Andrzej Kobylanski, assistant professor of business at Penn State Greater Allegheny, has been selected to present his paper, Development of Marketing Orientation in Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises—Eastern Europe Example, at the 2010 Costa Rica Global Conference on Business and Finance.
The Spring 2010 conference on April 15, sponsored by the Teaching International Program, focused on East Asia and the environment.
For the first time, the conference used an online voting system to elicit votes from the entire campus community.
Penn State Greater Allegheny's chapter of Psi Chi, The National Honor Society in Psychology, inducted new members on April 2. Present for the induction ceremony were Yidi Li and Lisa Mykeloff.
Welcoming the new members were current members Brandon Garner and Sarah Fiore, chapter adviser Dr. Elizabeth Mazur, Director of Academic Affairs Dr. Kurt Torell, and Chancellor Dr. Curtiss Porter.
During the last week of classes, a variety of activities will be occurring on campus and in the community for students to attend.
The last band of the academic year will be performing on Thursday, April 29 during common period. The Screaming Orphans, four funny, high-spirited musically-obsessed sisters from Ireland will set-up to play outside the Student Community Center, weather permitting.
At Penn State Greater Allegheny, students in Communications 471, a public relations methods course, taught by Kathy Taylor Brown, assistant professor of communications, have created digital stories that will be shown on campus. According to the text book the students use in class, Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment, written by Carolyn Handler Miller, "Even when designed to serve pragmatic goals, works of digital storytelling always have elements of narrative and always offer some degree of entertainment."
Are you a high school student who's thinking about college? If so, join us on Friday, April 23 from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. and learn everything you ever wanted to know about Penn State Greater Allegheny. Meet us in the Frable Building and enjoy the day at a barbecue, listen to live music, and many other activities. Enter the drawing at 11 a.m. for an 8GB iPod touch, to be given away at 1:30 p.m.
Let us know you are coming by calling the admissions office at 412-675-9010 or by e-mail at [email protected].
NASA's Swift satellite, whose science and flight operations are controlled from Penn State's Mission Operations Center in State College, Pa., has detected its 500th gamma-ray burst -- a type of explosion that is the biggest and most mysterious in the cosmos. Swift's X-ray telescope and ultraviolet/optical telescope were developed and built by international teams led by Penn State.
ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Literary & Art Magazine will hold its spring 2010 reception, which will feature the work of 42 authors and artists, at 7 p.m. on April 21, in the Ostermayer Room in the Student Community Center on campus. The event also will celebrate the arts, with performances that include live music, excerpts from the spring theatre production, the screening of a short film, and the presentation of the fifth annual Chancellor's Prizes for the Best Literary & Visual Arts by Curtiss E.
The African-American Male Mentoring Program (AAMMP) is an initiative to increase retention for first-year African-American male students funded by the Vice Provost for Educational Equity at Penn State. In its first year, 11 students are enrolled in a one-credit continuing education class this semester.