The Public Scholarship Graduate Student Group


The Public Scholarship Graduate Student Group is an informal, interdisciplinary group of graduate students interested in exploring the tenets and implications of public scholarship as they relate to our current work as students, and to our future work as faculty members, administrators, and other types of researchers and leaders. The group meets approximately once a month, over lunch, to discuss issues related to the intersections of public scholarship with teaching, research, and service. We also welcome faculty who are involved in public scholarship to join our on-going conversations. If you are interested in joining us, please contact Emily Janke (exj134@psu.edu) or Jennifer Domagal-Goldman (jmd530@psu.edu). 

MEETINGS:

 

The Public Scholarship Graduate Group is meeting Friday, November 16, 12:30-1:30pm in 307A Old Main.

The topic will be the articulation and dissemination of scholarly work for public audiences:

  • Roles and responsibilities of academics in society
  • Writing for non-academic audiences without 'dumbing down' the research
  • Finding and choosing non-academic venues for disseminating research
  • Risks (professional, personal, political) of entering the public sphere as an 'expert'

Two esteemed professors will participate as conversationalists and share experiences in their respective fields in the social and natural sciences:

   Connie Flanagan, professor of Youth Civic Development in the Department of Agricultural and Extension Education and is the co-chair of the Intercollege Minor in    Civic and Community Engagement. To read more about her work, visit http://agexted.cas.psu.edu/faculty/Flanagan.html.

   Akhlesh Lakhtakia, Charles Godfrey Binder (Endowed) Professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics. Dr. Lakhtakia teaches a graduate course on how to write and present scientific research to lay audiences. To read more about his work, visit http://www.esm.psu.edu/~axl4/.

 

Pizza and drinks will be provided.  Please invite friends and classmates to any of our meetings.

 

RSVP to Emily Janke (exj134@psu.edu) if you are able to attend.