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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Friday, July 2, 2010

University Park, Pa. — In fall 2010, Penn State undergraduate students can gain a better understanding of the nation’s diabetes and obesity epidemics. In a course titled "Strategies for Addressing the Obesity & Diabetes Epidemics," students will learn what role they can play in minimizing the effects of these diseases. The course is being offered through the Department of Biobehavioral Health in the College of Health and Human Development in collaboration with the Penn State Institute for Diabetes and Obesity (PSIDO).

The course aims to show students how they can change their own at-risk behaviors and instill in them the confidence to be agents for societal change. The course content was designed by a team that included Barbara Rolls, distinguished professor of nutritional sciences; Jan Ulbrecht, professor of biobehavioral health and diabetologist; Robert Gabbay, director of the Penn State Institute for Diabetes and Obesity; and Jennifer DiNallo, graduate student in the Department of Kinesiology.

According to Ulbrecht, the goal of this new offering is to “stress to the Penn State undergraduate population that this is a problem that impacts all citizens and that can only be resolved if addressed by each member of society, whether in the health care field, engineering, arts, et cetera.”

The course content will cover the challenges and consequences of the obesity epidemic; factors that can lead to or prevent obesity/diabetes; and treatment, management and interventions for each disease.

The course was offered for the first time during this year's spring semester and is under review by the Faculty Senate as a permanent course offering that would fulfill General Education requirements in Health and Physical Activity.