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Pennsylvania state university (561)

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The Pennsylvania Humanities Council designated the year 1985 as "The Year of the Pennsylvania Writer." The PHC funded projects in eight locations throughout the Commonwealth to gain appreciation, understanding, and recognition for past and present Pennsylvania writers. The State College/University Park location held a two-stage conference and related events by five Centre County regional organizations. Pennsylvania State University celebrated its centennial in 1955....

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Pennsylvania State University. Archives (165)

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Centre County, in the ridge and valley region of central Pennsylvania, is the home of The Pennsylvania State University. The county seat is the historic borough of Bellefonte. The Pennsylvania State University was founded as The Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, and the original objective was to support agricultural education and develop new methods of growing and production. The school took on a new mission and name in 1862 with the passing of the Morrill Land Grant...

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Pennsylvania State University. Intercollegiate Athletics (33)

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The Penn State women's track and field team was organized in 1974, and competed in indoor and outdoor events sponsored by the AIAW in the Eastern Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women, which merged with the Eastern College Athletic Conference in 1983. The squad won numerous individual and team titles. Penn State has competed in NCAA events since 1981, and in the Big Ten since 1992, winning several conference team titles and numerous individual accolades. Under head coach Beth Al...

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Pennsylvania state university, Libraries (9)

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Penn State's first library collection was housed in Old Main, moving to the Carnegie Library Building in 1904. Pattee Library opened by 1940 and the Paterno Library and renovated Pattee Library opened in 2000. As of 2007, the University Libraries included 36 University Park and Campus libraries at 24 locations throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The Staff Association was informally founded in 1940 "to plan programs of professional and cultural interest, to provi...

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Pennsylvania State University Press (4)

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The Pennsylvania State University Press is the publishing arm of the university which serves the University community, citizens of Pennsylvania, and scholars worldwide by publishing books and journals with an emphasis on the humanities and social sciences, books about University life and history, and Pennsylvania history. The Pennsylvania State University Press traces its origins back to 1945, when the university created a committee "to study the advisability and practicability of establishin...

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Pennsylvania State University. Graduate School (4)

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Penn State's first graduate students completed their degrees in 1863 under the first President of the Farmer's High School, Evan Pugh; they were Augustus King and Alfred Smith, both of whom earned the Master of Scientific Agriculture degree. Between 1863 and the creation of the Graduate School in 1922, almost nine hundred students began graduate studies at Penn State (although not all of them completed their degrees). President John Thomas established the Graduate School in 1922; Frank D. Ker...

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Pennsylvania State University at Erie (4)

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Pennsylvania State University at Erie began in 1948 as The Behrend Center of Penn State, offering the first year of college courses. In 1959, it became The Behrend Campus of Penn State, and in 1973, Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, granting four-year and graduate degrees. The usages of its name between 1973 and now have varied widely, but it is commonly known as the Pennsylvania State University at Erie.

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Pennsylvania State University. McKeesport Campus (4)

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As early as 1934, the Pennsylvania State College offered technical courses in various locations in Pittsburgh and McKeesport to train industry workers. In 1948, The Penn State McKeesport Center opened in Dravosburg to provide occupational training and self-enrichment courses for returning veterans. The Center moved to McKeesport in 1952, established associate degree programs and graduated its first students in 1955. That same year a group of area businessmen formed the Penn State McKeesport A...

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Pennsylvania State University. Office of the President (5)

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Pennsylvania State University. College of Engineering (4)

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Penn State historian Michael Bezilla writes that "Engineering education was important in the context of land grant education from [Penn State's] ... earliest years." A class in engineering was part of the first curriculum of the Farmers' High School in 1859. From 1890 to 1910, it enrolled at least one half of Penn State's undergraduates. The percentage remained over one-fourth until the 1930s. The School of Engineering was established in 1895, with classes in civil, electrical, mechanical, an...

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