Clarksville, TN – An Austin Peay State University geologist whose expertise in volcanoes is well established in the field will share a three-dimensional analysis of the 1999 eruption of the Shishaldin Volcano in Alaska as part of the next Provost Lecture Series at APSU.
Dr. Lindsay Szramek, assistant professor of geosciences, will present “Three-Dimensional Analysis of Mafic Pumice from the 1999 sub-Plinian eruption of Shishaldin Volcano, Alaska” at 3:00pm, Thursday, November 8th in the Morgan University Center, Room 303. All sessions of the Provost Lecture Series are free and open to the public.
Szramek received her Ph.D. from the University of Texas at Austin, Master of Science in geology from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks and Bachelor of Arts from Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine. Prior to coming to APSU in 2011, she was a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. She has presented papers on her research interests in volcanology at several meetings and publications.
Other sessions in the Provost Lecture Series also are planned for the academic year. All sessions are from 3:00pm-4:30pm in the MUC, Room 303 and include the following:
| Provost Lecture Series for 2012-13 | |
| November 15th | Dr. Antonio Thompson |
| November 29th | Leong Lee |
| January 10th | Taj Hashmi |
| January 17th | Foloshade Agusto |
| January 24th | Mercy Cannon |
| January 31st | C.M. Gienger |
| February 7th | Tatsushi Hirono |
| February 12th | Christopher Burawa |
| February 14th | Alex King |
| February 21st | Andriy Kovalskyy |
| February 28th | Suta Lee |
| March 7th | Sergei Markov |
| March 21st | Kristofer Ray |
| March 28th | Ayman Alzaatreh |
| April 4th | Stephen Truhon |
| April 11th | Jason Verber |
| April 18th | Paul Collins |
| April 19th | Carol Baskauf |
The Provost Lecture Series seeks to foster a spirit of intellectual and scholarly inquiry among faculty, staff and students. The program will be used as a platform for APSU faculty members who are recent recipients of provost summer grants, who have been awarded faculty development leaves and who have engaged in recent scholarly inquiry during sabbatical leaves.
For more information about the Provost Lecture Series, call Dr. Brian Johnson, assistant vice president of academic affairs at APSU, at 931.221.7992 or email him at johnsonb@apsu.edu.
