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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Talk on immigrant parents and early childhood education set for Nov. 9

Monday, October 19, 2009

Joseph Tobin will present "Listening to the Voices of Immigrant Parents in Early Childhood Education," from 4:30 to 6 p.m. on Nov. 9, in Foster Auditorium (room 101) at Pattee Library on Penn State's University Park campus. The program is for early childhood educators, elementary-level educators and anyone interested in the challenges of teaching immigrant children.

Tobin is the leader of the Children Crossing Borders project, a study of approaches to working with the children of recent immigrants in preschools in five countries. Through video clips from preschool classrooms in different countries, Tobin will demonstrate the challenge of listening to the voices of immigrant parents and the tension between progressive practices and cultural responsiveness, and ways to resolve the tension through negotiation.

Joseph Tobin is the Nadine Mathis Basha professor of early childhood education at Arizona State University. He is the author of several books including "Preschool in Three Cultures: Japan, China, and the United States," published earlier this year, "Making a Place for Pleasure in Early Childhood Education" and Pikachuis Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokemon."

The presentation is sponsored by the Education and Behavioral Sciences Library; the dean's office of the College of Education; the Department of Curriculum and Instruction; the Department of Education Policy Studies; and the College of Education's Diversity and Community Enhancement Committee.

The program is free and open to the public. For more information, contact Caroline Wermuth at 814-863-5472 or cvw1@psu.edu.