Penn State Altoona's television commercial series, "The People of Penn State Altoona," won a bronze medal from the 17th annual Admissions Advertising Awards, a national college marketing competition. The commercial series profiles faculty, staff and students, each of whom provide a unique perspective on their involvement at the college. The University Relations Office produced the spots.

Penn State Altoona has been recognized by the national Society for Human Resource Management for excellence in human resource training. The college was one of 13 higher education institutions across the country to have 100 percent of its students pass the fall 2001 Senior Professional in Human Resources examination.

Three physicians from Hershey Medical Center and the College of Medicine have been selected for inclusion in America’s Top Doctors, a comprehensive health-care consumer guide to finding the nation’s leading medical specialists. Dr. Robert G. Atnip, professor of surgery and radiology, chief of the Division of Vascular Surgery and co-director of Penn State Vascular Institute was chosen for general vascular surgery. Dr. Craig Hillemeier, chair of pediatrics and medical director of Penn State Children’s Hospital, was selected for pediatric gastroenterology. Dr. Gerald Naccarelli, professor of medicine, chief of the Division of Cardiology, Bernard Trabin chair of cardiology and director of Penn State Cardiovascular Center was chosen for cardiology.

Rosann Bazirjian, assistant dean for University Libraries' Technical and Access Services, is the recipient of the Leadership in Library Acquisitions Award, which recognizes the contributions by and outstanding leadership of an individual to the field of acquisitions librarianship. The award is given through the Association for Library Collections and Technical Services, part of the American Library Association.

Stephen J. Benkovic, Even Pugh professor of chemistry and holder of the Eberly family chair in chemistry, has been elected to membership in the American Philosophical Society. Benkovic was elected in recognition of his accomplishments in biochemical research on the mechanisms of enzyme reactions.

James G. Beierlein, professor of agricultural economics, has been appointed case study editor of the International Food and Agribusiness Management Review. The journal is published by the International Food and Agribusiness Management Association, the largest international association of business, government and academics devoted to improving the efficiency of the world's food and fiber system.

Bonnie J. Bixler, area representative II with Penn State Harrisburg Continuing Education, has been named vice president of the board for the Pennsylvania E-Commerce Association, a statewide association representing the interests of businesses involved in e-commerce.

Alan Booth, distinguished professor of sociology, has been selected by the Family Section of the American Sociological Association to receive the Distinguished Career of Scholarship and Service Award.

Kenneth Brentner, associate professor of aerospace engineering, had a paper he co-authored selected as the best paper for the 2002 American Helicopter Society Annual Forum in Montreal. The paper, “Toward a Better Understanding of Maneuvering Rotorcraft Noise,” was co-authored with graduate students Guillaume Perez and Guillaume Bres and Henry Jones of Langley Research Center.

Daniel Cahoy, assistant professor of business law, was one of two winners of the Academy of Legal Studies in Business Holmes/Cardozo Award. The award recognizes significant, unpublished original legal research. His paper, “Don’t Change the Rules in the Middle of the Game!: How the Prospective Application of Judicial Determinations Related to Intellectual Property Can Promote Economic Efficiency,” tied for first place.

Paul Chidester, assistant professor of art, was invited to participate in a group exhibition for Ballinglen Fellows at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford. The show will run from March 9 until April 26, 2003, and will include works produced during a residency at the Ballinglen Foundation in Ballycastle, Ireland. Chidester has a solo exhibition opening June 8 at Spazio Arte in Perugia, Italy. The exhibition, "The Ideal City," makes reference to Piero della Francesca's painting of the same name and will include works in egg tempera, silverpoint, casein and acrylic. Chidester's work also has been included in "Colours," an invitational show at the Ballinglen Foundation's Courthouse Gallery in Ballycastle, Ireland. He is currently at work on a solo exhibition to be held at Chicago's ZG Gallery in November.

The College of Education recently won an Exemplary Program Award from the Conferences and Professional Program Community of Practice of the University Continuing Education Association. This award recognizes the college for developing and delivering a technology education training program for 21 teachers from Chile.

The Engineering Viewbook publication won a silver medal from the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. The viewbook is the College of Engineering's major recruitment publication and is sent to high school seniors who have been accepted for admission to the college. It was written by the Office of Engineering College Relations and designed by University Publications. It was entered in the Individual In-House Publications: Multi-Page Booklets, Brochures and Catalogs category.

David E. Conroy, assistant professor of kinesiology, has received the Prince de Merode Award for Behavioral Research from the International Olympic Committee during the organization's Sixth World Congress on Sport Sciences, which took place in St. Louis in conjunction with the American College of Sports Medicine's annual conference. Conroy received the award for his presentation on "Interpersonal Origins of Self-Talk."

Kim Cook, professor of music in cello, recently performed by invitation at the Accademia dell 'Arte Music Festival in Florence, Italy. She performed two concerts as a soloist, premiering a work for solo cello and orchestra by composer George Skipworth. She also performed with the Accademia dell 'Arte di Firenze orchestra. The concerts were held at the Petrarca Theater in Arezzo. Conductors Jose Contreras and George Skipworth served as music directors for the festival, which provided an opportunity for collaboration among international musicians.

Tim Curley, director of athletics, has been elected third vice president of the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) for 2002-03. Curley is in rotation to serve as president of NACDA in 2005-06. NACDA serves as the professional and educational association for more than 6,100 college athletics directors, associates, assistants and conference commissioners at more than 1,600 institutions throughout the United States, Canada and Mexico.

Anthony Cutler, research professor of art history, was awarded a 2002-03 fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. This will allow him to complete his book, The Empire of Things: Gift Exchange Between Byzantium, Islam and Beyond.

Mark Dirsmith, The Deloitte & Touche professor of accounting and faculty director of the Smeal Scholars Program, received the "Best Paper Award" from the Global Business and Technology Association during its recent conference in Rome. The paper, "Going Global Part II: The Regeneration of Expertise Through Technological Intervention in MDS Organizations," was co-authored with Sajay Samuel and Michael Fischer, alumni from the Smeal College doctoral program. In addition, Dirsmith moderated a session on "Information Technology: Perspectives on Mobile Computing and Communication," and participated in a discussion on a paper titled, "Managing Strategic Virtual Communities."

A new advising handbook at Penn State Erie has received a national award from the National Academic Advising Association. The Penn State Behrend Advising Handbook was named the Outstanding Publication Certificate of Merit (Adviser Category) recipient. The volume was a collaboration of the Division of Undergraduate Studies, headed by Michael D. Chiteman, and the Office of University Relations, directed by Edward F. Blaguszewski.

Stephen J. Fonash, Bayard D. Kunkle chair professor of engineering science and director of the Penn State Nanofabrication Facility, delivered an invited keynote speech on nanotecnology at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation meeting in Minneapolis. Fonash discussed "Micro and Nano Technology: Impact on Biomedical Science and Practice."

Richard Foxx, professor of psychology, was made a Charter Fellow of Division 53, The Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, of the American Psychological Association in recognition of outstanding and unusual contributions to child and adolescent psychology.

Henry Giroux, Waterbury chair professor of secondary education, has won the James L. Kinneavy Award for the most outstanding article published in 2001 in the Journal of Advanced Composition.

Venkatraman Gopalan, assistant professor of materials science and engineering, received the Robert L. Coble Award for Young Scholars at the 2002 American Ceramic Society meeting held in St. Louis. This award recognizes an outstanding scientist who is conducting research in academia, industry or a government-funded laboratory who is 35 years of age or younger at the time of presentation.

Kenneth C. Gray and Edwin L. Herr received the I Dare to Lead Award from the International Learning Network in St. Louis for the second edition of their book, Other Ways to Win.  

Mark T. Greenberg, holder of the Edna Peterson Bennett chair in human development and family studies and director of the Prevention Research Center for the Promotion of Human Development, has received the Distinguished Research Scientist Award from the Society for Prevention Research. The award is given to an individual who has achieved "highest distinction" in promoting the science of prevention for the improvement of children, youth and families.

Tom Griffiths, aquatic facility manager, was an invited speaker at the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. His presentation was "New Challenges for Our Recreational Waters," which addressed ways of preventing disease transmission in swimming lakes, rivers, pools, spas and beaches. He also served as the facilitator for the CDC national stakeholders meeting for recreational water discussions. Griffiths led a international panel of water safety experts in a discussion of "Lifeguard Scanning and Surveillance" at the World Drowning Congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

David L. Hall, associate dean for research and graduate programs in the School of Information Sciences and Technology, delivered two presentations in the People's Republic of China. Hall discussed "An Introduction to Multi-sensor Data Fusion" at the Bejing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the School of Information Engineering at Xian Jiaotong University.

Michael Hecht, professor of communication arts and sciences, presented a talk, “Ethnicity and the Social Processes of Adolescent Drug Use,” to a meeting of the National Institute on Drug Abuse held in Washington, D.C. It focused on the topic of “Adolescent Decision Making: Proximal Processes in Adolescent Drug Abuse” and was designed to set a research agenda for this area.

Paul W. Howe, assistant professor of business administration/travel and tourism at the Pennsylvania College of Technology, addressed travel professionals at Air Jamaica's World of Travel 2002 Caribbean Conference in Jamaica. He delivered seminars on marketing, writing press releases and evaluating marketing/advertising expenditures.

Mary K. Howett, professor of microbiology and immunology in the College of Medicine, was honored with the Annual Alumni Award of the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. Howett was recognized for her research on the growth and replication of the human papilloma viruses, causative agents of cervical cancer, and for her efforts to develop topical microbicidal agents to prevent transmission of sexually transmitted diseases including papilloma viruses, herpes viruses and the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) type 1.

Virginia Imadojemu, assistant professor of medicine in the College of Medicine, was recognized with a Technology All Star Award at the 2002 Women of Color Health, Science and Technology Awards Conference in Nashville.

Austin Jaffe, the Philip H. Sieg professor of business administration in The Smeal College of Business, recently gave two presentations in Helsinki, Finland: "How Traditional Property Analysis Fails Us and The Rise of Modern Real Estate Finance" at Skanska Oy, and "Some Subtleties of Real Estate Securitization" at the Centre for Real Estate Finance and Investment. The presentations took place while Jaffe was the distinguished senior fellow at the Swedish School of Economics and Business Administration.

Margaret Rose Jaster, associate professor of humanities, has been granted a three-month fellowship by the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., to continue her work on clothes and conduct in 16th-century England. Jaster will be in residence in Washington as part of a sabbatical leave.

Karen Keifer-Boyd, associate professor of art education, presented her paper and virtual installation, “Cyberfeminist House: (In)Forming Collaborations,” at the Third Wave Feminism International Conference at the University of Exeter in Britain. Her proposal was one of 100 chosen out of 400.

W. Larry Kenney, professor of physiology and kinesiology, was installed as president-elect of the American College of Sports Medicine during the organization's 2002 annual meeting in St. Louis. During his one-year-term, Kenney will serve as the chair of the program committee for the 2003 annual meeting. He then will begin his one-year term as president at the 2003 annual meeting in San Francisco.

Iam Choon Khoo, distinguished professor of electrical engineering, presented an invited seminar, "New Frontiers in Nonlinear Optical Materials," at the Physics Department, University of Calabria, and a seminar, "Nonlinear Photonics of Liquid Crystals," at the Electrical Engineering Department, Cambridge University, England.

Dr. Darrell G. Kirch, dean of the College of Medicine, senior vice president for Health Affairs and CEO of Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, will begin a three-year term as a member of the Liaison Committee on Medical Education, an organization responsible for the accreditation of U.S. medical schools. He was appointed to his term by Association of American Medical Colleges President Jordan Cohen. Accreditation by the LCME confers eligibility for participation in federal student loan programs. Most state boards of licensure require that U.S. medical schools be accredited by the LCME, as a condition for licensure of their graduates. Eligibility of U.S. students to take the United States Medical Licensing Examination requires LCME accreditation of their school.

  Sridhar Komarneni, professor of clay mineralogy in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences and Materials Research Institute, received the Marion L. and Chrystie M. Jackson Mid-Career Clay Scientist Award at the annual meeting of the Clay Minerals Society in Boulder, Colo. The award is to recognize mid-career scientists for excellence in the contribution of new knowledge to clay minerals science through original and scholarly research.

A team including Theodor Krauthammer, professor of civil engineering and director of the Protective Technology Center, was presented with the Department of Defense's Engineer Research and Development Center Award for Outstanding Team Effort. The group completed a study and recommendations within 30 days for rebuilding and retrofitting the Pentagon in the wake of last September's terrorist attack. The study was conducted under the direction of the U.S. Army's Corps of Engineers' Pentagon Renovation Program Office. Krauthammer was the only non-government employee invited to join the team.

Bohdan T. Kulakowski, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Pennsylvania Transportation Institute, was elected secretary for the International Forum for Road Transport Technology, which facilitates information exchange between researchers, policy makers, regulators, road authorities and the transportation industry. The forum hosts a biannual Heavy Vehicle Weights and Dimensions Symposium, which focuses on technology, safety and policy aspects of transportation technology. The symposium will be held at University Park in 2006.

Akhlesh Lakhtakia, professor of engineering science and mechanics, presented "Promiscuity-promoting perambulations in the polarizabilities of a poly-isotopic sphere," "Photonic band gap effects in magnetic film with stripe domain structure" and "Homogenization via the strong-property-fluctuation theory: Third-order implementation and convergence" at Bianisotropics 2002: Ninth International Conference on Electromagnetics of Complex Media in Marrakech, Morocco.

Haiwon Lee, visiting professor of chemistry, and Paul Weiss, professor of chemistry, organized and played host to a binational meeting on advances in nanofabrication for approximately 200 participants, including South Korean representatives from academia, industry and government, as well as an invited U.S. delegation. The "First U.S.-Korea Nanofabrication Workshop" took place in Seoul at Hanyang University, where Lee is head of the chemistry department.

Bruce Logan, Kappe professor of environmental engineering, presented a series of lectures sponsored by the Spanish government, titled "Particle Transport and Dynamics," at the University of Girona, Spain.

John A. Lucas, professor emeritus of kinesiology and internationally known historian of the Olympic Games, has been invited to Athens as a consultant for the 2004 summer Olympic Games. He will deliver six lectures in nine days to 400 delegates from 75 nations attending the annual session of the International Olympic Academy.

Vince Lunetta was one of two people elected to the board of directors for the National Science Teachers Association.

Costas Maranas, associate professor of chemical engineering, has received the 2002 Allan P. Colburn Award for Excellence in Publications from the American Institute of Chemical Engineers. The award recognizes significant contributions to chemical engineering through publication by a younger member of the institute.

John Mason, associate dean of Graduate Studies and Research, has been elected by the American Society for Engineering Education Engineering Research Council to a two-year term on the board of directors. His membership will run through 2004.

George Mauner, distinguished professor emeritus of art history and past director and fellow emeritus of the Institute for the Arts and Humanities, has been named "Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Minister of Culture. This order, founded in 1957, recognizes artists, writers and scholars who have contributed significantly to furthering the arts of France throughout the world.

Barnes McCormick, professor emeritus of aerospace engineering, has been re-appointed to a one-year term on the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics’ Academic Affairs Committee. The committee is composed of members who are professionals from government, industry and academia. Its goals include developing and recommending policies and procedures relating to matters concerning career relations and development of members.

Gary L. Messing, professor and head of materials science and engineering, recently was installed as president of the American Ceramic Society at the society's annual meeting held in St. Louis. Messing also recently was presented with the Materials Science and Engineering Distinguished Alumnus Award at the University of Florida.

Raj Mittra, professor in electrical engineering, was an invited speaker and session organizer at the International Symposium CEM02 meeting in Bournemouth, England. The theme of the meeting was "Computational Electromagnetics," and it was sponsored by the Institute of Electrical Engineers in England.

Michael G. Moore, founding director of the American Center for Study of Distance Education and associate professor of education, was honored with the U.S. Distance Learning Association Hall of Fame Award, recognizing his contributions to distance learning.

Judy Moyer, director of Conference Services for Penn State Hospitality Services, and Eric Olbrich, senior conference services manager for The Nittany Lion Inn, recently earned recognition from the Convention Industry Council by receiving the Certified Meeting Professional designation. The designation, established in 1984, is a program of the Convention Industry Council and is endorsed by the 30 organizations within the meetings industry that comprise the council.

Dennis Murphy, distinguished professor of agricultural engineering, and Nancy Ellen Kiernan, program evaluation specialist, were recently honored by the National Institute for Farm Safety for “exemplary contributions to agricultural safety and health.” At its recent annual conference, the institute recognized Murphy, Kiernan and three other researchers for their study of 216 small farms in Pennsylvania comparing the efficacy of safety education alone versus education plus hazard self-audits.

Jeff Niemann, assistant professor of civil engineering, received the 2001 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers for his proposal, "Scaling Properties and Spatial Interpolation of Soil Moisture." The award, issued by the National Science and Technology Council, recognizes and honors outstanding scientists and engineers at the outset of their independent careers and is the highest honor bestowed by the U.S. government on scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers.

Spencer G. Niles has been elected president of the National Career Development Association. Niles begins serving as president-elect in July and assumes the presidency in 2003.

Helen O'Leary, associate professor of art, received a grant from the Irish Department of Cultural Affairs to work on a collaborative site-specific project with Irish artist Katie Holten. The project, titled "Plot," will be included in the "Archipelago" exhibit which opens June 14 at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. O'Leary also will participate in an exhibition of five Irish artists at the Heggarty Museum of Art in Milwaukee, Wis. The exhibit opens in June and will run through September. She was recently invited to participate in a group exhibition for Ballinglen Fellows at the Community Arts Center in Wallingford. O'Leary is the recipient of the Irish Arts Council/Tyrone Guthrie residency in New Delhi, India. She and Holten will travel to New Delhi to collaborate with local craftspeople at the Sanskriti Foundation.

Simone Osthoff, assistant professor of art in the College of Arts and Architecture’s School of Visual Arts, exhibited her large-scale mixed-media drawings in a solo exhibition titled “Palindromes” at the Universidade de Brasília. Osthoff was a visiting artist at the University of Brasília as part of a faculty exchange program established in the fall of 2001 between the College of Arts and Architecture and the University of Brasília.

Roxanne Parrott, professor of communication arts and sciences, will serve on the Institute of Medicine's Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Board. Her term of service will span 2002 through 2005. The institute was established in 1970 by the National Academy of Sciences to be an adviser to the federal government in identifying issues of medical care, research and education.

PATHS, a curriculum designed by Mark T. Greenberg, the Edna Peterson Bennett chair in human development and family studies, and Carol Kusche of Seattle, has received the Exemplary Substance Abuse Prevention Program Award from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. PATHS, or "Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies," is one of only 25 programs to be named as a model program by the organization for preventing and reducing illegal drug use, alcohol abuse and other risky behaviors in communities across America.

The American Academy of Family Physicians honored Penn State College of Medicine Family Medicine Interest Group with a Program of Excellence Award for its efforts in stimulating interest in family medicine. The group was recognized along with nine other recipients at the Academy’s National Conference in Kansas City, Mo.

The Kid’s Times Web site, http://www.kidstimes.org/, developed by Penn State Public Broadcasting and WPSX-TV has been selected for inclusion in the American Library Association’s Great Web Sites for Kids located at http://www.ala.org/parentspage/greatsites/amazing.html. Targeted at children 14 and under, Kid’s Times was selected for its outstanding content and conception.

Robert N. Proctor, Ferree professor of the history of science, has been named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Proctor specializes in 20th-century science, technology and medicine, and controversy in those fields -- including what he terms the cultural production of ignorance (agnatology).

Donna Queeney, associate professor of adult education, was recently named a fellow of the University Continuing Education Association, the national professional association for continuing higher education.

Clive A. Randall, professor of materials science and engineering and director of the Center for Dielectric Studies, was presented with the Richard M. Fulrath Award at the 2002 American Ceramic Society meeting held in St. Louis. This award recognizes outstanding academic and industrial ceramic engineers/scientists who are 45 years of age or younger at the time of presentation.

Dhushy Sathianathan, associate professor of engineering design, presented the keynote address at the Second Engineering Education Forum sponsored by the Society of Engineers/United Arab Emirates at the University of Sharjah, UAE. Sathianathan's talk, "Strategies for Integrating Engineering Design and Professional Skills," focused on ways in which the College of Engineering has incorporated engineering design and professional skills into the undergraduate engineering curriculum.

Steven Sawyer, associate professor of information sciences and technology and associate professor of management science and information systems, made presentations at two universities in the United Kingdom. Sawyer covered "Socio-technical Structures in Enterprise Systems Implementation: Evidence from a Five-Year Study" at Brunel University in London and at Bath University in Bath.

Dennis P. Scanlon, assistant professor of health policy and administration in the College of Health and Human Development, received the John D. Thompson Prize for Young Investigators from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration. The award recognizes a faculty member who has made significant research contributions in the health services field early in his or her career. Scanlon was recognized for his research that assesses the quality and performance of traditional- and managed-care health plans and measures the information that is available to consumers that allows them to make educated decisions about their health insurance coverage.

Ann Shostrom, assistant professor of art, is exhibiting her fabric art at the Rule Modern and Contemporary Gallery in Denver. Shostrom also organized a collaborative exhibition for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Denver. Titled "Archipelago, an Intimate Immensity," the exhibit will be on display through Sept. 8. Works by John Bowman, assistant professor in the School of Visual Arts; Chuck Cave, associate professor of art; and Helen O'Leary, associate professor of art; also are included in the exhibit.

Karl E. Spear, professor of materials science and engineering, recently was elected president of The Electrochemical Society, an international professional organization with approximately 8,000 members, for 2002-03.

David Spencer, assistant professor of aerospace engineering, has been selected to receive a 2002 NASA/ASEE Faculty Fellowship Award. Spencer will spend 10 weeks this summer working on trajectory analysis and software development for interplanetary spacecraft in the Navigation and Mission Design section of the California Institute of Technology's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.

S. Shyam Sundar, associate professor of communications and director of the Media Effects Research Laboratory, won the "Top Paper" award in the Information Systems Division of the International Communication Association. His paper, "Orienting Response and Memory for Web Advertisements: Exploring Effects of Pop-up Window and Animation," was co-authored by Fangfang Diao, a 2001 master-of-arts graduate of the Department of Speech of Communication and currently a doctoral student at Rutgers University.

Bernard R. Tittmann, Schell professor of engineering, presented an invited lecture to employees of the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, Germany. Titled “Ultrasonic Velocity and Attenuation of Lunar Return Samples and Their Role in the Interpretation of Lunar Seismic Data,” Tittmann’s lecture dealt with the acoustic methods he used to examine lunar rocks for NASA. Tittmann also presented an invited lecture titled “Quality Control with Ultrasound: Recent Trends and Developments” at the Eighth European Conference on Non-Destructive Testing in Barcelona, Spain. Tittmann’s talk focused on developments in the use of non-contact ultrasound to monitor quality control, including the rapid detection of cracks in moving railroad car wheels.

Patrick Terenzini, professor and senior scientist at the Center for Higher Education, along with Carol L. Colbeck, senior research associate in the College of Education; John M. Parente, graduate student in higher education; Stefani A. Bjorklund in the College of Engineering; and Alberto F. Cabrera of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, received the William Elgin Wickenden Award at the annual conference of the American Society for Engineering Education in Montreal. Terenzini and his co-authors were honored for their paper, "Collaborative Learning vs. Lecture/Discussion: Students' Reported Learning Gains," which appeared in the Journal of Engineering Education.

Barbara Van Horn, co-director of the Institute for the Study of Adult Literacy and the Goodling Institute for Research in Family Literacy, has been named the 2002 Outstanding Adult Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania Association of Adult Continuing Education.

Marjorie Wilson, associate professor of art education, presented her paper, "The Essential Layer in Photoshop: Meaning (aka It's the Meaning, Stupid)," at the international meeting of the National Art Education Association in Miami. Art education students from the College of Arts and Architecture joined her in the presentation by discussing course work in which they explored issues and ideas surrounding their place in the world and issues they planned to pursue in the future.

James Wines, professor of architecture, exhibited his work in an international exhibition, “Architecture in Context,” at Fonds Regional D’art Contemporain du Centre in Orleans, France. The exhibition featured Wines’ models and drawings for architecture and landscape architecture projects since 1960, including work he completed for SITE, a multi-disciplinary environmental arts and architecture organization he founded in 1970.

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission has selected a timber frame model built by Department of Architecture students for permanent exhibition at the historic Old Economy Village in Ambridge. The model, built by second-year architecture students Harley Pearson and Shaun Patchell, displays the heavy timber wood frame of the Granary Building, originally constructed in 1830. The model was executed for the Materials and Construction I (ARCH 203) class taught by Scott Wing, associate professor of architecture.

Three faculty members from the College of Engineering have been named to the board of directors of the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE). The faculty members are Dean David Wormley; John Lamancusa, professor of mechanical engineering and director of the Learning Factory; and Renata Engel, professor of engineering graphics and engineering science and mechanics and director of the Schreyer Institute for Innovation in Learning. Lamancusa will serve as chair of ASEE's Professional Interest Council I and Engel will serve as chair of the Council of Sections, Zone I.

The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) selected Penn State's most recent halftime public service announcement to receive the Circle of Excellence Gold Award. The winning announcement, which predicted the future careers of adorable infants, was awarded the highest honor in the national competition. Written and directed by Goose, a Philadelphia-based advertising agency headed by a Penn State alum, the announcement debuted on national television last fall during Penn State football games. To view the winning video, check the Web at http://www.psu.edu/ur/stories/BabiesSpot/baby_spot.mov.

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