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Series discusses financial literacy for college students

4/3/13

As tuition costs increase and job opportunities become more selective, it is vital that college students have skills for personal financial planning. During Financial Literacy Month this April, Penn State's University Libraries are offering a series of programs geared to help students plan and understand the issues.

IST film screening to focus on cyber threats

4/3/13

In today’s interconnected society, cyber-attacks, identity theft and privacy invasion pose increasing threats to national and personal security. Students, faculty and staff at Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) will gather next week to watch a new documentary film directed by a Penn State alumnus that explores the “wide-spanning socio-technical fallout caused by data collection and social networks.”

Dr. Notterman to present on personalized medicine

4/3/13

The next Penn State Hershey Research Quality Assurance Lunchtime Lecture Series is scheduled for noon to 1 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Lecture Room A on the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center campus.

Ron Tomalis is Pennsylvania's secretary of education.

Education Secretary Ron Tomalis to address higher education challenges

4/2/13

Pennsylvania Secretary of Education Ron Tomalis will be the keynote speaker at the 2013 Hendrick Best Practices for Adult Learners Conference, which will be held this year at Penn State Harrisburg on Thursday, May 9. Penn State administrators, faculty and staff will share and discuss their best practices for working with and improving the educational experiences of adult learners University-wide at the conference.

2013 Jean Vallance Lecture in Nursing Innovation to take place April 22

4/2/13

Joanne Disch, clinical professor of nursing at the University of Minnesota and president of the American Academy of Nursing, will be the guest lecturer at the 2013 Jean Vallance Lecture in Nursing Innovation on Monday, April 22. The lecture will start at 1 p.m. in Dreibelbis Auditorium at Mount Nittany Medical Center, State College.

Spring Faculty Lecture Series kicks off April 4

4/1/13

Penn State Lehigh Valley will host four invited lecturers as part of its spring Faculty Lecture Series during the month of April. The series kicks off on April 4 during the campus' annual Undergraduate Research Symposium with keynote speaker Eric S. Boyd, assistant research professor at Montana State University. All series events are free and open to the public.

Comparative Literature Luncheon to explore 'Zombie Metabolism'

4/1/13

At 12:30 p.m. Monday, April 8, Atia Sattar, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in Comparative Literature and History at Penn State, will present “Zombie Metabolism: Performance, Consumption and the Promise of Infection,” in Room 102 of the Kern Building.

Healthy Aging Lecture Series

Martin Sliwinski to give talk on the science of healthy aging

4/1/13

Martin Sliwinski, professor of human development and family studies and director of the Center for Healthy Aging, will present a talk, titled "The Science of Healthy Aging," at 10:30 a.m. Thursday, April 18, at the auditorium at Foxdale Village, located at 500 E. Marylyn Ave. in State College.

Mary D. Naylor

Transitional care model to be highlighted at 2013 Mayers lecture

4/1/13

Dr. Mary D. Naylor, the Marian S. Ware Professor in Gerontology and director of the NewCourtland Center for Transitions and Health at the University of Pennsylvania School of Nursing, will present the 16th annual Stanley P. Mayers Endowed Lecture at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, at The Nittany Lion Inn.

Schreyer Institute offers summer teaching workshop

4/1/13

Lauren Kooistra and Andrew Porter, graduate consultants with the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence will lead “The Summer Squeeze: Effectively Teaching a Full Course in Just Six Weeks” from 1:45 to 3 p.m. April 10, in Room 315 Rider Building. The workshop will also be offered from 11:15 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. April 11, in the same location.

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Wineland to present the 2013 Eberly Family Distinguished Lecture in Science

3/28/13

David Wineland, Nobel Prize-winning physicist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, will present the Eberly Family Distinguished Lecture in Science at 2 p.m. Thursday, April 11, in the HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium. This free public lecture, titled "Superposition, Entanglement, and Raising Schrödinger's Cat," is sponsored by the Penn State Eberly College of Science.

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Plant pathology professor to present talk on American elm diseases

6/13/13

On Saturday, June 15, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m., Penn State Professor of Plant Pathology Gary Moorman will present a talk and discussion about Dutch elm disease and elm yellows, two diseases that threaten University Park's American elm population, the largest stand of mature elms in the eastern United States. He will also discuss past and future plans to protect Penn State's iconic elms. The talk will be held in Foster Auditorium in Paterno Library. A tour of plants on campus will follow the discussion. The public is welcome to attend.

Science Seminars: June 10 to 17

6/5/13

Science Seminars for the week of June 10 are:
Monday, June 10
"Functional and Evolutionary Genomics of Plant Small RNAs," Zhaorong Ma, Penn State, 9 a.m., 519 Wartik Laboratory, adviser: Michael Axtell, The Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences (814-867-0241).

Thursday, June 13
"Roles of HDGF2 and OKL38 in Cell Growth, Apoptosis and DNA Damage Response," Jing Hu, Penn State, 9:30 a.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Yanming Wang, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (814-865-3775).

Science Seminars: May 27 to June 2

5/23/13

MONDAY, MAY 27
None

TUESDAY, MAY 28
"Polymer Electrolytes: Materials and Device Aspects," Rakesh Chandra Agrawal, Pandit Ravishankar Shukla University (India), 10 am, 301 Steidle Building, Department of Materials Science and Engineering (814-865-4992).

Science Seminars: May 20 to 26

5/17/13

MONDAY, May 20
None

TUESDAY, May 21
None

WEDNESDAY, May 22
"Decomposition of Fine Root Organic Matter Among Temperate Tree Species," Marc Goebel, Penn State, 9 a.m., 519 Wartik Laboratory, Intercollege Graduate Program in Ecology (814-867-0371).

Seminar discusses fraud and scams and how to avoid identity theft

5/13/13

"Fraud, Scams and ID Theft," a seminar by Amy Shuey, will be presented on Tuesday, June 18, 11 a.m.–12:30 p.m., in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library. The free seminar intended for Penn State students, faculty and staff will cover identity theft prevention tips and the newest fraud schemes and will discuss how to avoid being scammed.

Sir John Daniel

Sir John Daniel puts MOOCs into context

5/13/13

The public is invited to join Sir John Daniel, a world-renowned researcher and theorist in the field of online and distance education, for a presentation, “Making sense of MOOCs and other emerging models in higher education,” from 3 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 13, in Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library on the University Park campus of Penn State. The talk also is available on MediaSite Live at http://live.libraries.psu.edu/Mediasite/Catalog/Full/9516b47f3e5d447d930...

Igniting Innovation Lunchtime Workshop

Lunchtime workshop focuses on creative process, innovation

5/10/13

As part of a continuing series of lunchtime workshops, Penn State Great Valley and the Chester County Economic Development Council present "The 3 C's of Innovation: Create, Communicate, Commercialize," from 11:45 a.m. to 1:15 p.m., Friday, June 7, in the Conference Center, 30 E. Swedesford Road, Malvern.

Science Seminars: May 13 to 19

5/9/13

MONDAY, MAY 13
"An Analytical Approach for Sustainable Transportation Network Design," Ke han, Penn State, 10 a.m., 106 McAllister Building, Adviser: Alberto Bressan, Department of Mathematics (814-865-7527).

The changing face of pathology is focus of visiting professor lecture in Hershey

5/8/13

Dr. Brian Smith, chair, Department of Laboratory Medicine at Yale-New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Conn., will present the Department of Pathology Visiting Professor Lecture Series talk at 8 a.m. Tuesday, May 14, in the Pathology Conference Room, C7702, on the Penn State Hershey campus. He will present "Pathology Training and Practice in the 21st Century: Not Your Grandfather’s Pathologist Anymore."

Loughran to deliver Spring Dean’s Lecture on May 14

5/8/13

Dr. Thomas P. Loughran Jr., professor of medicine and director of Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute, will present the Spring 2013 Dean’s Lecture at Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and Penn State College of Medicine at 4 p.m. Tuesday, May 14, in the Junker Auditorium.

Science Seminars: May 6 to 12

5/2/13

MONDAY, MAY 6

"Poisson Limit Theorem for Gibbs-Markov Systems," Xuan Zhang, adviser: Manfred Denker, Penn State, 10 a.m., 106 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (814-865-7527).
“My Protein Folds Faster than Yours: Using Protein-folding Rates to Test Protein-folding Theories,” Kevin Plaxco, University of California at Santa Barbara, 4 p.m., 101 Althouse Laboratory, host: Scott Selleck, Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (814-867-4373).

Science Seminars: April 29 to May 5

4/24/13

Monday, April 29

(title to be announced), Vadim Kaloshin, University of Maryland, 3:35 p.m., 114 McAllister Building, Department of Mathematics (814-865-7527).