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Migrant program produces its first
graduates
CAMP provides intense academic counseling, tutoring, cultural experiences,
mentoring and financial aid for students like Guillermo as they make the
transition from migrant or seasonal farm workers to college graduates. Under
the direction of Howard E. Wray III, associate dean for undergraduate
education, and Jeri R. Galaida, program director, CAMP students also
attend workshops on study skills, college life and career planning. Currently,
35 students are enrolled from the eastern stream, which stretches from Maine
to Florida.
Generating innovation, jobs and competitiveness
for the state
Penn State's already formidable research enterprise -- the largest University-based
research effort in Pennsylvania -- showed continued growth in fiscal 1997
as measured by expenditures on research activities.
Penn Stater trains for ride in space
Inside the cavernous Building 9 at the Johnson Space Center, south of Houston,
Pawelczyk, assistant professor of physiology and kinesiology at Penn State
-- and NASA astronaut -- was showing me around the training model of the
Space Shuttle Columbia, aboard which he and six fellow crew members will
circle the globe for two weeks next April. Their mission, known as STS-90
or Neurolab, will probe the effects of weightlessness on the nervous system.
In addition to yielding insights into how the body adapts to space, the
experiments they conduct should advance understanding of earth-bound conditions
like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases and stroke.
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