In the News
January 23, 2003

Research expenditures
pass half-billion dollar mark
Penn State's research expenditures -- funds received primarily from federal, industry, and foundation sources that are spent in Pennsylvania and stimulate the local economy-- passed the half-billion dollar mark in fiscal 2002.

ITS campaign urges compliance
with nation's copyright laws
Penn State has long taken the issue of copyright infringement seriously, and has encouraged its faculty, students and staff to become familiar with both national laws and University policies on the subject.

Florida emergency manager
named dual coordinator
Stephen Abrams, emergency manager of Alachua County, Fla., which includes the city of Gainesville and the University of Florida, has been named the emergency management coordinator for the Centre Region Council of Governments and Penn State, effective Feb. 17.

IST building on track
for completion
The new Information Sciences and Technology Building, already a landmark on the University Park campus, is expected to be completed as scheduled this November, according to the executive overseeing the project.

Faculty Senate has full
agenda for Jan. 28 meeting
The University Faculty Senate will meet at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, in 112 Kern Graduate Building on the University Park campus.

Biology prize includes
meeting with emperor
When Masatoshi Nei, Evan Pugh professor of biology and director of the Center for Molecular Evolutionary Genetics, was honored by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science with its International Prize for Biology, he also got another honor -- meeting the emperor of Japan.

Celebrating
King's legacy
The annual Martin Luther King Jr. Celebration March and Bell Ringing ceremony was held Friday, Jan. 17, on the University Park campus. The celebration is one of many events planned University-wide to honor King.

Nominations sought for
service, ally awards
The Commission on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Equity each year presents two awards to faculty, staff, students and technical-service workers across the University who strive to make Penn State a better place in which to live and work.

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