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IUP Career and Professional Development Center Recognizes Outstanding Faculty and Organizational Partners With Hall of Fame Awards

Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Career and Professional Development Center has announced it fall 2025 Outstanding Organizational Partners, who join the CPDC’s Partner Hall of Fame.

Vetter Awarded Research Grant from Wikimedia Foundation 

Matthew Vetter (Department of Language, Literature, and Writing) has been awarded a research grant from the Wikimedia Foundation (the nonprofit behind Wikipedia) as part of an international team of scholars and free knowledge advocates.

Thompson Publishes Article on US Expansionism and Humor of the Gilded Age

Todd Thompson (Language, Literature, and Writing) recently published a new article, “Mr. Seward’s Real Estate Transactions’: Comic Imperialism in the Reconstruction Era,” in a special issue of Studies in American Humor.

Branscum and Yu Release New Book

Associate Professor of English John Yu Branscum and former instructor Yi Izzy Yu are releasing their new book, "Stars That Pause: 2,000 Years of Asian UFO Encounters & Lore," on October 15.

IUP Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative, IUP Literature and Criticism Program, Offering Fall Semester German Lecture Series

The Dessy-Roffman Myth Collaborative at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, in collaboration with IUP's Literature and Criticism Program, will offer the inaugural fall semester German Lecture Series starting on September 17.