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Penn State Intercom......January
23 , 2003
Graduate Student
Kimberly Wain and Joseph Perez, adjunct professor of chemical engineering,
collaborated on a research project that shows how cooking oils can boost
performance of low-sulfur diesel fuels and engine lubricants. For details
on their research, see the research section in the center of this issue.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Masatoshi Nei, Evan
Pugh professor of biology, left, was presented with the International
Prize for Biology. Saburo Nagakura, right, president of the Japan Academy
and chairman of the Committee on the International Prize for Biology,
made the presentation. Seated at the back right are the emperor and empress
of Japan. Other dignitaries who spoke in honor of Nei during the ceremony
are at left.
Photo: Kyodo News
Joseph Perez, adjunct
professor of chemical engineering, examines a diesel/vegetable oil sample.
Photo: Greg Grieco
Eric Silver, assistant
professor of crime, law and justice and sociology, has researched the
vulnerability of the mentally ill to being victimized.
Photo:
Greg Grieco
Ron Hand, exhibition designer at the Palmer Museum of Art on the University Park campus, puts the finishing touches on the signage for the exhibit "Rodin's Obsession: The Gates of Hell, Selections from the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Collection." These works, by sculptor Auguste Rodin, will be on display in the museum through June 1.
Photo: Greg Grieco
"A Passion for Quilts," an exhibit by the Centre Pieces Quilt Guild, will be on display in the HUB Gallery of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus through March 18. A reception will be held from 4 to 6 p.m. Jan. 24. For information on this and other exhibits on the University Park campus, visit http://www.sa.psu.edu/galleries.
The new addition and entry to the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel are on the right in this sketch of what the 99,000 square-foot addition will look like.
Audience members, below, picked up bells , above, on their way into Alumni Hall at the HUB-Robeson Center, and rang them on cue in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. and the ideals for which he died.
Terrell Jones, vice provost for Educational Equity, leads the line of marchers away from Old Main toward downtown State College. Students from area schools joined University faculty, staff, students and administrators in braving the cold to join the march.
