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College Prepares to Celebrate Campaign Success I am delighted to report the College has achieved its Grand Destiny campaign goal of $50 million! We have worked more than six and a half years, first toward a $28 million goal and finally toward a $50 million one, and have achieved it just four months before the end of the campaign. A $2 million gift supporting scholarships, given by Jim Simpson of Naples Florida, put us over the goal. The going has gotten tougher the past two years, as a result of the slumping economy and stock market. Thanks to the leadership of Bonnie Marshall and Ray Lombra, and Bonnie’s talented and energetic staff, we have been more successful than almost anyone dreamed possible. The development council and other volunteers have been wonderfully committed and have been a big part of the campaign's success. The campaign is already having significant impacts on our College through the addition of newly funded professorships, graduate fellowships, and support for research centers. I am also pleased to report that the scholarship aid that we can offer students has quintupled. Although not every department received direct gifts, most did. And every department has benefited in some way through support for both graduate students and faculty. The University is planning a big celebration April 25-26, the weekend of the Blue-White game, to celebrate the success of the campaign. There will be a number of University-wide events, and on Friday night each college will host a dinner for those who have given major gifts. Our Richards Civil War Era Center will be among the group of University “treasures” that will be available for visitors to see and experience. The College is also planning a celebration during the weekend and inviting all faculty and staff of the College. We will particularly focus on the generosity of our own faculty and staff members to the Campaign. Further details will be forthcoming soon. Susan Welch Virtual Faculty Meeting Well Attended As we move into the final quarter of the academic year, each of us is rushing to finish projects yet uncompleted and papers yet ungraded. At this especially busy time of the academic year, I am particularly appreciative that more than 100 colleagues visited our virtual faculty meeting Web site. I hope that you found something of interest there, and I welcome your comments on substance, procedure, and technology. There were, we discovered, a few glitches that impaired the performance of the site on some systems, especially MAC systems, and we will work to fix those for the future. But thus far, reaction to the idea has been positive and worth another try. Next time, we plan to make response and comments easier. April 23 is Staff Appreciation Day. Throughout the College, we are very fortunate to have a terrifically efficient and caring staff. Please take note of the contributions made by our staff to the overall mission of the College. They are crucial to every function of the College from scheduling courses, directing lost students to the proper classrooms, assisting in grant preparation, providing computer support services, maintaining budgets and schedules, and providing a pleasant and informative link to students, alumni, parents, potential donors, and the rest of the University community. On behalf of all the faculty, administrators, and students in the College, let me say “thank you” to our staff for the good job you do! Susan Welch We recognized several of our faculty members for their outstanding teaching, advising, and research at the Alumni Society Board of Directors awards reception on March 27. Congratulations to all College award winners! Anthony Kaye, assistant professor of history, is the recipient of this year's Roy C. Buck Award. His winning article, entitled “Neighborhoods and Solidarity in the Natchez District of Mississippi: Rethinking the Antebellum Slave Community,” was published in the April 2002 issue of Slavery and Abolition. Susan Squier, Brill Professor of Women's Studies and English, is the winner of this year's Stephanie J. Pavouček Shields Faculty Award, which recognizes an outstanding faculty mentor. Susan is especially known for her “graduate student dissertation group,” now comprised of five students. Members of the group, including Susan, share suggestions and observations about work in progress. The group also serves as a support group to talk about graduate school requirements, the job search, and professional issues of all sorts. The two winners of the Outstanding Teaching By Non-Tenure Line Faculty were Galina Khmelkova, lecturer in Russian, and José Texidor, Jr., senior lecturer in crime, law, and justice. Students have consistently praised Galina’s high professional standards, her patience and psychological flair for language teaching, and her willingness to go out of her way in accommodating students with special needs. She has been the soul of the Russian language and culture courses at Penn State for many years. Students describe José Texidor's teaching style as energetic, enthusiastic, innovative, and challenging. In post-graduation surveys he is often mentioned as one of the very best instructors students have had in any department at Penn State, and he is singled out in particular as one of the best in preparing students for law school. The Outstanding Teaching Award for a Tenure Line Faculty was won this year by Vincent Lankewish, assistant professor of English. Since arriving in 1998, Vincent has taught a range of courses with distinction and has offered fresh insights and original ways of teaching. In many of his courses, inspired by the light of queer theory, he considers the relation of literature to human sexuality in all its many forms. The range of material in the varied courses Professor Lankewish has taught has led to extraordinary praise from students, eliciting such comments as: “I would really like to take another of Dr. Lankewish’s courses. He really is a great professor. Very open to new ideas and very flexible.” Michelle Miller-Day, assistant professor of communication arts and sciences, was named this year's Outstanding Adviser. In addition to her formal and informal advising of a number of students in the department, Michelle has initiated a mentorship program, matching undergraduates with second-year graduate students. Michelle also conducted focus groups of undergraduate students and, based on these focus groups, was instrumental in redesigning the CAS curriculum to offer more courses of direct interest to students. We have two winners of our Class of 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award. The first is Stephen Browne, professor of communication arts and sciences. Steve’s books and papers have been a model for the close reading of important rhetorical texts and have been widely cited influences on the study of nineteenth-century reform rhetoric, public memory, civic identity, and community. His work has earned him the Diamond Anniversary Book Award (2000) and the Karl Wallace Award (1990) of the National Communication Association. Steve is also one of the department’s outstanding teachers and advisers. Our second award winner is Laura Knoppers, professor of English and director of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities. Laura is the author of two books on Renaissance English literature and history. Through her books, she has deepened our understanding of how the politics of seventeenth century Britain were played out in literary and cultural expression, and she has become one of the leading scholars integrating late Renaissance literature with history and politics. Both her scholarship and her commitment to the humanities make Laura Knoppers an especially deserving recipient of the 1933 Distinction in the Humanities Award. We also have two winners of our Distinction in the Social Sciences Award. Paul Amato, professor of demography and sociology, is one of the foremost family scholars in the world. Widely published, his special expertise is in the area of the causes and consequences of divorce, particularly the effects of parental divorce and marital quality on children. His analysis offers a calm voice of reason to an often-shrill debate over the consequences of divorce. Paul is also an excellent teacher, a co-PI on significant funded research on divorce, and a good citizen of his department. Our second winner of the Distinction in the Social Sciences Award also contributes to the University and profession in many ways. Frank Baumgartner has served as head of the Department of Political Science since his arrival at Penn State in 1999. He has maintained an impressive research and publication agenda even while serving in this role, and he continues to be successful in the multiple areas of teaching, scholarship, and administration. Frank is known particularly as a leader in the study of interest groups and lobbying in American politics. Daniel Walden, Professor Emeritus of American Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, won our College's Emeritus Distinction Award. Dan has been one of Penn State's pioneer faculty members in the field of American ethnic literatures. As far as we know, he created and taught Penn State's first courses on Jewish-American literature and also on African-American literature. Since he officially retired in 1998, he continues to be very professionally active, publishing a book, continuing to edit a journal, and writing articles and chapters. In addition to maintaining this productivity in research and professional visibility, Dan has also continued to work very hard on behalf of students and colleagues at Penn State. Since retirement he has taught a course every semester, and has also served as coordinator of the weekly Comparative Literature Luncheon series. Network Security Improvements: Over the past year, the College has undertaken several initiatives designed to improve the security of our data network and computer systems. The two most important are the firewall project and an initiative to improve security of Windows 2000 systems. Network security is a never-ending battle, but we are getting great results from these efforts. In contrast to the sharp increase in security incidents nationally and at Penn State, the number of computer-related security incidents attributable to Liberal Arts computers actually decreased last year to twenty-one (from twenty-seven in 2001). In fact, only one such incident occurred in the last half of 2002 in the College. This is an enviable track record and a good example of concerted teamwork to improve our networked systems. A firewall is a network device that is programmed to permit only certain “well-behaved” types of data interchange. Unusual or unexpected interchange that does not follow established protocol is blocked by the firewall. As of the end of March, data networks in seven Liberal Arts buildings have been protected with firewalls. Each of these transitions went remarkably smoothly with no noticeable impact on faculty, staff, or student use of their computers. Two remaining networks are scheduled for firewall deployment in the next few days. This will complete the firewall project. In the spring of 2002, the Level 2 Computer Support team was provided with guidelines and training to improve the security of Windows 2000 systems. The team spent a great amount of time throughout the rest of 2002 to implement these protective measures. The result of these two initiatives has been a measurable improvement of network and data security for College systems. In contrast, according to statistics published by the CERT Coordination Center, the number of reported security incidents has increased from 53,000 in 2001, to 82,000 last year. (The CERT, located at Carnegie Mellon University, is a national clearing house for network security information.) The Penn State Security Office, which tracks security incidents specific to the University, likewise reports University totals to have increased dramatically last year. In the coming years, data and network security will be increasingly important to all faculty and staff, and federally funded research and grants may be contingent on well-established security measures such as those described here. Robert Proctor, Ferree Professor of the History of Science, has been awarded a prestigious John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship. Robert will use the award for his research project on “The Acheulean Enigma: Handaxes and Human Origins.” Matthew Restall associate professor of history, women's studies, and anthropology, was also awarded a Guggenheim. Matthew will use the award for his research project “The Black Middle: Slavery, Society, and African-Maya Relations in Colonial Yucatan.” Other award winners include: David Baker, professor of education and sociology, Brian Goesling, graduate student in sociology, and Gerry LeTendre, associate professor of education, have won the 2002-03 Outstanding International Study of the Year Award from the American Education Research Association. The award was for their paper, “Socioeconomic status, school quality, and national economic development: a cross-national analysis of the 'Heyneman-Loxley Effect' on mathematics and science achievement,” published in the journal Comparative Education Review. Robert Edwards, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, earned the Outstanding Academic Title of 2002 by Choice for his book, Chaucer and Boccaccio: Antiquity and Modernity, published in 2002 by Palgrave Macmillan. Ron Filippelli, associate dean for administration and undergraduate studies and professor of labor studies and industrial relations, was awarded this year’s University-wide Shirley Hendrick Award for Outstanding Leadership in Outreach. Ron, who has managed the College’s outreach portfolio since 1992, has provided leadership for several important efforts allowing us to serve better our distance students across the world and here in State College. This includes the introduction of two World Campus bachelor’s degrees, the first four-year degree programs of the World Campus, and a number of other programs aimed at adults. Duane Alwin, McCourtney Professor of Sociology, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Aging and the Reliability of Survey Data.” Sheri Berenbaum, professor of psychology, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services for “Psychosexual Differentiation: Biology and Socialization.” Jeanette Cleveland, professor of psychology, John O'Neill, assistant professor of hotel restaurant and recreation management, Ann Crouter, professor of human development and family studies, Robert Drago, professor of labor studies and industrial relations and women's studies, from The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation for “Hotels and Home Lives: A Qualitative Study of the Work Family Challenges of Hotel Managers.” Keith Crnic, head and professor of psychology, from Purdue University for “Engagement in Parenting Programs for Young Children.” Anne Rose, professor of history, religious studies, and Jewish Studies, has been awarded a Grant-in-Aid from the Rockefeller Foundation to work at the Rockefeller Archive Center outside of New York City. Anne will use her findings in the writing of a book-length study on “Regions of the American Mind: The Rise of the Psychological Sciences in the South 1919-1965.” John Stuhr, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and American Studies, has received a grant from the Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs to support his research and teaching on ethics and terrorism and to participate in an interdisciplinary faculty workshop on “Evil and International Affairs: Rhetoric, Reality, and Responsibility.” The workshop will be held in early June at McGill University in Montreal. Catherine Wanner, assistant professor of history and religious studies, was awarded a grant from the National Council for Eurasian and East European Research to fund the final stages of research and writing of her book, Communities of the Converted: Religion and Migration After the Fall of the Soviet Union, on religious practices in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia. We were delighted to recognize the following graduate students at our March 27 awards reception. Outstanding Teaching By Graduate Students: Two graduate students were honored with Outstanding Teaching Awards for Graduate Students. Hélène Gresso (French) has compiled an extraordinary record as a teaching assistant, including this year developing and teaching a technology-enhanced version of our third- and fourth-semester language courses. The course involved connecting her French students electronically, visually, and personally with English students in France by means of course Web pages, real-time on-line conversations, Web cameras, and a week of travel over spring break to visit with their counterparts in France—who are then hosted at Penn State in return. Bryan “Doc” Rissel is a Ph.D. student in English who has taught many different courses with great success. One student writes, “Doc Rissel is a very good instructor who brought energy and humor to the class without sacrificing learning.” Another echoes many others when he says “He is the best instructor I've had at Penn State.” Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Humanities: The graduate student award for excellence in research in the humanities was won by Dan Smith, a doctoral candidate in English. Dan’s article, “Ethics and ‘Bad Writing’: Dialectics, Reading, and Affective Pedagogy,” is a significant piece of original scholarship scheduled to appear very soon in the Journal of Composition Theory. Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences: The parallel Graduate Student Award for Excellence in Research in the Social Sciences was won by Liana Brown, a graduate student in cognitive psychology. Liana has distinguished herself by doing ground-breaking research in the fields of perception and action. Her award winning study on visual systems for recognizing objects and for interacting with objects during action was published in the prestigious Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance. IAH Graduate Student Summer Residencies The Institute for the Arts and Humanities recently announced the recipients of its graduate student summer residencies. Sponsored in conjunction with the College of the Liberal Arts and the College of Arts and Architecture, this competitive program provides advanced graduate students with a $3,000 stipend and the use of an office in Ihlseng Cottage during the summer term, enabling them to spend focused time working on their dissertations or final creative projects. Three Liberal Arts students were funded for Summer 2003: Jennifer Davis, Ph.D. student in history, will write her dissertation on gender politics and the culinary trades in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century France. Karen Gover, Ph.D. student in philosophy, will write her dissertation on the significance of ancient Greek tragedy for the thought of Martin Heidegger. Mootacem Mhiri, Ph.D. student in comparative literature, will write his dissertation, examining hybrid forms of critical and personal writing by minority authors of Arab descent in the U.S. and France. Liberal Arts Students Win Awards Numerous Liberal Arts students have won University awards for their outstanding scholarships. Others have been awarded prestigious national grants. Evan Pugh Scholar Award—Juniors Samuel Bonsall, economics; Cassandra Dombrowski, English; Corinne Thatcher, Latin American studies; Alexander Wiker, philosophy; Adam Tarosky, political science; Karen Gabel, Matthew Mauriello, and Nicole Stockey, psychology. Evan Pugh Scholar Award—Seniors Sarah Andres, anthropology; Joshua Dutill, crime, law, and justice; Mary Haman, communication, arts, and sciences; Michael Macko, economics; Bo Jin, Dustin Rutledge, and Michelle Smith, English; Jessica Herzog, history; Robert Englert, Carolyn Heitzmann, Jocelyn Reichel, and Kathleen Royer, psychology; Robert Fay and Laura Tach, sociology; Wendy Rizzo, Spanish. President Sparks Award Julie Bistline, liberal arts; Amy Lucas, sociology. President's Freshman Award Rachel Frankel, communication, arts, and sciences; Gregory Becker, Roger Calderone, Cornelius Cornelssen, Michelle Dripps, Steven Dzubak, Andrew Farris, Erica Karapandi, Melinda Kuritzky, Rachel Rogers, Laura Rosell, Danielle Rosenblatt, Matthew Webster, and Jason Yu, Liberal Arts; Carol Holt, letters, arts, and sciences. Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships Five Liberal Arts students won scholarships to study abroad this year. The Gilman program is funded through the U.S. Department of State Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs and administered by the Institute of International Education. The scholarship winners include Bryn Jackson, a senior in anthropology, who will study in Cape Town; South Africa, Theresa West, a junior in political science and women's studies, also going to Cape Town, South Africa; Kajal Patel, a junior in international politics, taking part in a program in Beijing, China; Samira Kassir, a senior in international politics, attending a program in Alicante, Spain; and Michelle Nguyen, a senior in advertising and English, who will study in Tokyo, Japan. St. Andrew's Society Scholarship Kathleen Reedy, Penn State senior and Schreyer Honors scholar, has won the St. Andrew's Society Scholarship, a full scholarship for graduate study at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland. Kathleen will graduate with a major in anthropology and a minor in Middle Eastern Studies. African American Voices Series The African American Voices Series presents a blues panel April 15 at 2:00 p.m. in the Foster Auditorium of the Pattee Library featuring blues poet and professor Sterling Plumpp, a member of the National Hall of Fame of Writers of African Descent; Professor Jerry Zolten, blues and gospel scholar; and blues musicians Robert Lockwood, Jr., Chris Bell, and Larry McCray. At 7:00 p.m. in the HUB/Robeson Culture Center is a public concert highlighting the legendary Delta roots, modern Chicago sound, and contemporary urban voice of the blues. It will feature Robert Lockwood, Jr., the legendary Robert Johnson bluesman of the twentieth-century; Chris Bell and 100% Blues, Silver Bridge Records, contemporary urban blues artist from North Hollywood, California; and Larry McCray, winner of the Orville Gibson Award in 2000 for Best Blues Guitarist. The Celebration of the Year of the Blues was coordinated by Professors Bernard W. Bell and Keith Gilyard (prize-winning scholars of African American language, literature, and culture) and is co-sponsored by the African American Voices Series in the English Department, the Equal Opportunity Planning Committee, the Paul Robeson Cultural Center, the Department of African and African American Studies, the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, the Forum on Black Affairs, and the Penn State Libraries.Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Initiative The Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Initiative will present “Agnatology: The Cultural Production of Ignorance Workshop,” on Friday, April 25, and Saturday, April 26, in room 102 Weaver Building. The following speakers will be presenting at the workshop, Ken Alder, Northwestern University; Peter Galison, Harvard University; Clive Gamble, University of Southampton, UK; Evelynn Hammonds, Harvard University; Dominique Pestre, Centre Alexandre Koyré, Paris; Mary Poovey, New York University; Alison Wylie, Columbia University; Robert Proctor, Penn State; Londa Schiebinger, Penn State; Susan Squier, Penn State; Nancy Tuana, Penn State. Professor Robert Proctor and Professor Londa Schiebinger, Department of History, are co-organizers. The workshop is sponsored by The Science, Medicine, and Technology in Culture Initiative (SMTC), the Institute for Arts and Humanitites, the Rock Ethics Institute, the Department of History, the Department of English, and the Department of Anthropology. Karl S. Guthke, Kuno Franke Professor of German Art and Culture at Harvard University, will be speaking at University Park on Tuesday, April 29. His talk, “Destination Goethe: Goethe and his English and American Visitors,” will be held at 4:00 p.m. in the Faculty/Staff Club rooms of the Nittany Lion Inn. Guthke is one of the most widely published and admired scholars in the field of German literature. In addition to his numerous publications in the area of German studies, he also has extended his intellectual reach to such other areas as epitaph culture in the west, “last words” in cultural history, and the works of B. Traven. This speech is being held as part of an occasion marking the retirement of Ernst Schürer, Professor of German since 1978 and Head of the German Department from 1978-91. The Joanne and Paul Tanker Lecture Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Chair in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, will present The Joanne and Paul Tanker Lecture titled, “How Jesus Became an Aryan: Protestant Theology in Nazi Germany.” The lecture will be held on Tuesday, April 29, 2003, in the Board Room of the Nittany Lion Inn at 4:30 p.m. Susannah's research areas include modern Jewish thought, feminist theology, and German Protestantism. She is the author of numerous studies on modern Jewish thought, including, Abraham Geiger and the Jewish Jesus, 1998, and co-editor of Insider/Outsider: American Jews and Multiculturalism (with David Biale and Michael Galchinsky, 1998). For information about this visit, please contact Sandi Moyer at 863-8939. Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lecture Ronald L. Numbers, will be this year's guest speaker for The Harold K. Schilling Memorial Lectureship presenting “Anti-evolutionism in America: From Creation Science to Intelligent Design,” at Helen Eakin Eisenhower Chapel on Wednesday, April 30, at 3:30 p.m. The lectureship covers topics on science, religion, and contemporary society and honors the memory of Dr. Schilling, University professor and former dean of the Graduate School. Ronald Numbers is the Hilldale and William Coleman Professor of the History of Science and Medicine and chair of the department of medical history and bioethics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where he has taught for a quarter century. He was also the past president of the History of Science Society and the American Society of Church History. He has written or edited more than two dozen books, including The Creationists, Alfred A. Knopf, 1992; Darwinism Comes To America, Harvard University Press, 1998; Disseminating Darwinism: The Role of Place, Race, Religion, and Gender, Cambridge University Press, 1999, co-edited with John Stenhouse; and When Science and Christianity Meet, University of Chicago Press, 2003, co-edited with David Lindberg. Members of the University and local communities are invited to attend the lecture and a reception immediately following the talk. For more information, contact Dr. Jeannie McKenzie-Pedlow, director, Office of Fellowships and Awards, The Graduate School, at (814) 865-2514. Lois Bloom Child Study Center Lecture The Child Study Center will host the 2003 Lois Bloom Child Study Center Lecture on Thursday, May 8, 2003, at The Nittany Lion Inn, Ballroom DE at 7:30 p.m. Dr. Dante Cicchetti, professor of psychology and director of the Mt. Hope Family Center, University of Rochester, will present “Psychological and Neurobiological Functioning in Maltreated Children: Implications for Developmental Theory.” Dr. Cicchetti is an internationally-known scholar in the development of competence and psychopathology in children. His contributions to science cross many disciplines. His address focuses on one area of specialization, child maltreatment, a significant social problem. His lecture draws on his considerable research and theoretical work which integrates both biological and psychological understandings of early childhood development and stress and trauma.Comparative Literature Luncheon The Comparative Literature Luncheon is a weekly informal lunchtime gathering of students, faculty, and other members of the University community. Each week there is a short (twenty-minute) presentation, by a visitor or a local speaker, on a topic related to a humanities discipline. Daniel Walden is the coordinator for the series this semester. We meet every Monday in 102 Kern at about 12:15 p.m. Coffee and tea are provided (no charge). You can bring your lunch or buy something on a tray in Kern Cafeteria (next door) and bring it into 102. The speaker will begin at about 12:40 p.m. Allowing a few minutes for discussion, we'll conclude in time for you to get to classes that meet at 1:25 p.m. All students, faculty, colleagues, and friends are welcome. For details; check the LA Calendar. Wed 4/16—Alejandro Cunat, London School of Economics, 420 Kern Building, 3:30 p.m. (Trade and Development Workshop). Wed 4/16—Troy Duster, professor, Institute for the History of the Production of Knowledge and Department of Sociology, New York University, “Human Molecular Genetics and the Subject of Race: Contrasting the Rhetoric with the Practices in Law and Medicine,” 110 Henderson Building, Living Center, 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. (Breaking the Silence Lecture Series). Wed 4/16—Take Back the Night, Steps of Old Main, 6:00 p.m. Thurs 4/17—Pippa Norris, professor, Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, “Rising Tide: Gender Equality Worldwide,” time and place TBA. Thurs–Fri 4/17–4/18—Women's Leadership Conference, time and place TBA. Fri 4/18—Bruce Blonigen, University of Oregon, 420 Kern Building, 3:30 p.m. (Trade and Development Workshop). Fri 4/18—Ichiro Obara, UCLA, 420 Kern Building, 1:30 p.m. (Micro Theory Seminar). Fri 4/18—Rogers Smith, University of Pennsylvania, “Race Citizenship and the New American Empire,” 316 Burrowes Building, 12:15 p.m. Fri 4/18—Discussion of Pragmatism, Postmodernism, and the Future of Philosophy, by author John Stuhr, Penn State, panelists Mitchell Aboulafia, University of Colorado at Denver, and Charles Scott, Penn State, with moderator Susan Kang, Penn State, 112 Chambers Building, 4:00 p.m. Fri 4/18—WSGO Conference, time and place TBA. Fri–Sat 4/18–4/19—Cornell-Penn State Macro Workshop, 420 Kern Building, 2:20 p.m. Mon 4/21—Garrick Blalock, Cornell University, 420 Kern Building, 3:30 p.m. (Applied Micro Workshop). Mon 4/21—Bela Tsipuria, visiting scholar, comparative literature, Penn State, “Post Soviet Georgian Literature,” 102 Kern Building, 12:40 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. (Comparative Literature Luncheon). Mon 4/21—Spring Undergraduate Forum, HUB/Robeson Alumni Hall, 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Tues 4/22—Alumni Round Tables and Classroom Visits, time and place TBA. Tues 4/22—2nd Annual WMNST Senior Research (492W) Conference, 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., place TBA, sponsored by Triota and the Women's Studies Program. Tues 4/22—Mimi Fredman, chairman of the board, Barash Group, Pollock Commons Gold Room, 5:30 p.m. (Women's Studies Awards Ceremony and Distinguished Alumna Lecturer). Wed 4/23—Eric Smith, Georgetown University, 420 Kern Building, 2:20 p.m. (Macro Workshop). Thurs 4/24—Kris Lane, history department, College of William and Mary, “Quinto, 1599,” 102 Weaver Building, 5:30 p.m. (Sponsored by the History Department and the Latin American Studies Program). Fri 4/25—Daniel Diermeier, Northwestern University, 420 Kern Building, 1:30 p.m. (Micro Theory Seminar). Fri 4/25—Brad Wilcox, University of Virginia, “Focused on Their Families?: Religion, Orthodoxy, and Parenting,” 406 Oswald Tower, 12:00 p.m. (Women's Studies Feminist Scholars Series; co-sonsored with the Rock Ethics Institute). Mon 4/28—John Moore, associate professor of English and comparative literature, “A Lament for Humanities 001,” 102 Kern Building, 12:40 p.m. to 1:25 p.m. (Comparative Literature Luncheon). Sat 4/29—Susan Schweik, associate professor of English, University of California, Berkeley, “The Ugly Laws of Disability Studies” Gender, Disability, and the Politics of Discrimination by Appearance,” 102 Kern Building, 3:00 p.m. Wed 4/30—Gianluca Violante, New York University, 420 Kern Building, 2:20 p.m. (Macro Workshop). Thurs 5/1—Nicolas DeRoos, University of Virginia, 420 Kern Building, 3:30 p.m. (Applied Micro Workshop). Fri 5/2—V. Bhaskar, University of Essex and Yale, 420 Kern Building, 1:30 p.m. (Micro Theory Seminar). Fri 5/2—Benedikt Poetscher, University of Vienna, Austria, 420 Kern Building, 10:30 a.m. (Econometrics Seminar). Fri 5/2—Stephen Redding, London School of Economics, 420 Kern Building, 3:30 p.m. (Trade and Development Workshop). Wed 5/7—Larry Jones, University of Minnesota, 420 Kern Building, 2:20 p.m. (Macro Workshop). Henry Albinski, professor emeritus of political science and Australian and New Zealand studies, died Sunday, April 6, 2003, in Sydney, Australia. Henry joined the Penn State political science department in 1959 and remained on the faculty until his retirement in 1998. A memorial service will be held at a later date. Thank you I would like to send my deepest thanks to all of the generous Liberal Arts Staff who were kind enough to donate their precious vacation days to me during my recent illness. My family and I cannot put into words our gratitude for your extremely overwhelming demonstration of support, and we wish we could thank each and every one of you personally. It is truly wonderful and heart-warming to know that there are so many caring and thoughtful people working in this College. 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