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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Sociology professor honored

Tuesday, May 4, 2004

University Park, PA. -- Robert Schoen, the Hoffman professor of family sociology and demography at Penn State, recently received the Mindel C. Sheps award in recognition of his contributions to the field of demography.

The Sheps Award is given every two years by the Population Association of America (PAA) and the University of North Carolina School of Public Health to demographers who make significant contributions to population studies. The award is named after the late Mindel Sheps, who was a pioneer in developing mathematical models of conception and birth, as well as for her analyses of fertility.

Schoen was honored for his development of new analytical methods in demography.

His primary research interests involve looking at marriage, divorce, fertility, and related demographic methods and models. The Penn State researcher studies 20th century marriage and divorce behavior in the United States, and has described the earlier advance and later retreat of marriage and the long term rise in divorce. He also has analyzed the "marriage squeeze," the curtailment of marriage when there is an imbalance between the number of marriageable men and women.

The College of the Liberal Arts faculty member is the author and co-author of several books, and has been the principal investigator on numerous grants from the National Institutes of Health. Schoen received his PhD in demography from the University of California, Berkeley.

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