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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L. Eric Cross wins Materials Research Society's highest honor

Thursday, August 12, 2010
L. Eric Cross
Credit: Penn State L. Eric Cross

University Park, Pa. -- L. Eric Cross, Evan Pugh Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering, Penn State, is the recipient of the 2010 Von Hippel Award from the Materials Research Society. The Von Hippel Award is the society's highest honor and is "conferred annually to an individual in recognition of the recipient’s outstanding contribution to interdisciplinary research on materials."

A founding member of the Penn State Materials Research Laboratory, Cross continues to make important contributions to the field of ferroelectric materials. He is recognized "for his imposing leadership in the science and applications of ferroelectric materials." His current work on flexoelectric composites could make possible a new generation of lead-free transducers for use in multiple industries worldwide.

World War II interrupted Cross’s undergraduate education at Leeds University (UK). During the war, he worked for the British Admiralty on a program using high frequency direction finding to track German U-boats, which ultimately allowed convoys to cross the Atlantic unharmed. The U.S. Navy supported much of his later work in the field of sonar undersea transducers.

Cross is a Fellow of the Materials Research Society, the American Physical Society, the Optical Society, the Ceramics Society and IEEE. In 1983, he was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. Cross joined Penn State as a senior research associate in 1961. He became an associate professor in 1964 and was named professor in 1966. In 1985, he was named Evan Pugh Professor of Electrical Engineering; an Evan Pugh Professorship is the highest distinction that the University can bestow on a faculty member. He is the author or coauthor of more than 850 refereed papers and he holds 12 patents. Along with his late colleague Robert E. Newnham, Cross developed the piezoelectric transducer designs used in almost all modern medical ultrasound machines.

Cross will receive the Von Hippel Award at the MRS fall meeting on Dec. 1, in Boston, where he will deliver the award lecture based on his research, "Flexoelectric Composites -- The Cutting Edge for New Lead-Free Piezoceramics."
 

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