Jazminn Jones, a student in a Chinese 202 class at IUP, won third place in the Senior Level Group at the third annual Eastern U.S. Chinese Proficiency Competition, held April 7, 2012, and was interviewed by Voice of America.

Laura Delbrugge of the IUP Department of Foreign Languages has published a book chapter, “Pragmatism, Patience, and the Passion: The Converso Element in the Summa de paciencia (1493) and the Thesoro de la passion (1494)." The chapter was published as part of the volume Conversos of Medieval Iberia in March 2012