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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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College mourns sudden passing of Electrical Engineering's Nirmal Bose

Monday, November 30, 2009

Nirmal K. Bose, HRB-systems professor of electrical engineering at Penn State, died on Sunday, Nov. 22. Bose, 69, died of a heart attack during a visit to the University of Wuppertal in Germany while he was on sabbatical.

"It is with deep sorrow that we learned that while on a trip to Germany, Dr. Nirmal Bose suffered a fatal heart attack. Dr. Bose was a world-renowned expert in the field of multidimensional signals and systems who brought great international visibility and prestige to our department," said Kenneth Jenkins, head of the electrical engineering department. "His passing is a great loss to Penn State and the electrical engineering profession that he served with dedication and distinction for many decades. I ask everyone to join me in sending our sincere condolences to his family, students and friends."

A member of the Penn State faculty since 1986, Bose received his bachelor of technology in electrical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in Kharagpur, India, his master's degree in electrical engineering from Cornell University and his doctorate in electrical engineering from Syracuse University.

Prior to coming to Penn State in 1986, Bose served on the faculties of Syracuse University and the University of Pittsburgh.

According to his Web site, Bose pioneered the development of multidimensional systems theory and applied it to the processing and coding of degraded signals. Specifically, he investigated the restoration and high resolution reconstruction of blurred and noisy images and suggested a computationally efficient scheme for tracking multiple targets in clutter.

Bose's research interests also included robust systems, combinatorics and graph theory, artificial neural networks and neurofuzzy computing.

His research received funding from the National Science Foundation, Office of Naval Research, NASA, IBM, Army Research Office, Air Force Research Laboratory and Pittsburgh Digital Greenhouse.

Bose was a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and held memberships in the American Society of Engineering Education and the Sigma Xi scientific research society. He was the founding editor-in-chief of the International Journal on Multidimensional Systems and Signal Processing and an associate editor of IEEE's Transactions on Circuits and Systems.

Bose's awards include the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society Education Award, the IEEE Third Millennium Merit Award, the Alexander Von Humboldt Research Award and the Penn State Engineering Alumni Society's Outstanding Research Award.

He is survived by his wife, Chandra Bose, and two daughters, Meenekshi and Enakshi Bose.

A memorial service is planned for 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, at Worship Hall in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the University Park campus. Details are available here as well as on the College of Engineering's homepage at http://www.engr.psu.edu/, on the college's Facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/psuengineering and on Twitter at twitter.com/psuengineering.

 

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