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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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Friday, February 23, 2007
Nina Jablonski
Nina Jablonski

University Park, Pa. -- Nina Jablonski, Penn State professor and department head of anthropology, made an appearance on "The Colbert Report," on Wednesday, Feb. 28, to discuss her new book, "Skin: A Natural History," on the cable TV Comedy Central Network, at 11:30 p.m. EST.

A spinoff and counterpart of The Daily Show, a parody of a news show, "The Colbert Report" features Stephen Colbert as a fake right-wing political pundit. He features a wide variety of guests on his show, which has included well-known actors, authors, political personalities and others.

Jablonski's book has attracted coverage in the New York Times, Atlantic Magazine and other major publications.

Jared Diamond, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning book, "Guns, Germs and Steel," has said of the book: "Nina Jablonski gives us the best account of everything you might want to know about the packaging of our anatomy."

Before coming to Penn State, Jablonski was the Irvine Chair and curator of anthropology at the California Academy of Sciences. She edited "The First Americans: The Pleistocene Colonization of the New World" and "The Origin and Diversification of Language" (both UC Press), among other books. Her research on human skin has been featured in National Geographic, Scientific American and other publications.

Her research area involves primate evolution, with particular emphasis on the systematics and evolution of Old World Monkeys; anatomical analyses of fossils from eastern Africa and east Asia; study of the evolution of life histories; the origin and evolution of adaptations, and the causes of extinction, especially in relation to environmental change. Most recently, her research on hominid extinctions was presented at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; details are available at http://live.psu.edu/story/22369 online.

A 1975 graduate of Bryn Mawr College, she earned her Ph.D from University of Washington in 1981. Her faculty profile is at http://www.anthro.psu.edu/faculty_staff/jablonski.shtml online.

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