Students invite the campus and community to join them in dancing and many other activities anytime from 9:00 p.m., Friday, to 9:00 p.m., Saturday, at Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. All proceeds benefit agencies addressing homelessness and hunger in Indiana.

The Fatality Prevention Forum, to be held October 29–30 in Pittsburgh, has received support from the Alcoa Foundation through a grant to the Foundation for Indiana University of Pennsylvania. The program builds on the findings and recommendations of a forum hosted by IUP in 2007.

The Hawk Rock 2012 Project, the IUP student community service campaign to benefit agencies addressing homelessness and hunger in Indiana, is rolling out more awareness and fund-raising events.

IUP has been named to the 2012 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for exemplary service efforts in the 2010–2011 academic year.

Music professor Henry Wong Doe will give a solo piano recital at Carnegie Hall on March 26. The concert will feature selections from his recent recording of the complete works of internationally renowned New Zealand composer Gareth Farr.

IUP was well represented at the Leader’s Circle Awards Event on Thursday, March 15, 2012, with Interim President David Werner honoring state senator Don White with the President’s Medal of Distinction, and several members of the IUP campus community recognized.

As host of the Appalachian Studies Association national conference, March 23-25, IUP positions itself as a trailblazer in northern Appalachian studies, with benefits for faculty, students, and alumni.

Talks by guest speakers on Pennsylvania's contributions to Appalachian culture, how powwows create community among Native Americans in Appalachian Pennsylvania, regional impacts of global warming, and the history of racist towns in Pennsylvania will be open to students and the Indiana community free of charge as part of the 35th Annual Appalachian Studies Conference hosted at IUP.