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coffee mug Coffee Hour

Students, staff, faculty, and
invited guests enjoy geography-
related lectures and discussions
at the Department of Geography
Coffee Hour every Friday
afternoon in 112 Walker.

You are invited to attend any or all of our weekly series of presentations. We begin gathering after 3:30 p.m. almost every Friday in 103 Walker Building for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies, then settle down to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. All members of the Penn State and Centre County community are welcome.

Fall 2005 Coffee Hour Schedule:

	September 2 Roger Downs, Department Head Professor of Geography, Department of Geography, Penn State "Spatial Thinking in Science and Everyday Life"
	September 9 No Coffee Hour - All are invited to attend President Graham B. Spanier's State of the University Address at 4 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium. An ice cream social will be held at 3:15 p.m., prior to the address, on the portico of Eisenhower Auditorium.
	September 16 Burrell Montz, Department of Geography, SUNY Binghamton "Mobile Home Parks and Seasonal Lifestyles: Disaster Resilience in Senior Communities after Hurricane Charley"
	September 23 David Baker, Departments of Education Policy Studies and Sociology, Penn State "The Search for the Cause of Rising Fluid IQ and the Social Construction of Intelligence"
	September 30 Karen Chapple, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California, Berkeley "Inequality, Opportunity, and Regional Innovation: Workforce Development Regimes in New York and San Francisco"
	October 7 Patrick Kennelly, Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Long Island University "Terrain Representation and Non-Photorealistic Rendering: Tuning in to the Other NPR"	Click here for the directions to listen to Dr. Kennelly's presentation.
	October 14 No Coffee Hour (Study Day)
	October 21 Jeremy Mennis, Department of Geography and Urban Studies, Temple University "Does Place Matter in Environmental Equity Analysis? The Case of Air Pollution in New Jersey"
	October 28 John Kelmelis, U.S. Department of State "Discoveries in physical geography that can affect foreign policy"
	November 4 James S. Shortle, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, Penn State "Using DEA and VEA to Evaluate Quality of Life in the Mid-Atlantic States"
	November 11 Trudy Suchan, Ph.D. '98, U.S. Census Bureau "Design for 281,421,906 Patrons: Developing the Census Atlas of the United States"
	November 18 Chris Weaver, Department of Geography and the GeoVISTA Center, Penn State "Improvisational Geovisualization"
	November 25 No Coffee Hour (Thanksgiving Day)
	December 2 Wilbur Zelinsky, Department of Geography, Penn State "Religious Expression in North American Cemeteries across Region and Period: A Startling Revelation"
	December 9 The Miller Lecture - "Geographies of Care, Justice and Responsibilty: Thinking Beyond 'Neo-liberal Truths'" Lynn Staeheli, Department of Geography, University of Colorado "Justice, Governance and the Limits to Care" Vicky Lawson, Department of Geography, University of Washington "Care and Responsibility: Between the Near and Far"

For more information, please contact faculty organizers Robert Brooks or Donna Peuquet.

In February 1987, The Professional Geographer, (Vol. 39, Number 1), published an article about our department's Coffee Hour. The article is written by Peirce Lewis and Wilbur Zelinsky. View the article, "The Coffee Hour at Penn State".