January 8, 1:30 p.m., Foster Auditorium and MediaSite Live: Dean’s Forum (view online presentation)
January 14, 10–11 a.m., 315 Pattee Library, west: Introduction to LionSearch
January 15, 10–11 a.m., 302 Paterno Library: LIbrary Research Basics
January 15, 12:15 p.m., EMS Library, 105 Deike: What is One Degree? (film – 50 min.)
Beginning with a visit to Britain’s National Physical Laboratory, the institution tasked with formally defining one degree, the video looks at the atomic aspects of temperature and their fundamental relationship with molecular energy.
January 21, 4 to 6 p.m., Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library: Grand opening reception of the Student Financial Education Center
Tuesday, January 21, 1:30–3 p.m.315 Pattee Library, west: Introduction to Zotero
January 21, 6–7 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library: “Budgeting—a presentation by SFEC Peer Educators.” The Peer Educators are students who have been trained in specific areas of personal finance (budgeting, credit cards and student loans), who will work one-on-one with students in the Financial Education Center to improve and sustain financial literacy at Penn State.
January 22, 12:15 p.m., EMS Library, 105 Deike:: Science Under Attack: Has the public lost faith in scientists? (film – 52 min.) The consensus of the world’s science academies is that climate change is real, and that it’s caused by human activity. Why, then, do so many people doubt these findings?
January 22, 5:30–7 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library: “Wage and Tax Fundamentals,” a workshop on taxes for students and part of “MoneyCounts: A Financial Literacy Series” by SFEC Advisers Dr. Daad Rizk and Dr. Cathy Bowen
January 23, 5:30–6:30 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library: “Student Financial Aid,” by SFEC Adviser Brad Yeckley
Thursday, January 23, 10–11:30 a.m., 302 Paterno Library: Introduction to Mendeley
January 29, 12:15 p.m., EMS Library, 105 Deike: Secret Life of Ice (film – 49 min.)
Ice may be one of the strangest substances in the world. Full of contradictions, it is powerful enough to shatter rock but can melt in the blink of an eye; it is transparent, yet can glow with color.
January 30, 2–3 p.m., Foster Auditorium, 102 Paterno Library: Visiting scholar Ellen Gruber Garvey will give a presentation, “Hidden Histories: African American Scrapbooks Talk Back to the White Press in the 19th Century.” Garvey is the author of “Writing with Scissors: American Scrapbooks from the Civil War to the Harlem Renaissance,” a recent book from Oxford University Press that breaks new ground analyzing and discussing scrapbooking as an historical and cultural practice. A book signing in Mann Assembly Room, 103 Paterno Library, will follow the presentation and books will be available for sale. 
Garvey’s talk is jointly sponsored by the Penn State University Libraries and the Richards Civil War Era Center. It is held in conjunction with a research grant funded by the Penn State Africana Research Center that is supporting Penn State Libraries Digitization and Preservation Department’s condition assessment of the monumental William Dorsey Scrapbook Collection, currently on loan from Cheyney University of Pennsylvania.