ADAM TALIAFERRO TRANSFERRED TO PHILADELPHIA HOSPITAL
Injured Penn State football player Adam Taliaferro was transferred yesterday to the Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. Taliaferro, 18, suffered a severe spinal injury in last Saturday's game at Ohio State and has been hospitalized at the Ohio State University Medical Center in Columbus. He underwent successful decompression spinal fusion surgery Monday. A freshman, Taliaferro remains in serious condition. His hometown is Voorhees, N.J., which is 15 miles from Philadelphia. Taliaferro was transported to Philadelphia by an ambulance-equipped lear jet, which was staffed with a registered nurse and two paramedics. His father, Andre, accompanied his son on the plane. Adam's mother, Addie, returned to their New Jersey home from Columbus Tuesday evening. Dr. Wayne Sebastianelli, Director of Athletic Medicine at Penn State, said that Taliaferro's lungs had improved overnight, but there were no other changes in his condition. Adam will likely remain at Jefferson Hospital for as long as a week and then be transferred to the Magee Rehabilitation Hospital in Philadelphia.

The Penn State football team will sponsor a Prayer and Support Rally for their injured teammate tomorrow, Friday, Sept. 29, at noon in front of Old Main. Well wishers can send their messages to Adam Taliaferro; c/o Penn State Football; Lasch Football Building; Hastings Road; University Park, PA 16802.For more on this story, go to http://www.GoPSUsports.com/home/ 

LEFT-HANDEDNESS IS NOT NECESSARILY THE KISS OF DEATH
Although the percentage of left-handed people among those over age 60 is lower than in the rest of the population, there is no indication that left-handedness leads to an early demise. Rather, a complex combination of factors combine so that fewer of the old and oldest old report left-handedness, according to a Penn State researcher. Some factors involved include pressure to switch hands, more women than men in the older populations, adaptation to a predominantly right-hand world and a rightward trend caused by the aging process. Dr. Clare Porac, professor of psychology and director, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Penn State Erie, the Behrend College, and Ingrid C. Friesen, Ph.D. candidate, University of Victoria, looked at 1,277 elderly people to determine the incidence of left versus right handedness. In particular they wanted to know if this incidence was age related and if there seemed to be a relationship of handedness to life experiences, such as efforts to switch left-handers to a right-hand preference.. For the complete story by A’ndrea Messer, go to: http://www.psu.edu/ur/2000/lefthandedness.html 

NEW FUNDING EXPANDS OPPORTUNITIES IN CONSORTIUM
The Penn State Consortium for Education in Many-Body Applications, designed to train graduate students in science and engineering in a broad-based, career-specific manner, has been created as the result of a $2.5 million grant from the National Science Integrative Graduate Education and Research Training program. "This program gives Penn State scientists and engineers the opportunity to collaborate in graduate education and research," said James Anderson, Evan Pugh Professor of Chemistry and director of the consortium. "We all face many-body problems, those involving collections of interacting particles, and we have much to learn from each other." Participants from three colleges and eight departments comprise the consortium, which features a five-year plan of courses, research projects, summer internships, seminars, and tutorials to train graduate students in advanced computational methods for many-body problems in physics, mathematics, materials science, chemical engineering and computer science and related fields. For more information, go to http://www.engr.psu.edu/news/

NEW BOOK OF POETRY AND PROSE BY PROF. LIMA
Robert Lima, professor of Spanish and comparative literature and Fellow of the Institute for the Arts and Humanistic Studies, is the author of a new book. "Sardinia/Sardegna," published by Bordighera International Press. The book is divided into two parts, each consisting of prose and poetry. Part one, Isola, concerns impressions of the Italian island, its people and customs as the author found them during a six-week stay as poet-in-residence with Penn State's Sardinia Program. Part two, Ichnusa, views the islands complex archaeology, particularly its countless Bronze Age towers, megalithic passage graves, sacred wells and other sites Lima visited while participating in field surveys. Lima can be reached at mailto:  

PSU-MINNESOTA GAME TO BE ON AN ESPN NETWORK
Penn State's Big Ten clash at Minnesota on Sat., Oct. 7, will kick off at 11:10 a.m. CDT (12:10 p.m. EDT) at the Metrodome in Minneapolis. The contest will be televised either by ESPN, espn2 or ESPN Regional. Which one of the three networks that will carry the game is dependent upon the results of Major League Baseball's division series, and that may not be known until the night prior to kickoff. Previously announced was Penn State's game Oct. 28 at Indiana, which will be televised by espn2 at 7:00 p.m. EDT, and its season-ending November 18 clash against Michigan State, which will be an ABC broadcast at 3:30 p.m. EST. Other Penn State contests may be selected by the networks under the six and 12-day provisions of their contracts with the Big Ten Conference. For more on football coverage, go to http://www.GoPSUsports.com/home/ 

PENN STATE VS TEXAS IN COLLEGE TRADITION CONTEST
ESPN is holding a college football tradition sweepstakes and wants your vote in a match-up of Penn State vs Texas tomorrow, Sept. 29. To vote, go to http://promotions.go.com/espn/tostitos/frontpage.html