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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Thursday, December 3, 2009
Credit: Greg Grieco

University Park, Pa. – Penn State will confer an anticipated eight associate degrees and 2,386 baccalaureate degrees on Saturday, Dec. 19, at the University Park campus during three fall commencement ceremonies, over which Penn State President Graham B. Spanier will preside. He will also lead the Graduate School commencement for an expected 691 graduate students.

The 9 a.m. commencement ceremony in the Bryce Jordan Center will include graduates in the College of Agricultural Sciences, Smeal College of Business, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, College of Engineering and the College of Information Sciences and Technology. The ceremony for associate degree recipients, The College of Arts and Architecture, College of Communications, College of Education, College of Health and Human Development, College of Liberal Arts, the School of Nursing and Eberly College of Science will begin at 12:30 p.m., also in the Bryce Jordan Center. The Graduate School Ceremony will begin at 4 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium.

Eva J. Pell, senior vice president for Research and dean of the Graduate School, will speak at the Graduate School ceremony. Pell has served in the position since 1999, and previously held a joint appointment in the University's Environmental Resources Research Institute and the Department of Plant Pathology. In August, Pell was appointed Under Secretary for Science for the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C., which she will assume in January 2010.

At other Penn State campuses, an estimated 285 students will graduate with associate degrees, 881 with baccalaureate degrees and 265 with graduate degrees, for a University-wide total of 4,561 fall graduates. A list of those commencement events is at http://live.psu.edu/story/43302 online.

In addition to the commencement ceremonies, the Schreyers Honors College plans to recognize 43 graduating seniors at a traditional honors medal ceremony at 5 p.m. Friday, Dec. 18, at The Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel.

For additional information about commencement events at University Park and other Penn State campuses, visit http://www.commencement.psu.edu.

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