I sat down with Penn State’s own astronaut Dr. James A. Pawelczyk ’85g. Dr. P has also been an honors advisor and faculty member in residence! In this interview he also gives valuable advice about doing an honors thesis. So head over to iTunes and subscribe to our podcast!
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Today I had the great privilege to interview our upcoming Schreyer Signature Speaker Ms. Asra Nomani. You can download the podcast through iTuneU at this link. The press release is below.
Wall Street Journal Reporter’s Abduction and Murder Subject of Lecture
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa.—Journalist and author Asra Q. Nomani will speak about the 2002 abduction and murder of her colleague and friend Daniel Pearl at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, March 25, in Penn State’s Schwab Auditorium on the University Park campus.
Nomani’s lecture, “Danny Pearl: The Truth Left Behind,” is being sponsored by the Schreyer Honors College and the Schreyer Honors College Student Council. The event is free and open to the public.
Pearl’s disappearance and the U.S. government’s investigation into his death were the subject of the motion picture “A Mighty Heart.” In conjunction with Nomani’s visit to Penn State, Penn State Movie Channel 72 will be broadcasting “A Mighty Heart” during the month of March.
Nomani was one of the last people to see Pearl before he disappeared in Pakistan in January 2002. In 2007, while a professor in the practice of journalism at Georgetown University’s School of Continuing Studies, Nomani headed The Pearl Project, an investigative journalism seminar focused on identifying Pearl’s killers and their motives for his death.
Nomani’s articles on Islamic issues have appeared in the Washington Post, the New York Times, Time magazine, and Slate. She is the author of “Standing Alone in Mecca: An American Woman’s Struggle for the Soul of Islam” and documented her spiritual journey in “Tantrika: Traveling the Road of Divine Love.”
For more information about Nomani’s lecture, contact the Schreyer Honors College at 863-2636.
(I just realized I never posted this on the blog! Mea culpa!)
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of sitting down with Schreyer Scholar Sean Lobar. Sean is a senior majoring in Life Sciences and International Studies. In his 4 years in the Schreyer Honors College at Penn State Sean has travelled to Peru, Argentina, Guatemala, Jordan, and Abu Dhabi.
Head over to iTunesU to hear this fun interview!
Last night I was the guest speaker at the College of Information Sciences and Technology’s IDEAS dinner. This is a forum for undergraduate research. In this talk I asked how we can or should use information techonologies to create commnunity within the Scheryer Honors College. I also challenge some notions of how radical the changes are in human nature and conduct as a result of the pervasiveness of these technologies.
The podcast can be heard below or downloaded from iTunes here.
Our SHC graduate Jason Olcese, whom I interviewed last year on this podcast, has another album out! You can hear a preview of it at CD Baby. It sounds well worth buying! (Some of you may have heard Jason and his band this weekend; they played at a party in SC.)
The Centre Daily Times ran an article this morning about Dr. Bose’s speech.
Meena Bose, a renowned scholar in presidential studies, is making no more predictions in this race for the White House.
Political twists have already upended two of her best guesses — that Democrat John Edwards and Republican Mitt Romney would stay in for the long haul.
So don’t expect an overly political speech when Bose, a Penn State alumna and Hofstra University professor, returns to University Park this week to deliver a public lecture.
No, Bose said Monday, her talk here — titled “How Do We Define Democratic Leadership in the Twenty-First Century?” — will offer a more historical tone.
She said she plans to talk about the great U.S. presidents, such as Thomas Jefferson, Abraham Lincoln, and Theodore and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and “what qualities we see in them that are relevant today.”
“I hope it will spark discussion about our expectations for the next president, what the next president needs to accomplish,” Bose said.
Dr. Bose is a Scholar alumna and the lecture will be Thursday night at 7 pm in the Schwab Auditorium. Don’t forget, my podcast with Dr. Bose can be heard here.
This week I had the great pleasure of interviewing this year’s Mark Luchinsky Lecturer. Dr. Bose is a Scholar alumna and also a scholar of presidential studies, so we had a great time talking about this year’s election. Mark your calendars now for her lecture on Thursday, March 20, 2008 in Schwab Auditorium. So please play the podcast below, download it, or subscribe through iTunes and enjoy!
DR. MEENA BOSE, ’90 Lib - Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies
Date: Thursday, March 20, 2008Place: Schwab AuditoriumTime: 7:00 p.m.
Meena Bose, Ph.D., was installed as Hofstra University’s first Peter S. Kalikow Chair in Presidential Studies on November 15, 2006 at the Hofstra University Club/David S. Mack Hall on the north campus.
Dr. Bose is also the head of Hofstra’s new Peter S. Kalikow Center for the Study of the American Presidency. Both the endowed chair and the center were funded by a $3.5 million gift from Hofstra trustee and alumnus Peter S. Kalikow. The gift was aimed at enhancing Hofstra’s reputation as a center for presidential studies. The University has hosted 11 conferences on the American presidency, the most recent in November 2005 on the presidency of Bill Clinton.
Dr. Bose, a nationally recognized scholar on the American presidency, had since 2001 been at West Point in the Department of Social Sciences. She was an assistant professor of political science at Hofstra from 1996-2000 and acting director of the Hofstra Honors Program from 1999-2000. She received her B.A. in foreign service and international politics from Penn State University in 1990; her M.A. in Politics from Princeton University in 1992; and her Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton in 1996.
She is the author of Shaping and Signaling Presidential Policy: The National Security Decision Making of Eisenhower and Kennedy, (Texas A&M University Press, 1998); co-editor with Mark Landis of Making the Grade: The Uses and Abuses of Presidential Ratings (Nova Science Publishers, 2003); “The Leadership Difference: Rating the Presidents;” and co-editor with Rosanna Perotti of The Foreign Policy World of George Bush (Greenwood Press, 2002) Dr. Bose is co-editor with John J. DiIulio of the upcoming Classic Ideas and Current Issues in American Government (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2007), an introductory American politics course reader to accompany James Q. Wilson and John J. DiIulio’s American Government: Institutions and Policies (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
[I am out of town right now, along with Assoc. Dean Judy Ozment, at the annual meeting of the NCHC, the National Collegiate Honors Council.]
Yesterday I had the joy of interviewing Jason Hunt and Kathleen McDermott from Residence Life. Jason is the director in charge of both Atherton and Simmons, the honors housing option. Unfortunately the hotel internet access (T-Mobile) is not allowing me to access the iTunes store directly and I did not have time to upload the files to our local server. But never fear! You can just head on over to http://itunes.psu.edu/ navigate to the Schreyer Honors College section and download the podcast from there. (I will upload it and make all the links live when I get back to the office this weekend.) UPDATE: Direct link to the SHC portion of iTunes U is here.
It was a great interview and offers a behind the scenes perspective of life in Atherton and Simmons. Download it when you can!
Today I sat down with Dr. Nicole Webster who is Asst. Prof. in the Dept. of Agricultural and Extension Education. We talked about her research, work, the Social Justice Film Series, and the “Struggle for Freedom” course. You can listen to it below or online via iTunes.
It has been too long since I have posted, sorry about that! But it has been so busy in these first weeks. Judging from conversations at lunch in Simmons and at the Student Council meeting last night it seems that most folks enjoyed SHOtime. Please do continue to give us your feedback and let us know if you want to help next year and what you would do to make it better.
Stammtisch
Yesterday I had the pleasure of interviewing Michael Cronin, sophomore in EMS, for our first Stammtisch podcast of the year. As a reminder, the “Stammtisch” is a series of podcasts where I interview students, alumni, and friends of the college. Michael spoke at this summer’s “Spend a Summer Day” recruitment sessions and is a great student. I think you will enjoy the interview. As always, you can get it via iTunes or directly downloaded from here. (And play it below.)
Leadership Jumpstart
The second podcast to go up today is from the freshman class that runs during orientation and then throughout the semester. During orientation they break into three groups and each group has to either produce a video, slide show, or a podcast. This is a fun few minutes so be sure to give it a listen!
The students’ perspective on SHOtime : iTunes and direct download.
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