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

Featured Video

We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)

We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)

Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone

Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone

Researchers use balloons to unlock mysteries posed by dying stars

Researchers use balloons to unlock mysteries posed by dying stars

Everyday virus proves potent against cancer cells.

Everyday virus proves potent against cancer cells.

Updates:
Penn State Promise

A message from President Rodney Erickson: Sharing concerns

Penn State Harrisburg community forum to discuss child abuse

Video: Board of Trustees' Jan. 20 press conference

Newly elected chair of the Board of Trustees delivers remarks

Frazier provides update on independent investigation

Penn State research partnership opens Cypriot artifacts to the world

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

University Park, Pa. -- Thousands of ancient Cypriot artifacts, images and documents will soon be available to view and search online, thanks to a research partnership between Penn State and the Cyprus Institute.

Six Penn State researchers received a $250,000 EAGER grant from the National Science Foundation for the Iconic Image Analysis and Intelligent Search for Cypriot Artifacts project, which will build tools to enable online searches of ancient artifacts and images.

EAGER (Early-concept Grants for Exploratory Research) are given by NSF to projects that support high-risk, exploratory and potentially transformative research.

"We hope to leverage the brain power in both countries to preserve the artistic and cultural heritage in Cyprus," said James Wang, associate professor of information sciences and technology and the project's principal investigator.

Other researchers in the project are: Lee Giles, David Reese professor of information sciences and technology; Prasenjit Mitra, assistant professor of information sciences and technology; Loukas Kalisperis, professor of architecture; Dean Snow, professor of anthropology, and Mike Halm, director of Penn State's WebLion group. They will work in collaboration with the Cyprus Institute, a nonprofit science and technology research institution founded in 2007.

The project is among the first to be funded under the recently signed International Collaboration Agreement on Science and Technology between the U.S. and Cyprus. Researchers will begin cataloging digitized images and artifacts and hope to have a live digital library and search engine completed within two years.

"It's a high-risk, high-return situation," Wang said. "There are language barriers to overcome and a project like this has never been done before between the U.S. and Cyprus, but the potential benefit to the general public is enormous."

If successful, Mitra said the tools developed in this effort could be used on other ancient cultures.

"Cyprus is certainly not the only culture where these artifacts exist," he said. "We hope this project can serve as a prototype for future work in this area."