0085 or e-mail cxg1@psu.edu.
Dell executive
to deliver IST talk
Dell Computer Corp. executive Paul Bell will deliver the fall 2002 Industry Leader Lecture for the School of Information Sciences and Technology on Oct. 21. Scheduled to speak at 12:30 p.m. in the Palmer Museum of Art Auditorium on the University Park campus, Bell will speak before an audience of IST students and faculty members on "Achieving Competitive Advantage in the Global Technology Industry."
IST established the Industry Leaders Lecture Series in 1999 to bring its students in direct contact with top executives in the fields of information sciences and technology. Students benefit by hearing firsthand about trends and learning more about what it takes to become successful leaders in the e-world.
Seminar will examine
threat reduction
The Protective Technology Center will be host for a seminar with Glen Papas from the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. The seminar will take place from 1 to 2:30 p.m. Oct. 24 in the Stavely Conference Room, 202 Hammond Building, University Park.
Papas will lecture on "Experimental and Numerical Studies of Underground Structures Subjected to Penetration and Detonation Loads." The event is open to all faculty, staff and students.
To confirm attendance, e-mail Barbara Peragine at bip1@psu.edu or call (814) 863-2932.
Runoff water quality
topic of Oct. 18 talk
Michael Bird, a master's candidate in agronomy, will present "Effects of Fairway Conversion on Runoff Water Quality" from 3:35 to 4:25 p.m. Oct. 18 in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the University Park campus. Host for the event is the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. For information, call (814) 863-1601.