Terry R. Carter has been selected as vice president for University Relations and executive director of the Foundation for IUP. Carter, who will begin January 1, 2010, has more than thirty-four years of experience in fundraising, development, and advancement.

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.

Free tickets are available starting October 21 for the second annual First Commonwealth Endowed Lecture at Indiana University of Pennsylvania featuring Pulitzer Prize-winning author and investigative reporter Bob Woodward. The event is November 4, 2009, at 7:30 p.m. in Fisher Auditorium.

IUP will host the first “Coal Bowl” football game on October 3, 2009, sponsored by the Pennsylvania Coal Association. The winning team will receive a coal miner’s pail trophy.

IUP hosted members of the Global Spectrum leadership team Monday, September 28, 2009, for a briefing about Global Spectrum’s management of the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex’s Ed Fry Arena.

The Memorial Field House swimming pool will be named in honor of the late John A. Pidgeon, formerly of Saltsburg and Indiana. Pidgeon established a scholarship for IUP men and women swimmers in 2004 and served as a volunteer swimming coach.