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International
Programs: News
Upcoming
Events:
April 28-30, 2004
Dr. Fred Vondracek, Professor of Human Development and Associate
Dean for Undergraduate Studies and Outreach in the College of
Health and Human Development, will visit the Friedrich Schiller
University to meet with administrators, faculty, and students
to discuss ways to expand and fund the expanding FSU-PSU partnership.
May
9-17, 2004
Dr. Clancy Blair, Assistant
Professor of Human Development and Family Studies, and Dr.
Kathryn Hood, Associate Professor
of Human
Development, will lead a group of students from Penn State’s
Department of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) to
visit the Friedrich Schiller University, supported by funds from
the
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). The purpose of the visit
to Jena is to meet with faculty members and graduate and undergraduate
students conducting research on human development at the Friedrich
Schiller University and to visit towns and meet townspeople in
the former East Germany. The unique scholarly expertise available
at the FSU will provide students with an enhanced understanding
of the effects of social change on institutions and life structures
supporting human development. The visit builds upon ongoing scholarly
collaboration between HDFS at Penn State and Developmental Psychology
at Jena. Current and former Penn State professors of HDFS have
visited Jena for extended periods and have collaborated with
colleagues there. Prof. Dr. Rainer Silbereisen,
Professor of Developmental Psychology at Jena and Adjunct Professor
of Human Development at
Penn State University, will host the visit. It is expected that
participation in the information visit will encourage students
to pursue opportunities for additional study and travel in Germany
on topics related to the study of human development and social
change.
At Jena, the students will meet with faculty, students, and townspeople
through a number of forums. Three distinguished research centers
at Jena have invited the visiting group to participate in meetings.
These centers conduct research on past transformations of European
and East European societies, cooperation and conflict among groups,
and applied developmental science. Invitations from the directors
of each of these research centers, Professor Rainer Silbereisen,
Department of Developmental Psychology, Professor Amelie Mummendey,
Department of Social Psychology, and Professor Heinrich Best, Department
of Sociology, were instrumental in securing funding for this study
tour. The seminars and laboratory meetings offered by the research
centers will constitute the academic portion of the visit. The
academic visit will be augmented by trips to local social service
agencies including daycare centers, schools, work places, and elder
care centers. Cultural visits will include Leipzig and Weimar,
as well as Dornburg Castle and Buchenwald.
Recent
Events:
March 14-17, 2004
Dr. Rainer Silbereisen, Professor of Developmental Psychology and
Head, Department of Developmental Psychology at the Friedrich
Schiller University, visited Penn State University to hold discussions
with various University officials regarding prospects for expanding
the PSU-FSU partnership.
March 12, 2004
Dr. Karina Weichold, Department of Developmental
Psychology at the Friedrich Schiller University, and Professor
Linda Caldwell,
Department of Recreation and Park Management at Penn State University,
co-chaired a paper symposium on “Mediators and Moderators
of the Effectiveness of Prevention Programs Against Juvenile Problem
Behaviors” at the Society for Adolescent Research Conference
in Baltimore, Maryland.
January 7 to February 7, 2004
At the invitation of the Department of Kinesiology,
College of Health and Human Development, Dr. Heiko Wagner from
the Institut
für Sportwissenschaft (Institute of Sport Science) visited
the Department of Kinesiology to work with Professor Dagmar
Sternad in her Action Laboratory. As a result of the visit, Drs. Sternad
and Wagner are planning a joint research project on stability in
object manipulation.
January 7 to May 20, 2004
Mr. Hendrik Heger, a graduate student who works with Dr.
Heiko Wagner in the Institute of Sport Science, was invited to spend
an entire semester in the Action Laboratory of Professor Dagmar
Sternad. He will learn about the research area of motor control
during his stay and participate in future research collaborations
between the Institute of Sport Science and the Department of
Kinesiology.
October 2-5, 2003
Professor Linda Caldwell and Dr.
Edward Smith were invited to participate in a workshop on October 2-5, 2003.
They were hosted by the Research
Group on Social Discrimination and Tolerance in Intergroup Relations
of the Friedrich-Schiller-University. The general aim of the workshop
was to generate ideas, discuss and finalize the concept of the
scientific area of “Research synthesis, evidence based policy
and evaluation” as part of the university research and teaching
program, embedded in the research group as well as in the Department
of Psychology in Jena. The workshop was to result in an elaborated
outline of a work program for this research group in the Department
of Psychology in the area of intergroup relations as well as in
general for other fields.
September
17-21, 2003
At the
invitation of Dean Raymond Coward, Professor
Wolfgang H.R. Miltner of the University of Jena visited
Penn State from September 17-21 and spoke to faculty and students
about his widely acclaimed research.
On the morning of September 19, he presented a colloquium entitled: “Behavior
Therapy Affects Our Brains: Cortical Reorganization Following Motor
Rehabilitation of Stroke Patients.” In the afternoon he gave
an informal research presentation in the Department of Psychology,
entitled "Cortical Reorganization in Patients with Phantom
Limb Pain.” During his visit, Professor Miltner visited the
research laboratories of Kinesiology Professors Mark Latash, Karl
Newell, Neil Sharkey, Dagmar Sternad, and Vladimir Zatsiorsky to
explore possible collaborations. He also visited with Professors
William Ray and Robert Stern in the Department of Psychology.
September
27-30, 2003
At
the invitation of President Graham Spanier, Professor
Karl-Ulrich Meyn, Rektor of the Friedrich Schiller University
of Jena visited Penn State to meet with President Spanier and
other Penn State
officials and faculty. In addition to getting a firsthand look
at Penn State, Rektor Meyn participated in discussions designed
to enhance and further develop the University of Jena-Penn State
partnership. Check out the Photo Gallery (9-03 visit) for pictures
of Rektor Meyn’s Penn State visit.
May
2003
Dr. Janice Jacobs, Vice-Provost for Undergraduate
Studies and International Programs, and Dr. Lew Jillings,
Associate Vice-Provost for International Programs, visited Jena
for discussions with Rektor Professor Dr. Karl-Ulrich Meyn and other
leaders of the Friedrich Schiller University. They were accompanied
by Associate Dean Fred Vondracek, Evan Pugh Professor Gerald McClearn,
Evan Pugh Professor K. Warner Schaie, and Professor Sherry Willis.
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