IUP’s Cook Honors College and Center for Civic Engagement and Student Leadership sponsored a national “Making a Difference” essay contest. Students from twenty-six states answered the question “How have you been transformed by your community service?”

Dr. Abid Fakhri, the 2010 winner of the Biology Department’s Young Alumni Award, graduated from the Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with a B.S. in Biology and Pre-med. He went on to earn his M.D. at Drexel University, and he is currently a fellow in cardiovascular disease at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh.

Jason Chimonides, an IUP Theater and Dance Department professor, is teaching the freshman interdisciplinary core class in the Cook Honors College for the first time while trying to get his play, Serverlove, produced in New York City.