For three weeks in May, four Penn State Greater Allegheny students led by Professors MaryEllen Higgins and Douglas Charles traveled to Vietnam as part of a campus embedded study abroad program. Supported by a Global Programs and campus grant, the group visited Ho Chi Minh City, Da Nang, Hue, Cham Islands, and Hoi An.
Incoming freshman will have an opportunity to hone their academic skills in engineering, mathematics, English composition, and physics. The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) program begins at Penn State Greater Allegheny on July 30, and runs through August 23. Openings are available to students who apply to the program by submitting essays about their academic and career goals and describing how participation in the program will benefit them. During the four-week s
Penn State is now offering an RN to B.S. program that can be completed in 10.5 months by attending classes one day a week at Greater Allegheny.
The University's Video Learning Network (VLN) will be used to broadcast the program from Penn State Fayette to Greater Allegheny and two other locations across Pennsylvania.
The Penn State RN to B.S. program is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accreditation Commission, Inc., and the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education.
The Spring 2012 Student Research Conference sponsored by Teaching
International, the Honors Program, and Greener Allegheny, was held on
April 12, 2012. Thirty posters were displayed and entered into the
competition.
The winners are listed below.
Honors Category
Ramon Rivera, Alkylation of Sulfides in the Human Body, CHEM 212H, Dr. Bittner
Two Greater Allegheny students presented their work at the annual Undergraduate Exhibition held at University Park in April.
Corey House presented "Polymerization
Kinetics: A Unique Approach to Dilatometry," an independent research project in chemistry under the supervision of Megan Nagel, assistant professor of chemistry. House is sophomore interested in a science major.
Members of the 2012 Psi Chi International Honor Society were inducted on April 11 at a candle light service.
Welcomed into Psi Chi at the event were Rachel Burke, Adrian Ceresa, Danielle Cook, Kelly Kovalsky, Kimberly Owens, Ramon Rivera, and Erika Vasques. Current members Aleksandra Evstiounina and Karry Smith helped with the ceremony. Also inducted were Andrew Pollman, Jordan Patil, Sherri Smith, and Carrie Ulakovic.
ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Literary & Visual Art Review announces its 2012, "Celebration of the Arts: A Reading and Reception for Volume 14," from 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, April 25, in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.
Penn State Greater Allegheny hosted its spring commencement at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 5, in Wunderely Gymnasium. Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter presided as diplomas were conferred to 33 individuals receiving baccalaureate and associate degrees. The keynote speaker was John Lydon, chief executive officer (CEO) at the Auberle and Pauline Auberle Foundation.
Junior wrestler Soham Salvi has been named to the USCAA Non-Sport National All-Academic Team.
The National All-Academic Award is designed to recognize all student-athletes (Sophomores, Juniors, and Seniors at 4 year institutions and Sophomores at 2 year institutions) and have an overall (cumulative) grade point average of 3.50 (on a 4.00 point system) or greater.
The Non-Sport All-Academic Award is for those student athletes that participate at a member institution in a sport that is not recognized by the USCAA.
The theatre production classes at Penn State Greater Allegheny (Theatre 208 and Theatre 282) are preparing for their spring production, "How King Solomon Met the Queen of Sheba," at 7:30 p.m. April 26-28, in the Fitness and Cultural Center theatre space, as part of the campus Teaching International program.