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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Trustees approve plans for new Support Services Building at Hershey

Friday, March 19, 2010

University Park, Pa. -- University Trustees have approved plans for a new Support Services Building on the campus of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. The facility will help meet increased service requirements at the Medical Center, created in part by the recently completed Penn State Hershey Cancer Institute and soon-to-be-constructed Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital.

The two-level, 43,000-square-foot building will provide expanded space for supply and distribution facilities, maintenance shops and offices for environmental health services.

The building will be constructed between Campus and Meadow Wood drives and the intersection of Life Lion Drive on the Medical Center’s west campus. The project scope includes the realignment of all three roads to improve vehicular flow and truck access to the new loading dock, as well as the creation of forty-six additional parking spaces for staff.

The building is designed to meet U.S. Green Building Council LEED certification standards and additional steps are being taken to preserve five mature evergreen trees near the construction site.

Annually, the shipping and receiving office handles more than 121,000 inbound and outbound packages — many of them vital supplies for patient care and research activities. Over the past 20 years shipments have increased by more than 38 percent. The new Cancer Institute and Children’s Hospital, along with six additional operating rooms scheduled to open over the next four months, are expected to increase the number of shipments significantly.

The current shipping and receiving area, built in 1967 as part of the original Medical Center construction, has only approximately 5,500 available square feet and six loading docks. The new support services building will provide nearly 9,400 square feet for shipping, receiving and short-term storage of materials. It also will accommodate larger shipping vehicles.

The estimated cost of the project is $19 million. Construction is scheduled to start this July with an expected completion date of November 2011.
 

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