Lectures
Penn State Intercom......April
10, 2003
Kennedy aide to talk
'off the record' about Capitol
Melody Miller, senior aide to Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, will deliver the Penn State Forum lecture at noon Tuesday, April 25, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus.
The topic of her presentation is "Off the Record -- Three Decades of People, Press and Politics on Capitol Hill."
For more than two decades, Miller has been one of the official spokespersons for Kennedy. She graduated from Penn State in 1967 with a degree in secondary education.
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.
Lectures explore
religion and the Civil War
Mark A. Noll, McManis professor of Christian thought and professor of history at Wheaton College in Wheaton, Ill., will deliver three lectures as part of the 2003 Steven and Janice Brose Distinguished Lecture Series in the Era of the Civil War.
The Brose Lectures will held April 10, 11 and 12 in Pattee Library's Foster Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Each spring, the Brose Lectures feature leading writers, historians and intellectuals whose work focuses on the era of the American Civil War.
The three lectures will deal with distinct theological crises of the time. The first, to be delivered at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 10, is "A Crisis Over the Interpretation of the Bible."
The second, "A Crisis Over the Interpretation of Providence," will be at 7 p.m. Friday, April 11, and afterward will feature a book signing by the speaker. Noll will deliver the final lecture, "The Crisis Viewed from Outside the United States," at 3 p.m. Saturday, April 12.
For information, call (814) 863-0151 or e-mail at L-Richardscwec@list.psu.edu.
Philosophy professor
to speak on Emerson
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.
Vincent Colapietro, professor of philosophy, will discuss "Emerson's Experience: A Theological and Psychoanalytical Reading" on Monday, April 14.
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.
For information, e-mail Daniel Walden at dxw8@psu.edu.
Genetic engineering lectures
set for April 14, 15 
Tom Maniatis, Thomas H. Lee professor of molecular and cellular biology at Harvard University, will give the 2002-2003 Russell Marker Lectures in Genetic Engineering on April 14 and 15 on the University Park campus.
Maniatis will give two lectures, "Innate Immunity: Signaling Pathways and Gene Activation" at 7:30 p.m. Monday, April 14, and "Transcription and Alternative Splicing in the Brain: Generating Protein Diversity at the Synapse" at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday, April 15, both in 101 Thomas Building.
The free public lectures are sponsored by the Eberly College of Science.
The Marker Lectures were established in 1984 through a gift from Russell Earl Marker, professor emeritus of chemistry.
Clogg Memorial Lecture
planned for April 14
Stephen W. Raudenbush, professor of education and statistics and senior research scientist for the Survey Research Center at the University of Michigan, will present "Assessing Neighborhoods: How Do We Do It and What Have We Learned?" at 8 p.m. Monday, April 14, in 105 Wartik Laboratory, University Park.
This represents the sixth Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Lecture in Sociology and Statistics.
Raudenbush will present an additional lecture, "Some Thoughts on Causal Inference in a Social World," at 12:20 p.m. Tuesday, April 15, in 305 Wager Building. Both lectures are sponsored by the Department of Statistics.
The Clifford C. Clogg Memorial Lecture in Sociology and Statistics honors the late Clifford C. Clogg, a distinguished professor of sociology and professor of statistics at the University from 1979 to 1995.
For information, call (814) 865-1348.
'Tales of Two Coals' topic
of Shoemaker lecture
Stanley C. Suboleski, executive vice president and chief operating officer of Massey Energy Corp., Richmond, Va., will present "Tales of Two Coals" from 4 to 5 p.m. Friday, April 11, in 26 Hosler Building, University Park.
Suboleski is presenting the 12th annual G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture Series in Mineral Engineering. The talk will be preceded by a reception in honor of Suboleski at 3:30 p.m. in the Lobby of Deike Building. The event is free to the public.
The G. Albert Shoemaker Lecture Series in Mineral Engineering was established in 1992 by Mercedes G. Shoemaker to honor the memory of her husband, a Pittsburgh civic and industrial leader dedicated to the support of higher education.
Topic is what's new at
Environment Institute
Bill Easterling, director of the Environmental Consortium, will make a presentation from 3:35 to 4:25 p.m. April 11 in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building, University Park.
The topic is "What's New in Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the Environment Institute." The host is the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences. For information, call (814) 863-1615.