The Red, Brown, and Blue parking lots, and handicapped parking area beside Main Building will be closed off for two weeks starting Monday June 9 for the parking lot resurfacing project. The closures will include the weekends.
The Blue lot is located behind Frable Building. The Red and Brown lots are located on Broadway across from Kelly Library and the Student Community Center (also see campus maps).
During the 2008-09 academic year Penn State Greater Allegheny will move its Teaching International focus to Latin America and the Caribbean. Faculty will attempt to increase overall participation in the initiative through inter-disciplinary collaboration, team-teaching, and promoting knowledge of current events while connecting and collaborating academic and policy debates. Various cultural activities as well as an International Film Series have been scheduled throughout the academic year to increase student awareness of this area of the wor
Dr. Michelle Hough received notification from the University that she has achieved tenure status and will be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, effective July 1. Dr. Hough joined the faculty of Penn State Greater Allegheny in 2001 and entered the tenure track in 2002. Dr. Hough earned a B.S. in Information Science and an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh. Her D. Sc. in Information Science and Communications was earned from Robert Morris University. Dr.
Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter conferred degrees on 43 students at Penn State Greater Allegheny's spring commencement on Saturday, May 17, in the Wunderley Gymnasium. Diplomas were awarded in a number of areas, including business, communications, applied psychology, and information sciences and technology (IST). Click here to see photos of commencement.
Lori Hepner, assistant professor of integrative arts, will be presenting Code Words: Mutations at the upcoming Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh.
The installation art will be part of an exhibit called Contained, in which art will be composed in discarded shipping containers. Hepner's piece is an interactive print that explores binary code and the ways in which
language breaks down.
Lady Lions finish third in PSUAC tournament
The Penn State Greater Allegheny Lady Lions took third place in the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) Softball Tournament, capping off the most successful season in school history. In the opening round, the team knocked off top-seeded Penn State Beaver, 8-3. The Lady Lions then took on Penn College in the winner's bracket game. Penn College defeated Greater Allegheny, 8-0.
Kids' College at Penn State Greater Allegheny offers a host of exciting summer educational activities for local youth in grades four to eight. Camps will begin on July 7 and will run though July 18. The one-week camps offer half day and daylong camps in a variety of areas including "Robot Building," "Cooking with Pros," "LEGO Mindstorm (advanced)," "Crime Scene Investigator (CSI)," "Web Design," "Fun with Drums," "Rocket Making" and "Let's Sing." New this summer are "AweSomeMath," "Digital Photography" and "Junior Fire Marshal."
Senator Barack Obama ended his long campaign tour in Pennsylvania with a stop at Penn State Greater Allegheny on the eve of the primary election. Speaking to a crowd of nearly 2,500 people, Obama held the attention of supporters in the Wunderley Gymnasium as he spoke about the future and change. (slide show)
Michelle Obama introduced her husband and apologized to the crowd for their delay and jokingly blamed the lateness on her husband. Obama spoke for 22 minutes and held an additional 22 minute question and answer forum to the cheering crowd.
USCAA Announces Host for 2009 and 2010 Basketball National Championships
Newport News, VA - For the first time in the history of the USCAA, all three basketball National Championship tournaments will be held concurrently. It was announced on Wednesday by the USCAA Board of Directors that Penn State Fayette, in affiliation with the Penn State University Athletic Conference (PSUAC) western di
Penn State Greater Allegheny has received an additional $50,000 grant from the G.C. Murphy Company Foundation for the purpose of increasing the Foundation's endowed scholarship fund.
When fully funded, the size of the G. C. Murphy Company Foundation Scholarship endowment will be more than doubled, according to Pat Quinn Winter, director of Development. "Thanks to this generous grant, the number of scholarship awards will increase in future.