Sociology professor Dr. Christian Vaccaro's study on how men manage fears was the subject of a feature article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette on January 30, 2012.

An article on "managing emotional manhood" by sociology professor Dr. Christian Vaccaro has been featured in The Huffington Post and Men's Health News.

Ms. Rebecca Zukowski, Ph.D. candidate in the Administration and Leadership Studies, Nonprofit and Public Sectors program, has been awarded the Graduate Dean’s Award for Outstanding Commitment to Sponsored Programs.

There will be a series of fundraisers held to help raise money to pay for a permanent campus display, the IUP Peace Garden, that will focus on the issue of world peace.

IUP students will perform How Dirty Are YOU? A Dirty Drama of Discrimination, an original piece of theater created as part of a Sociology Masters Thesis Project, on Thursday, April 28, and Friday, April 29, 2011.

Ms. Shelley Vukman will receive the award for her thesis “Psychological Outcomes of Adolescent Females’ Early Sexual Initiation: An Analysis Using Wave 1 and 2 from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health.”

Students in Dr. Jim Dougherty’s Sociology of Native Americans class are raising funds to pay for a state historical marker that will recognize the existence and the intersection of the Kittanning and Catawba Native American trails near the IUP HUB.