Penn State Greater Allegheny and Duy Tan University in Da Nang, Vietnam, signed an agreement for academic collaboration on Jan. 17. According to the terms of this agreement, Penn State Greater Allegheny will train about 100 faculty members from Duy Tan University to deliver 24 business courses. This training will occur over the course of four years, beginning this summer.
Representatives from the American Red Cross will be on campus to help individuals donate to two important causes: donated blood needs and THON. For every person to complete a blood donation, the American Red Cross will donate $4 to our campus' contribution to THON.  Â
The Student Government Association (SGA) at Penn State Greater Allegheny has partnered with the Brother's Brother Foundation (BBF) to support the relief efforts following the recent earthquake that devastated parts of Haiti.
Dr. Elizabeth Mazur, associate professor of psychology, and Lauri Kozarian, former Penn State Greater Allegheny student, had their research on adolescent blogs published in the Journal of Adolescent Research (2010, vol. 25, pp. 12-144).
Graduates of the fall 2009 class were conferred degrees by Curtiss E. Porter, chancellor of Penn State Greater Allegheny at commencent ceremonies held in the Wunderely Gymnasium on Thursday, December 17.
Teaching East Asia at Penn State Greater Allegheny ended the fall 2009 semester with a field trip to The National Geographic Museum in Washington, D.C.
The exhibition, "Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor," featured treasures from China's first emporer, Qin Shihuandgdi and the tomb complex including 15 life-size figures, weapons, armor, coins and more. Students and faculty on the trip also visited the Smithsonian's Freer Gallery, which has an extensive Asian art collection (see photo on right).
Lori Hepner, Penn State Greater Allegheny assistant professor of integrative arts, is the artist for December's 1stfans Twitter Art Feed for the Brooklyn Museum's blogging community. Using the social networking site, Twitter, Hepner creates abstract portraits of individuals' virtual identity which she has titled, Status Symbols.
The keynote speaker at the 2009 fall commencement ceremony is Joyce Rothermel, co-founder and the current chief executive officer of the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank, the region?s largest charitable hunger-relief organization located in Duquesne, Pennsylvania.