Photo of the Day set for July 2012. Variety of locations around Penn State's University Park campus.
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Penn State football players Miles Dieffenbach and Mike Farrell were greeted by an estimated crowd of 2,500 fans as they made their way into the Lasch Football facility on the University Park campus for early-morning workouts on July 31. Fans from around the region showed up early for 'Rise and Rally', to show support for the football team.
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Courtney Claypool, a Penn State senior majoring in animal science, led a foal through the pasture at Penn State's John Almquist Research Center's Equine Facility on the University Park campus on July 30. Claypool is one of many students from the College of Agricultural Sciences working this summer at the horse breeding and teaching facility. Go to... Read more ›
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Penn State women's soccer coach and former Olympian Erica Walsh, left, described the excitement of representing the USA in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games during a panel discussion with Penn State Olympians held July 26 at the All-Sports Museum on the University Park campus. Walsh was joined by fellow Penn Staters, and former Olympians, Mary Ellen Clark, diving 1992 and 1996, Royal Mitchell,... Read more ›
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The Olympic Medal earned in 1992 by diver and Penn Stater Mary Ellen Clark was on display during a panel discussion with Penn State Olympians on July 26 at the All-Sports Museum on the University Park campus. The event included Clark, Erica Walsh, 2008 women's soccer, Royal Mitchell, 2000 and 2004 Paralympics track and field, and Char Morrett, 1984 field hockey. Go to... Read more ›
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Steven Gaddis, a Penn State senior majoring in architecture, sketched the front of the HUB-Robeson Center on the University Park campus on July 20. Gaddis and other students from Penn State's Stuckeman School of Architecture will sometimes sketch existing buildings to hone their skills in communicating original designs and ideas visually rather than verbally. Go to... Read more ›
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Chuck Coder of the Office of Physical Plant's Renovation Services performs maintenance on an upper-story window of Ritenour Building on Penn State's University Park campus. This type of work is done across campus every summer.
POTD Spend A Summer Day
Families arrive at Penn State's University Park campus for Spend A Summer Day, a campus open house for prospective first-year students to learn about admissions, academics and student life at Penn State.
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Volunteers helped photographer Sam Pathi, left, construct his booth for the 2012 Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts on July 11. Pathi is one of more than 1,000 artists who will exhibit their work at the sidewalk sales at this summers Arts Festival. He will be presenting and selling his photographs at booth M 34/35 outside Willard Building on Penn State's University Park campus.
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Bob Wilkins rigged stage lights for the Old Main Shell located on the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus on July 10. The Old Main shell will host a variety of performances throughout the 5 day Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts that begins with Children's Day on Wed. July and runs through the weekend in downtown State Colllege and on the University Park campus. Go to... Read more ›
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One of the many ducks who spend their summer near University House on Penn State's University Park campus escaped the heat on July 6 with a swim in the pond adjacent to the oldest building on campus. University House was completed in 1864 and was home to eleven Penn State presidents.Today the home is part of the Hintz Family Alumni Center.
