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Faculty/Staff News: Lectures Oct. 2, 2003

Seminar series schedules 10 speakers for fall
The Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series will be held from 1:15 to 2:15 p.m. Thursdays in 26 Hosler Building, University Park.

The remaining schedule of speakers and topics follows:

* Oct. 9: Ronald Hedden, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, "The Molecular-Level Basis for Mechanical Phenomena in Mesomorphic Poly (diethylsiloxane) Elastomers";

* Oct. 16: Michael Pishko, associate professor of chemical engineering and materials science and engineering, "Cell Based Bioassays in Microfluidic Systems";

* Oct. 23: Terrell Vanderah, data and standards group at NIST, "Talking Ceramics: Studies of Phase Equilibria, Crystal Chemistry and Dielectric Properties";

* Oct. 30: Lee White, professor ofchemical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, "Drying andCracking of Highly Filled Coatings";

* Nov. 6: "Jane Lipson, professor of chemistry at Dartmouth College, "Adventures in Polymer Blends: Connections between Theory and Experiment"; 

* Nov. 13: Paul Becher, Oak Ridge Laboratory, "Influence of Additives on the Microstructure and Mechanical Behavior of Silicon Nitride Ceramics: Experimental Observations and Mechanisms";

* Nov. 20: Peter Schiffer, professor of physics, "Topics in the Physics of Novel Magnetic Materials";

* Dec. 4: Winston Soboyejo, professor at the Princeton Materials Institute, topic to be announced; and

* Dec. 11: Christopher Ober, Francis Bard professor of materials engineering at Cornell University, "New Developments in Lithographic Patterning: Steps to Three-dimensional Microfabrication."

Research conference looks at menstrual cycle

The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health will hold "A TREMIN Research Program Conference: TREMIN's Contributions to Menstrual Cycle Research Over 70 Years" from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Living Center, 110 Henderson Building, University Park.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Kimberly-Clark Corp., the College of the Liberal Arts and the Population Research Institute. It is free to the public.

The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health is one of the world's oldest ongoing research programs dedicated to studying women's health and menstruation. Initiated in 1934 by Alan E. Treloar at the University of Minnesota, this intergenerational study was established to document the normal menstrual cycle. It has followed several thousand women from menarche through old age. TREMIN has resided at Penn State since 1998 under the direction of Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield.

Presenters are drawn from nationwide menstrual cycle experts and will include Mansfield, TREMIN director, and Patricia Barthalow Koch, TREMIN assistant director, examining "Women's Health at Midlife: Influences of Age and Menopausal Stage:Data from the Midlife Women's Health Survey."

Other speakers and topics include:

The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health will hold "A TREMIN Research Program Conference: TREMIN's Contributions to Menstrual Cycle Research Over 70 Years" from 1 to 5 p.m. Oct. 17 at the Living Center, 110 Henderson Building, University Park.

The conference is co-sponsored by the Kimberly-Clark Corp., the College of the Liberal Arts and the Population Research Institute. It is free to the public.

The TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health is one of the world's oldest ongoing research programs dedicated to studying women's health and menstruation. Initiated in 1934 by Alan E. Treloar at the University of Minnesota, this intergenerational study was established to document the normal menstrual cycle. It has followed several thousand women from menarche through old age. TREMIN has resided at Penn State since 1998 under the direction of Phyllis Kernoff Mansfield.

Presenters are drawn from nationwide menstrual cycle experts and will include Mansfield, TREMIN director, and Patricia Barthalow Koch, TREMIN assistant director, examining "Women's Health at Midlife: Influences of Age and Menopausal Stage:Data from the Midlife Women's Health Survey."

Other speakers and topics include:
* Darryl J. Holman, University of Washington, Seattle, "Biodemographic Models of Reproductive Aging";

* Sioban D. Harlow, University of Michigan, "The Nature and Variability in Menstrual Function: A Lifespan Perspective"; and
* Dale P. Sandler, National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, "Morbidity and Mortality Associated with Menstrual Cycle and Reproductive Characteristics: A Follow-up Study of TREMIN Trust Participants."

Discussants for the conference will be former TREMIN Trust director Ann M. Voda, University of Utah, College of Nursing, Salt Lake City, and Joyce Damico, Kimberly-Clark.

For information, call Mansfield at (814) 863-0356 or e-mail pkm@psu.edu or call the TREMIN office at (814) 863-9570.

More information about the TREMIN Research Program on Women's Health is available on the Web at http://www.pop.psu.edu/tremin/

Jenkins to speak at Comparative Literature event
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. 

Philip Jenkins, distinguished professor of religious studies and history, will discuss "Frank Waters and the Reinvention of Native-American" on Monday, Oct. 6.

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 event is free to the public.

Advanced Manufacturing Forum to be Oct. 30-31
The 54th meeting of the Advanced Manufacturing Forum will focus on the concept of lean manufacturing when it meets Oct. 30-31 at The Penn Stater Conference Hotel, University Park.

The forum is presented by the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change in The Smeal College of Business Administration.

Speakers and presentations include:

* Todd Rash, leader of Quality and Six Sigma, BAE System Controls, "Lean Sigma: Blending Lean Manufacturing Principles With Six Sigma Tools";

* Bob Weiner, executive vice president of Quality and EXCELL, Exide Technologies, "Exide's Lean Leadership Initiative";

* John Griffith, production manager and "Clearly Lean" team co-leader, Magnivision, "Lean at Magnivision"; and

* Karen D. Riding, master consultant, Six Sigma Academy, "Six Sigma and Sigma Lean: Practical Applications."

Foreman, Joyce to lead discussion following film
Gene C. Foreman, Foster professor in communications, and William L. Joyce, Dorothy Foehr Huck chair and head of the Special Collections Library, will lead a discussion following a presentation of the film "Farewell, Etaoin Shrdlu" from 2 to 3:15 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Foster Auditorium, 101 Pattee Library, University Park.

The film documents the night the New York Times rolled off the press for the last time using hot lead and the Linotype system. It tells how that process was replaced by computerized, electronic, automated technology and includes interviews with workers.

So, just who is Etaoin Shrdlu? With the idea of speeding up the setting of type, the old Linotype keyboards had their letters arranged in decreasing order of the frequency with which they appear in the language, making the first two rows ETAOIN SHRDLU. In the daily race to prepare the newspaper for the press, the letters would end up as space holders and were often accidentally printed.

For information, call (814) 865-0401.

Perspective on chemistry today to be explored
Mark Cardillo, executive director of the Camille and Henry Dreyfus Foundation, will present the keynote address during the Department of Chemistry Sponsors Days, which will take place Oct. 7 to 10 on the University Park campus.
Cardillo will discuss "An Itinerant's View of Chemistry Today" at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 8, in the auditorium of the HUB-Robeson Center. The address is free to the public.
For information, call (814) 865-6553 ore-mail nancy@chem.psu.edu.

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