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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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Thursday, October 1, 2009

University Park, Pa. -- Three graduate students in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences recently received scholarship awards totaling $25,000 from the American Mushroom Institute.

Stephanie Loehr, graduate student in plant pathology, Tongtong Xu, graduate student in food science, and Kimberly Paley, a mushroom research technician taking courses in agricultural and extension and education, each were awarded prizes from the James W. Sinden Scholarship Fund.

The fund was established in 1980 to honor the 50 years of service to the mushroom industry by James W. Sinden. A Penn State professor in the 1930s and 1940s, Sinden also conducted industry research for numerous regional mushroom-production companies. His innovations included introducing synthetic compost, grain spawn and short composting in narrow piles that could be mechanically turned.

Upon his retirement, the American Mushroom Institute established an annual scholarship in his name to be awarded competitively to students working in mushroom science.

David Beyer, a professor of plant pathology who conducts research and extension programs in mushroom technology and production, has advised several graduate students who have received Sinden scholarships. "The scholarship has provided students with funds they could use toward their research or to support themselves," he said. "It has been a powerful drawing card to help attract students to mushroom science."

Pennsylvania continues to be a leader in mushroom production worldwide. In 2007-08, the United States produced almost 800 million pounds of mushrooms, and roughly 65 percent of those -- about 500 million pounds -- were grown in the commonwealth. The value of the Pennsylvania mushroom crop is estimated to be $450 million. 

Approximately 90 percent of all mushroom production in Pennsylvania is centered in Chester and Berks counties. Mushroom farms in southeastern Pennsylvania employ more than 9,500 workers.

 

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