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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Two engineers receive NSF CAREER Awards

Tuesday, December 2, 2008
 
Two Penn State engineering faculty have recently been named recipients of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award.
 
The prestigious NSF CAREER Awards provide five years of funding for researchers. They are designed to support junior faculty who have shown exceptional promise in teaching and research.
 
Adam D. Smith, assistant professor of computer science and engineering, received a $400,000 award for his project titled "Rigorous Foundations for Data Privacy."
 
Smith's research interests include cryptography, database privacy, information theory and quantum computing. His recent work has focused on protocols for handling noisy keys in cryptography, such as those based on biometrics, and on privacy-preserving techniques for publishing aggregate statistical data.
 
Matthew Parkinson, assistant professor of engineering design and mechanical engineering, received a $400,000 award for his project titled "Foundation of Designing for Human Variability."
 
Parkinson serves as the director of the Center for Research in Design and Innovation and the OPEN Design Lab. Parkinson's work combines rigorous design tools such as optimization, robust design and statistical modeling with human-centered fields such as ergonomics, human factors and biomechanics. His current efforts focus on the allocation of adjustability, vehicle safety and the development of adaptive medical devices.
 
These two most recent CAREER grants bring the total number awarded to Penn State faculty to nine since September. Of the nine, four were awarded to College of Engineering faculty.
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