Student Honors and Activities
AE DEPARTMENT WELL-REPRESENTED
AT PENN STATE DANCE MARATHON 2004
AE undergraduate students
showed their support and assisted a worthwhile charity by participating in
the 2004 Dance Marathon, commonly referred to as THON. The AE students served
as dancers, moralers, and committee members. Graduate teaching assistant,
Jonathan Dougherty (BAE ’99), was invited by several
AE undergraduate students to participate in the faculty activities related
to the 48-hour Dance Marathon. THON is the largest student run philanthropy
event in the country, and this year over $3.5 million was raised to benefit
the Four Diamonds Fund.
AE undergraduate students
showed their support and assisted a worthwhile charity by participating in
the 2004 Dance Marathon, commonly referred to as THON. The AE students served
as dancers, moralers, and committee members. Graduate teaching assistant,
Jonathan Dougherty (BAE ’99), was invited by several
AE undergraduate students to participate in the faculty activities related
to the 48-hour Dance Marathon. THON is the largest student run philanthropy
event in the country, and this year over $3.5 million was raised to benefit
the Four Diamonds Fund. The photo above was taken during THON weekend at Rec Hall. Row 1 (L to R): Amy Pastor, fourth year; Jayme Antolik, third year. Row 2 (L to R): Brian Genduso, fifth year; Julia Thorpe, third year; Jonathan Dougherty; A. J. Kessinger, fifth year. Other AE students who were involved with THON but are not pictured here include Emily Whitbeck, fourth year; Geoff Measel, fifth year; and Mike Carroll, fifth year.
STUDENT HONORS
The Student Lighting Design Competition, sponsored by the Illuminating Engineering
Society & Tigue Lighting Inc., was held on April 29, 2004 in the Artemide
Showroom Philadelphia. Penn State outshone the competition with Emad
A. Hasan winning first place, Chris Rush winning
second and an honorable mention going to Abbey Beresik.
Ece Erdogmus
(Ph.D. candidate) poses with Dr. Richard Behr (left) and
Dr. John Mason (right), Dean for Graduate Studies, Research
and Outreach, after receiving the Graduate Student Teaching Award from the
College of Engineering in April 2004.
WORLD TRADE CENTER ARTWORK
RAISES $250.00
Student donated
artwork, titled Where's Arcimboldo?, raised $250.00 at the 9th Annual "Inspiration
Award" Dinner and Silent Auction. Proceeds of the event, held on April
8, 2004 at the Nittany Lion Inn, went to the Penn State Diabetes Center. The
piece, a WTC site model created by 16 architectural engineering students in
the ARCH 130A Visual Communications service course (Fall 2002-03), was originally
exhibited in a show titled, Parallel Reflection on the World Trade Center:
A Vision of Recovery and Remembrance, at New Century Artists Inc. (530 W.
25th St., Suite 406, NY, NY), sponsored in part by the Raymond A. Bowers Program
for Excellence in Design and Construction of the Built Environment, January
1-February 2, 2003.
CONGRATULATIONS!
In a small civil ceremony on February 21, 2004, Carlos Gomes, Master’s
of Science student in the mechanical option of Architectural Engineering,
married his girlfriend of four years, Kristin Hoyne, in Las Vegas.
Elvis wasn’t
at the ceremony – but he showed up at the dinner afterwards in the form
of a surprise singing telegram!! Viva Las Vegas, Blue Suede Shoes, Love me
Tender… all songs that Elvis sang while dancing to the amusement and
surprise of the whole group!
Carlos and Kristin also plan to have a more formal religious ceremony next summer in Carlos’s hometown of Porto, Portugal. Congratulations to the newly married couple!