Students from Penn State Greater Allegheny, along with other Commonwealth Campuses, went to Puerto Rico for an alternative spring break to help devastated communities. Students painted, cleared brush and more.
Johnathan White, instructor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will be recognized for his work in the Langston Hughes Poetry Society on May 2, during The Pittsburgh Black Media Federation’s Robert L. Vann Media Awards.
Penn State Greater Allegheny, New Kensington and Beaver visited Harrisburg on Capital Day, March 20, to discuss the impact of the University and higher education in the Commonwealth.
Regis W. Becker, Wade T. Lipscomb II, James E. Minarik, and Nancy and John Traina were honored at Greater Allegheny’s Scholarship and Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony, on March 23, at the Duquesne Club in downtown Pittsburgh.
Penn State Greater Allegheny will open an art exhibit displaying the work of the next Crossing Bridges Summit speaker, Vanessa German. The display will run from Tuesday, April 2, to Saturday, April 6.
Penn State’s Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse recently announced the first three recipients of its Community Fellows Program awards, designed to provide release time for faculty members to develop community collaborations and build sustainable, evidence-based or evidence-informed programs, policies and practices that can effectively address substance use and related issues within a targeted community in Pennsylvania.
More than 30 students received an award for their academic achievement at Penn State Greater Allegheny's recent Empowering Purpose Through Individual and Cultural-Awareness (EPIC) Awards event.
Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Teaching International program recently hosted Sheila I. Vélez Martínez to discuss how natural disasters affected Puerto Rico.
Opioid users fear accidental overdoses from street drugs laced with fentanyl, but unpredictable drug quality means they often lack reliable strategies to avoid it, according to a team of researchers who suggest that fentanyl test strips may reduce overdose deaths.
