Former FBI Director To Speak Following Smeal Building Dedication
Former FBI Director To Speak Following Smeal Building Dedication
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (August 31, 2005)—Former FBI Director Louis J. Freeh, vice chairman and general counsel for MBNA America Bank, will give a special presentation following the dedication ceremony for the Smeal College of Business' new Business Building. All dedication attendees are invited.
Freeh will deliver his address, "Corporate America and Homeland Security," at 3:30 p.m. on Sept. 30 in the Business Building's Struthers Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus.
Freeh was appointed FBI director by President Bill Clinton in 1993 and remained the bureau's chief until June 2001. Prior to that appointment, Freeh served as a federal judge and assistant U.S. attorney. He is a graduate of Rutgers University Law School and New York University Law School.
At MBNA, Freeh oversees the company's legal and government affairs departments, as well as its corporate governance, special investigation unit, and ethics office.
Smeal moved into the largest academic building at Penn State in July. Designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects, the 210,000-square-foot, $68 million facility features more than 20 classrooms, six research and teaching laboratories, a café, an auditorium, and numerous other amenities.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
