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You are invited to attend any or all of our weekly series of presentations. We begin gathering after 3:30 PM almost every Friday in 301 Steidle Building for conviviality, coffee, and other goodies, then settle down to listen to our guest speaker from 4:00-5:00pm. All members of the Penn State and Centre County community are welcome.
January 14
Roger Downs, Department Head
Professor of Geography, Department of Geography
"No Child Left Behind...and Geography"
January 21
Ikubolajeh Logan, Professor of Geography,
Professor of African and Africa-American Studies, Department of African and African-American Studies, Alliance for Earth Sciences, Engineering, and Development in Africa (AESEDA)
"Georgia on My Mind: Food Aid and Security in the Republic of Georgia"
January 28
Kelleann Foster, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture
Department of Landscape Architecture, Penn State
"SMART GROWTH: Multimedia and PennSCAPES"
February 4
Courtney Flint, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology,
Penn State Earth and Environmental Systems Institute (EESI)
Center for Integrated Regional Assessment (CIRA)
"Vulnerability, Risk Perception, and Community Action: Local Response to Forest Disturbance on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula"
February 11
Derrick Lampkin
Penn State Department of Geography
"Satellite Monitoring of Snow Pack Evolution: Implications for Regional Climate"
February 18
Tania Slawecki, Assistant Professor Science, Technology and Society, Penn State program in the College of Engineering
and Research Associate, Materials Research Institute
"Materials Research & Healing: Unconventional Medicine"
February 25
Cynthia Brewer, Associate Professor of Geography
Penn State Department of Geography
"From the Inside Out: The View from Old Main"
March 4
Robin Leichenko, Associate Professor,
Rutgers University Department of Geography
"Double Exposure: Global Environmental Change in an Era of Globalization" (Part of a Mini-Symposium on Globalization)
March 11
No Coffee Hour: Spring Break
March 18
Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Relgious Studies
Penn State Department of History and Religious Studies
"Is God Going South? The Emergence of Global Christianity" (Part of a Mini-Symposium on Globalization)
March 25
Fariborz Ghadar, Schreyer Professor of Global Management
Policies and Planning Director, Center for Global Business Studies
Penn State Department of Finance
"Global Tectonics: What Every Business Needs to Know" (Part of a Mini-Symposium on Globalization)
April 1
Kathleen Pavelko, President & CEO
WITF Harrisburg, Public Broadcasting Service (PBS)
"The Myth of Liberal Bias in the Media"
April 8
No Coffee Hour: Association of American Geographers annual meeting April 5-9, 2005 in Denver, CO
April 15
Scott Isard, Professor of Aerobiology
Penn State Department of Plant Pathology
"A New Rust Belt: The Attack on North American Soybeans"
April 22
Mrinalini Sinha, Associate Professor of British Imperial and Modern Asian History and Women's Studies
Penn State Department of History and Religious Studies
"Hindus, Aryans, and Caucasians: How Indians Became Non-White"
April 29
Kevin Ward, Senior Lecturer in Geography
University of Manchester Department of Geography, UK
"Policies in Motion, Urban Management and State Restructuring: A short history of a trans-local 'model'"
All Coffee Hours are in 301 Steidle at 4:00 on Friday afternoons unless otherwise noted.
For more information, please contact faculty organizer Greg Knight.