IUP's upcoming Appalachian Studies Conference, to be held March 23-25, 2012, was the subject of a feature story in the Pittsburgh-Post Gazette on December 8, 2011.

A community and university symposium about Marcellus Shale will take place November 2, 3, 4, 5, 2010, on the IUP campus and in downtown Indiana.

Scientists from around the country are meeting in Pittsburgh on August 1–6, 2010, for the Ecological Society of America’s annual meeting.

“Conversations on the Porch,” the 2010 Appalachian Summit, takes place August 11–13, 2010, at the Marriott Town Center in Charleston, W.V.

Please mark your calendars now for the Center for Northern Appalachian Studies mini-conference on April 11, 2011, at California University of Pennsylvania.

On November 5–7, 2010, Harrisburg will hold exhibitions and a reenactment of the 1865 grand review of black Civil War soldiers, which was a response to their not being invited to participate in the Grand Review of the Armies by Union soldiers following the end of the Civil War. Dr. Jim Dougherty, director of the IUP Center for Northern Appalachian Studies, will assist in the project by providing research on United States Colored Troops descendants, helping to locate soldiers’ graves, and training tour guides.

The announcement of the G-20 People’s Summit Week at IUP, September 21–25, 2009,  is now on YouTube.