Joe Clark, professor emeritus of the Geoscience Department, recently attended the seventy-fourth annual Field Conference of Pennsylvania Geologists, joining former IUP students John Harper, Gary Ball, John Berry, and Doug Stewart.

Geoscience undergraduate student Ellen Lamont has been working with Dr. Jon Lewis on an NSF-funded project to understand earthquake-related deformation in the rocks of central Taiwan. Dr. Lewis is presenting this research at the National meeting of the American Geophysical Union (AGU) in San Francisco on December 18, 2009.

On Wednesday, December 9, 2009, at 7:00 p.m., students from the IUP Stellar Astronomy class will present “Astronomy Short Stories,” a series of several short presentations in the IUP Planetarium. These include a look at orbiting telescopes, deep space objects, the sky of the arctic North, and finding the way out of the woods using astronomy. The show is free and open to the public.