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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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Carryer named 2008 Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence

Tuesday, August 26, 2008

The engineering entrepreneurship program has named Babs Carryer as its fall 2008 Bishoff Entrepreneur-in-Residence.

Carryer was co-founder, president and chief executive officer of RemComm Inc., a provider of radio-based emergency communications. During the course of her tenure at RemComm, Carryer developed three software products from idea to commercial product. Carryer has been president of Carryer Consulting for 14 years, providing strategic marketing and business planning services to technology companies and organizations in the software and life sciences sectors.

Carryer is widely experienced in the start-up community, having been involved with hundreds of early-stage companies seeking financing, growth or acquisition partners. She co-founded LaunchCyte LLC, a development company that creates, seeds and harvests life sciences innovations from leading research universities across the United States. Carryer is also the firm's past president and remains a consultant and board member. Currently, LaunchCyte has six life sciences portfolio companies, with a combined value of approximately $150 million.

Carryer has a master's in management from Carnegie Mellon University, where she teaches entrepreneurship at the Don Jones Center for Entrepreneurship in the Tepper School of Business. She also teaches entrepreneurship at the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon as part of the master's of information systems, the master's of entertainment industry management and the master's of medical management programs. Carryer also works in Carnegie Mellon's computer science department as part of Project Olympus, which focuses on commercializing innovations. Additionally, Carryer teaches new technology commercialization through the University of Pittsburgh's Offices of Enterprise Development and Technology Management.

Carryer will be visiting Penn State Sept. 24 to 26, co-teaching in the entrepreneurship minor courses, meeting with student entrepreneur teams and meeting with faculty and staff involved in technology commercialization.

The Entrepreneur-in-Residence program is named for and underwritten with an endowment by E.V. Bishoff, who was a Pittsburgh native and long-time supporter of Penn State engineering. The program contributes to the engineering entrepreneurship program's mission to develop new entrepreneurs and creative thinkers through innovation, leadership and project-based coursework.

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