Hankin Lecture

The Hankin Distinguished Lecture Series was established in 2006 in honor of the late Bernard Hankin and his family for their continuous and dedicated support of the residential building construction program at Penn State. For this annual lecture, world-class speakers are invited to The Pennsylvania State University to address students and faculty. 

The lecture is free and open to the public in the HUB Auditorium with an informal reception following the lecture.  

The full length videos for lectures from 2007-present are now available for online viewing. Each video has closed captioning in the form of a transcript on the right hand side of the video. This allows viewers to click on or search for exact words to be launched to that place in lecture. 

The PHRC welcomes Brett C. Singer, staff scientist, head of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems and lead of the Indoor Environment Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, as the 2020 Hankin Distinguished Lecturer. His lecture is entitled Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities for Indoor Air Quality in US Homes. More information here.

Previous Hankin Lectures

• 2019 - Timothy McDonald, president and co-founder of Onion Flats LLC, Leverage Points: Climate Change and the Imperative of Affordable Housing
• 2018 - Carlos Martín, senior fellow in the Metropolitan Housing and Communities Policy Center at the Urban Institute, The Global Trends Shaping America’s Future Homebuilding
• 2017 - Peter Gluck, Founder and Principal of GLUCK+, It's All About Context
• 2016 - Sam Rashkin, Chief Architect for DOE, The Path to a Sustainable Future Begins with POWER WORDS
• 2015 - Dan Fulton, Retired CEO of Weyerhaeuser, Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up To Me: Waiting for the breakout in Household Formation that's needed to drive a sustainable housing recovery
  
• 2014 - Peter Yost, Vice President, Technical Services of BuildingGreen, LLC, The Art, the Science, and the Business of Sustainable Residential Construction
• 2013 - Kent Colton, President, The Colton Housing Group and Senior Scholar at the Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, Framing the Future of Housing Finance: A Practical Guide to Reforming the System
• 2012 - Liza Bowles,  Executive Director of Newport Partners, Building Technology - Past, Present and Future
• 2011 - Frank Anton, Former Editor/Publisher of Builder Magazine and Chief Executive Officer, Hanley Wood LLC, Where Do We Go From Here or The Dumbbell Theory of Housing
• 2010 - Henry Cisneros, Former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) under President Clinton, The Nation's Cities and the American Future
• 2009 - Ron Jones, Internationally renowned pioneer of the green building movement and Founder of Green Builder, Green with an Attitude!
• 2008 - Nicolas Retsinas, Director, Joint Center for Housing Studies, Harvard University, State of Affordable Housing
• 2007 - David Seiders, Chief Economist and Senior Staff Vice President - The National Association of Home Builders, Causes & Consequences of the Boom-Bust Housing Cycle in the U.S.
• 2006 - Peer Haller, Professor and Head Institute for Steel and Wood Construction Technische Universität Dresden, Germany, Advancement in Wood Construction - Examples from Practice and Research (full length video not available for this lecture)