2007 Venue
The conference venue will be the new Stuckeman Family Building, home to the School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture. The 110,000-square-foot facility, Penn State's first LEED-rated building, has a number of presentation, meeting, and gathering spaces suitable for hosting the CELA conference.
The Department of Landscape Architecture has a student body of 220 undergraduates and more than twenty graduate students. It has twenty full-time faculty members and four associated centers: the Hamer Center for Community Design Assistance, the Center for Watershed Stewardship, the Historic Places Initiative, and the Stuckeman Center for Design Computing.
Penn State's University Park campus is surrounded by the town of State College, which lies in the picturesque Nittany Valley of central Pennsylvania, between the Appalachian ridges and valleys and the Allegheny Plateau. State College is a community of about 40,000; the University has a student population of about 44,000 on this campus, and a total of 40,000 at twenty-three other locations.
The campus has art, anthropology, and sports museums, and smaller galleries. Among the various recreational opportunities it offers are two fine golf courses. A favorite stop for visitors in the summer is the University Creamery, which produces the largest amount of ice cream of any university in the country—including a flavor named in honor of Penn State's noted football coach, Peachy Paterno.
The College of Agricultural Sciences' Ag Progress Days event will be "in progress" during the week of the CELA conference. For those who enjoy hiking, the University has the Stone Valley Recreation Area (along with an environmental center, Shaver's Creek) about fourteen miles from the campus, and central Pennsylvania has numerous state parks. Among the other attractions in the area are several Amish communities, the Boalsburg Military Museum, and Penn's Cave. For more information about the State College area, visit http://www.visitpennstate.org/
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