January 14, 10–11 a.m., 315 Pattee Library, west: Introduction to LionSearch

January 14, 3 – 4 p.m., Mann Assembly Room: First UPLEA meeting of the year.

January 15, 10–11 a.m., 302 Paterno Library: LIbrary Research Basics

January  15, 12:15 p.m., EMS Museum, Deike Building: 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

January 23, 10–11:30 a.m., 302 Paterno Library: Introduction to Mendeley

January 29, 12:15 p.m., EMS Museum, Deike Building: 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.”