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- ↑ "Trustees Dedicate Food Science Building to Rodney Erickson". Onward State. 2014-05-09. Retrieved 2021-05-07.
- ↑ "Rodney Erickson". Pennsylvania State University. Archived from the original on October 16, 2013.
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