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Pennsylvania State University  — also known as Penn State — is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses that are spread throughout Pennsylvania. It was founded in 1855 as the Farmers’ High School of Pennsylvania and became the country’s only land-grant institution eight years later in 1863.

Though the university is not a member of the Ivy League, Penn State is a major research university and is sometimes referred to as one of the so-called “Public Ivies”, a publicly-funded research institution that provides a comparable quality of education to Ivy League institutions. In addition to its land-grant designation, Penn State also participates in the sea-grant, sun-grant, and space-grant; one of only four institutions (alongside Cornell, Oregon State, and Hawai’I at Mānoa) to do so.

Penn State is a “state-related” university and forms part of Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth System of Higher Education. Although the university receives funding from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is connected to the state via its board of trustees, it is entirely independent and does not fall under the control of the state.

Organimi: Penn State University’s Organizational Structure

Human Resources, perhaps aptly, is a large domain, likely the largest and, for the most part, outside our wheelhouse.   As we continue our journey explore ways to make the physical surroundings of educational settlements of all sizes safer, simpler, lower-cost and longer lasting. it is fitting that we understand the pathways the flow of money takes.   Feel free to join us during our office hours any day to “take a poke at the HR dragon”


The Pennsylvania State University is a multi-campus public university system in the state of Pennsylvania, USA. As of my last knowledge update in January 2022, here is a list of campuses in the Penn State system:

  1. University Park  State College (312 buildings on just one campus)
  2. Abington – Abington
  3. Altoona – Altoona
  4. Beaver – Monaca
  5. Behrend – Erie
  6. Berks – Reading
  7. Brandywine – Media
  8. DuBois – DuBois
  9. Fayette – Uniontown
  10. Greater Allegheny – McKeesport
  11. Harrisburg – Middletown
  12. Hazleton – Hazleton
  13. Lehigh Valley – Center Valley
  14. Mont Alto – Mont Alto
  15. New Kensington – New Kensington
  16. Schuylkill – Schuylkill Haven
  17. Shenango – Sharon
  18. Wilkes-Barre – Lehman
  19. Worthington Scranton – Dunmore
  20. York – York

Evensong “Hurt”

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A BIM-Based Coordination Support System for Emergency Response

A BIM-Based Coordination Support System for Emergency Response

Yanxiao Feng, et. al

Department of Architectural Engineering, The Pennsylvania State University

Abstract: In fire emergencies, timely communication with on-site coordinators and accurate localization of first responders facilitates effective task assignment and resource allocation in harsh, low-visibility environments. Building information modeling (BIM) is widely accepted in the architecture, engineering, and construction industries as a central repository of building information. It could provide both the geometric building data and semantic information; however, the convenient linkage and integration with indoor location technologies for emergency purposes have not been addressed according to the authors’ knowledge.

A stand-alone BIM-based indoor location (BIMIL) framework and portal were designed and tested to enable the automatic extraction, transformation, and visualization of BIM-related data for public safety purposes in this study. Based on current information technology, this research reduces the gap in cross-application by supporting indoor location to overcome the primary shortcoming of existing indoor building models. Eliminating the need for specific software and skill in data processing, this portal will support on-site coordinators’ importation of BIM files, allowing them to convert those files into processed and visualized indoor information containing key yet simplified geometric building data and essential emergency-related information such as fire rating hours, egresses, and hazardous materials. Additionally, the indoor location data can be integrated into a generalized 3D building model to support decision-making activities and management tasks in the field.

Related:

International Fire Code

Life Safety Code

Means of Egress

Hill College House

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Poverty and Bourgeois Values

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WSRN 91.5 FM

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The “Worldwide Swarthmore Radio Network” is Swarthmore College’s official campus radio station. It broadcasts out of the suburban Philadelphia borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

Prior to the 1970s, WSRN operated as a carrier signal broadcast to the campus of Swarthmore College only. The station went on the air with 10 watts on October 15, 1972.  Following efforts by the Federal Communications Commission to encourage as many Class D stations as possible to increase power, a campaign was raised by the students of the college, and in the late 1970s, the FCC granted a license for a 110-watt, directional, transmission.

Programming has been eclectic from the 1970s on. Station programming is diverse; music spans “world,” hip hop, blues, folk, rock, pop, R & B, and classical. Talk and comedy programs comprise much of the weekend line-up. Notably “Funk” which ran from fall 2012 to spring 2014 Friday mornings from midnight to 2AM.

In 1986, the main on-air studio was completely refurbished, with a new control panel, turntables, microphones, and wiring installed. 1998 saw the rewiring and modernization of the production studio and the construction of an acoustically isolated sound studio connected to the production studio.

Students have always manned the soundboard, and so, during most summers, the station is dark.  Following the COVID-19 pandemic, the radio station had periods of limited broadcasting. During the 2021-2022 academic year, a significant effort by students, faculty, staff, and community members was successfully carried out to get the station back up to an operational state. As of April 1, 2022, the station has resumed broadcasting.

Kim DelPizzo

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