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Gallery
Penn State Intercom......April
3 , 2003
Peter Tozer, assistant professor
of animal science in the College of Agricultural Sciences, checks data
on the cows in the barns on the University Park campus. Thanks to the
extension of fiber optic networking to the barns and other facilities,
he and others are able to do research on the metabolic and milk production
processes of livestock that were not possible before.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Small transponders attached to the
cows' legs collect and transmit the data via the Internet to the researchers.
The official groundbreaking
ceremony for the SALA Building took place Saturday, March 29, at University
Park. The 111,382-square-foot structure, scheduled to be completed in
August 2004, will be located adjacent to the Arts Building, between the
Palmer Museum of Art and Beam Building. It is the first new Penn State
building designed to meet the national criteria for certification as environmentally
friendly "sustainable architecture" adhering to Leadership in Energy and
Environmental Design.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Penn State's source for wind-generated
electricity is Community Energy Inc. The company develops and markets
wind power from wind farms including the Exelon-Community Energy Somerset
Wind Farm, visible from the Pennsylvania Turnpike southeast of Pittsburgh.
The girders spanning North Atherton
Street are part of the ongoing construction of a pedestrian causeway
that will provide safe transit for walkers and bikers moving between
West Campus and the rest of University Park. The causeway is part of
the new Information Sciences and Technology Building. During construction,
North Atherton traffic is detoured during nighttime hours.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Mary Beth Oliver, associate profess or of communication and co-director of the Media Effects Laboratory, studied the violence depicted in movie previews in video rentals.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Learning
the ropes
Carly Immel, senior horticulture, left, and Richard Wynkoop, graduate student in forestry, get some climbing tips from guest lecturer Chris Klimas in Hort 497.
Nathan Lawfer, senior, landscape contracting, works his way up a tree. The class was climbing trees along Curtin Road on the University Park campus.
Chris Klimas, a 1984 horticulture alumnus from Davey Tree Expert Co. in Maryland, was guest lecturer for Hort 497A, which is taught by James Savage, research assistant. Klimas was a teaching assistant for this class in the early 1980s. The class prepares the students to climb trees to prune and maintain them. In addition to their ropes, the climbers have saws and other pruning equipment on their belts.
This quilt is part of the "Healing Garden Quilts" exhibit at the HUB-Robeson Center, University Park.
The musical "Cats" played to
sold-out audiences at Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus
March 25-26. For more photos, including photos of the stage setup, check
the Web at http://www.psu.edu/ur/extra/2003/cats2/
Photo: Annemarie Mountz