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| The following photo stories have appeared on Penn State Newswires or on the Penn State Live Web site between May 3, 2001, and Dec. 13, 2002. For the current index, click here. To subscribe to the Penn State Newswire, click here. December 13, 2002 Hometown support Happy Valley’s hometown favorite, Larry Johnson, has plenty of support for the Heisman Trophy. The senior Penn State running back, who last night won the Maxwell award, given to the nation's top collegiate football player, and the Doak Walker Award, presented annually to the nation's top collegiate running back, and was named the Walter Camp Player of the Year and a first team Walter Camp All-American, is getting a great deal of backing from State College’s business district where blue and white “LJ for the Heisman” posters are plastered on doors and windows throughout downtown State College. For photos, click here. December 11, 2002 Kid Fit! offers a healthy start for children As a University of Promise, Penn State is committed to making life better for youth. One of the "promises" is to provide a healthy start to young people and an example of this effort is KID FIT!, offered by Penn State Recreational Sports Fitness at the University Park campus. For photos, click here. December 5, 2002 First significant snowfall of season blankets Penn State The calendar may say the start of winter is still more than two weeks away, but people at Penn State's University Park campus awoke to a wonderland of white this morning. Approximately 7-9 inches of snow are forecast to fall on campus through Thursday, with some other Penn State locations -- particularly in the southern and eastern parts of the Commonwealth -- expecting nearly a foot of the white stuff. For photos, click here. December 4, 2002 Savion brings 'da noise to Eisenhower Auditorium Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk starring Savion Glover brought down the house at Eisenhower Auditorium on the University Park campus Tuesday night. For photos, click here. November 16, 2002 Toby Keith, Rascal Flatts play Bryce Jordan Center Country music returned to The Bryce Jordan Center Saturday night (Nov. 16), as singer-songwriter Toby Keith, with special guest Rascal Flatts, performed at 7:30 p.m. For photos, click here. November 15, 2002 Quotable: Tom Curley, president and publisher of USAToday
--Tom Curley, speaking to Penn State students about the issues facing the newspaper industry and the journalism field today (Nov. 15) in the HUB-Robeson Center Auditorium on the University Park campus. Curley came to campus to help Penn State celebrate the fifth anniversary of its Newspaper Readership Program, the largest readership program in the nation. For more about the newspaper readership program, click here. November 14, 2002 Spiritual Center expansion progressing The roof is on, and the interior rooms are beginning to take shape in the Pasquerilla Spiritual Center on the University Park campus. The project, which is expected to be completed at the end of March, will add roughly 29,400 square feet of worship and program space to the existing Eisenhower Chapel, which currently is roughly 24,000 square feet. The resulting building will be one of the largest religious centers on a public university campus in the nation. For the full story and photos, click here. November 11, 2002 Penn State honors our nation's veterans Freedom is never free -- it comes with a price, retired U.S. Marines Col. Gerald F. Russell told those who assembled today at Old Main on Penn State's University Park campus to honor the nation’s veterans. For the full story and photos, click here. November 9, 2002 Behind the scenes at Beaver Stadium A lot more goes on in Beaver Stadium on the University Park campus on a football Saturday than is immediately apparent to the average football fan. Amy Neil, assistant manager of the News Bureau in the Department of Public Information, and senior advertising/public relations student Courtney Beisel spent the day at the stadium this past Saturday and captured some of the other activities that were going on off the field while the Nittany Lions battled Virginia. For the full story and photos, click here. October 31, 2002 Yes to play at BJC tonight Yes, a progressive rock from the 1970s, will perform at 8 tonight at The Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus. The band arrived this morning with its equipment, and the Jordan Center is currently being set up for tonight's show. For the full story and photos, click here. October 23, 2002 Enrollment stays within plans for modest growth Following a year of record applications to the University, Penn State has seen enrollment growth continue its upward trend, setting a new record while staying within the University's plans of controlled and modest growth. For the full story and graphics, click here. October 24, 2002 House going up with student design and labor Students are helping to fill the fall air with the sound of hammers and saws on Cherry Street in Port Matilda so that a deserving local family will have a new home to stay warm in soon. In the spirit of service learning, volunteer students from a variety of academic disciplines raised the funds for, designed and are building one of the two new Habitat for Humanity houses that are going up side-by-side in the small Centre County town. For the full story and photos, click here. October 21, 2002 Hooray for homecoming Penn State’s 2002 homecoming celebration brought the young and the young at heart to University Park to celebrate this past weekend. Homecoming activities included a reception at the Hintz Family Alumni Center and the homecoming parade, both held Friday, Oct. 18. The celebration continued at Beaver Stadium Saturday, Oct. 19, where the Nittany Lions shut out Northwestern 49 to 0. For photos, click here. October 4, 2002 Sixers practice at Jordan Center Named the 2000-2001 NBA Coach of the Year, Philadelphia 76ers Head Coach Larry Brown has brought the Sixers to The Bryce Jordan Center on Penn State's University Park campus for the third consecutive year to prepare for the NBA season. For the full story and photos, click here. September 27, 2002 Students, potential employers meet at Fall Career Days 2002 Students had a chance to network with representatives from nearly 500 organizations during Fall Career Days 2002, held at The Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus Sept. 25-27. For the full story and photos, click here. September 21, 2002 Rush to Recycling A significant amount of recyclables was collected by 88 student volunteers at Beaver Stadium after Saturday’s football game against Louisiana Tech. The students were joined by David Hess, secretary of the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and several recycling mascots for the kickoff of a “Rush to Recycling” campaign. Through the campaign, the University has been challenged to increase the amount of recycled material collected at the games and on campus. For the full story and photos, click here. September 20, 2002 Gubernatorial Debate at Eisenhower Auditorium The first face-to-face salvos in Pennsylvania's race for the governor's office were fired last night on the Penn State campus in the initial IssuesPA Gubernatorial Debate of the fall campaign season. The event drew a crowd of approximately 1,100 to Eisenhower Auditorium as well as live viewers of the seven public broadcasting stations comprising the Pennsylvania Public Television Network. For the full story and photos, click here. August 24, 2002 Students get help moving in The classrooms, computer labs, cafes and sidewalks of the University Park campus and downtown State College are once again teeming with student life as Penn State's Fall 2002 semester debuts today (Aug. 27) and "Happy Valley" sheds its bucolic summer skin for a more metropolitan look. For the full story and photos, click here. August 18 , 2002 Black Alumni Reunion Weekend The Black Alumni Reunion Weekend was held on the University Park campus Friday, Aug. 16, through Sunday, Aug. 18. For the full story and photos, click here. August 22 , 2002 Sights from Ag Progress Days More exhibitors, more displays, more demonstrations, more information, more food and more entertainment -- this could be the best Ag Progress Days ever, says event manager Bob Oberheim, who calls the 2002 show the most diverse yet. For the full story and photos, click here. August 12 , 2002 Media Day at Beaver Stadium Penn State hosted its annual football media day on Saturday (Aug. 10), welcoming nearly 200 media members from across Pennsylvania and around the region for a preview of the upcoming Nittany Lion football season. Head coach Joe Paterno spoke with the press, who were given a tour of the stadium facilities, and players were on hand for interviews and photos. For the full story and photos, click here. July 12, 2002 Arts Festival enjoys good weather The sidewalk sales portion of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts opened yesterday and continue through Sunday, with mild weather ushering bustling crowds of viewers and buyers into downtown State College and onto Penn State's University Park campus. More than 350 fine artists and craftspeople from throughout the United States and Canada are on hand through Sunday, July 14, for the festival's largest edition in more than a decade. For the full story and photos, click here. July 12, 2002 SALA Building is Penn State's first certified sustainable architecture Carlisle, Pa. – Sketch/preliminary plans for the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA) Building at the University Park campus, the first new Penn State building being designed to meet the national criteria for certification as environmentally-friendly “sustainable architecture,” were approved by the Board of Trustees today (July 12) at its meeting at the Dickinson School of Law of The Pennsylvania State University. For the full story and photos, click here. June 12, 2002 Rao honored in White House ceremony More than 200 people gathered in the East Room of the White House today (June 12) to witness the awarding of 15 National Medals of Science and five National Medals of Technology. Among those honored was Calyampudi R. Rao, emeritus holder of the Eberly Family chair in statistics and director of the Center for Multivariate Analysis at Penn State. For the full story and photos, click here. June 7, 2002 Taliaferro cheers on Special Olympics crowd Former Penn State football player Adam Taliaferro ignited the crowd at last night’s (June 6) opening ceremony for the Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games 2002. As honorary chairman for the games, Taliaferro made a deal that the Olympians couldn’t refuse. For the full story and photos, click here. June 5, 2002 Penn State goes live at the Apollo Theatre Guidance counselors, community leaders and high school students from the New York City area gathered at the historic Apollo Theatre in Harlem, New York, June 4 — not for a major musical or theatrical performance, but for an annual “Get to Know Penn State” recruitment event. For the full story and photos, click here. May 22, 2002 Emergency drill a collaboration between Penn State and community A training exercise involving Penn State police, EMS, HazMat, along with more than a dozen local government and community agencies, was held Wednesday, May 22, at the University Park Airport. By federal law, the airport is required to conduct emergency drills every three years. For the full story and photos, click here. May 10, 2002 Commencement activities under way The University Park campus will hold its spring 2002 commencement ceremonies for approximately 6,222 associate, baccalaureate and graduate degree students this weekend. For the full story and photos, click here. May 8, 2002 Project will bring fine arts forum to downtown Penn State plans to open a 150-seat theater and fine arts gallery in the GN Center building on the corner of Allen Street and Beaver Avenue in State College. For the full story and photos, click here. May 7, 2002 Road Scholars tour southeastern Pennsylvania Day three of the seventh annual Road Scholars tour brought the group to historic Philadelphia, Kennett Square and Hershey. The tour was designed to help faculty connect with each other across disciplines and across campuses, as well as to learn about how Penn State works with business and industry throughout the state. For the full story and photos, click here. April 25, 2002 Faculty and staff take daughters to work The 10th annual Penn State Commission for Women's Take Our Daughters To Work Day was a big hit with participants on the University Park campus, as 190 mentors escorted 229 students to 39 different career sites Thursday. For the full story and photos, click here. April 23, 2002 Circus arrives at University Park Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey® Circus performers of the two- and four-legged variety arrived on the University Park campus yesterday afternoon and set up camp behind The Bryce Jordan Center, where the 131st Edition of The Greatest Show On Earth® will be featured Thursday through Sunday. For the full story and photos, click here. April 19-20, 2002 Public Television celebrates 50th anniversary The program vision for national, noncommercial,
educational television, what we now know as public television,
was established 50 years ago at a national conference at The Nittany
Lion Inn on the University Park campus and presided over by then-Penn
State President Milton Eisenhower. For the full story and photos, click here. April 17, 2002 Golf pro breaks Guinness World Record Christopher Cain, the PGA head golf professional at the Penn State Golf Courses, broke the Guinness World Record for the most golf holes played in 12 hours on April 17. Cain played a total of 505 holes, shattering the old record of 476. For the full story and photos, click here. March 21, 2002 Lady Lions get grand send-off Penn State Intercollegiate Athletics held a special send-off to honor the Lady Lion basketball team as it departed today (March 21) for the NCAA’s “Sweet Sixteen” in Milwaukee, Wis. The Pep Band, the Nittany Lion and cheerleaders saw the team off in The Bryce Jordan Center’s South Parking Lot. For the full story and photos, click here. March 15, 2002 Board of Trustees meets in Washington, D.C. The Board of Trustees met in Washington, D.C., March 14 and 15, marking the first time the board has met outside of Pennsylvania. “What happens in Washington directly affects what happens at Penn State,” said Penn State President Graham B. Spanier. “National education policies emanate from Washington, as well as federal funding for critical research, national defense concerns and student aid.” For the full story and photos, click here. March 1, 2002 Campus gates move As part of the construction for the Information Sciences and Technology Building, the Lion Gates at the Pollock Road-Atherton Street intersection on the University Park campus have to be relocated one block, to the intersection of Pollock Road and Burrowes Road. That process got under way Feb. 28. For the full story and photos, click here. Feb. 25, 2002 THON raises record amount This past weekend, 660 dancers hit the floor at Rec Hall on the University Park campus to participate in The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, a 48-hour, no-sitting, no-sleeping fundraising event that benefits The Four Diamonds Fund. The participants this year raised in excess of $3.6 million during the event. For the full story and photos, click here. Feb. 15, 2002 All-Sports Museum opens Sunday The new Penn State All-Sports Museum, located in the expanded southwest corner of Beaver Stadium, opened its doors to Penn State Newswire and other media yesterday for a sneak peek of what the public will see when the museum officially opens this Sunday, Feb. 17. For the full story and photos, click here. Nov. 26, 2001 Holiday tree raised in Old Main lobby Thanks to the donation of a tree from Moose Craul, of Maple Hill Farm in Wellsboro, Pa., the annual holiday tree was recently put in place and decorated in the lobby of Old Main.Many other trees decorate campus and offices throughout the University as well. For the full story and photos, click here. Nov. 14, 2001 Veterans honored The Penn State Veterans Organization honored all veterans of the U.S. military on the steps of Old Main at noon today (Nov. 9, 2001). The list of speakers included state Sen. Jake Corman, R-Bellefonte, and local military leaders. In addition, there was a rifle salute by the Pennsylvania Air National Guard. For the full story and photos, click here. Nov. 13, 2001 Memorial sculpture installed A memorial sculpture honoring the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks was installed Sunday, Nov. 11, in front of Pattee Library on the University Park campus. The sculpture features approximately 5,000 waterproof black panels representing the current number of people listed as dead or missing from the attacks. For the full story and photos, click here. Nov. 2, 2001 Bronze statue erected in honor of Joe Paterno A larger-than-life bronze sculpture of Joe Paterno, commissioned by Friends of Joe and Sue Paterno and Penn State, was erected earlier today outside the east side of Beaver Stadium. The statue, honoring Paterno’s contributions to the University and his becoming the NCAA Division I-A all-time victories leader with 324 victories, is approximately seven-feet tall and weighs almost 1,000 pounds. For the full story and photos, click here. June 8, 2001 Special Athletes More than 2,000 athletes from throughout Pennsylvania are participating in the annual Special Olympics Pennsylvania Summer Games which run from Thursday, June 7, through Saturday, June 9, at the University Park campus. For the full story and photos, click here. May 10, 2001 Road Scholars meet adventure on the highway A hardy band of travelers returned from their journey to the University's campuses in the eastern part of Pennsylvania. Here are some scenes from the road For the full story and photos, click here. May 3, 2001 End of semester evident at University Park Classes are over, finals are ending and the weather's ideal. That means that students are out and about on the University Park campus. For the full story and photos, click here. Back to Hot Topics index |
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