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Firefighters battled a controlled blaze on the tarmac at Penn State's University Park Airport on May 23 during a full-scale emergency exercise. The exercise was designed to provide real-time training and recertification for emergency response personnel from around the Centre Region.

University Park Airport Emergency Response Exercise

A moment of levity: Penn State Lehigh Valley graduates celebrated with the Nittany Lion after commencement ceremonies, held May 5 at Stabler Arena in Bethlehem, Pa.

Commencement across Penn State: Spring 2012

New graduates of Penn State's Eberly College of Science listened to the commencement address provided by United States Secretary of Energy Steven Chu during spring 2012 graduation ceremonies held May 5 at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus.

Spring commencement 2012 under way

A Moroccan farmer taught Penn State students about the properties of vetiver grass, including its ability to clean wastewater. The grass could be used as part of a solution to water-quality problems being experienced in Assoul, Morocco, where students spent time recently.

Penn State, Moroccan students problem-solve together

Anjelica Fortunato, left, and Jeffrey Lu reviewed for their Anatomy 129 final exam on May 1 on the HUB-Robeson Center Lawn on Penn State's University Park campus. Penn State students are preparing for and taking final exams throughout the week as spring semester 2012 comes to a close.

Finals Week Spring Semester 2012

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Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium

Painting the Lines at Beaver Stadium

Did They Get It Right? - RedTails

Did They Get It Right? - RedTails

Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012

Iconic Penn State elm taken down over spring break 2012

We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)

We ... are Penn State (December 19, 2011)

Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal

Disease stricken matching elm tree slated for removal

Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone

Penn State's creamery, from the cow to the cone

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Top Penn State students compete for Scholastic Excellence Award

Friday, April 20, 2012

Three of Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus' top students presented academic research papers at a special presentation on Tuesday, April 17. Rebecca Corvin, Rachael Franks, and Shirley Rojas Acosta are competing to win the campus' top Scholastic Excellence Award. All three students will receive monetary awards for their work. (more)

Professor gets Kirkland Award from The Pa. Chapter, Wildlife Society

Gary San Julian, professor emeritus of wildlife resources in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences
Friday, April 13, 2012

Gary San Julian, professor emeritus of wildlife resources in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences, recently received the Gordon Kirkland Award for Lifetime Professional Achievement in Conservation from the Pennsylvania Chapter of The Wildlife Society.
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Seven basketball players earn postseason honors

Friday, April 06, 2012

Seven Penn State Fayette basketball student-athletes earned postseason recognition, as the Roaring Lions men's and women's teams totaled 15 awards following their 2011-12 campaigns. (more)

Campus nurse at Penn State Fayette receives Achieving Women Award

Kathy Iannamorelli, recipient of the 2012 Penn State University Achieving Women Award.
Thursday, March 29, 2012

Kathy Iannamorelli, campus nurse at Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus, is a recipient of the annual Achieving Women Award presented by Penn State Commission for Women. (more)

Mattern earns Coach of the Year honor in PSUAC conference

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

The Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) announced Penn State Fayette, The Eberly Campus' Kurt Mattern as the Women's Basketball Coach of the Year. (more)

Dairy geneticist Dechow wins Arthur Nesbitt Faculty Development Award

Chad Dechow, associate professor of dairy genetics in the College of Agricultural Sciences at Penn State
Thursday, December 15, 2011

Chad Dechow, associate professor of dairy genetics, has been named recipient of the Arthur W. Nesbitt Faculty Program Development Award by Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences.
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10 students in the College of Ag Sciences win internship awards

Friday, November 18, 2011

Ten Penn State students have been selected as College of Agricultural Sciences Alumni Society 2011 Internship Award winners. The award, which includes a $760 stipend, was established to encourage students to enroll in internship courses offered within the College of Agricultural Sciences. (more)

For the Bay: Faculty honored for work to improve water quality

One of the subsurface manure-injecting machines that was evaluated by Penn State researchers.
Friday, October 28, 2011

Several faculty members in Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences are members of a team that recently was honored by the Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer with the 2011 Mid-Atlantic Regional Educational Institution and Federal Laboratory Partnership Award for applied research on subsurface manure application in no-till systems.
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Wilson honored with an Alumni Fellow Award

Wednesday, August 03, 2011

Robert Wilson, an alumnus of Penn State University, has been honored with a 2011 Alumni Fellow Award. The Alumni Fellow Award is the most prestigious award given by the Penn State Alumni Association. Since 1973, the Alumni Fellow Award has been given to select alumni who, as leaders in their professional fields, are nominated by an academic college and accept an invitation from the President of the University to return to campus to share their expertise with students, faculty, and administrators. (more)

Patent for computerized image-annotation system issued to Li and Wang

Jia Li, left, and James Z. Wang
Monday, July 18, 2011

Jia Li, associate professor of statistics at Penn State, and James Z. Wang, professor of information sciences and technology at Penn State, have been awarded the United States patent titled "Real-Time Computerized Annotation of Pictures." Li and Wang developed a unique computer system called ALIPR (Automatic Linguistic Indexing of Pictures in Real-Time) that can suggest, in real time, several words describing the content of any general-purpose photograph using the pixel information alone. The automatic image-tagging system uses novel methods in statistical learning and data mining to link pictorial characteristics with English words. (more)