Photo
Gallery
Penn State Intercom......February
20 , 2003
Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel employees Denny Lucas, left, Tom Schilling, Rick Veruete and Polli McCartney teamed up to save the life of co-worker Terry Confer, who had a heart attack while at work Jan. 23. Photo: Greg Grieco
Macarthur Fellow
Lee Ann Newsom is the first Penn State faculty member chosen for this
honor. The MacArthur Fellowship awards $250,000 over a five-year period.
Photo: Greg Grieco
MacArthur Fellow Lee Ann Newsom
separates old seeds from new with the help of a microscope.
Photo: Greg Grieco
"A Journey Across Asia: Enduring Traditions and Customary Goods," is on display in the Exhibit Cases, HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus, through July 3. This exhibit provides a glimpse of traditional Asian cultures by including objects used by people from diverse backgrounds. For more information, call the HUB-Robeson galleries at (814) 865-2563 or check the Web at http://www.sa.psu.edu/galleries.
Bob Campbell, boiler operator, inspects the fire in one of the plant's five boilers. Four are heated by coal; the fifth uses natural gas. The coal is fed to the boilers by conveyor. Inside the furnace, temperatures reach between 1,500 and 2,000 degrees. Photos: Greg Grieco
A coal car, working on a counterweight system, hauls coal up to the coal bunker in the top floor of the building, dumps it into a tram car, shown, which travels horizontally across the floor and dumps the coal into a bunker, which holds 900 tons. Below, turbines generate electricity for various uses around campus.
The enormous coal hoppers on the second floor of the plant are fed by a coal car on a pulley system that brings coal up from the basement to the top floor and dumps it.