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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Chemical engineering's Armaou and Cirino receive NSF awards

Tuesday, January 16, 2007

Antonios Armaou, assistant professor of chemical engineering, and Patrick Cirino, assistant professor of chemical engineering, have received grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF) Faculty Career Development (CAREER) Program for their proposals.

According to the NSF, the Career Awards are highly selective grants to new faculty members believed to be the next generation of academic leaders. Awardees are selected on the basis of creative career development plans that effectively integrate research and education within the context of the mission of their institution and build the foundation for a lifetime of contributions to their discipline.

Armaou's five year, $400,000 grant, is titled, "Optimal Operation and Control of Multiscale Process Systems." The objective of this research is to resolve fundamental issues associated with the development of computationally efficient techniques for computing optimal operation and control policies for multiscale processes and systems with well-defined microstructures.

Armaou received his bachelor of science in chemical engineering from the National Technical University of Athens and his doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles. He joined Penn State in 2002.

Cirino's CAREER Award is for "Engineering Regulatory Protein Effector Specificity to Facilitate Combinatorial Library Analyses." As part of this work, Cirino will engineer regulatory proteins to develop customized molecular reporters, which in turn will enable the rapid evolution of novel biocatalysts for commercially important reactions.

Cirino received his bachelor of science in chemical engineering from Ohio University and his doctoral degree in chemical engineering from the California Institute of Technology. He joined Penn State in 2004.

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