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Gallery
Penn State Intercom......August
23, 2001
Employees in the Office of Physical
Plant finish landscaping behind Old Main on the University Park campus.
They had just finished planting five disease-resistant elm trees on
the site.
Photo: Greg Grieco
West Campus development
also is continuing on the University Park campus. This view shows Leonhard
Building in the background of the new construction. Work on the West Campus
housing project is currently ahead of schedule and should by complete
by July 2002.
Photo: Greg Grieco
A parking lot
made accessible for people with disabilities will be ready for use before
the first football game, which kicks off at
8 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 1, against Miami.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Several projects
on the University Park campus this summer were aimed at increasing accessibility
for people with disabilities. Here, ADA enhancements are being made to
the front entrance to Willard Building.
Photo: Greg Grieco
University library users
learn about the capabilities of the expanded LIAS system.
Summer hockey
Hockey camp at Penn State may have been the coolest place in more ways than one during the August heat wave. Here, players at the Greenberg Sports Complex on the University Park campus give the goalie something to worry about.
Photo: Greg Grieco
"Attendants in Service, Liao (907-1125)" is part of the exhibition "Differences Preserved: Reconstructed Tombs from the Liao and Song Dynasties." These works, excavated from two sets of tombs in northern China, are on display in the Special Exhibitions Gallery II, Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus, Sept. 4 through Dec. 16.
Greg Simmers, foreground, and Greg Rank measured carpet for a new installation on all three floors at The Nittany Lion Inn on the University Park campus. They are employees of Tri-State Carpet in Chester. The project required unrolling and measuring the carpet in the parking lot. Photo: Greg Grieco
ISIT.com has relocated to Knowledge Park at Penn State Erie. It joins Aalborg Industries and GE Transportation Systems' e-Business Division at the park .
Lending a helping hand
University President Graham B. Spanier helps the Melching family from Philadelphia unload daughter Ana's belongings at Pennypacker Hall on the University Park campus. Students returned to the campus Aug. 18 for the start of the fall semester. Photo: Greg Grieco
Penny Kris-Etherton, distinguished professor of nutrition, measures peanuts. University researchers have concluded that eating tree nuts or peanuts can have a strong protective effect against coronary heart disease. Photo: Greg Grieco
With the assistance of professional arborists, visitors to Ag Progress Days were able to safely climb 40-foot-tall trees with ropes and harness at the "Kids' Climb" area, above. They also learned about the job of an arborist, saw a display of tree defects, decay fungi and special tools and equipment used in tree care. This was one of the hundreds of exhibits and displays at the event, held Aug. 14-16 at the Russell E. Larson Agricultural Research Center near the University Park campus.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Executive Vice President and Provost Rod Erickson, second from left, gives Gov. Tom Ridge, left, a hand as Ridge signs quilt squares for an auction at Ag Progress Days. The governor visited the event and addressed the crowd on Aug. 15.
Photo: Greg Grieco
