As the holidays approach, we reflect with gratitude on the remarkable community we call IUP.

Major Gene Deisinger, PhD, managing partner of Sigma Threat Management Associates, shared his expertise with IUP senior administrators and faculty in two days of discussions focused on the complex issues related to campus violence and principles of campus threat assessment and management.

President Michael Driscoll has announced which proposals submitted by faculty and staff members have received support from the Strategic Initiative Fund.

Dr. Moerland will begin his position on January 14, 2013. He comes from Kent State University, where he has served as dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Prior to that, he held several positions at Florida State University, including chair of the Department of Biological Science, interim director of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Institute, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.