Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Penn State has earned an unprecedented 28th Lambert Meadowlands Trophy presented by the ECAC, symbolic of Eastern football supremacy. The Nittany Lions also have been selected ECAC Team of the Year for a record 13th time. Penn State has earned an unprecedented 28th Lambert Meadowlands Trophy presented by the ECAC, symbolic of Eastern football supremacy. The Nittany Lions also have been selected ECAC Team of the Year for a record 13th time. In addition to the team accolades, senior quarterback Daryll Clark (Youngstown, Ohio) has been selected ECAC Player of the Year for the Football Bowl Subdivision, leading a group of five Nittany Lions that were named ECAC All-Stars among FBS institutions.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell's 2010-11 budget plan for the Commonwealth, announced today (Feb. 9), proposes $333.9 million to support Penn State. This includes a base appropriation of $318 million and $15.8 million in federal stimulus money. This funding proposal is equivalent to the University's appropriation for 2009-10.
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Tuesday, February 9, 2010
The National Weather Service has issued another winter storm warning for much of Pennsylvania from 1 p.m. today through 7 p.m. Wednesday. Total snowfall accumulations are expected to average between 8 and 12 inches over the central mountains. Higher totals of a foot or more are expected along and southeast of I-81 including Harrisburg, York and Lancaster. Any delays or cancellations at Penn State University Park will be reported on WPSU-FM and Penn State Live (live.psu.edu) -- the official sources for weather-related delay or cancellation advisories at Penn State's University Park campus. In addition, advisories will be sent directly to cell phones via PSUTXT. To subscribe, visit http://live.psu.edu/psutxt online. All PSUTXT messages from all Penn State campuses also will appear as status updates on the Penn State Facebook site, at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate online.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
Fariborz Ghadar, director of the Center for Global Business Studies at Penn State's Smeal College of Business, testified before the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee's Subcommittee on the Middle East and South Asia, regarding the implications of U.S. policies on Iran, on Feb. 3. Ghadar cautioned against broad U.S. sanctions against Iran and recommended a more nuanced approach that takes aim at entities of Iran's Revolutionary Guard "while promoting information flows and economic activities with the private sector." This strategy, Ghadar said, will protect the Iranian public while targeting paramilitary interests.
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Monday, February 8, 2010
With the weekend's snowfall more than twice what was forecast, Penn State University Park is on its way back to normal. But it didn't just happen by chance. More than 14 inches of snow fell on the Centre County region between Friday, Feb. 5, and Saturday, Feb. 6, yet University Park and its functions remained open. That continued operation was made possible thanks in part to advance planning and rapid deployment of snow removal strategies via the Office of Physical Plant's Lloyd Rhoades, University's snow marshal. "We watch for the storm, see that something is likely to occur," said Rhoades, "and then I convene a meeting of the snow management team to start the planning."
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Sunday, February 7, 2010
Four years ago, a few key people at Penn State had a vision to bring together students and alumni for a gala evening. That vision turned into the first Penn State President's Concert in 2007, featuring several of the School of Music's top performing ensembles in a special performance at Pittsburgh's Heinz Hall. Hosted by President Graham B. Spanier and sponsored jointly by the Alumni Association and the School of Music, the President's Concert was such a hit that it became an annual event. This year's President's Concert will feature the Penn State Philharmonic performing in America's most prestigious concert hall, New York City's Carnegie Hall, at 8 p.m. March 24. As with the previous concerts, there will be a pre-concert reception for alumni and friends. "It's definitely going to be something completely beyond anything else I've ever done as a musician," said percussionist and music education freshman Laura Brown.
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