Zack Furness, associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will present “Warring Representations of the NFL, Football Masculinity & Broken Bodies” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, in 276K Rec Hall on Penn State's University Park campus.
The Integrative Studies Seed Grant Program, offered through the Penn State Office for General Education, will support 71 different course development projects this summer. In response to the large volume of highly qualified proposals, the budget was generously increased by more than 50 percent by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Education.
This spring Penn State expects to award 13,894 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 226 associate, 11,435 baccalaureate, 1,590 master’s, 262 law, 244 doctoral and 137 medical degrees. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State’s 24 locations.
ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Literary & Visual Art Review announces its 2017 “A Celebration of the Arts: A Reading & Reception for Volume 19,” from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.
Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Spring 2017 commencement will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 6, in the Wunderley Gymnasium on campus. Campus Advisory Board Member James Lawrence will be the keynote speaker.
Four Penn State Greater Allegheny faculty members have been awarded the Penn State Engineering Technology and Commonwealth Engineering Program Enhancement Grant (ECTE-PEGs).
Jacqueline Edmondson, associate vice president and associate dean for Undergraduate Education at Penn State, has been appointed as the next chancellor and chief academic officer for the Greater Allegheny campus, beginning June 1.
Penn State is moving toward a University-wide health insurance requirement for the 2018-19 academic school year. In preparation for the new requirement, University Health Services (UHS) will begin collecting student health insurance information in May 2017.
The Pennsylvania Math Initiative (PMI), founded at Penn State in 2012, will once again be hosting professional development workshops aimed at improving the mathematics fluency of elementary school teachers.