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Master plan for University Park
taking shape
More green space, less traffic and a shift in the academic core toward Beaver
Stadium are concepts identified by the University Park community of how
the campus should look in the coming decades.
Conference draws leaders in diversity
field
More than 400 representatives from higher education and industry learned
that managing diversity means focusing on issues other than race, gender
and sexual orientation. "Best Practices in Diversity" was the
subject they gathered to discuss Sept. 1820 at University Park in this
first-ever collaboration.
University to dedicate powerful
research tool
On Oct. 8 the Hobby-Eberly Telescope, a joint project that helped produce
one of the world's premier astronomical research tools, will be dedicated
at The University of Texas McDonald Observatory in Fort Davis, Texas --
and Penn State played a major role in its formation. The Intercom will
cover this important scientific event in the Oct. 15 issue.
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