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Wood-Fired Pizza
"Every week, patrons of Farmers on the Square can count on locating the Dickinson College Farm's wood-fired pizza oven right at the heart of the square. Our handmade and fresh-baked pizzas reflect the seasonal fluctuations on our farm in addition to quality ingredients grown within the Cumberland Valley."
Fall Field Sport
Today we continue drilling into the transcript of proposed changes the International Code Council Group B tranche of titles relevant to our safety and sustainability agenda with attention to participant and spectator safety. Challenges to the committee decisions in Orlando in April were heard in Cleveland October 22-30. The transcript of voting results should be released soon.
Quidditch
"It's like football in the Muggle world. Everyone follows Quidditch." - Ron Weasley, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Sport Scoreboards
Building, operating, and maintaining athletic scoreboards is an integration of a span technologies, including hardware and software components. These are central features in nearly every athletic event, governing the state of play and attendee response. Join us today at the usual time when we review best practice literature.
Quadrivium: Autumn
Educational settlements are where people come to feel at home in beautiful surroundings. The catalog that informs the safety and sustainability of these "cities-within-cities" changes 100 to 1000 times per day. Titles are unstable, time-sensitive, copyright protected and land (sometimes invisibly) in public law. We explore the action continuously to formulate response to public consultations. Daily colloquia topics appear on our CALENDAR. Recommend refresh of this web page once or twice to see timeliest information.
Sports Turf Management
Many colleges, universities and school districts have hundreds of acres of live or artificial turf that require expertise in plant and material sciences.
ICC 300 Bleachers, Folding Seating, Grandstands
Sporting event spectators are an essential part of any game. We track leading practice discovery and promulgation for infrastructure that makes these events safe and sustainable for players and spectators.
Current Issues and Recent Research
We examine the proposals for the 2028 National Electrical Safety Code; including our own. Public comment on proposed changes will be received until March 24th. The 2026 National Electrical Code which has recently been released for public use (public input on the 2029 revision will be received until April 9, 2026).
Tennis Courts (Outdoor)
About 1,100 US colleges offer tennis competition. The NCAA sponsors ~850 varsity programs (250 DI, 167 DII, ~400 DIII), NAIA adds ~200, and NJCAA ~100–150. Most include both men’s and women’s teams, with outdoor courts standard. An additional ~100 schools have club-level competition, bringing the total to roughly 1,100–1,200 institutions actively competing in organized collegiate tennis.