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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, January 30, 2009
Credit: Nina Jablonski

University Park, Pa. -- Nina Jablonski, professor and head of Penn State's anthropology department, is scheduled to appear this Sunday (Feb. 1) on "CBS News Sunday Morning," a 90-minute newsmagazine show hosted by Charles Osgood, to disucss the topic of skin and the sun.

"CBS News Sunday Morning " airs on the network at 9 a.m. Eastern time in State College. Check local listings or the show's Web site for local air times and details.

Jablonski's 2006 book, "Skin: A Natural History," attracted a great deal of public and academic attention; her research on the evolution of human skin and skin color has been featured on "The Colbert Report" and in "National Geographic," "Scientific American" and other popular science publications. She was recently interviewed by CBS News correspondent Martha Teichner in her office and in the Matson Museum of Anthropology, both in Carpenter Building on the University Park campus.

Overall, Jablonski's research comprises diverse studies on primate and human evolution, especially on adaptations to changing environments through time.  Her research involves paleontological field work in sites in Asia and Africa, and analysis of fossil remains, as well as theoretical studies exploring the hidden aspects of human evolution not preserved in the fossil record.  Her most recent book is an edited volume with paleontologist Meave Leakey on the fossil monkeys of the famous Koobi Fora fossil site in Kenya.
 

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