Thursday, March 29, 2012
Lou D'Ambrosio, president and CEO of Sears Holdings Corp., is scheduled to speak at the Penn State Smeal College of Business on April 13 as a guest of the college's executive speaker series, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights. D'Ambrosio will join Smeal Dean James B. Thomas for an interactive on-stage conversation at 11:15 a.m. in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium (110 BB). The talk is free and open to the public. (more)
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
Tim Kane, professor of electrical engineering and meteorology at Penn State, will be the featured presenter at the next Faculty Lecture Series event to be held at 12:30 p.m. on Nov. 29 in room 302 at the campus in Center Valley. Kane's lecture is titled: "Active Optical Sensing: A Gallimaufry of Applications." This event is free and open to the public. (more)
Tuesday, November 08, 2011
The Penn State Law Review will hold a webinar of its symposium titled "The Deal Lawyers' Guide to Public and Private Company Acquisitions" on Nov. 18. The webinar will feature two sessions -- one on private company acquisition and one on public company acquisition. (more)
Tuesday, November 01, 2011
Former U.S. Representative Michael Oxley, co-sponsor of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, is scheduled to speak at the Penn State Smeal College of Business on Nov. 11 as part of the college's Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights speaker series. Oxley, who now serves as an attorney in the Washington office of the law firm Baker Hostetler, will join Smeal Dean James B. Thomas for an interactive on-stage conversation at 11:15 a.m. in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium (110 BB). The talk is free and open to the public. (more)
Thursday, October 20, 2011
A free public lecture, "FBI Scientist's View on the Development of Forensic Science," will be given on Oct. 24 by Melissa Anne Smrz, retired FBI special agent and former deputy assistant director of the FBI Laboratory. This event is the final of four presentations on forensic science and its use as a law-enforcement tool in Penn State's 2011 Forensic Science Lecture Series. The lecture will be held from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m. in 111 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus. (more)
Friday, October 14, 2011
"Intellectual capital is the next phase of capitalism. Today, commodity capital is the dominant source of wealth. If you have coal, you're rich. Diamonds, gold, food -- you're rich. However, today you had breakfast that the king of England could not have had 100 years ago -- delicacies from around the world, dirt cheap, because commodities dropped in price. Better shipping, better containerization, mass production, competition drives down the cost of commodities. Tony Blair of England likes to say that England derives more revenue from rock 'n' roll than it does from the coal mining industry. Think of it. Think of a British worker, think of a coal miner and yet intellectual capitalism -- that is, writing a book, writing a song, making a movie, creating a scientific experiment, leadership, talent, creativity -- that's the currency of the future."
-- Michio Kaku, physicist, futurist and best-selling author, speaking on "Future Science: Physics and Daily Life in the Year 2100" as the Schreyer Honors College's Fall Signature Lecturer. Kaku spoke on Thursday, Oct. 13, before a capacity crowd in 100 Thomas Building on the University Park campus. (more)
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Mimi Coppersmith, founder of Town & Gown magazine, will be the featured speaker for the next Penn State Lehigh Valley Faculty Lecture Series event at 12:45 p.m. on Oct. 25, in room 218 at the campus in Center Valley. Coppersmith will present "Follow Your Dream: The Evolution of Town & Gown." The event is free and open to the public.
During the presentation, Coppersmith will share the evolution of her idea for the publication, the ups and downs of publishing it and the current state of Town & Gown. In addition, she will offer inspiration to follow one's own dream. (more)
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
A free lecture, "The Evolution of Latent Print Development Techniques," will be held on Oct. 10, by Robert Ramotowski, the chief research scientist with the United States Secret Service Forensic Services Division laboratory. This event is the third in a series of four presentations on forensic science and its use as a law-enforcement tool in Penn State's 2011 Forensic Science Lecture Series. All lectures are free and will be held on Mondays from 12:20 to 1:10 p.m., in 111 Wartik Laboratory on the Penn State University Park campus. (more)
Tuesday, October 04, 2011
Patrick McDaniel, a professor in the Computer Science and Engineering Department at the Pennsylvania State University and co-director of the Systems and Internet Infrastructure Security Laboratory, will present "Mobile Smartphone Application Security and Privacy," the first lecture in a series on science, technology, and the law, sponsored by Penn State Law. (more)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
The Penn State Smeal College of Business will kick off its guest speaker series, Leadership in Focus: Executive Insights, on Oct. 14 with Smeal alumnus Jeff Malehorn, president and chief executive officer of GE Capital, Commercial Distribution Finance. Malehorn will join James B. Thomas, the John and Becky Surma Dean of Smeal, for an interactive on-stage conversation at 11:15 a.m. in 110 Business Building (Struthers Auditorium) on Penn State's University Park campus. The talk is free and open to the public. (more)
