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President Barack Obama acknowledges the audience as he takes the podium in Rec Hall on Thursday, Feb. 3, to speak about a new collaboration with the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State. In addition to the speaking engagement, Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu toured research... Read more ›
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Many who attended President Barack Obama's speaking event on Thursday, Feb. 3, at Rec Hall on the University Park campus chose to document it with personal cameras.
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President Barack Obama addresses the audience at Rec Hall on the University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3, as he talks about the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State.
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President Barack Obama addresses the audience at Rec Hall on the University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3, as he talks about the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State.
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President Barack Obama addresses the audience at Rec Hall on the University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3, as he talks about the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State.
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President Barack Obama addresses the audience at Rec Hall on the University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3, as he talks about the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State.
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President Barack Obama addresses the audience at Rec Hall on the University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3, as he talks about the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient Buildings at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, a federally-funded research initiative led by Penn State.
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Excited crowd members take pictures of President Barack Obama as he greets the crowd in Rec Hall on campus at Penn State after speaking to a crowd of several thousand about a new energy innovation initiative in which Penn State is participating. Obama's visit included a tour of the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab, which is contributing to the Energy Innovation Hub for Energy Efficient... Read more ›
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President Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, far right, discuss a featured architectural engineering project being completed by Jim Freihaut, third from right, and his students Hiroki Ota, second from left, and Pat Allen, left, as part of Obama's tour of the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab.
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President Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, far right, discuss a featured architectural engineering project being completed by Jim Freihaut, third from right, and his students Hiroki Ota, second from left, and Pat Allen, left, as part of Obama's tour of the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab.
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President Obama and U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu, far right, discuss a featured architectural engineering project being completed by Penn State Associate Professor Jim Freihaut and students. Obama toured the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab as part of his Better Buildings Initiative, a plan to improve energy efficiency of U.S. commercial building space over the next nine years....
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President Obama and Penn State Associate Professor Jim Freihaut discuss a high-powered vacuum cleaner in the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab, which is run by Freihaut
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President Barack Obama examines the results of a high-powered vacuum cleaning system, a product of the Architectural Engineering Structures Lab led by Penn State Associate Professor Jim Freihaut
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Allison Hedges, a senior broadcast communications major, and Bill Gardner, a multimedia production specialist, set up a camera for the Centre County Report at 5 a.m. in Rec Hall for President Barack Obama's speech on Thursday, Feb. 3. Photo and video pre-set took place from 5 to 6 a.m., just before the Secret Service's final security sweep of the building before the president's visit.
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Katie O'Toole, left, and Patty Satalia were co-hosts of a live Big Ten Network broadcast of President Barack Obama's speect in Rec Hall on Penn State's University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3. Here, they're rehearsing their opening in preparation for the president's arrival.
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Penn State football coach Joe Paterno acknowledges the crowd at Rec Hall, which erupted into cheers as he arrived for President Barack Obama's speech on Thursday, Feb. 3.
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Roughly 3,000 people gathered at Rec Hall on Thursday, Feb. 3, to hear President Barack Obama speak about Penn State's role in energy innovation.
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Lutheran minister Alicia Anderson gave the invocation in advance of President Barack Obama's speech at Rec Hall on Thursday, Feb. 3.
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Cadet Michael Miller, a senior secondary education major in Army ROTC, led the Pledge of Allegiance after the invocation at the start of the event featuring President Barack Obama speaking at Rec Hall on Penn State's University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3.
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Paul-Jordan Jansen, a musical theatre major, sang the National Anthem after the Pledge of Allegiance at the start of the event that featured President Barack Obama speaking at Rec Hall on Penn State's University Park campus on Thursday, Feb. 3.
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