Photo of the day for Jan. 2012
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Students make their way through the courtyard near the Life Sciences and Thomas buildings on Penn State's University Park campus. Although the sun was shining on Wednesday afternoon (Jan. 18), temperatures were below freezing. That cold weather continued on Thursday, with snow in the forecast for Thursday night.
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The Human Race Machine challenges perceptions by morphing your facial image into various races, ages and defects. The machine in the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus on Monday, Jan. 16, is hosted by the the Penn State World Conversation Project and is one of numerous events that are part of the 2012 Martin Luther King Jr. Commemoration at University Park. For more on the commemoration, visit mlk.psu.edu online.
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Penglin Sun, a Ph.D. student in Plant Biology at Penn State, took RNA samples from petunia buds on Jan.13 at Buckhout Laboratory on the University Park campus. With temperatures outside in the teens, the controlled warmth of the Buckhout greenhouse allows the petunias to bloom out of season permitting research to continue throughout the year. Go to plantpath.psu.edu/ for more information about Penn State's Department of Plant Pathology.
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Students making there way to and from classes were greeted by spring-like weather on Jan. 9, the first day of the 2012 spring semester at Penn State's University Park campus. The forecast predicts unseasonably warm temperatures for the region throughout the first week of the new semester. Go to cws.met.psu.edu/ for weather forecasts compiled daily by students in Penn State's Department of Meteorology.
POTD 1312 blue band returns home
The Penn State Blue Band returned to the University Park campus on Jan. 3 from their performances at the 2012 TicketCity Bowl in Dallas, Texas. It was the Blue Band's 41st bowl game appearance in its 112-year history. To learn more about the Blue Band, visit www.blueband.psu.edu.
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At the direction of Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett, flags at all commonwealth facilities statewide should be lowered to half-staff immediately in memory of Joe Paterno, who passed away Sunday, Jan. 22. Flags wil remain at half-staff until Wednesday, Jan. 25.
