LIONS’ IOWA VISIT TO BE TELEVISED NATIONALLY BY ESPN
Penn State’s first road game of the season, at Iowa on Saturday, Sept. 29, will be televised nationally by ESPN. The contest will kick off at 12:10 p.m. EDT in Kinnick Stadium in Iowa City, Iowa. The telecast is the third announced TV appearances of the season for the Nittany Lions, who have appeared on television 81 times in their last 82 games, including the last 47 contests. Penn State (0-2) leads the series with Iowa, 10-5, but the Hawkeyes won, 26-23, in double overtime in Beaver Stadium last year. The visiting team has won 11 of the 15 meetings, with the Nittany Lions posting a 7-1 mark in Kinnick Stadium. Iowa is 2-0. Other Penn State contests may be selected by the networks under the six and 12-day provisions of their contracts with the Big Ten. For more information on Nittany Lion football and other Penn State sports, visit http://www.GoPSUsports.com.
BARRING INDIAN SUMMER, FOLIAGE WILL BE BRIGHT
Hot autumn days and mild nights – many wish for Indian summer this time of year. But if you want a bright, colorful foliage display in October, you shouldn’t, according to an expert in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences. Weather in the next month or so is very important,” says Marc Abrams, professor of forest ecology and physiology. We need to have cool temperatures falling into the high 30s or 40s at night, as well as bright sunny days with little rain.” If temperatures cool over the next four weeks with little rain falling, fall foliage watchers in Pennsylvania should be treated to a superior display of color this year, Abrams predicts. Cooler temperatures signal deciduous trees to stop producing chlorophyll, the green pigment responsible for photosynthesis, he explains. The chlorophyll breaks down and disappears, unmasking the pigments that create yellows and oranges in certain trees. After chlorophyll production stops, other trees also produce a pigment that creates brilliant reds and purples. For the full story, visit http://aginfo.psu.edu/News/september01/foliage.html.
NEW YORK TIMES PRESIDENT TO ADDRESS FORUM
Janet Robinson, president of The New York Times, will deliver the Penn State Forum lecture at noon on Friday, Oct. 5, at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel. The topic of her presentation is “The State of the Times.” Robinson was named senior vice president of newspaper operations for The New York Times Company last year, and is responsible for leading the operations of all the company’s newspaper properties. She retains her position as president and general manager of The New York Times newspaper, which she has held since 1996. The Penn State Forum is a lunchtime speaker series offered by the Faculty Staff Club and is sponsored in part by the Penn State Bookstore. For the full story and ticket information, visit http://www.psu.edu/ur/2001/robinsonforum.html
More information on the Penn State Forum is at http://www.psu.edu/dept/fsc/forum.html.
STATE’S JOB GROWTH SLOW, COULD REVIVE IN NEAR TERM
With Pennsylvania and the nation currently experiencing an economic slowdown, job loss continued in manufacturing, and state unemployment rose moderately from 4.1 to 4.7 percent from June 2000 to June 2001. On the plus side, employment rose in most other sectors of the state’s economy over the year, says a new report jointly produced by Penn State, Verizon and the Pennsylvania Economic Development Association. Also, many Pennsylvania counties, especially in the southeast, still enjoyed low unemployment as of June 2001. “Forecasts by the Verizon Economics Group suggest that the current dip in the state’s economic growth rate will revive in the year 2002-2003 and that a recession is unlikely,” says Theodore E. Fuller, economist and co-author of “Road to 2002: An Update on Pennsylvania,” which highlights employment, unemployment and population trends in the 1990s, with emphasis on recent change from June 1998 to June 2000. The report is available at http://www.aers.psu.edu/cecd and http://www.teampa.com. For the full story, visit http://www.psu.edu/ur/2001/roadpa2002.html.
AUTHOR TO DISCUSS LANDSCAPES WITH FRAMED VIEWS
Penn State Press author D. Fairchild Ruggles will present the Harold E. Dickson Memorial Lecture at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 27, at the Lipcon Auditorium in the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus. Ruggles, an associate professor of landscape architecture at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will discuss “Landscape and the Framed View in Islamic Spain and the Mughal India.” The lecture is sponsored by the Department of Art History. Copies of her book, “Gardens, Landscape, and Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain,” will be available following the event. For more information on lectures at the Palmer Museum of Art, visit http://www.psu.edu/dept/palmermuseum/calendar.html.