Dr. Eileen Glisan, professor of Spanish, has been elected president-elect of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages and will serve as council president beginning in 2010.

Due to inclement weather, classes at IUP will begin at 10:10 a.m. today, Wednesday, January 28, 2009. Classes beginning earlier than 10:10 a.m will not be held.

As part of a growing focus on advancing retention and graduation rates of undergraduates, Richard Distanislao has been named executive director for Student Success and Retention at IUP.

A Chinese New Year celebration will be held January 25 from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. in the Allegheny Room of the Hadley Union Building. Activities include a dragon dance, Peking opera, learning about Chinese zodiac, calligraphy and name translations, and Chinese food and games.

Dr. Ken Coles, Geoscience professor, will present a free program in the IUP planetarium on January 28, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. titled “New Eyes: Gamma-Ray and X-Ray Astronomy.”

The Lively Arts will present Squonk Opera on January 30, 2009, at 8:00 p.m. in the IUP Performing Arts Center’s Fisher Auditorium. The performance features dozens of Indiana County residents and IUP students.

The Office of Distance Learning and Continuing Education is offering a variety of noncredit classes for Spring 2009.

The University Museum will host “Invisible Threads, Common Ground,” an exhibition curated by Dr. Vicky A. Clark, February 7 through March 21, 2009.

IUP’s Office of International Education will offer the 2009 Foreign Film and Music Series on Sunday evenings starting January 25 in the Indiana Theater.

Starting in September, students will have the opportunity to complete IUP’s master’s degree in criminology entirely on line.

IUP’s Office of Distance Learning and Continuing Education is cosponsoring the Great Decisions Lecture Discussion Series, February 3 through March 31, 2009. Sessions will be at the Court at St. Andrew’s Village. Preregistration is required.

List of Provost Scholars for Fall 2009. Requirements are being a current junior with a minimum of 45 semester hours earned at IUP and a cumulative grade-point average of 3.5 or higher.

Donna Brazile, political commentator, professor, author and chair of the Democratic National Committee’s Voting Rights Institute, will present the keynote address for IUP's annual Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative program January 29, 2009.