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April 29 talk: How California drought affects fresh fruit and vegetable prices

April 21, 2026

Christina McGranaghan

April 22 talk: Using voluntary controls to reduce peak electricity demand

April 15, 2026

April 15 talk: Effect of renewable diesel on air quality

April 07, 2026

Speaker for 2026 Distinguished Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering.

2026 Distinguished Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering

April 06, 2026

A person in an oversized blue shirt with ivory blinds as a backdrop.

Celebrated architect, ‘architectural behaviorology’ expert to visit Stuckeman

April 02, 2026

Headshots of Todd Davis, Patricia Jabbeh-Wesley and Erin Murphy

Penn State Altoona to host faculty poetry reading on April 14

April 01, 2026

Photograph of a smiling man with glasses wearing a blue, white, and red plaid shirt.

Anthropology professor to deliver George Tseo Memorial Lecture April 3

March 31, 2026

Susanna B. Berkouwer

April 8 talk will discuss demand distortions of green subsidies

March 30, 2026

NYU bioethicist to present 'Artificial Intelligence and Moral Status' lecture

March 24, 2026

Gabriel Agostini

April 1 talk to focus on national and local migration patterns

March 24, 2026

Lecture: 'Breaking the stigma of mental health in the modern world'

March 20, 2026

Sci-fi author Ted Chiang to give 2026 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics

March 17, 2026

March 25 talk: 'Effect of sugar-sweetened beverage tax on beer purchases'

March 13, 2026

Close-up of a person holding and tapping on a smartphone, with floating numbers, graphs, and data visualizations overlaid around the device.

Lecture to discuss how mobile "games" detect cognitive decline, dementia risk

March 05, 2026

Feb. 25 seminar: 'Effectiveness of mobile app to improve household food access'

February 17, 2026

Feb. 18 seminar: Energy’s transition from coal to natural gas, renewables

February 10, 2026

Illustration of bright light on planet horizon with words "Unexpected pairing addressing big questions"

Ashtekar Frontiers of Science Lectures to begin Jan. 24

January 21, 2026

Christelle Wauthier sits on a rough volcanic rock during fieldwork.

Coffee Hour starts Jan. 23 with talk on volcanic hazards and remote sensing

January 20, 2026

Climate Conversation Cafe to explore the right to a healthy environment

January 07, 2026

Kirk French lectures to an auditorium filled with students

Professor’s 'Anthropology of Alcohol' course a perennial favorite with students

December 12, 2025

IST associate teaching professor to present McMurtry Lecture on Dec. 11

November 20, 2025

blocks displaying photos of teachers and students engaged in learning and play

School-based prevention of mental health problems the focus of Bennett Lecture

October 27, 2025

Portal of the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola

Art History Dickson Lecture to focus on relationship between print, architecture

October 23, 2025

people-pushing-school-bus-in-flood

Flood impacts in Global South focus of Geography Coffee Hour

October 21, 2025

Oct. 23 lecture: Tailoring quantum dot growth for novel quantum light sources

October 21, 2025

Marker Lectures in Mathematics set for Nov. 10-12

October 16, 2025

Author and historian Laura Edwards standing leaning against a brick wall

Laura F. Edwards to deliver 2025 Brose Distinguished Lectures

October 14, 2025

Cornell scholar to discuss 'Pliny the Elder’s Ethics and Aesthetics of Loss'

September 23, 2025

2025 Taylor Lecture

'Forging the future of steel' is theme for 2025 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series

September 16, 2025

Glen Mazis delivering lecture in front of audience

Emeritus Academy and OLLI partner for 2025-26 lecture series

September 08, 2025

slide displays two researcher headshots and lecture titles

IST announces Research Talks series for fall 2025 semester

September 04, 2025

A bee collects pollen from the center of a purple daisy-like flower, with a blurred background of similar flowers.

Geography lecture to spotlight pollinator conservation and technology

August 29, 2025

Person standing in front of a physics experiment during the Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture

Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture series celebrates ‘Year of Quantum’

April 29, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour to feature Jessica Omukuti on inclusive Net Zero

April 21, 2025

Faisal Mohammed Al-Faqeer will present the 2025 Richard E. Tressler Lecture at 3:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Saudi Aramco senior VP, Penn State alumnus to present Richard E. Tressler Lecture

April 18, 2025

April 23 EEEPI seminar: effect of fuel taxes on legislative outcomes

April 15, 2025

EEEPI seminar: Estimating the health care cost of sugar-sweetened beverages

April 09, 2025

EarthTalks: Support for deploying new technologies for clean energy systems

April 08, 2025

Susan Freinkel talk: 'How Did We Get Hooked on Plastic?' on April 14

April 07, 2025

Michael Schweinberger, professor of statistics at Penn State, will present “Causal Learning in the Interconnected and Interdependent World of the Twenty-First Century” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in 201 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Statistics department to host free public lecture April 17

April 04, 2025

Martha Constantinou in front of equations

Berks hosts lecture on the 'Secrets of the Proton’s Spin'

April 03, 2025

International Space Station science program director to present McFarland Lecture

March 31, 2025

Philosopher Kate Manne to give 2025 Lippin Lecture in Ethics

March 28, 2025

Elizabeth R. Baer/Shira Klein

Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies to present two speakers online in April

March 27, 2025

Author, nutritionist Marion Nestle to discuss politics of food industry marketing

March 26, 2025

Picture of person sitting at table with image projected in the background.

University supports Ukrainian academics through Nonresidential Scholars Program

March 26, 2025

April 2 seminar: Emissions trading effect on water quality, carbon sequestration

March 24, 2025

Picture of Duke University professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow in front of a bookshelf

Eileen Cheng-yin Chow to deliver inaugural Janssen Lecture on March 28

March 20, 2025

Benjamin Collier

March 26 seminar to discuss effect of emergency credit on households’ finances

March 19, 2025

Author and scholar to discuss America’s ‘slow civil war’ on April 15

March 19, 2025

March 19 seminar to discuss hedging economic risks related to climate change

March 13, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour lecture to feature Sophie Webber on climate finance

March 13, 2025

A photo of the exterior sign of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.

Alumnus to lead ethics-focused discussion on AI, market research

March 07, 2025

A girl wearing a soccer uniform goes to kick a soccer ball, but the girl has a digital effect that makes her look incomplete.

Energy deficiency's impact on women’s health and sport topic of upcoming lecture

March 07, 2025

Penn State Hazleton alumnus to give George Tseo Memorial Lecture on March 18

March 05, 2025

Seminar to discuss impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior, welfare

February 25, 2025

Dahlia Lithwick

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the Supreme Court and democracy on March 18

February 25, 2025

EarthTalks: Widga to discuss museums as partners in broader impact activities

February 25, 2025

EEEPI Seminar: Lucy Page to discuss large-scale carbon labeling on Feb. 26

February 18, 2025

Feb. 24 EarthTalks: Cross-disciplinary collaboration employing stakeholder input

February 18, 2025

Altoona English professor featured in podcast, reading series, journals

February 17, 2025

Retired Abington professor’s lecture on Hemingway 'treasures' set for Feb. 19

February 14, 2025

Feb. 17 EarthTalks: Translating STEM research to improve K-12 education

February 11, 2025

Seminar on flood insurance policies to be held Feb. 19

February 10, 2025

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Altoona professor to open Friends of Roethke Foundation Poets Laureate Series

February 07, 2025

Lukas Muechler speaking

Heard on Campus: Lukas Muechler on quantum materials

February 05, 2025

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Customer shopping for apples

April 29 talk: How California drought affects fresh fruit and vegetable prices

April 21, 2026

Christina McGranaghan

April 22 talk: Using voluntary controls to reduce peak electricity demand

April 15, 2026

April 15 talk: Effect of renewable diesel on air quality

April 07, 2026

Speaker for 2026 Distinguished Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering.

2026 Distinguished Lecture Series in Materials Science and Engineering

April 06, 2026

A person in an oversized blue shirt with ivory blinds as a backdrop.

Celebrated architect, ‘architectural behaviorology’ expert to visit Stuckeman

April 02, 2026

Headshots of Todd Davis, Patricia Jabbeh-Wesley and Erin Murphy

Penn State Altoona to host faculty poetry reading on April 14

April 01, 2026

Photograph of a smiling man with glasses wearing a blue, white, and red plaid shirt.

Anthropology professor to deliver George Tseo Memorial Lecture April 3

March 31, 2026

Susanna B. Berkouwer

April 8 talk will discuss demand distortions of green subsidies

March 30, 2026

NYU bioethicist to present 'Artificial Intelligence and Moral Status' lecture

March 24, 2026

Gabriel Agostini

April 1 talk to focus on national and local migration patterns

March 24, 2026

Lecture: 'Breaking the stigma of mental health in the modern world'

March 20, 2026

Sci-fi author Ted Chiang to give 2026 Richard B. Lippin Lecture in Ethics

March 17, 2026

March 25 talk: 'Effect of sugar-sweetened beverage tax on beer purchases'

March 13, 2026

Close-up of a person holding and tapping on a smartphone, with floating numbers, graphs, and data visualizations overlaid around the device.

Lecture to discuss how mobile "games" detect cognitive decline, dementia risk

March 05, 2026

Feb. 25 seminar: 'Effectiveness of mobile app to improve household food access'

February 17, 2026

Feb. 18 seminar: Energy’s transition from coal to natural gas, renewables

February 10, 2026

Illustration of bright light on planet horizon with words "Unexpected pairing addressing big questions"

Ashtekar Frontiers of Science Lectures to begin Jan. 24

January 21, 2026

Christelle Wauthier sits on a rough volcanic rock during fieldwork.

Coffee Hour starts Jan. 23 with talk on volcanic hazards and remote sensing

January 20, 2026

Climate Conversation Cafe to explore the right to a healthy environment

January 07, 2026

Kirk French lectures to an auditorium filled with students

Professor’s 'Anthropology of Alcohol' course a perennial favorite with students

December 12, 2025

IST associate teaching professor to present McMurtry Lecture on Dec. 11

November 20, 2025

blocks displaying photos of teachers and students engaged in learning and play

School-based prevention of mental health problems the focus of Bennett Lecture

October 27, 2025

Portal of the Palazzo Farnese in Caprarola

Art History Dickson Lecture to focus on relationship between print, architecture

October 23, 2025

people-pushing-school-bus-in-flood

Flood impacts in Global South focus of Geography Coffee Hour

October 21, 2025

Oct. 23 lecture: Tailoring quantum dot growth for novel quantum light sources

October 21, 2025

Marker Lectures in Mathematics set for Nov. 10-12

October 16, 2025

Author and historian Laura Edwards standing leaning against a brick wall

Laura F. Edwards to deliver 2025 Brose Distinguished Lectures

October 14, 2025

Cornell scholar to discuss 'Pliny the Elder’s Ethics and Aesthetics of Loss'

September 23, 2025

2025 Taylor Lecture

'Forging the future of steel' is theme for 2025 Nelson W. Taylor Lecture Series

September 16, 2025

Glen Mazis delivering lecture in front of audience

Emeritus Academy and OLLI partner for 2025-26 lecture series

September 08, 2025

slide displays two researcher headshots and lecture titles

IST announces Research Talks series for fall 2025 semester

September 04, 2025

A bee collects pollen from the center of a purple daisy-like flower, with a blurred background of similar flowers.

Geography lecture to spotlight pollinator conservation and technology

August 29, 2025

Person standing in front of a physics experiment during the Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture

Ashtekar Frontiers of Science lecture series celebrates ‘Year of Quantum’

April 29, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour to feature Jessica Omukuti on inclusive Net Zero

April 21, 2025

Faisal Mohammed Al-Faqeer will present the 2025 Richard E. Tressler Lecture at 3:05 p.m. on Thursday, April 24, in 101 Agricultural Sciences and Industries Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Saudi Aramco senior VP, Penn State alumnus to present Richard E. Tressler Lecture

April 18, 2025

April 23 EEEPI seminar: effect of fuel taxes on legislative outcomes

April 15, 2025

EEEPI seminar: Estimating the health care cost of sugar-sweetened beverages

April 09, 2025

EarthTalks: Support for deploying new technologies for clean energy systems

April 08, 2025

Susan Freinkel talk: 'How Did We Get Hooked on Plastic?' on April 14

April 07, 2025

Michael Schweinberger, professor of statistics at Penn State, will present “Causal Learning in the Interconnected and Interdependent World of the Twenty-First Century” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 17, in 201 Thomas Building on the Penn State University Park campus.

Statistics department to host free public lecture April 17

April 04, 2025

Martha Constantinou in front of equations

Berks hosts lecture on the 'Secrets of the Proton’s Spin'

April 03, 2025

International Space Station science program director to present McFarland Lecture

March 31, 2025

Philosopher Kate Manne to give 2025 Lippin Lecture in Ethics

March 28, 2025

Elizabeth R. Baer/Shira Klein

Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies to present two speakers online in April

March 27, 2025

Author, nutritionist Marion Nestle to discuss politics of food industry marketing

March 26, 2025

Picture of person sitting at table with image projected in the background.

University supports Ukrainian academics through Nonresidential Scholars Program

March 26, 2025

April 2 seminar: Emissions trading effect on water quality, carbon sequestration

March 24, 2025

Picture of Duke University professor Eileen Cheng-yin Chow in front of a bookshelf

Eileen Cheng-yin Chow to deliver inaugural Janssen Lecture on March 28

March 20, 2025

Benjamin Collier

March 26 seminar to discuss effect of emergency credit on households’ finances

March 19, 2025

Author and scholar to discuss America’s ‘slow civil war’ on April 15

March 19, 2025

March 19 seminar to discuss hedging economic risks related to climate change

March 13, 2025

Geography Coffee Hour lecture to feature Sophie Webber on climate finance

March 13, 2025

A photo of the exterior sign of the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications.

Alumnus to lead ethics-focused discussion on AI, market research

March 07, 2025

A girl wearing a soccer uniform goes to kick a soccer ball, but the girl has a digital effect that makes her look incomplete.

Energy deficiency's impact on women’s health and sport topic of upcoming lecture

March 07, 2025

Penn State Hazleton alumnus to give George Tseo Memorial Lecture on March 18

March 05, 2025

Seminar to discuss impact of revealing indoor air pollution on behavior, welfare

February 25, 2025

Dahlia Lithwick

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick to discuss the Supreme Court and democracy on March 18

February 25, 2025

EarthTalks: Widga to discuss museums as partners in broader impact activities

February 25, 2025

EEEPI Seminar: Lucy Page to discuss large-scale carbon labeling on Feb. 26

February 18, 2025

Feb. 24 EarthTalks: Cross-disciplinary collaboration employing stakeholder input

February 18, 2025

Altoona English professor featured in podcast, reading series, journals

February 17, 2025

Retired Abington professor’s lecture on Hemingway 'treasures' set for Feb. 19

February 14, 2025

Feb. 17 EarthTalks: Translating STEM research to improve K-12 education

February 11, 2025

Seminar on flood insurance policies to be held Feb. 19

February 10, 2025

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Altoona professor to open Friends of Roethke Foundation Poets Laureate Series

February 07, 2025

Lukas Muechler speaking

Heard on Campus: Lukas Muechler on quantum materials

February 05, 2025

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