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Penn State Intercom......October 24, 2002

Allison Brown, left, and Lindsay Tucker measure and cut a doorway for the Habitat for Humanity house they're helping to build.
For more photos from the construction site, click here.
Photo: Greg Grieco

Bill Asbury, vice president for Student Affairs, talks with Betty Moore, Director and Senior Analyst in the Division of Student Affairs, during one of the sessions at the recent Judicial Affairs Training Conference at University Park.
Photo: Greg Grieco

Bill Blair, director of the Civil War Era Center, was a tour guide for a group of faculty and staff during this year's Road Scholars Tour. Blair said the recent gift of $3 million by George and Ann Richards will have a major impact on the center, which already ranks among the top four or five institutions in the country in its field.
Photo: Annemarie Mountz

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Chuck Yesalis, professor of health policy and administration, and exercise and sport science, sits down to lunch with a number of his students at the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus. Yesalis and his students were part of Take Your Professor to Lunch, a program where students in classes with more than 60 enrolled have an opportunity to talk with the professor one-on-one. The program will be offered again next semester. For information, check the Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching Web site at http://www.psu.edu/celt/largeclass/take-a-prof.html.

Photo: Greg Grieco

"Syst'em, Too: Blob Lab," by Bob Sweeney, will be on display at the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus through Dec. 6.

With below-average temperatures and snow flurries in the forecast for areas of the state, it's not too early to think about weather-related cancellations. If severe weather creates an emergency, University Park faculty, staff and students can tune in to WPSU-FM, the University's public radio station, for the official update on activities on the campus.

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Autumn is here, as evidenced by the leaves falling on the paw of the Nittany Lion Shrine on the University Park campus. Several areas of the state already have received their first heavy frosts of the season.
Photo: Greg Grieco

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Chris Spotts, a member of the Office of Physical Plant landscape crew, works on the lawn at the trial gardens on the University Park campus. It won't be very long until the garden will be prepared for cold weather.
Photo: Greg Grieco

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Penn State's 2002 homecoming celebration brought the young and the young at heart to University Park to celebrate. Students put the finishing touches on parade floats at a staging area off Park Avenue.The homecoming celebration continued at Beaver Stadium Saturday, Oct. 19, where the Nittany Lions shut out Northwestern 49 to 0. For more photos, go to http://www.psu.edu/ur/extra/2002/homecoming/.
Photo: Annemarie Mountz

Michael Pishko, associate professor of chemical engineering, worked on the development of a three-dimensional biochip that contains tiny chemical reactor chambers where cells can grow combined with a microfluidics delivery system.
Photo: Greg Grieco

Bob Brownlee, a leisure studies graduate student working at Shaver's Creek Environmental Center, carries pumpkins from the field at Wasson Farm on Route 45 near the center, below. The pumpkins, above, will be used for the annual Shaver's Creek Environmental Center Children's Halloween Festival, which will be held Oct. 26 and 27.
Photos: Greg Grieco

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