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Penn State University Park is also served by the Penn State University Ambulance Service, known as Centre County Company 20. Penn State EMS is a full-service, licensed ambulance service, staffed by student EMTs. The ambulance is staffed around the clock, with the exception of the school's annual winter break, when it goes out of service.
Atherton also expanded the liberal arts and agriculture programs, and as a result, was rewarded with regular appropriations from the state beginning in 1887. For this, Atherton is widely credited of saving Penn State from bankruptcy, and is still honored today by the name of a major road in State College and its suburbs, Atherton Street.
Penn State Brandywine: Middletown Township: Delaware: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Baccalaureate University 1,613 1967 Penn State University College of Medicine: Derry Township: Dauphin: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Medical School 809 1967 Penn State Dickinson Law: Carlisle borough: Cumberland
David Taylor, 4× State Champion wrestler, 2× NCAA Champion [160] Joe Tepsic [161] Myles Thomas, former Major League Baseball player [162] Wallace Triplett, former NFL running back; first African-American draftee to play in the NFL [163] Kristal Uzelac, former U.S. Olympian [164] Russ Van Atta, former Major League Baseball pitcher [165]
Old Main (originally called "Main Building") is The Pennsylvania State University's first building of major significance. First completed in 1867, the current incarnation of the building was completed in 1930. Today, Old Main serves as the administrative center of Penn State, housing the offices of the president and other officials.
The film-video program, originating in the College of Arts and Architecture, and the media studies program, previously a communications studies major housed in the College of Liberal Arts, were both introduced at Penn State in the 1960s. The telecommunications major was born in the College of Liberal Arts, dating back to the mid-1970s.
Old Main, c. 1855 The school that later became Penn State University was founded as a degree-granting institution on February 22, 1855, by act P.L. 46, No. 50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania.
The Pennsylvania State University is a geographically dispersed university with campuses located throughout the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.While the administrative hub of the university is located at its flagship campus, University Park, the 19 additional commonwealth campuses together enroll 37 percent of Penn State's undergraduate student population.