Aaron Douthit, Stump Creek, a sophomore at Indiana University of Pennsylvania majoring in Nursing, has been appointed by Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett as the student trustee on the IUP Council of Trustees.

Nationally respected for his work in disaster preparedness and emergency response, Glenn Cannon, alumnus of IUP's College of Education and Educational Technology, will bring his decades of professional leadership expertise to the IUP Council of Trustees.

IUP has entered into negotiations with DHD Hospitality, LLC, of Massachusetts, to be the developer of a hotel next to the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. The hotel would be a Hilton Garden Inn franchise. It would be owned by DHD Hospitality, LLC, and operated by Gulph Creek Hotels, a company from Wayne, Pa.

A great showing of university and Indiana community members attended a welcome reception for new IUP president Mike Driscoll and his wife, Becky Driscoll, on Monday, July 16, at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex.

A special-use learning area at IUP Punxsutawney has been named in honor of the late Ralph F. Roberts, Punxsutawney businessman and IUP trustee.

IUP was well represented at the Leader’s Circle Awards Event on Thursday, March 15, 2012, with Interim President David Werner honoring state senator Don White with the President’s Medal of Distinction, and several members of the IUP campus community recognized.

Three IUP students and two other community members were honored by the Council of Trustees on December 15, 2011, for the rescue of a fire victim in Indiana in October.