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.

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.

IUP will host a workshop Wednesday, November 18, 2009, from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m. geared toward students who are entering the job market. The “$tart $mart Campus Workshop” will be held in Room 116 of the Northern Suites, located behind Weyandt Hall.

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.

Students Sarah Finn, of Ebensburg, and Megan Coffey, of Erie, were selected as the winners of the 2009 Provost’s Fall Common Freshman Reader essay assignment.

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.