Winter 2001
Volume 3, Number 2



ON THE COVER


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* Dr. Ryan’s Commentary
* Cyberprofessors log on to promote learning
* Profile of a learning professional
* Students travel across nation to honor professor
* Sloan Foundation renews support for World Campus with $1 million
* Chinese minister for education visits Penn State
* Mainstreaming the World Campus
* On-line learning is focus of institute
* Dairy Alliance helps Pa. dairy industry
* Outreach teaching and military readiness
* University engineers certify smoke readers
* Law School offers programs
* PENNTAP helps small businesses in Philadelphia area
* Giant Food Stores and Penn State partner for business academy
* Worthington Scranton CE and Management Development help business
* Connecting forest scientists and landscape architects
* Conference updates tax specialists
* Nuclear Science and Technology Workshop for teachers
* Educators attend IST Faculty Academy in Information Technology
* Conference on ultrasonic transducers
* Protein and RNA folding symposium
* Mathematical modelers in applied sciences meet
* Conference on computer simulations in the sciences
* Materials Research Institute hosts symposium
* Higher education alumni celebrate anniversaries
* McNair Research Conference
* The everyday life of the Blues
* Program inspires art teachers
* Civil War Era Center holds institute
* Program offers teachers strategies to prevent school violence
* “Ask Prof. Science” Web site launched
* Bugs, Books and Biology
* National Autism Institute
* Penn State Lehigh Valley youth program
* Teen journalists turn Penn State into their beat
* 4-H Achievement Days
* Explorer Camp hits home run for ecology
* Camps turn children into scientists
* Governor’s School for Information Technology
* Penn State Fayette camp on Web design
* Three universities form outreach partnership
* Children build and launch rockets
* “Inside Outreach” news

On the cover: 1. Dr. Courtney Burroughs, College of Engineering; 2. Dr. Stewart Kurtz, College of Engineering; 3. Dr. John Park, Management Development Programs and Services; 4. Dr. Gary Gittings, The Smeal College; 5. Joseph R. Walk, Management Development Programs and Services; 6. Dr. A.J. Turgeon, College of Agricultural Sciences; 7. James Detwiler, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; 8. Dr. Linda Miller, The Smeal College; 9. Chris Miller, The Smeal College; 10. Dr. Drew W. Hyman, College of Agricultural Sciences; 11. Dr. Richard Mistrick, College of Engineering; 12. Dr. Frank Higdon, College of Agricultural Sciences; 13. Elizabeth Fletcher, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; 14. Dr. Todd Bacastow, College of Earth and Mineral Sciences; 15. Elizabeth Huttenlock, Penn State Abington; 16. Dr. Donald Kunze, College of Arts and Architecture; 17. Sally Knapp, College of Health and Human Development; 18. Dr. Jacob De Rooy, Penn State Harrisburg; 19. Dr. Claire Milner, College of the Liberal Arts; 20. Dr. Wakar Uddin, College of Agricultural Sciences; 21. Dr. Erdener Kaynak, Penn State Harrisburg; 22. Dr. Gary Kuhne, College of Education; 23. Dr. Andrew Peck, College of the Liberal Arts; 24. Dr. Mary Lou J. Kiel, College of Health and Human Development; 25. Dr. Thomas Yawkey, College of Education; 26. Dr. Connie Matthews, College of Education; 27. Dr. Gary San Julian, College of Agricultural Sciences; 28. Allan Gyorke, Center for Academic Computing; and 29. Dr. John D. Baildon, Penn State Worthington Scranton.

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