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.
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.
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.
Penn State Greater Allegheny opened the remodeled fitness center in March 2010. New amenities include a large aerobics room and locker rooms that are complete with showers and saunas.
To add variety to workouts, individual yoga mats, resistance bands, medicine balls and jump ropes were purchased.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has been accepted by Sigma Beta Delta to form the Penn State Greater Allegheny Chapter of Sigma Beta Delta, an international honor society in business, management and administration.
The purposes of Sigma Beta Delta are to encourage and recognize scholarship and achievement among students of business, management and administration, and to encourage and promote personal and professional improvement and a life distinguished by honorable service to humankind.
Penn State Greater Allegheny recently hired a new women's basketball coach. Louis V. Zadecky of Belle Vernon, Pa., began his new position on Feb. 1.
The women's basketball program began at Penn State Greater Allegheny in the 2007-08 academic year. The team has a 25-game schedule in 2011. Next year, the campus will host a tip-off tournament that includes Lourdes College in Ohio, Pitt-Titusville and Bennett College.