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.
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"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
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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
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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.