Sue Klebold -- mother of Dylan Klebold, one of the two gunmen responsible for the Columbine High Schools shootings -- will speak from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 2, in the Wunderley Gymnasium at Penn State Greater Allegheny.
Hope in the face of despair, this is what Monique Mead believes is at the heart of Beethoven's Violin Concerto. Join Penn State Greater Allegheny for this unique performance and the stories that inspired it.
Nico Slate is Professor of History at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is the author of four books: Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India(Harvard University Press, 2012), The Prism of Race: W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes, Paul Robeson and the Colored World of Cedric Dover (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), Gandhi’s Search for the Perfect Diet: Eating with the World in Mind (University of Washington Press, forthcoming in 2019), and Lord Cornwallis Is Dead: The Struggle for Democracy in the United States and India (Harvard University Press, forthcoming in 2019). Born in Los Angeles and raised in California’s Mojave Desert, Dr. Slate earned degrees from Stanford University and from Oxford University before completing his Ph.D. in History at Harvard University.
Penn State Greater Allegheny hosted a ribbon-cutting and dedication ceremony to officially open the Mon Valley Launchbox, a business pre-accelerator for entrepreneurs around Allegheny County.
On Wednesday, September 4, Penn State Greater Allegheny, in conjunction with the City of McKeesport, officially opened the Mon Valley Launchbox at the Common Ground Building in downtown McKeesport.
Penn State President Eric J. Barron speaking at the Mon Valley Launchbox Ribbon-Cutting and Dedication ceremony on September 4, 2019, at the Common Ground Building in McKeesport PA.
Penn State Greater Allegheny Chancellor and Chief Academic Officer Jacqueline Edmondson smiling with both winners of the pitch competition held during the Mon Valley Lauinchbox ceremony on September 4, 2019.