IUP’s Kipp Gallery will host artist Justin Shull and his traveling work of art The Porta Hedge: Mobile Observation Lab. This mobile, artificial hedge can be entered by spectators. It will be open for viewing in the Oak Grove on December 2 and 3, 2009.

Bill Strickland, author of the 2009 Common Freshman Reader, Make the Impossible Possible, was on campus to share his personal story in an evening lecture Wednesday, November 17, 2009. See photos from his classroom visits earlier in the day.

The University Museum’s series on the region’s coal history will continue Wednesday, November 18, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Sprowls Hall’s McVitty Auditorium. “Unions: Roots of the ‘Democratic Impulse’ in District 2, UMWA, 1919–1943” will be presented by Dr. Irwin Marcus, professor emeritus with IUP’s History Department.

Bill Strickland, author of this year’s Common Freshman Reader, Make the Impossible Possible, will be honored by IUP’s Phi Kappa Phi honor society during his visit to campus November 17, 2009, which includes a lecture at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

Bill Strickland, author of the 2009 Common Freshman Reader, Make the Impossible Possible, will present his personal story on November 17, 2009, at 7:00 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the community.

Journalist Bob Woodward emphasized the need for transparency in government during his November 4, 2009, program “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?” part of the First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series.

Journalist Bob Woodward emphasized the need for transparency in government during his November 4, 2009, program “From Nixon to Bush: What Can President Obama Learn from Presidents Past?” part of the First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture Series.