Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter, Ph.D., conferred degrees on 41 students at Penn State Greater Allegheny's spring commencement on Saturday, May 16, in the Wunderley Gymnasium. Diplomas were awarded in a number of areas, including organizational leadership, political science, business, communications, applied psychology, and information sciences and technology.
Communications students will be hosting a charity event for the White Oak Animal Safe Haven on Tuesday, April 28th at 6:00 p.m. until 9:00 p.m. The event will be held at The Rose Bar and Grille in White Oak and will include a free pizza and wings buffet with the minimum of a $5 donation. A raffle will be held along with other activities in honor of helping and supporting abandoned animals and the Safe Haven no- kill animal shelter.
The Spring 2009 Student Research Conference for Teaching Latin America and the Caribbean showcased the work of students in communications, philosophy, psychology, and sociology classes.
At the April 16 event, students presented either slideshows or posters summarizing their work.
In the powerpoint slideshow category, the winner was Amber Cicchitto, for her work on Haiti. In second place was James Davis, with a presentation on Peru.
Dr. Jay Breckenridge's Theatre 208 and Theatre 282 classes will be presenting "The Dream Tree."
The subject of this play is Shamanism in the upper Amazon rain forest. The story is adapted from a retelling by Lawrence Yep in a collection of stories from many cultures called The Tree of Dreams, and expanded with references to the work of ethnobiologist Mark J. Plotkin and the documentaries of Dean Jeffries.
Teaching Latin America and the Caribbean is sponsoring a talk by Dr. Jennifer Parker Talwar, associate professor of sociology at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Dr. Talwar will be speaking on "Food and Social Change in India: Drawing links to Latin America" on April 21 at 12:15 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.
Students from communications and psychology classes presented their work at the annual Undergraduate Exhibition at University Park on April 9.
Emily Blake presented work she and fellow communications majors Richard Whitney and Brendan Smith did to develop a Teaching International web page. Their project was supervised by Dr. Kathleen Taylor Brown, assistant professor of communications.
As part of the Teaching International Program at Penn State Greater Allegheny, Dr. Ian G. Rawson, Chairman of the Hôpital Albert Schweitzer, will deliver a lecture titled, "Poverty, Natural Disasters and Malnutrition: A Message of Hope from Hôpital Albert Schweitzer (HAS) in Haiti. Dr. Rawson's talk, originally scheduled for January and delayed because of inclement weather, is rescheduled for Wednesday, April 29, at 6:00 p.m. in Frable 117.
Twenty-sixth Annual Honors Convocation
Penn State Greater Allegheny: A first choice campus for student-centered success,
global excellence, and community engagement.
After losing a student to violence last August on the streets in Pittsburgh, an increased level of awareness of urban violence prompted faculty and staff at Penn State Greater Allegheny to take action. They decided to bring experts on the issue to the campus and create an open forum for discussion.