IMAGE OF THE WEEK
Speakers Committee co-chair Emily Rosenman (right) with Akira Drake Rodriguez, Joint Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania’s Weitzman School of Design and School of Social Policy & Practice, who was the Coffee Hour speaker on February 7, 2020. She spoke about her ongoing project to help stakeholders gain spatial justice and educational justice within the School District of Philadelphia.
GOOD NEWS
The Department of African Studies is hosting a talk on Wednesday, February 12, 12:30-2 p.m. in 319 Walker Building. Guest speaker Robert Voeks, Professor of Geography and the Environment at California State University, Fullerton, will talk on “Out of Africa: Ethnobotanical Conversations in the Atlantic World.”
WE ARE for Science, SoMuSE, and EMS Graduate Student Council are hosting a Diversity Mixer on Thursday, February 13, 4 to 5 p.m. on the ground floor of Deike Building.
Erica Smithwick will give the EarthTalks lecture on Monday, February 17, 4:00 p.m. in 112 Walker Building. Her topic will be “Firescapes of the mid-Atlantic.”
COFFEE HOUR
There is no Coffee Hour for Friday, February 14, so you can spend the time with your loved ones. Coffee Hour returns on February 21 with speaker Alex de Sherbinin, Associate Director for Science Applications at the Center for International Earth Science Information Network. de Sherbinin’s talk, “Research Applications of Geospatial Data from the NASA Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC),” is co-sponsored by the Institute for Computational and Data Sciences.
NEWS
Millennials eagerly move into downtown Harrisburg, but does that equal growth and change?
Christopher Fowler is quoted
Brad Jones and his business partners weren’t gambling.
As they worked to build more than 150 new apartments in downtown Harrisburg over the past five years, they let the market inform their decisions, Jones said, and all signs pointed to success.
“All across the country, people are moving back to cities,” he said, noting that’s especially true among young, white-collar professionals. “Millennials grew up in the suburbs and want to move back to the city.”
New WPSU podcast highlights Penn State researchers’ work, community impact
A new podcast that highlights the work of Penn State researchers and how their findings impact communities near and far is now available through central Pennsylvania’s public media station.
WPSU Penn State’s Reach podcast tells the stories of Penn State researchers, their studies and how their work impacts central Pennsylvanians, the nation and world. The new podcast from WPSU — an outreach service of Penn State — is available on the WPSU Digital website and through the station’s Facebook and Twitter accounts.