Open House in Astronomy Wednesday Oct. 20, 2010 7:00 p.m. 180 REDC Join Dr. Marc Imhoff of NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland for an astronomical presentation. Following the lecture, there will be a viewing of the stars at Mehalso Observatory. qtecee c,-/' Zh, i.4..),,,(-: "Science is built up of facts, as a house is built of stones; but an accumulation of facts is no more a science than a heap of stones is a house." —Henri Poincare Doctoral program tops the charts RYAN GULA S( ('<l/tot Nte'n times, students de bate whether or not to go hack to school. Penn State students who graduate with a Doctorate in the sciences will have a little more to brag about according to the National Research Council (NRC). The comprehensive eval uation is of over 5,000 doc toral programs at 212 Universities. In over 60 fields Penn State has ranked amongst ivy league schools like Harvard, Yale, and Cornell in terms of their science doctoral pro grams. Over 20 separate charac teristics were evaluated to determine schools per formance which ranged from student performance to research performed by the faculty. Schools were given a range in which their per formance was ranked. Rather than assigning a Chemistry week presents new themes RYAN GULA science editor It's time again for the windows of OBS to be painted with the phrase, "National Chemistry Week." The week of Oct. 17 is designated as National Chemistry Week. The pur pose of Chemistry Week is to remind community members about the impor tance of chemistry in their daily lives. Penn State Erie's chem istry department has much planned to celebrate and educate students about Chemistry during the week. Tracy Halmi, a senior lecturer of chemistry, is heading the Erie Commu nity events this week. Events that will be open to the public and are free include, "Harry Potter Po tions" on Monday, Oct. 25, 'Hands - On Chemistry' ac tivities at Milicreek Mall on Saturday, Nov. 6. Another event will take place on Saturday Nov. 20 from 10 a.m.- 3 p.m. at Ex pEßlEnce Museum, attend ing the event includes free admission to the museum itself as well. On Friday, October 22nd, the Halloween Chemistry Spooktacular, sponsored by Penn State Behrend will kick off the Halloween sea son with its first annual Halloween Demonstration. This event will take place from 6:30p.m. to 7:15 p.m. at the mainstage ExpERI- Ence museum. It will be a $3 cost for members and an $8 cost for non-mem- number, the range system was used to more fairly as sign ranks. Penn State's top per forming courses included Anthropology and Kinesi ology. "It's exciting to see so many doctoral programs at I; Penn State doctoral research programs with notable sth and 95th percentile S-Rankings for overall program quality (numbers in parentheses represent total ranked programs in the field): Anthropology Plant Biology Nutrition Astronomy & Astrophysics Entomology Biology Food Science Meteorology Physics Statistics Mathematics Geography Plant Pathology Geosciences Chemistry Bio Chem, Microbiology, & Molecular Biology emistry in eature the movies. "The show will demon strate how the media uses chemistry in special effects and also examine some of the pseudo-science used in popular science-fiction." said Tracy Halmi. Last year, the event was very popular among the students in attendence, leaving only standing room at the event. All of these events were the top and so strong na tionally, based on these cri teria," said Rodney Erickson, executive vice president of Penn State in the press release. To put this accomplish ment into context, Harvard ranked between two and wor e to make the events possible, and still have more work planned, such as the An nual Window Painting at OBS. This will serve as an other reminder of the event this year. Wherever you look this week, it will be impossible to miss Chem istry Week, and will serve to remind all of chemistry's importance to everyday life and our quality of life. five while Stanford placed between three and nine. Both these schools trailing Penn State's rank of be tween one and two in An thropology out of 82 evaluated doctoral pro grams. 1 and 2 (82) 1 and 3 (116) 1 and 10 (44) 2 and 7 (33) 2 and 13 (28) 3 and 16 (120) 3 and 17 (31) 4 and 20 (50) 4 and 21 (161) 5 and 14 (61) 5 and 16 (127) 5 and 12 (49) 8 and 45 (116) 9 and 31 (140) 10 and 32 (178) 16 and 54 (159) Provided by Chemistry Club's website Photos above are pictures from 2007's Chemistry week. Professors assist students in chemistry projects through out the week for both chem, and non chem majors. Second Annual Chemistry Show Tuesday October 19th, at 7:00 p.m. l in 101 OBS Tropical moves into Cuba Tropical Storm weakens as it nears the Island's center ADAM FRACASSI 117,111dpflg ('(/it( Located 110 miles from the capitol city of Havana, Cuba, Tropical Storm Paula has just been down graded. Paula is a very small sys tem with winds up to 40 miles per hour. The system has contin ued to move northeast since early Monday morn ing. It is expected to con tinue moving northeast into Cuba. Paula is expected to pass western Cuba dumping heavy rain onto the island. Outer bands of the storm will move across the Florida Keys, causing rain and gusty winds through Storm Paula the weekend A tropical storm watch is in effect for the US from Crag Key west-ward to the Diy Tortugas. A tropical storm warning is in effect for the Provinces of La Haban and Cuidad de la Habana in Cuba. Meanwhile, in the Pacific Ocean, Megi strengthened. The storm currently has maximum sustained winds of 65 kilometers per hour. It is moving northwest. Megi is just short of being considered a Ty phoon and is expected to become one later this week. It is sitting in the waters of the Pacific near the Philippine Islands.
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