STATE COLLEGE — Want to trade a glaciologist Richard Alley card for entomologist James Tumlinson?

Penn State University is promoting its top faculty members and researchers on glossy trading cards that resemble baseball and football cards collected by sports fans.

"We have many great faculty, and they are surely worthy of the accolades our society often lavishes on athletes, coaches, and celebrities in the entertainment world," school president Graham Spanier wrote.

The Penn State Alumni Association paid to produce the cards, which aren't for sale. Instead, they're giveaways at the tailgate parties that Spanier hosts on weekends of home football games.

About 3,000 packs were printed.

"He unlocked the SECRET of the Greenland ice core," reads the front of the Alley's card, his name highlighted in light blue block lettering. It shows a picture of Alley in a winter coat with a wool-lined hood over his head.

The back gives a one-paragraph brief about Alley's accomplishments.

Others featured in the set include an anthropologist, a physicist and a nutritionist.