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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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Fizel receives Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award

Friday, March 30, 2007

University Park, Pa. -- John Fizel, professor of economics at Penn State Erie and chair of Penn State's iMBA program, is this year's winner of the Graduate Program Chair Leadership Award.

The award honors faculty members for exemplary leadership that benefits graduate students and faculty in an existing graduate program at the University. The award's design acknowledges the recipient's efforts to enhance student recruitment, professional development and placement, and mentoring and promotion of faculty and students in the graduate program. The winner works to enhance his program's diversity, educational quality, resources and national visibility, and promotes professional ethics and its integration into all elements of graduate programming.

iMBA is a two-year online master's degree in business administration (MBA) that is designed to help working professionals develop cross-functional expertise for organizational strategy development and problem solving. For more information on the iMBA program, visit http://www.worldcampus.psu.edu/iMBA.shtml online.

Fizel has directed the program since its inception in 2002 when it began with 27 students. Now the program enrolls about 150 students, with enrollees having come from 42 states and 18 countries. In his role, Fizel has managed the difficult task of coordinating the efforts of four campuses that offer an MBA while consistently acting in the best interest of the University, program and student. Colleagues noted his determination to mentor and promote both faculty and students.

Additionally, Fizel has been the driving force behind the enhancement of the program’s growth in diversity, educational quality and national visibility. He was cited by nominators for his ability to encourage collaboration and integration and recruit high-quality students.

"Overall, it is hard to imagine that anyone could demonstrate more excellence in leadership of graduate education," said one nominator.

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