Steve Hvozdovich from Clean Water Action in Pittsburgh will give a 10-15 minute presentation before the showing of Gasland on March 3.
Mr. Hvozdovich is a graduate of Baldwin-Whitehall High School and the University of Pittsburgh, where he majored in history. He now works for the environmental organization Clean Water Action as its spokesman on Marcellus Shale drilling issues.
Penn State Greater Allegheny's THON team raised $15,000 as part of the University's annual IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON). The event, which culminates in 46-hour no-sleeping, no-sitting dance marathon to help raise money and awareness for kids with pediatric cancer, raised more than $9.5 million this year, eclipsing last year's record of $7.8 million. The campus would like to thank the surrounding community for all of the donations and support.
The next speaker in the Globalization and Sustainability Speaker Series, Irene Hanson Frieze, will present "Responding to a Changing World: Attitudes About Gender, Work and Family in Post-Socialist Europe," on Thursday February 24 at 4:30 p.m. in Frable 221.
Professor Frieze has worked at the University of Pittsburgh since 1972. She was hired in Psychology and Women's Studies to help develop the Women's Studies Program. She came from UCLA in Los Angeles, where she received all her university degrees.
Penn State Greater Allegheny opened the remodeled fitness center in March 2010. New amenities include a large aerobics room and locker rooms that are complete with showers and saunas.
To add variety to workouts, individual yoga mats, resistance bands, medicine balls and jump ropes were purchased.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has been accepted by Sigma Beta Delta to form the Penn State Greater Allegheny Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, an international honor society in business, management and administration.
The purposes of Sigma Beta Delta are to encourage and recognize scholarship and achievement among students of business, management and administration, and to encourage and promote personal and professional improvement and a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind.
Penn State Greater Allegheny recently hired a new women's basketball coach. Louis V. Zadecky of Belle Vernon, Pa., began his new position on Feb. 1.
The women's basketball program began at Penn State Greater Allegheny in the 2007-08 academic year. The team has a 25-game schedule in 2011. Next year, the campus will host a tip-off tournament that includes Lourdes College in Ohio, Pitt-Titusville and Bennett College.
Penn State Greater Allegheny University Police in cooperation with Penn State University Park will offer "The Five Outs." This safety training on February 24, offered at 12:15 p.m. and 3:00 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center will provide information to employees that will increase their chances of survival in a hostage or active shooter situation. Assistant Chief William Donahoe from University Park will present the training beginning with a video followed by a discussion. The video, "Active Shooter," was produced by Penn State University.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has begun working on an Emergency Operations Plan and a Business Continuity Plan. The University contracted Beck Disaster Recovery (BDR) to develop the plans for University Park and all campuses. The Emergency Operations plan will outline actions that should be taken for various emergencies ranging from loss of electricity, water, or natural gas, severe weather related emergencies, bomb threats to an active shooter on campus.