When Ryan Balla hit the enter button on his computer last month, he had no idea that signing up to join the Blue & White Society would result in him winning a $500 gift card to the Penn State Bookstore at Penn State Greater Allegheny. The Blue & White Society is part of the Penn State Alumni Association and has been the keeper of Penn State pride and traditions for many years. They recently held a contest for new members that were signing up online, and their names would automatically be entered into a random drawing.
Mohammed A. Bamyeh, professor of sociology at the University of Pittsburgh, will open this year's Teaching International Speaker Series on the Middle East. His talk, "Dynamics of Revolt in the Arab Spring," will take place on September 14 at 11 a.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.
Bamyeh, who received his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1990, is the incoming editor of the International Sociology Review of Books (ISRB).
Internships: Explained
An internship preparation session for students
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
4:30 - 6:00 pm
Ostermayer Room, Student Community Center
Please RSVP to [email protected] (so that we have appropriate food and seating)
What students can expect during this session:
Lori Hepner, assistant professor of integrative arts, was profiled in Time Magazine. The article discussed Hepner's technique for transforming tweets into art.Hepner has devised a way to represent tweets visually through LEDs and photography. Each tweet is a social media portrait, representing an individual's identity through their status update.
Student Account Workshop
Tuesday August 23 and Thursday August 25
Common Period 12:15-1:30
Crawford Building Lab 1
Take advantage of this event and get involved in your success. Stop by to resolve any issues you may have regarding:
Aradhna M. Dhanda, president and CEO of Leadership Pittsburgh Inc., will be the guest speaker at Penn State Greater Allegheny's annual academic convocation on Aug. 19. Members of the faculty and staff at Penn State Greater Allegheny will welcome first-year students and their families to campus during the annual academic convocation, beginning at 11 a.m. on Friday, Aug. 19. The convocation celebrates the campus? long and committed partnership with the Pittsburgh region.
Students in the summer STEM bridge program at Penn State Greater Allegheny prepare solar panels as part of a group project. The program's cost was defrayed by grants from the Pittsburgh-based EQT Foundation and the National Science Foundation. During the month of July, incoming freshmen at Penn State Greater Allegheny honed their academic skills in engineering, mathematics, English composition and physics as part of The Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) summer bridge program.
On Thursday, August 4, from 9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. college-bound veterans are invited to an information day in the Admissions Office, Frable Building. Lunch will be proved between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m. Participants will receive a Penn State Greater Allegheny T-shirt for attending.
The day provides a one-stop opportunity for veterans to move forward with plans for college. While on campus, veterans can:
A joint research paper, based on a research project of Penn State Greater Allegheny students Sheng Wei and Xuerong Xiao under the direction of mathematics professor Zhibo Chen, was accepted for publication in the International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology. The refereed research journal, for mathematicians and mathematics educators, provides a medium by which new ideas and experience in mathematical education can be presented.
Penn State Greater Allegheny focuses on a region of the world each academic year, to provide a common inspiration for teaching and scholarship. The Teaching International Program, which began in 2004, added a theme to the regional emphasis in 2008.
For the 2011-2012 academic year, the campus will study the Middle East, with a theme of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals.