Dr. Zhibo Chen, Professor of Mathematics at Penn State University Greater Allegheny Campus, has returned from sabbatical. Chen spent fall 2006 and part of the summer conducting collaborative research on graph theory with colleagues at Xiamen University in China.
Penn State Greater Allegheny, Educational Equity & Commission for Women presents Dr. Kimberly Ventus-Darks, "Re-Energize Yourself," a seminar on March 23, 2007 at 9:30 a.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center. A one-woman emotional whirlpool who is taking America by storm, Dr. Kimberly Ventus-Darks inspires awe as she shares her wisdom with professionals around the world.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has received over $11,000 from the University's Office of Undergraduate Education to fund a retention initiative at the campus. Dr. Kathleen Taylor Brown, Assistant Professor of Communications; Jeanna Cooper, Instructor in Information Sciences and Technology, and Dr. Margaret Signorella, Director of Academic Affairs/Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, coauthored the proposal, Community Service and the First Year Experience.
Grant funding of $300,000 from the Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation and The Pittsburgh Foundation is allowing Penn State Greater Allegheny (formerly McKeesport) to implement the second and third years of the Pathways to Success program in the East Allegheny and the Washington County Area School Districts.
Over the past few years, Penn State Greater Allegheny Associate Professor of Sociology, Dr. Verónica Montecinos, has spearheaded initiatives to internationalize the curriculum. Since 2004, the campus has instituted international programs focused on Haiti, Africa, and India to advance the understanding of global trends through the education of its undergraduate students. Speakers, art exhibits, films and other cultural programming have been scheduled at the campus to expose our students to economic, social, cultural and historical issues.
Penn State Greater Allegheny has received a $12,500 grant from the United States Steel Foundation to create the United States Steel Program Fund for Engineering, Business and Technology Projects. The fund will support students and faculty in the development and execution of service-learning projects and internships that provide support to area non-profit organizations and businesses.
An article co-authored by Dr. James Stewart, a member of Penn State Greater Allegheny's faculty, has generated world-wide interest.
The article, "The globalization of the labor market for health-care professionals," focuses on the growing shortage of doctors and nurses throughout the world and the migration of health care professionals from underdeveloped to developed countries.
Funded through a grant from the Africana Research Center, Dr.
ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Art and Literary Magazine, is accepting work for its Spring 2007 submission period from faculty, staff, and student members of the campus community. Deadline for submissions is Friday, February 23. The magazine, organized several years ago by the Penn State McKeesport English department, is an annual publication which showcases campus talent.
ABSENCE advisors, Dr.
Two Penn State Greater Allegheny faculty members will be attending the Eastern Communications Association (ECA) meeting in Providence, Rhode Island thanks, in part, to a teaching enrichment travel grant provided by the Schreyer Institute for Teaching Excellence.
Amelia Mitchell, Instructor in Biology at Penn State Greater Allegheny, is conducting research on the differences in death rate and survivorship among wood frogs with genes and groups of genes structured for enzymatic proteins when exposed to copper.
One of the goals of Ms. Mitchell's project is to find a marker which can be used to evaluate the extent of the impact of copper and other heavy metals on the bodies of water where the frogs are located.