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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Sinoway named principal investigator, director of CTSI

Wednesday, September 30, 2009
Dr. Lawrence I. Sinoway.
Dr. Lawrence I. Sinoway.

Dr. Lawrence I. Sinoway, director of the Penn State Hershey Heart and Vascular Institute (HVI), has been named principal investigator/director of the Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute (CTSI). In addition to his continuing leadership of HVI, he is leading the efforts for Penn State’s mid-October resubmission for the Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA). Dr. Urs Leuenberger, professor of medicine, and Susan McHale, director of the Penn State Social Science Research Institute, are co-principal investigators.

The National Institutes of Health has broadly defined translational research as leading to improving individuals’ health and well-being. The CTSA program is a major initiative to accelerate this process and challenges academic institutions to build relevant, effective research programs through education of future scientists, two-way community engagement and novel research programs. So far at Penn State, through partnership with the College of Medicine, Huck Institutes for the Life Sciences, the Social Science Research Institute and the Institute for Cyberscience, CTSI has funded 32 collaborative studies for nearly $1.6 million.

Nearly 100 Penn State faculty have been involved in the preparation of both the initial application in October 2008 and the current resubmission application. The CTSA will create academic homes for clinical and translational science at approximately sixty U.S. institutions.

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