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Penn State Intercom......November 29, 2001

Jeremy F. Plant, professor of public policy and administration at Penn State Harrisburg.

Trackside Allentown, Morning Sun Books.

The book depicts railroad operations in and around Allentown from the mid-1940s to the 1960s. The book features more than 200 color photographs, plus a text and maps. Among them are photo essays on President Truman's campaign visit by train in the 1948 presidential campaign, and the American Freedom Train that exhibited copies of historic American documents.

Sridhar Komarneni, professor of clay mineralogy in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Materials Research Institute.

"Sol-Gel Commercialization and Applications," published by the American Ceramic Society.

Along with X. Feng of Ferro Corp., L.C. Klein of Rutgers University and E.J.A. Pope of MaTech Advanced Materials, Komarneni co-edited the book. It is a compilation of papers dealing with synthesis and characterization of clusters, fibers, films and powders by sol-gel process for a variety of commercial applications. The papers and resulting book came from a symposium held at the 102nd Annual Meeting of The American Ceramic Society in St. Louis.

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