The 19th Annual Research Appreciation Week takes place April 1–5, showcasing in one of the most exciting academic events of the year the innovation and scope of research that IUP faculty and students conduct universitywide.

The Eberly College of Business and Information Technology ranks 20th out of 100 schools and earns four out of four stars for academic support in a survey by Military Times.

Faculty and staff are asked to encourage students who've received invitations to join the IUP chapter of Phi Kappa Phi to take advantage of this opportunity before the April 14 deadline. Invitations were mailed to students’ home addresses and e-mailed to them earlier this month.

Peter Russell and many other student volunteers work to keep the harvest coming late into the fall at the Indiana Community Garden. There's “something a little rebellious” about growing fresh food for your community, says Russell.

Rebecca Beadling, a junior majoring in chemistry and biology, won the 2012 Chung Soo Yoo Award for outstanding graduate-level research at the annual Pittsburgh Diffraction Conference, held at the Stanford Linear Accelerator National Laboratory in Menlo Park, Calif.

The IUP Upward Bound Math and Science program has received $248,000 in funding from the U.S. Department of Education, with projected funding over five years of $1.24 million. Since the IUP program opened its doors in 2008, 99 students from Indiana County have participated; 65 percent have enrolled in an institution of higher education, and 40 percent have been accepted for study at IUP.

Katharine Uvick, a computer science major in the Robert E. Cook Honors College, is working in a virtual internship with students from across the country to design a mobile game app for the U.S. Department of Energy.