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.
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.
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:
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.
The Penn State Greater Allegheny Alumni Society will partner with The White Oak Animal Safe Haven to support their open house on Saturday, June 25, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. The White Oak Animal Safe Haven is located at 2295 Lincoln Way in White Oak.
"This is a new beginning for our shelter," said Ina Jean Marton, founder and director of the no-kill animal shelter. "We have renovated the facility and added space, including new dog runs."
On May 21, a crowd of nearly 250 came out to honor Sam Zabec, Residence Hall Coordinator, Delta Kappa Phi member, adviser, and well-known and loved computer science and engineering instructor at the Greater Allegheny campus from 1968 until his retirement in 2004.
The purpose of the evening was to "roast" the good-natured Zabec and wrap-up a fundraiser for the Sam Zabec Scholarship. The $107,000 raised for this Trustee Matching Scholarship will support students studying the sciences.
Jordon Pruett and Alydia Thomas, two of seven Penn State Greater Allegheny students, plus three more students from other campuses, left for a month-long trip to China on May 8, 2011. Students, along with five chaperons, will travel to the Guangdong Province and then on to Beijing and Shanghai. They will return to Guangdong before departing for home.
In his latest entries, Jordon describes, among other events, a train ride to Guangzhou, and visits to a community center in Beijing, the Great Wall, the zoo and the Forbidden City.