Haidt will present a lecture on “The Three Terrible Ideas Weakening Gen Z and Damaging Universities and Democracies” Feb. 21 at 5 p.m. in 100 Thomas and on “What Capitalism Does to Us, and For Us” Feb. 22 at 11:10 a.m. in the Struthers Auditorium of the Business Building.
Penn State's Volunteer Income Tax Assistance program provides free tax preparation and electronic filing services to income-eligible taxpayers, including Penn State students, staff and retirees.
Alumni, faculty, staff, students and their families gathered on Friday to celebrate the achievements of the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial Engineering at its annual banquet.
Faculty, staff and students are invited to attend a lecture by Michael Vandenbergh, co-author of “Beyond Politics” and the director of the Climate Change Resource Network, from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. on Feb. 8 in 124 Business Building.
Kimberlee MacMullan has been appointed the new director for the Penn State Small Business Development Center. Her first day at the Penn State SBDC is Dec. 4.
Multi-platinum record producer Antwan “Amadeus” Thompson, chief executive officer of Platinum Boy Music Inc. and musical director for Trey Songz, will bring his Music 101 College Tour to Penn State from 6 to 9 p.m. on Nov. 9, in the Smeal College of Business Auditorium. The event will include a panel discussion with professionals from the music industry, moderated by Thompson, and time for networking.
Russell Barton, professor of supply chain and information systems, senior associate dean for research and faculty in the Smeal College of Business, and an affiliate faculty member in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, was recently awarded the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS) Simulation Society Outstanding Publication Award.
A revamped student organization housed in the Harold and Inge Marcus Department of Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering is gaining exposure for providing the next generation of engineers and business leaders with opportunities to build industry relationships and explore the importance of collaboration between the engineering and business sectors.
The Center for Global Studies at Penn State will be hosting a lecture by Christian Haines on Dec. 10, titled “The Scored Life, or, Global Finance and the Politics of Abstraction.” The lecture will explore the power of financial abstractions to foster life or to disallow life to the point of death. It also ask whether or not an alternate model of financial literacy – one which does not presume the necessity of capitalism – might be worth pursuing. The talk will be held from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. in 124 Sparks on the University Park campus.
Three Schreyer Honors College Scholars, all earning two degrees, will serve as student marshals for their respective Fall 2015 Commencement ceremonies at Penn State.
The College of Arts and Architecture’s Arts Entrepreneurship Program will present two speakers, graphic designer Craig Welsh and “serial entrepreneur” Howard Udell, as part of Global Entrepreneurship Week at Penn State, Nov. 15–20. Welsh will speak on Nov. 17 and Udell will speak on Nov. 19, both at 6:30 p.m. in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium, Palmer Museum of Art. Pizza will be served prior to their presentations at 6 p.m. in the Palmer Museum lobby.
Tom Buday, senior vice president and head of marketing and consumer communication at Nestlé, spoke to a full audience in the Struthers Auditorium of the Business Building Oct. 2 as part of the Smeal College of Business' Executive Insights series.
Bloomberg LP and General Electric Co. are the newest members of the Penn State Smeal College of Business Corporate Associates Program, joining 26 existing corporate associates as well as corporate partner Kohl’s Department Stores. The Corporate Associates Program allows companies to increase their visibility at Smeal and provides opportunities to tap into the broader resources of the college and the University.
Three members of the Penn State community will be honored for their vision, time and commitment to Penn State Outreach and Online Education (OOE). Sara C. Parks, Jonathan E. Dambrot and Beverly A. Wise will receive awards at the OOE Appreciation Dinner on Oct. 8 at the Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus.
Tom Buday, a 1980 Penn State marketing alumnus and senior vice president and head of marketing and consumer communication at Nestlé, will deliver a presentation titled “Timeless Fundamentals, New Realities” on Oct. 2 at the Penn State Smeal College of Business. His visit is part of the college’s Executive Insights speaker series.
