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10 unusual facts about Pennsylvania State University


Dima Grigoriev

During 1992–1998 Grigoriev hold the position of full professor at Penn State University.

I Love College

The song is mainly about a college party that Roth attended while visiting Pennsylvania State University, but is also related to his experience at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania.

Information Sciences and Technology Building

The Information Sciences and Technology Building (commonly known as the IST Building) is a classroom building at Pennsylvania State University.

Penn State Ice Pavilion

The Penn State Ice Pavilion is an 1,350-seat ice arena on the campus of The Pennsylvania State University located in University Park, Pennsylvania, United States.

Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth Campus

The Pennsylvania State University is a geographically dispersed university system with campuses located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Phi Sigma Iota

PSI became a national society when Beta Chapter was established at The Pennsylvania State University in April 1925.

Schreyer Honors College

The Schreyer Honors College (or SHC) is the honors program of the Pennsylvania State University.

T.C. Chan Center for Building Simulation and Energy Studies

The TC Chan Center was part of the proposed effort led by Pennsylvania State University for the US Energy Innovation Hub, called the Energy Efficient Buildings Hub (EEB HUB), which was previously known as the Greater Philadelphia Innovation Cluster (GPIC).

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice

The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice is a book written by Philip Jenkins, Distinguished Professor of History and Religious studies at Pennsylvania State University, dealing with contemporary anti-Catholic bigotry, particularly in the United States.

Yakov Eliashberg

He delivered the Porter Lectures at Rice University (1992), the Rademacher Lectures at the University of Pennsylvania (1996), the Marston Morse Lectures at the Institute for Advanced Study (1996), the Frontiers in Mathematics Lectures at Texas A&M University (1997), and the Marker Lectures at Pennsylvania State University (2000).


Alley Glacier

It was named by the Advisory Committee on Antarctic Names after Richard Alley of the Department of Geosciences, Pennsylvania State University, a United States Antarctic Program glaciologist who specialized in the study of ice streams of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.

Andrew Szczerba

Szczerba attended Penn State University and played football under head coaches Joe Paterno and Tom Bradley during his five seasons with the program.

Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts

The Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts (officially abbreviated as CPFA) is held each year in State College, Pennsylvania and on the campus of Pennsylvania State University.

CiteSeer

It was developed by researchers Dr. Isaac Councill and Dr. C. Lee Giles at the College of Information Sciences and Technology, Pennsylvania State University.

Controversy on the Delaware: A Look Upstream at the Tocks Island Dam Project

The documentary was first premiered at the regional National History Day competition in March 2006 at Pennsylvania State University Scranton/Wilkes-Barre campus, where it received first place for a senior group documentary.

David E. Pergrin

In his role as senior class president, he presented the university with the Class of 1940 gift - the Nittany Lion Shrine, a 14-ton limestone monument symbolizing the Penn State tradition.

Fawn Yacker

In 2009, she co-wrote, co-produced and co-directed with director Dee Mosbacher a one-hour documentary film entitled Training Rules, about the controversial women's basketball program ran by Rene Portland at Pennsylvania State University collegiate sports.

Frederick A. de Armas

De Armas holds a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (1969), and has taught at Louisiana State University (1969–1988), Pennsylvania State University (where he was Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Spanish and Comparative Literature) (1988–2000) and has been a visiting professor at Duke University (1994).

Gabe Norwood

In high school, he and his brother (Jordan Norwood, a former football player at Penn State where his father coached until 2007) were part of the state championship team at State College Area High School in State College, Pennsylvania.

Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel

The Garfield Thomas Water Tunnel is the U.S. Navy's principal experimental hydrodynamic research facility operated by the Penn State Applied Research Laboratory.

George J. Trautman, III

Lieutenant General Trautman earned a B.S. in Biology from Pennsylvania State University where he was a member of the Sigma Tau Gamma fraternity.

Henry M. Hoyt

Hoyt has a residence hall in the South Halls section of the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University named after him.

John L. McLucas

He received a bachelor of science degree from Davidson College in 1941, a master of science degree in physics from Tulane University in 1943, and his doctorate in physics from Pennsylvania State University in 1950.

John P. Surma

As the vice chairman of the Board of Trustees of Pennsylvania State University, Surma informed longtime Penn State football coach Joe Paterno late at night, and over the telephone, that he had been terminated without a hearing amid the media firestorm in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky sex abuse scandal.

Kooman and Dimond

Dani Girl has been workshopped at Carnegie Mellon University, Pennsylvania State University, the American Conservatory Theater, The Kennedy Center, The ASCAP/Disney Musical Theater Workshop, and CAP-21.

Louis Berger

He was a former faculty member of Pennsylvania State University's engineering department which designed a large portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike.

Maria Leavey

Leavey was born to an American soldier stationed in Pisa, Italy, grew up mostly in New York, and attended Trinity University in Washington and got a master's in American History from Pennsylvania State University.

Michigan State–Penn State football rivalry

The trophy, designed by former Michigan State coach George Perles, features pictures of Penn State's Old Main and Michigan State's Beaumont Tower.

Modern Language Association

The president in 2011 was Russell A. Berman (Stanford University and Hoover Institution); the first vice president was Michael Bérubé (Pennsylvania State University), who assumed the MLA presidency in 2012; and the second vice president was Marianne Hirsch (Columbia University), who advanced to first vice president in 2012 and became MLA President in 2013.

Nittany Lion

The Nittany Lion is the mascot of Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA and its athletic teams.

Orange, Red, Yellow

From June–December 1996 it was exhibited by the Palmer Museum of Art at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania for their "Abstraction to Figuration: Selections of Contemporary Art from the Pincus Collection" exhibition.

Penn State Nittany Lions baseball

The Penn State Nittany Lions baseball team is the varsity intercollegiate athletic team of the Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania, USA.

Phillip Knightley

He has lectured on journalism, law, and war at the Australian National Press Club in Canberra, the Australian Senate, City University, London, University of Manchester, Pennsylvania State University, University of California Los Angeles, Stanford University, the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Inner Temple, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), and to the University of Düsseldorf.

Raymond F. Lederer

He attended Saint Joseph's College of Philadelphia (now Saint Joseph's University) from 1960 to 1965, the Community College of Philadelphia from 1967 to 1969 and Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania, in 1972.

Rec Hall

Recreation Building, or Rec Hall as it is more commonly known, is a field house located on the University Park campus of the Pennsylvania State University.

Robert Yarber

Robert Yarber (born Dallas, Texas, 1948) is an American painter and Distinguished Professor of Art at Pennsylvania State University.

Russ Van Atta

Having attended grammar and secondary school locally in Augusta, Van Atta attended the Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) in State College, Pennsylvania.

Samuel Philip Sadtler

Sadtler was born at Pine Grove, Pa., the son of a Lutheran minister, and educated at Pennsylvania College (class of 1867), at Lehigh University (one year), at Lawrence Scientific School (BSc 1870), and in Europe at the University of Göttingen (PhD 1871).

Skylands Park

After the season the team was sold to a new ownership group based in University Park, Pennsylvania, home of Penn State University, and were relocated there to become known as the State College Spikes; they are currently a Pittsburgh Pirates affiliate.

SLC24A5

In a search for scientists who had human DNA linked to skin color measurements, he found that his Pennsylvania State University colleague, anthropologist Mark D. Shriver, had such DNA.

State Patty's Day

State Patty's Day is a student-led holiday that acts as a Pennsylvania State University alternative to the traditional Saint Patrick's Day.

Superleadership

Manz and Sims use the examples of Joe Paterno, head football coach for Penn State from 1966–2011, and Phil Jackson, head coach of the Los Angeles Lakers basketball team, as examples of superleadership in sport.

Theodore H. Blau

Dr. Blau earned his bachelor's, master's and Ph.D. degrees from Pennsylvania State University and completed his residency at the Veterans Administration hospital in Perry Point, Maryland.

Tiffany Weimer

After graduating from North Haven High School, Tiffany proceeded to attend Pennsylvania State University in University Park, Pennsylvania.

Towson University Jess and Mildred Fisher College of Science and Mathematics

It coordinates several dual degree programs, including engineering programs with the University of Maryland, College Park and Pennsylvania State University; a medicinal chemistry program with the University of Maryland School of Pharmacy, and a program with the University of Tasmania in biological sciences and aquaculture or Antarctic and southern ocean studies.

University of Arizona College of Optical Sciences

Lee Giles, (Ph.D.) David Reese Professor of Information Sciences and Technology, Professor of Computer Science and Engineering, Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems, Pennsylvania State University; Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and INNS.