News Release

Panel to discuss challenges facing Haiti

March 2, 2010

What is Haiti’s future? How long will it take for the impoverished nation to overcome the effects of the devastating January 14 earthquake? What problems will the nation encounter as it rebuilds?

These and other questions will be answered when three Penn State experts discuss Haiti at Penn State Harrisburg on Wednesday, March 3. The noon presentation in the Gallery Lounge is free and open to the public and is an installment in the Academic Perspectives on Current Events series hosted by the college Office of Research and Graduate Studies.

Moderated by Assistant Professor of Education and coordinator of special projects in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education Lisa C. Buenaventura, the panel will include:

• N. Benjamin Fredrick, M.D., director of the Office of Global Health and assistant professor in the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the Milton S. Hershey Medical Center,
• Penn State Harrisburg Assistant Professor of Operations and Supply Chain Management Stephan P. Brady, and
• Penn State Harrisburg Retired Assistant Professor of Community Systems and Afro-American Studies Clem Gilpin.