For the week: June 20 — 26, 2005
Did You Know?
According
to research at the University of Chicago, birds dream about their songs,
have dream rehearsals, and sing the same songs better the next day.
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Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Meteorology alumnus establishes EMS Trustee Matching Scholarship. James H. ('53, '55) and Joan E. Meyer have donated over $50,000 to establish a Trustee Scholarship to support undergraduate meteorology students with need, who are pursuing studies in physical meteorology. [More] PSU alumnus ('78), expert meteorologist, and competitive bodybuilder, Joe Bastardi, recently won the Masters Division at the U.S.A. Bodybuilding Championships and placed third in his class in the Open Division. [Full Story] Altoona Curve Game Outing: PSUBAMS officers are planning a department outing to an Altoona Curve game on Thursday, September 1 (7:05 p.m.) and Zack Byko (zmb102@psu.edu) is still trying to estimate the number of tickets needed. Please email him as soon as possible if you would like to attend so he can order seats. Tickets will be approx. $5-7 depending on where the seats are purchased and if you are a PSUBAMS member. You will need to tell him in the email how many seats you need.
M.S. Defense:
Weiguo Wang passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Weiguo! Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html
Mark your calendar for the Annual EMS Ice Cream Social to be held on Thursday, July 28 at 2:00 p.m. in the Walker Building Courtyard. Meteorology alumnus establishes EMS Trustee Matching Scholarship. James H. ('53, '55) and Joan E. Meyer have donated over $50,000 to establish a Trustee Scholarship to support undergraduate meteorology students with need, who are pursuing studies in physical meteorology. [More] All EMS alumni and their families are invited for an "Arts Festival" breakfast on Saturday, July 16 from 9-11 a.m. on the ground floor of Deike Building. Please reserve in advance by contacting GEMS at 814-863-4667, gems@ems.psu.edu, or by completing the [online reservation form.] If you call or email GEMS, please provide the number of adults and the number of children under 12 that will be attending, as well as your graduation year and the department you graduated from. The breakfast is free, but please reserve in advance!
PSU alumnus ('78), expert meteorologist, and competitive bodybuilder, Joe Bastardi, recently won the Masters Division at the U.S.A. Bodybuilding Championships and placed third in his class in the Open Division. [Full Story] Alumnus Paul Tag (‘66, ‘68, ‘77) has recently completed his first novel, which was published by iUniverse. The novel, titled Category 5, is an espionage thriller that revolves around meteorology, and in particular, hurricane modification. Some of the background and action in the story takes place at Penn State during the early 1980s since the protagonist is a meteorologist and a Penn State graduate. Four years ago Paul retired from his career as a research meteorologist at the Naval Research Laboratory in order to write fiction. Interested alumni can read more about Paul and the novel by visiting: www.paulmarktag.com or www.category5thenovel.com. Penn
Stater Magazine Seeks Stories on Random Encounters Between Alumni:
Remember the time you bumped into some travelers at a roadside stop
in Austria who turned out to be fellow Penn Staters? The Penn Stater
wants to hear from you...[More]
University Announces Change to Fall 2005 Semester Calendar. Beginning fall semester 2005, the first day of classes (August 30) will follow a TUESDAY class schedule. But, the Tuesday before the Thanksgiving holiday (November 22) will follow a FRIDAY class schedule. [See full announcement.] Virtual
Tour of Walker Building: Meteorology students, Thomas Harrington,
Kira Altmann, and Stephanie Miller prepare a video tour of Walker
Building as part of Meteo 483. [Take
the Virtual Tour] Archived News: The weekly news is archived. See the link at the bottom of the page to access the archives.
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Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Altoona Curve Game Outing: PSUBAMS officers are planning a department outing to an Altoona Curve game on Thursday, September 1 (7:05 p.m.) and Zack Byko (zmb102@psu.edu) is still trying to estimate the number of tickets needed. Please email him as soon as possible if you would like to attend so he can order seats. Tickets will be approx. $5-7 depending on where the seats are purchased and if you are a PSUBAMS member. You will need to tell him in the email how many seats you need. M.S. Defense:
Weiguo Wang passed his Ph.D. defense. Congratulations Weiguo! Deadlines:
FALL 2005 COURSES
SPRING 2006 COURSES
Colloquium: There is no Department colloquium this week. The Department's weekly colloquia schedule can be viewed by visiting: http://www.met.psu.edu/dept/events/MeteoColloq.html Zack
Byko has won a National Weather Association Scholarship. Zachary
Byko has recently learned that he is the winner of the National
Weather Association's prestigious Arthur C. Pike Scholarship in
Meteorology. More
about the Arthur Pike Scholarship Altoona Curve Game Outing: PSUBAMS officers are planning a department outing to an Altoona Curve game on Thursday, September 1 (7:05 p.m.) and Zack Byko (zmb102@psu.edu) is still trying to estimate the number of tickets needed. Please email him as soon as possible if you would like to attend so he can order seats. Tickets will be approx. $5-7 depending on where the seats are purchased and if you are a PSUBAMS member. You will need to tell him in the email how many seats you need. Deadlines:
FALL 2005 COURSES
SPRING 2006 COURSES
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