Still Life

Lady Lions Alex Bentley, left, and Zhaque Gray celebrate their Big Ten championship after beating Ohio State 84-66 on Monday, Feb. 20, at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The Lady Lions clinched their first conference regular season title since 2004.

Lady Lions win Big Ten championship

THON 2012 shattered last year's total, raising $10,686,924.83 for the Four Diamonds Fund.

THON 2012 breaks $10 million

THON child Megan Eslinger, 4, chases bubbles blown by dancer Elizabeth Ferrari on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 18, during THON at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping event raises millions of dollars each year for the Four Diamonds Fund.

THON 2012 going strong

Owen Divers and Quinn Allen started off strong for THON 2012 on Friday, Feb. 17.

THON 2012 under way

Mike Rybar made final adjustments to the Penn State Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering teams Goldberg machine prior to the 2012 Rube Goldberg competition held on Feb. 11 at Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn. Rybar and his team created a musically themed machine that needed to complete a simple task (inflate a balloon) in twenty or more elaborate steps. The annual competition is named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg who created famous artwork depicting overly complicated machines doing everyday tasks.

Rube Goldberg Competition: Feb. 11, 2012

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Everyday virus proves potent against cancer cells.

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Penn State again cited as nation's premier football tailgating venue

Friday, October 14, 2005

University Park, Pa. -- Penn State fans have known it for decades and now the nation knows again that Beaver Stadium and Happy Valley is the premier tailgating venue of any college or professional football team in the nation.

For the past month, SportsIllusrated.com has been on a quest to determine the nation's top tailgating location. Penn State was seeded in the eight-team college tournament and proceded to beat Texas, Washington and LSU to earn distinction as the nation's top collegiate tailgating venue.

In this past week's finals against the NFL's Buffalo Bills, the final voting wasn't close, as Penn State garnered 30,565 votes to just a little more than 9,000 for the Bills, for a whopping 76 to 24 percent victory.

Sports Illustrated and self-described "commissioner of tailgating" Joe Cahn seeded Penn State among the eight best tailgate locales in college football, giving fans the chance to vote in weekly head-to-head match-ups online to determine what stadium has the best tailgate.

Penn State also was selected the nation's top tailgating environment during the "KFC Ultimate Tailgating Search" several years ago.

Coach Joe Paterno's No. 8 Nittany Lions (6-0, 3-0) visit Michigan (3-3, 1-2) at 3:30 p.m. Saturday. The two storied powers are meeting for the first time since the Wolverines' 27-24 overtime win in Ann Arbor in 2002. ABC will regionally televise the contest to approximately 50 percent of the nation. The Penn State Sports Network and http://www.GoPSUsports.com also will carry the action.

A very limited number of seats remain for Penn State's October 29 Homecoming contest with Purdue after the Boilermakers returned a portion of their allotment. A very limited number of tickets also are left for the Senior Day contest with No. 23 Wisconsin on November 5.

Single game tickets can be purchased by calling 814-865-5555 or 800-863-3336 weekdays from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.