The faculty and staff will welcome first-year students and their families at the annual Academic Convocation on Friday, August 20, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. The convocation celebrates the campus' long and committed partnership with the Pittsburgh region. Since its beginning at the current location in 1957, Penn State Greater Allegheny campus continues to play a dynamic role in the Greater Pittsburgh area, bringing the resources of a nationally prominent university to students of all ages.
Kids' College at Penn State Greater Allegheny offers a variety of exciting summer educational activities for students in grades four to eight. Camps began on July 12 and run through July 23.
Former Penn State Greater Allegheny student, Mike Jackson of Moon, PA, has signed a pro contract with the Florence Freedom of the Frontier League. During Jackson's senior season he was named to the PSUAC's 1st Team and 1st team USCAA All-American. He was 8-1 on the mound striking out 64 in 58 IP, with a 2.02 ERA. The Florence Freedom is a member of the 12 team Independent Frontier League. The league is composed of teams from Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Missouri and Pennsylvania.
Independence Day celebrations almost always include fireworks of some kind. The Prevent Blindness America organization recommends attending professionally organized fireworks displays rather than buying and setting off your own. This view is echoed by the United States Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), which collects and reports data on fireworks-related injuries every year. They report that 7,000 emergency room visits from fireworks-related injuries occurred during 2008, including seven deaths. In 2007, there were 11 deaths and 9,800 emergency room visits from fireworks-related injury.
Disease remedies using plant products fill the market, but most have not been tested well enough to be able to assure patients that they really work or that they are safe. Here is what is known about a few products that are often of interest to patients with diabetes.
Well more than 100,000 students, alumni, friends and fans of Penn State are staying connected to the University through Penn State's official page on Facebook and through two accounts on Twitter. The University's official page on Facebook, at http://www.facebook.com/pennstate, is a hub of daily activity for more than 104,000 Penn Staters. On Twitter, thousands are following two official University feeds at http://www.twitter.com/pennstatelive and http://www.twitter.com/penn_state.
Chancellor Curtiss E. Porter, Ph.D., conferred degrees on 35 students at Penn State Greater Allegheny's spring commencement on Saturday, May 15, 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 President and Chief Executive Officer of The Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh, Esther L. Bush was the keynote speaker.
In addition to the originating location, there will be three host sites at Penn State for the 2010 Environmental Forum titled "Improving Lives, Protecting Resources: The Challenge of Environmental Justice." The conference will be broadcast from 8 a.m. to noon on May 18 from its location in the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus to three other locations -- Penn State Greater Allegheny, Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State Dickinson School of Law at Carlisle. For more information or to register, go to www.green.psu.edu
There is increasing awareness that our everyday decisions have an impact on the environment and on people. This impact is often unseen and its cost (or benefit) unknown. News about electronic waste ending up in developing countries or the impact on drinking water from gas exploration makes us aware that our decisions impact people's health and not just the environment. How can we improve people's lives while at the same time protecting resources?