<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:verdana,sans-serif"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-37f92cfe-7fff-54c7-565f-9bce44c83ea2"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Togetherness in Lonely Times: Coronavirus, Technology and the Effects on Our Friendships</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Wednesday, September 30, 2020, noon – 1 p.m.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><a href="https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/99571904604?pwd=VGlyTlEzKzNXU3p0cGF3Uk1YSFY5UT09" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/99571904604?pwd=VGlyTlEzKzNXU3p0cGF3Uk1YSFY5UT09</span></a></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The Institute will be hosting Dr. Tiffany Petricini of Penn State Shanango, who will be leading a conversation about "Togetherness in Lonely Times: Coronavirus, Technology and the Effects on Our Friendships."</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Dr. Petricini recently completed her Ph.D. in rhetoric from Duquesne University. She is pursuing scholarship primarily in the field of communication studies. Her interests focus on the work of Walter J. Ong.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Institute colloquies are open to students, alumni, faculty, and administrators.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The fellowship program at the Institute for Ethics in Public Life is supported by generous gifts to the Plattsburgh College Foundation.</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;line-height:18px;margin:0px"><div style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:18px;margin:0px;font-weight:bold;text-transform:uppercase"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>