Dr. Jack Brenizer and Dr. Matthew Mench, both professors in the Department of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineering, will be participating in a round table panel discussion along with six other energy experts from Penn State who were speakers in the 2008 "Running on Empty?: Strategies for Our Energy Future" edition of the Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science. The other four panelists are: Richard Alley, John Golbeck, Tom Richard and Harold Schobert. The discussion is one in a series of free public lectures that began in January and is open to all residents in Central Pennsylvania.  (see pdf ad displayed in the Centre Daily Times and the Daily Collegian)

The next discussion will take place on Saturday, April 26, 2008 at 11:00 a.m. in 100 Thomas Building, Penn State University park Campus. 

The Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science is a series of Saturday-morning lectures begun in 1995 by a group of Penn State Eberly College of Science faculty in the Center for Gravitational Physics and Geometry. It was an innovative move for our college because these lectures were designed for the enjoyment and education of average citizens rather than for a specialized audience composed exclusively of scientists, as were our other annual lectures at that time. This initial year was such a huge success that Dean Gregory Geoffroy decided to adopt the lecture series as a college-wide project and to provide it with a budget, from funds provided by Pfizer, which would allow us to upgrade the series in ways designed to enhance its public-outreach mission.

To learn more about "The Penn State Lectures on the Frontiers of Science" visit the website at http://www.science.psu.edu/alert/frontiers/.