IUP's upcoming Appalachian Studies Conference, to be held March 23-25, 2012, was the subject of a feature story in the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette on December 8, 2011.

Dr. Shari Robertson, dean’s associate in the School of Graduate Studies and Research and professor of Speech-Language Pathology, and Brianna Robertson, a graduate of IUP’s Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology program, recently discussed their research on the Western Pennsylvania dialect on KDKA-AM (1020) radio morning news.

The pace and extent of Marcellus Shale development across Pennsylvania can be “seen” in animated maps produced by the Penn State Marcellus Center for Outreach and Research.

A community and university symposium about Marcellus Shale will take place November 2, 3, 4, 5, 2010, on the IUP campus and in downtown Indiana.

The economic model of globalization has propelled rural communities in the United States and much of the world toward specialized, low-value, extractive economies for much of the twentieth century.

Scientists from around the country are meeting in Pittsburgh on August 1–6, 2010, for the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting.

“Conversations on the Porch,” the 2010 Appalachian Summit, takes place August 11–13, 2010, at the Marriott Town Center in Charleston, W.V.