Still Life

With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Did You Know: Penn State center houses top library of E. coli strains

Monday, September 25, 2006

University Park, Pa. -- Penn State's Gastroenteric Disease Center (formerly E. coli Reference Center) hosts one of the largest collections of E. coli strains in America -- more than 70,000 samples of the bacteria that have been collected over the last 40 years from different host species such as humans, cows, pigs, birds and the environment. The center can conduct diagnostic tests for industry, government agencies or individuals to see if the E. coli strain in question is capable of causing disease.

Information on each strain is recorded in a database and available for determining trends in antimicrobial resistance over the years, relatedness between strains, epidemiology and molecular tracking in outbreaks, said Chobi DebRoy, director of the center, part of Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.

The center has tested fruits and vegetables working with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, meat from meat plants with the American Meat Institute, and water and recreation areas in collaboration with the USDA wildlife program. Another issue is safety guidelines for petting zoos and other facilities. The staff also works with other enteric bacteria such as Salmonella, Listeria and Campylobacter.

The Web site is at http://ecoli.cas.psu.edu/Default.html online. For more information, call (814) 863-2630.

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