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Rockettes rock Jordan Center

Rockettes rock Jordan Center

November 19, 2009

Penn State laureate, School of Music host high school singers

Penn State laureate, School of Music host high school singers

November 18, 2009

Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company performs at Eisenhower

Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company performs at Eisenhower

November 17, 2009

Students to present major Disney production For The Kids

Students to present major Disney production For The Kids

November 16, 2009

Penn State celebrates Senior Day

Penn State celebrates Senior Day

November 14, 2009

Hershey breaks ground for Children's Hospital

Hershey breaks ground for Children's Hospital

November 13, 2009

Kronos Quartet performs at Eisenhower Auditorium

Kronos Quartet performs at Eisenhower Auditorium

November 10, 2009

Rally in the Valley excites fans

Rally in the Valley excites fans

November 6, 2009

Students capture fall at University Park

Students capture fall at University Park

November 5, 2009

Penn State Greeks strut their Broadway stuff

Penn State Greeks strut their Broadway stuff

November 1, 2009

THON 5K draws thousands

THON 5K draws thousands

November 1, 2009

Jazz masters wow audience

Jazz masters wow audience

October 28, 2009

Featured Video

2009 State of the University Address

2009 State of the University Address

Poultry science professor shares turkey news

Poultry science professor shares turkey news

Penn State Solar Decathlon 2009, part two: Natural Fusion goes to Washington

Penn State Solar Decathlon 2009, part two: Natural Fusion goes to Washington

Natural Fusion, Penn State's Solar Decathlon Team 2009

Natural Fusion, Penn State's Solar Decathlon Team 2009

Behind the scenes with the stadium concessions team

Behind the scenes with the stadium concessions team

Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone

Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone

Beaver Stadium Behind the Scenes and On the Air

Beaver Stadium Behind the Scenes and On the Air

Beaver Stadium Behind the Scenes: Video Board

Beaver Stadium Behind the Scenes: Video Board

Video gives students sneak peek at new campus location

Video gives students sneak peek at new campus location

Historic Old Main Bell removed from tower for restoration and display

Historic Old Main Bell removed from tower for restoration and display

Photo Archive

Animals

Cows nuzzle up to the fence in the fields on the outer edges of the University Park campus of Penn State

Cows

Students train a horse inside the Agricultural Arena

Horses

Whooooooooooooooo's there? These two great horned owls would make Harry Potter proud. The owls are part of the raptor program at Shaver's Creek. During the Halloween Trail and Festival, a presentation on birds of prey will be held.

Other animals

http://www.aginfo.psu.edu/psa/ss2001/livestock5.html

Lambs/Sheep

Art

HUB-Robeson Center at night.

Art-HUB-Robeson Center

The exhibit includes some 40 examples of Scandinavian ceramics.

Art-Palmer Museum of Art

Portion of Old Main fresco showing farm animals including horses, cows and oxen.

Old Main Frescos

Athletics

Penn State's All-Sports Museum located at Beaver Stadium

Athletics (misc.)

The captains -- #31 Paul Posluszny, #12 Mike Robinson and #21 Alan Zemaitis emerge from the tunnel.

Football

Beaver Stadium grounds crew member Paul Curtis mows the turf of Beaver Stadium as part of the day-to-day maintenance leading up to the season opener of the Nittany Lions' 2008 football season, the Aug. 30 match against Coastal Carolina.

Beaver Stadium preparations

Buildings/Locations(more)

Game day photo of Beaver Stadium

Beaver Stadium

A view from one corner of the practice room in the Blue Band Building.

Blue Band Building

Creamery

The School of Forest Resources Building is located off Park Avenue on the University Park campus.

Forestry Building

The HUB-Robeson Center at night

HUB-Robeson Center

Information Sciences and Technology Building in the background of identifying sign.

Information Sciences and Technology Building

Mall beside Old Main. Elm trees line the walkway.

Mall Area

The Hintz Family Alumni Center on the University Park campus of Penn State.

Miscellaneous Buildings

Museums

Campuses(more)

The likeness of Chief Ogontz watches over the Penn State Abington campus from the Cooke mansion.

Abington campus

Penn State Altoona pond and fountain

Altoona campus

Graduates wait in anticipation in the Student Union Building hallway prior to the processional into the auditorium.

Beaver campus

Penn State Berks

Berks campus

The Nittany Lion Shrine at Penn State Brandywine.

Brandywine campus

Graduate and Student Bar Association President Joshua G. Parsons welcomes his classmates to The Dickinson School of LawÕs 2006 commencement ceremony.

Dickinson School of Law

This Victorian mansion was built in 1900 by John E. DuBois Sr. for his two sisters. The mansion, named Symmco House, was acquired by Penn State DuBois in 1998.

DuBois campus

The Penn State mascot at Penn State Erie

Erie campus

As seen from the core campus area, the auditorium is visible to the left, the arena is the tallest part of the building in the center, and the fitness center is visible to the right. The architectural team of Burt Hill Kosar Rittelmann Associates of Butler, Pennsylvania has designed this building with a brick exterior to match the existing campus vernacular. Other exterior accent materials include metal and a translucent clearstory.

Fayette campus

Documents

Mandatory non-tuition fees for in-state students at Penn State and select peer institutions, 2007-08

Miscellenous

State appropriation cuts 2001-02 to 2008-09

Budget graphics

Total sales of liquor 1997-2008 for State College, Pa.

Alcohol graphics

University Health Services created a document that may help individuals determine whether their symptoms indicate that they have the flu or a cold, and what steps they can take to feel better.

H1N1

Events

The College of Communications held commencement cermonies in Recreation Hall Saturday morning.

Commencement

THON banner

THON 2006

The sense of determination among the athletes was palpable -- and willpower was written on their faces.

Special Olympics

Dancers perform on a stage set up on the Old Main lawn during the annual Arts Festival held on the University Park campus of Penn State and downtown State College.

Arts Festival

Former President Bill Clinton spoke about what it was like to be president, and mentioned how much he enjoyed Creamery ice cream in his previous visits to State College as a sitting president.

Bill Clinton at University Park

Penn State President Graham B. Spanier, right, chats with Sen. Barack Obama, left, and Sen. Bob Casey inside Old Main.

Barack Obama at University Park

Ashley McWilliams scoops Berkey Creamery ice cream during an ice cream social at the Hintz Family Alumni Center.

Homecoming 2008

Moralers do the line dance for the first time during the first half-hour of THON on Friday night, Feb. 20.

THON 2009

Mascot

The Nittany Lion did 25 of his trademark one-armed pushups for the crowd -- one pushup for each of the 25 senior on the football team.

Mascot

Misc.

Participants in this float showed their Penn State spirit during a homecoming parade.

Misc. Penn State Photos

The Penn State Marching Blue Band takes the field.

Blue Band

Through Penn State Outreach, new parents in Pennsylvania take part in an education and awareness campaign to prevent Shaken Baby Syndrome. This is just one Penn State program that touches the lives of Pennsylvania residents.

Outreach

Fred Waring, left, and David Ross ath the NBC mic. Photo from the Fred Waring Collection at Penn State. It was at Penn State that Waring, from nearby Tyrone, got his start. He served his alma mater as a trustee and Distinguished Alumnus. He conducted his world famous workshops at Penn State in his later years, and in 1984 designated Penn State to house his collection of archives and memorabilia.

Fred Waring collection

The O.W. Houts property parcels are highlighted. Penn State plans to purchase the property on West College Avenue adjacent to the University Park campus, pending approval from the University's Board of Trustees on May 16.

Houts property

Maureen Murphy, mother of Michael Murphy, cuts the ribbon during a dedication ceremony for her son. At the ceremony it was announced the name of the Navy's next missile destroyer will be the USS Michael Murphy.

Michael Murphy

A brightly colored mural adorns the wall outside Fairhill Elementary School.

Dispatch from the Philadelphia Urban Seminar

C S U

Blue Band Director Richard Bundy is silhouetted against a blazing sunset as he addresses the p-rookies on the Blue Band practice field.

2008 Blue Band

Penn State Leaders

Chris M. Brady, dean of Schreyer Honors College at the University Park campus of Penn State

Academic Deans

Philip J. McConnaughay, dean, Penn State Dickinson School of Law

Campus Leaders

Steve Barnett, CEO and chairman of Columbia Records, left, chatted with Penn State President Graham B. Spanier and Barry Robinson, a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees and president of the RIAA, after Barnett spoke to students and others about the music industry.

President: Candid photos

Graham B. Spanier, president of The Pennsylvania State University

President: Portraits

Penn State President Graham B. Spanier, left, and Board of Trustees Chairman James Broadhurst rode on the Lion Ambassadors float. For more parade pictures, check http://live.psu.edu/stilllife/1473 online.

President: Special Album

Left, President Graham Spanier, winner of the 2009 Hesburgh Award sponsored by TIAA-CREF Institute, had the opportunity to meet in January with Father Theodore Hesburgh, for whom the award is named.

President: Award

Michael Adewumi, vice provost for Global Programs

University Park administrators

People(more)

Dorothy and Lloyd Huck

Donors

Lee Stout, head of University Libraries Special Collections Public Services and Outreach

Faculty

Former President Bill Clinton addresses the crowd march 7 at Penn State Brandywine's Commons/Athletic Center. The visit, which was open to the public and drew about 1,500 attendees, came as candidates prepare for a key primary election on April 22 in Pennsylvania.

Famous Individuals

Helen Manfull

Honorary Alumni

Talking with students awaiting a Penn State football game, Paterno said, "I appreciate you guys doing what you're doing. He continued by offering these words of wisdom, "Cheer, don't boo. Have fun and behave."

Joe Paterno

From left to right, Colleen Schisler, psychology, Ashley Ferrari, accounting, and Katie Kimmel, accounting, relax during the Senior Sendoff event held at the Hintz Family Alumni Center on the University Park campus of Penn State.

Students

James Broadhurst, chairman and chief executive officer of Eat'n Park Hospitality Group Inc., was the featured speaker at the Penn State Forum lunch held today (Sept. 14) at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel on the University Park campus. Broadhurst spoke on "Making Smiles While Building a Business." A 1965 graduate of Penn State, Broadhurst is vice chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees. Read the full text of his remarks at http://live.psu.edu/story/19454 online.

Forum Speakers

Michael A. Gilbert Former Assistant Vice President for Campus Student Services in Student Affairs

Misc.

William Friedkin receives his academic hood and his honorary degree from Penn State.

Honorary Degrees

Research(more)

Predator mite attacking a spider mite

Predator Mite

Cucumber beetles on squash flowers.

squash

Katarin Parizek, instructor in digital photography, department of integrative arts, Penn State, photographs the wall of Tia's tomb in the Valley of Kings, Luxor, Egypt.

Egyptian Tombs

"Acoustic tweezers" enables flexible onchip manipulation and patterning of cells using standing surface acoustic waves.

Acoustic Tweezers

Split face photo used in evaluation of how women determine facial attractiveness by Robert G. Franklin, graduate student in psychology and Reginald Adams, assistant professor of psychology and neurology, Penn State.

Face

NASA close-up of Hurricane Isabel taken from the International Space Station.

Hurricane

Three chambered microbial desalination cells at work in Bruce Logan's, Kappe Professor of Environmental Engineering, laboratory

Desalination Device

Dr. Peter Wilf, associate professor of geosciences presenting talk.

WilfAward

A microbial mat above a methane seep in the Eel River Basin, Ca. This methane seep is being cored to obtain sediment from the seep. The sediment used in theseexperiments was sampled in this manner.

Ironmanganese Microbes

Seasons

Daffodils bloom with Old Main in the background.

Spring

Seasons change on the University Park campus of Penn State.

Fall

Snow has a way of accentuating certain features of sculptures. Here, the accumulation gave Joe Paterno white hair, along with a white coat. The players' bronze helmets and shoulder pads also took on coating of the white stuff. This statue stands outside of Beaver Stadium.

Winter

Daily and semester pool passes, for individuals and families, are available to all faculty, staff and students, and to the public. For information, visit http://www.athletics.psu.edu/nat/facilities.html online.

Summer

Still Life(more)

Taking the stage in one of their many costumes, the Radio City Rockettes perform a complicated marching routine, "The Parade of the Wooden Soliders." The famous women's precision dance troupe appeared for a large audience in the Bryce Jordan Center on Friday, Nov. 19, spreading Christmas cheer with performances alongside and including Santa Claus, toy dancers performing dances from Tchaikovsky's "The Nutcracker" and a fanciful tour of New York City.

Rockettes rock Jordan Center

Anthony Leach, the 2009 Penn State Laureate, invited the choirs to the University Park campus for a day of workshops. He asked the high school students to reflect upon what lessons they found most significant during their day on campus with music faculty and students.

Penn State laureate, School of Music host high school singers

Dancers of the Virsky Ukrainian National Dance Company are featured on stage in Eisenhower Auditorium on Tuesday, Nov. 17. The performance, underwritten by the Penn State International Dance Ensemble Endowment, is one of several on the company's 2009-10 world tour, officially sponsored by the Ministry of Culture and Fine Arts of Ukraine.

Virsky Ukrainian Dance Company performs at Eisenhower

Members of cast of "Disney's High School Musical on Stage" rehearse in the Arts Building on Wednesday, Nov. 11. The performances of the show begin on Tuesday, Nov. 17, and will take place in 102 Forum Building. Proceeds from the show will benefit THON.

Students to present major Disney production For The Kids

Here come the Lions, led by senior co-captain and quarterback Daryll Clark (17).

Penn State celebrates Senior Day

Harold L. Paz, chief executive officer of Penn State Hershey Medical Center, senior vice president for health affairs at Penn State, and dean of the Penn State College of Medicine; and Gov. Edward G. Rendell arrive at the groundbreaking for the freestanding Penn State Hershey Children's Hospital.

Hershey breaks ground for Children's Hospital

The Grammy Award-winning Kronos Quartet performed the evening-length work "Awakening" at the Eisenhower Auditorium on Penn State's University Park campus on Tuesday evening. Presented by the Center for the Performing Arts, the performance featured a metal assemblage created by Penn State graduate student Joe Netta and an appearance by the Nittany Valley Children's Choir. "Awakening" features songs written by composers from around the globe.

Kronos Quartet performs at Eisenhower Auditorium

Penn State football coach Joe Paterno got the crowd excited for Saturday's game vs. Ohio State. He told those attending Rally in the Valley at the Bryce Jordan Center not to boo Ohio State, but rather cheer harder for Penn State.

Rally in the Valley excites fans

Penn State students walk through a leafy Old Main lawn. As cooler weather dips into Happy Valley, many trees on campus have begun to lose most of the foliage.

Students capture fall at University Park