Penn State Greater Allegheny Continuing Education will be hosting a free Business Breakfast meeting at The Rivers Club, One Oxford Centre, Downtown Pittsburgh, on Thursday, January 29, 2009 at 8:00 a.m. Guest speaker will be Greg Griffith, management and development faculty member from Penn State.
Penn State Greater Allegheny will present Celebrating the Life of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on Tuesday, January 20, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center on the campus of Penn State Greater Allegheny.
Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter, Ph.D., conferred degrees on 39 students at Penn State Greater Allegheny's fall commencement on Thursday, Dec. 18 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.
The Penn State Greater Allegheny Alumni Society sponsored its twentieth annual Breakfast with Santa on Saturday, Dec. 13, in the campus' Student Community Center. The society hosted 100 children from Mon-Valley area youth services agencies.
Award-winning musician Greg Adams presented his research on the Caribbean and African roots of the banjo, illustrated with demonstrations on authentic and reproduction instruments. Maryland-based Mr. Adams has done extensive research on banjo roots and styles.
Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter, Ph.D., will confer degrees on 39 students at Penn State Greater Allegheny's fall commencement beginning at 7 p.m., Thursday, Dec. 18 in the Wunderley Gymnasium. Diplomas will be awarded in a number of areas, including organizational leadership, political science, business, communications, applied psychology, and information sciences and technology.
Students from a variety of disciplines presented their work relating to the campus international regional focus for this year, Latin America and the Caribbean, on November 19, 2008. Many of the students also emphasized the theme of food security. Student work was displayed in a variety of formats.
Penn State Greater Allegheny honored the life of former student and basketball player Anthony Rivers on Nov. 19. Rivers was shot and killed on August 5, 2008. He was considered an ambitious and hardworking student by both faculty and staff members who knew him during his time at Penn State Greater Allegheny.
A Penn State Greater Allegheny associate professor of business administration received a Fulbright Scholar award to lecture at the University of Malta in Msida, Malta during the Spring semester of the 2009 academic year.
Dr. Jay Breckeridge's PSUGA Players (the Theatre 282/282H class) will be presenting a Children's Theatre production of "Latin American Folk Tales," as part of
the Teaching International project.
The students will present at the Carnegie Library in McKeesport, for their "Story Hour" and on campus for elementary school children in the PEPP program.
The campus and community presentation will be on Sunday, December 7, 2:00pm in the Ostermayer Room