Teaching Latin America and the Caribbean is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Jennifer Parker Talwar, associate professor of sociology at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Dr. Talwar will be speaking on "Food and Social Change in India: Drawing links to Latin America" on April 21 at 12:15 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.
Students from communications and psychology classes presented their work at the annual Undergraduate Exhibition at University Park on April 9.
Emily Blake presented work she and fellow communications majors Richard Whitney and Brendan Smith did to develop a Teaching International web page. Their project was supervised by Dr. Kathleen Taylor Brown, assistant professor of communications.
As part of the Teaching International Program at Penn State Greater Allegheny, Dr. Ian G. Rawson, Chairman of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, will deliver a lecture titled, "Poverty, Natural Disasters and Malnutrition: A Message of Hope from Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) in Haiti. Dr. Rawson's talk, originally scheduled for January and delayed because of inclement weather, is rescheduled for Wednesday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. in Frable 117.
Twenty-sixth Annual Honors Convocation
Penn State Greater Allegheny: A first choice campus for student-centered success,
global excellence, and community engagement.
After losing a student to violence last August on the streets in Pittsburgh, an increased level of awareness of urban violence prompted faculty and staff at Penn State Greater Allegheny to take action. They decided to bring experts on the issue to the campus and create an open forum for discussion.
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 Sarah M. Fiore, Cynthia V. Grantham, Kelly M. Krznaric, Ashley R. Larson, and Larry R. Nelson. Also inducted were Brandon J. Garner, and Allison E. Wynn.
"Why are so many young black men killing each other?" is the title of Elijah Anderson's lecture to be delivered at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, in Penn State Greater Allegheny's Robert and Elizabeth Ostermayer Room. An influential and widely published ethnographer and expert on urban inequality, Anderson will present his research theory described in his book Code of the Street: Decency, Violence, and the Moral Life of the Inner City.
Campus faculty presented their work at the 2009 Symposium on Teaching and Learning with Technology, which is intended to explore "ways that faculty are using technology to enhance teaching, learning, and research" (symposium.tlt.psu.edu).
ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Literary & Art Magazine announces its Spring, 2009 "Celebration of the Arts: A Reading & Reception for the 2009 Edition," featuring the work of each year's authors and artists. The event will also celebrate the arts, with live performances that include: live music, excerpts from the Spring play, screening of short films, and the presentation of the Fourth Annual Chancellor's Prizes for the Best Literary & Visual Arts by Dr. Curtiss Porter, PSUGA Chancellor.
The Penn State Greater Allegheny Alumni Society is bringing back the Penn State Creamery Ice Cream and Ye Old College Diner Stickie Sale. The deadline for orders is Thursday, April 9, 2009. Please download and complete the order form and mail the form with payment to Penn State Ice Cream Sale, 4000 University Drive, McKeesport, PA 15132.