Nothing says "romantic" like a bronze JoePa

From today's Centre Daily Times:

How to identify a flasher

 From today's Centre Daily Times:

PSU campus flasher adds to spree

Sara Ganim

December 18, 2010 8:30am EST

UNIVERSITY PARK — Police have knocked on doors, increased security, and put up fliers. 

Residence assistants and coordinators are talking to students, but nothing seems to be convincing them to take seriously a growing number of indecent exposures, police said. 

And the masked man victimizing mostly Asian women on campus is continuing to get away with the crime without police being able to get any description of his face. 

A new high school sport - full contact chess?

Just when you thought the chess team was just for skinny, asthmatic, little nerds.

Trying to figure out how to get rid of that pesky farm smell?

Penn State, as a large and complex university, has a variety of centers, institutes, and laboratories dedicated to many different forms of research.  But who would have known that we have one dedicated to assessing smells?  Yes, our College of Agriculture has its own Odor Assessment Laboratory whose mission is "To study air emissions for the development of improved agricultural management strategies."  In other words, help figure out ways to alleviate that pesky manure smell we all hate about living in a rural area like State College.

Here's a video about the lab's work.