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Penn State Intercom......February
1 , 2001
Michele Daughenbaugh uses
techniques she learned at Penn State to engage her Park Forest Elementary
School first-graders.
Photo: Greg
Grieco
Carla Zembal-Saul,
assistant professor in the College of Education, has her students compile
"teaching portfolios," which help them to scrutinize and revise their
ideas of what works in the classroom.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Fire drill
Steve Triebold, fire protection engineer in the Department of Environmental Health and Safety, visited Business Services on the University Park campus recently to present a fire-safety program. Triebold first lectured about the dos and don'ts of fire safety, top.
Triebold used a smoke machine to prepare a realistic fire drill.
Michael Pierick, director
of Document Center Services, crawls to safety in the smoke-filled room.
The program is run on the University Park campus between 20 and 30 times
a year in residence halls and administrative units on an as-needed basis.
For more information or to schedule the program, call (814) 865-6391.
Photos: Greg Grieco
Dimensions
Nick Hasapes scans the facade
and sketches the columns in front of Old Main for his architecture and
engineering class. The exteriors of many University Park buildings wind
up as the focus of classroom lessons.
Photo: Greg Grieco
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A classsic '56 Chevy
pickup has been stripped to its components while it awaits
restoration. Once it is roadworthy, David Wagner, agriculture
professor, plans to convert it to run on an alternative fuel.
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Stephen
Porter, professor of
art, shapes blocks of wood in his shop as he prepares to make a sculpture.
Photo: Greg Grieco
President Graham B. Spanier, shown playing the washboard with the Deacons of Dixieland, may make an appearance in the Hoagy Carmichael Centennial Celebration. This Feb. 5 show, the group's last scheduled in the United States, will take place at
7:30 p.m. in Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus. For tickets, call (814) 863-0255.
Patty Aaron, a residence hall utility worker at East Halls, adds to the growing amount of recycled newsprint on the University Park campus. Since 1997, some 695 tons of newspaper has been recycled at the campus, according to Al Matyasovsky, operations supervisor for the Office of Physical Plant. A portion of the profits from the firm that markets the recycled newspapers is donated to the University's general scholarship fund.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Alan Booth, left, distinguished professor of sociology and human development and family studies at University Park, and Douglas Granger, associate professor or of biobehavioral health in The College of Health and Human Development, studied the effects of aggression on the immune system in men.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Ngoni Tsemunhu,
this year's dragon leader for the Chinese New Year parade on the University
Park campus, leads the dragon (graduate student Hudson Chiang),out of
its "cave" at the family center at Graduate Circle. Jan. 24 began the
Chinese Year of the Snake. The date for Lunar New Year is determined
by the Chinese lunar calendar.
Photo: Greg Grieco