Still Life

Lady Lions Alex Bentley, left, and Zhaque Gray celebrate their Big Ten championship after beating Ohio State 84-66 on Monday, Feb. 20, at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The Lady Lions clinched their first conference regular season title since 2004.

Lady Lions win Big Ten championship

THON 2012 shattered last year's total, raising $10,686,924.83 for the Four Diamonds Fund.

THON 2012 breaks $10 million

THON child Megan Eslinger, 4, chases bubbles blown by dancer Elizabeth Ferrari on Saturday afternoon, Feb. 18, during THON at the Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus. The 46-hour no-sitting, no-sleeping event raises millions of dollars each year for the Four Diamonds Fund.

THON 2012 going strong

Owen Divers and Quinn Allen started off strong for THON 2012 on Friday, Feb. 17.

THON 2012 under way

Mike Rybar made final adjustments to the Penn State Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineering teams Goldberg machine prior to the 2012 Rube Goldberg competition held on Feb. 11 at Penn State's Nittany Lion Inn. Rybar and his team created a musically themed machine that needed to complete a simple task (inflate a balloon) in twenty or more elaborate steps. The annual competition is named for cartoonist Rube Goldberg who created famous artwork depicting overly complicated machines doing everyday tasks.

Rube Goldberg Competition: Feb. 11, 2012

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'The Art of Poetry' readings to be held at Palmer Museum of Art

Wednesday, January 25, 2012

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- This spring, the Palmer Musem of Art will welcome Penn State poets and other literary friends for poetry readings in the galleries.

-- William J. Doan, associate dean in the College of Arts and Architecture and professor of theatre, will read at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 1. Doan’s first chapbook, "orantes linguis," was published by Corrupt Press in fall 2011 and is based on his childhood experiences in southwest Ohio.

-- Rachel Mennies, poet, will read at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, March 14. A recent graduate of the master of fine arts program in creative writing, Mennies currently resides in Pittsburgh and is the reviews editor of AGNI Online. She was recently a featured poet at Poets for Living Waters, a poetry action in response to the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster in 2010.

-- George Looney, professor of English and creative writing at Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, will read at 12:10 p.m. Wednesday, April 4. Looney chairs the bachelor of fine arts program in creative writing at Erie campus, the only undergraduate creative writing program in the Penn State system. The recipient of numerous fellowships and literary awards, he is the author of several collections of poetry, including "A Short Bestiary of Love and Madness" (2011), and the forthcoming "Monks Beginning to Waltz" (2012).

To learn more about the Palmer Museum of Art, visit http://palmermuseum.psu.edu/ online.