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Jeff Kerr, general counsel for the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will visit Penn State Law on March 14. He will share the latest on the legal and policy issues surrounding the growing area of animal rights. (more)
Anne-Marie Slaughter will present "National Security Threats and Responses in 2015: What's Coming?" at 6 p.m. on March 15 at Penn State Law. Slaughter served as director of policy planning for the United States Department of State from 2009 to 2011; the Policy Planning Staff provides independent policy analysis and advice on global trends and strategy to the Secretary of State.
Slaughter's presentation will take place in the Apfelbaum Family Auditorium in Lewis Katz Hall, 333 W. South St., Carlisle, Pa. and will be simulcast live to Lewis Katz Building in University Park. The presentation also will be available by webcast, beginning 30 minutes before the event, at http://www.law.psu.edu/. The event is free and open to the public. (more)
William D. Magwood IV, a commissioner with the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), will speak at 4 p.m. on Feb. 23, in 112 Walker Building on Penn State's University Park campus as part of the Lawrence E. Hochreiter Distinguished Lecture Series. (more)
Two Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists will visit Penn State for the Foster-Foreman Conference of Distinguished Writers in mid-March. (more)
Two ongoing and controversial topics will be the subject of speakers this spring at Penn State Beaver. African-American author Daryl Davis will present "Klan-Destine Relationships" at 7 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 28, and filmmaker Mike Ramsdell will present "The Conflict Minerals Project," 6 p.m., Wednesday, March 14. The programs, which are free and open to the public, will be held in the campus Student Union Building auditorium. (more)
Hans Verlinde, professor and associate head of the meteorology graduate program, and Arthur Small, CEO of Venti Risk Management, will present "Using Statistical Decision Theory and Dynamic Programming to Improve Scientific Data Collection" at 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 23, in 102 Leonhard Building on the University Park campus of Penn state. The talk, free and open to the public, is part of the ongoing Industrial Engineering Colloquium Series. (more)
Science seminars for the week of Feb. 20 on Penn State's University Park campus have been announced. (more)
Penn State's minor in sexuality and gender studies is sponsoring a symposium in the Queer Visual Culture (QVC) series on the topic of "Sexual Difficulty in Late 20th-Century Art" from 12:30 to 4:30 p.m. Feb. 17, in the Palmer Lipcon Auditorium at the Palmer Museum of Art on Penn State's University Park campus. Three scholars will offer papers taking various perspectives on the relationship between difficulty and sexuality in modern art. (more)
Penn State Abington invites the community to spend a thought-provoking evening with Bobby Seale, co-founder of the Black Panther Party and an architect of one of the most important social change movements in American history, at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 22 in the Sutherland Auditorium.
Seale's discussion, "From the 1960s to the Future," will transport the audience back to the turbulent years marked by civil rights protests and anti-Vietnam War activism and then address similar social challenges it facing America today. (more)
Laura Hansplant, a landscape architect specializing in sustainable design and planning, will give a talk at noon Feb. 15, in 101 Stuckeman Family Building on the University Park campus of Penn State. The lecture is supported by the H. Campbell and Eleanor R. Stuckeman School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. (more)
