Still Life

Firefighters battled a controlled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to provide real-time training and recertification for emergency response personnel from around the Centre Region.

University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise

A moment of levity: Penn State Lehigh Valley graduates celebrated with the Nittany Lion after commencement ceremonies, held May 5 at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa.

Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012

New graduates of Penn State's Eberly College of Science listened to the commencement address provided by United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu during spring 2012 graduation ceremonies held May 5 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus.

Spring commencement 2012 under way

A Moroccan farmer taught Penn State students about the properties of vetiver grass, including its ability to clean wastewater. The grass could be used as part of a solution to water-quality problems being experienced in Assoul, Morocco, where students spent time recently.

Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together

Anjelica Fortunato, left, and Jeffrey Lu reviewed for their Anatomy 129 final exam on May 1 on the HUB-Robeson Center Lawn on Penn State's University Park campus. Penn State students are preparing for and taking final exams throughout the week as spring semester 2012 comes to a close.

Finals Week Spring Semester 2012

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Laguna del Hunco

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Fossil leaf in the laurel family with over 30 examples of probable fairy moth feeding, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Note leaf cases at centers of damaged areas. Scale intervals 1 cm.

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Fossil leaf in the laurel family with over 30 examples of probable fairy moth feeding, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Note leaf cases at centers of damaged areas. Scale intervals 1 cm.

Credit: Peter Wilf May 27, 2005

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Three nearly perfectly circular cuts indicate leaf-cutter bee feeding on this fossil angiosperm leaf, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Scale 1 cm.

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Three nearly perfectly circular cuts indicate leaf-cutter bee feeding on this fossil angiosperm leaf, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Scale 1 cm.

Credit: Peter Wilf May 27, 2005

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Large circular galls (dark) with small exit holes (light circular areas within galls) for fly larvae that lived inside, or possibly emergence holes for their parasitoids, cover a fossil leaf probably related to Macaranga, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Scale intervals 1 cm.

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Large circular galls (dark) with small exit holes (light circular areas within galls) for fly larvae that lived inside, or possibly emergence holes for their parasitoids, cover a fossil leaf probably related to Macaranga, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Scale intervals 1 cm.

Credit: Peter Wilf May 27, 2005

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Marks from piercing-and-sucking scale insects cover fossil conifer leaves, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Large scale bar = 1 cm, small scale bar = 1 mm.

Research of biodiversity at Laguna del Hunco by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Marks from piercing-and-sucking scale insects cover fossil conifer leaves, from Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Large scale bar = 1 cm, small scale bar = 1 mm.

Credit: Peter Wilf May 27, 2005

Research of biodiversity in by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Elaborate, serpentine trail with dark coprolites shows the life history of a moth larva that lived inside an angiosperm leaf at Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Scale 1 cm.

Research of biodiversity in by Dr. Peter Wilf, assistant professor of geosciences and the John T. Ryan Jr. Faculty Fellow Elaborate, serpentine trail with dark coprolites shows the life history of a moth larva that lived inside an angiosperm leaf at Laguna del Hunco in Patagonia, Argentina (52 Myr). Scale 1 cm.

Credit: Peter Wilf May 27, 2005