February 2011

”Success’ is only a word that comes in front of ‘hard work’ in a dictionary,’ famed football coach Herman Boone, 75, told a Penn State audience. He was portrayed in ‘Remember the Titans.’

Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory sees its workforce reductions, announced this week, as a ‘temporary slowdown’ at an otherwise-strong organization, ARL Director Edward Liszka said.

Dozens of Penn State students marched and chanted Tuesday through the University Park campus, then rallied for more than an hour in front of Old Main.

Thirteen of the roughly 900 workers at Penn State’s Applied Research Laboratory will be laid off, and 20 others will see reduced work hours, a spokeswoman confirmed.