JeanMarie Jacob, area representative for education and training at Penn State Greater Allegheny JeanMarie Jacob, area representative for education and training at Penn State Greater Allegheny
The high and increasing costs of textbooks and materials at the college level has spurred Penn State Greater Allegheny to take direct action. Using about $20,000 of proceeds from the 2010 All That's Jazz fundraiser and charitable donations, a new Textbook Support Fund has been established to assist students with the cost of these items.
On Tuesday, March 22, from 12:15-1:30 p.m., Mary C. Burke will make a presentation in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center exploring the topic of modern-day slavery. The event is open to the campus and the public. Burke is a faculty member in the Psychology Department at Carlow University in Pittsburgh, where she is the director for the doctoral program in counseling psychology. During the summer months, Burke serves as affiliate faculty in the Department of Counseling and Human Services at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore.
The Alumni Society is a constituent society of the Penn State Alumni Association. In an effort to maintain the tradition and academic excellence that makes Penn State one of the nation's top-rated universities, the Alumni Society created three annual scholarships for students attending Penn State Greater Allegheny. Each of these awards was established to provide recognition and financial assistance to a deserving current degree student that has met the requirements for each award.
Penn State Greater Allegheny junior guard Darius Prince was recently named the United States Collegiate Athletic Association (USCAA) All-American in basketball at a ceremony at Nemacolin Woodlands. Prince is among ten student athletes selected for first team from USCAA schools coast to coast. He is the first basketball player in the school's history to receive this honor. Prince averaged 22.5 points per game and was named USCAA Honorable mention All-American for the 2009-10 season.
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.