On November 20, 2009, Journalism professor David Loomis and Journalism Department secretary Lee Vest unveiled a redesigned on-line newspaper website, HawkEye, that features new and archival investigative stories reported by students in Loomis’s JRNL 328/News Reporting classes.

Monica Rizzo, a 1987 graduate of IUP’s Journalism Department, shared her experiences about her career in entertainment and journalism at a presentation to students, staff and faculty on October 21, 2009. Rizzo also spoke to several IUP journalism classes during her visit.

Dozens of students from five area high schools participated in a journalism workshop on October 8, 2009, sponsored by the Indiana Gazette’s Newspaper in Education program and IUP’s Journalism Department.