The Penn State Greater Allegheny community will celebrate the 13th Annual All That’s Jazz Scholarship Benefit on November 12, 2016. This year’s event will celebrate thirteen years of great jazz music, delicious food, fun, and fellowship. More than $930,000 has been raised for scholarships in the past 12 years through the event.
Elizabeth Mazur, psychology professor at Penn State Greater Allegheny, and Yidi Li, former Penn State undergraduate, published the results of their research in the April 2016 issue of Psychology of Popular Media Culture, a journal of the American Psychological Association that is dedicated to publishing empirical research on how popular culture and media influence behavior.
Kids’ College is returning to Penn State Greater Allegheny for the Summer of 2016. Kids' College is a summer enrichment program that offers a diverse selection of age-appropriate classes for children and teenagers from 6 through 14 years of age. The week-long camps (Sports camp is 4 days) offer half-day and full-day activities in a variety of topics, including art, sports, cooking, science, computers, drama and robotics. Camps take place during various weeks beginning July 11 through Aug. 11.
Aaron Whigham has been appointed as community relations coordinator at Penn State Greater Allegheny, effective April 2016. The goal of the new position is to better connect people in the region to higher education by reaching out to individuals and families, especially those from marginalized and disenfranchised neighborhoods and communities, and developing meaningful partnerships with organizations and institutions that share Penn State Greater Allegheny’s vision of community engagement and revitalization.
Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Penn State Educational Partnership Program is hosting girls from the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh on campus this week. Thirty-eight girls from the Pittsburgh region are staying on campus from June 19-25 as part of the Urban League's Black Female Leadership Development Institute.
There has been a unique sound of excitement at Penn State Greater Allegheny for the past few weeks. A sound not often heard on college campuses — the voices of young children laughing, learning, playing. It is the children attending Kids’ College.
The Penn State Greater Allegheny campus is gearing up for the first day of classes for the 2016-17 school year. International student orientation will be held Aug. 16 and 17, followed by Orientation Too! beginning Thursday, Aug. 18.
Penn State Greater Allegheny is hosting a weeklong series of Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative (PMI) workshops this week. The Pennsylvania Mathematics Initiative is designed to help elementary school teachers deepen their content knowledge to facilitate their incorporation of the newly implemented Common Core State Standards. Beth Lindsey, associate professor of physics, and Kuei-Nuan Lin, assistant professor of mathematics, are hosting the workshops, with the theme of “Math as a Second Language.”
