Indiana University of Pennsylvania honored three alumni and a graduating student for outstanding volunteerism through the Award of Excellence in Volunteer Leadership program, held during the annual Volunteer Recognition Breakfast on April 13.
Ammar Mahmoud, a doctoral candidate in the Curriculum and Instruction program, won the Dean’s Award for his project “Developing a Plan to Handle Any College-level Writing Assignment’ at the 2024 IUP Scholars Forum.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania anthropology professor Ben Ford, IUP’s 2023–24 Distinguished University Professor and chair of IUP’s Department of Anthropology, has been selected as a Fulbright US Scholar for 2024–25.
As assistant director of Student Involvement and Leadership Development, Donovan Daniel guides students and organizations, he leads workshops and conferences—all to help students get involved and grow as leaders. Find out where he gets his inspiration in this Q&A.
Abigail Hancox, of Albion, a senior political science major with a minor in homeland security in the Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for a competitive James A. Finnegan Foundation Fellowship.
Mimi Benjamin, professor in the Student Affairs in Higher Education Department, presented at the ACPA convention on the findings of an international research project on peer mentoring, focusing on establishing belonging through peer support programs for underrepresented students.
John Wesley Lowery authored a chapter on student conduct administration in Rentz's "Student Affairs Practice in Higher Education" (6th edition).
Cleo McMahan, a biology major from Indiana, received the 2024 Patricia Hilliard Robertson Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Female Science Student, presented April 8 during IUP’s annual STEM Women’s Summit, highlighting current women scientists and alumnae working in the science fields.
Sixty students and three faculty in IUP’s Department of Music were the invited local chorus to sing with THE Andrea Bocelli—the international superstar—at his concert in Pittsburgh, the first stop on his current tour schedule.
Crystal Machado, professor in the Department of Professional Studies in Education, published a chapter titled "Beyond Coursework: Creating Digital Co-Mentoring Spaces for Graduate and Post-Graduate Student-Faculty Productivity" in Laura E. Gray and Shernette D. Dunn’s edited book Incorporating the Human Element in Online Teaching and Learning.
The director of the IUP Institute for Cyber Security and current PI of several major federally funded grants, Waleed Farag, visited the Homer-Center Senior High School on March 8 to share information about IUP’s cybersecurity education efforts, including current grant information and opportunities for scholarships.
Join the School of Graduate Studies and Research and the IUP Research Institute at the nineteenth annual Scholars Forum, held at the KCAC. This event celebrates student research at IUP and includes the annual Three-Minute Thesis competition.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania will celebrate innovation, student and faculty research, and creative work during IUP’s 2024 Research Appreciation Week, planned for April 8–12. STEM is Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics.
Drawing on his strong personal connection to environmental advocacy, Zeeshan Saddique, a doctoral candidate in IUP's Literature and Criticism PhD program, designed his fall 2023 section of the course to foster environmental stewardship through the study of narrative.
IUP Comm Media faculty member Stephanie Keppich has received the Teaching Excellence for Temporary Faculty award.
A teaser scene from Jeremy Waltman's movie "The Veteran" has been released.
John Wesley Lowery, professor and department chair of Student Affairs in Higher Education, delivered the 2024 Saddlemire Lecture at Bowling Green State University on Tuesday, April 2.
The College of Education and Communications has completed its second artist residency of the year, with teacher education candidates taking a ECED/ECSP creative experiences courses.
IUP piano professor Henry Wong Doe taught a masterclass and performed a solo recital at Hunter College/City University of New York, March 19th and 20th, 2024.
Dana Lynn Driscoll (professor of English and director of the Jones White Writing Center) and Andrew Yim (composition and applied linguistics doctoral student, tutor in the Writing Center) have published a new article in an edited collection, titled “The Loss of We: An Empirical Investigation of Synchronous and Asynchronous Tutoring Experiences before and During the Pandemic.”
On Saturday, March 23, the IUP Dance Team took part in their first intercollegiate dance match outside of Pennsylvania, the Precision Intercollegiate Dance Competition, held in Manassas, VA. Despite this being the team's first competition in several years, the team was successful, earning the judges' award for "most entertaining" performance and other accolades.
IUP celebrated employees who completed 10, 15, 20, 25, and 35, years of service to the university during the Employee Service Awards luncheon in the Blue Room on Wednesday, March 27, 2024.
Miko Rose, the founding dean of IUP's proposed college of osteopathic medicine, never dreamed about being a doctor. But in her "second career," she’s making a difference in the lives of patients and the physicians providing their medical care.
Sarah Brown, Professional Studies in Education, is also head coach of the undefeated Indiana High School Swimming and Diving teams.
The chapter by Asmaa Radwan and Jacqueline McGinty, titled "Towards a Conceptual Generative AI Ethical Framework in Teacher Education," delves into the transformative potential of GenAI in education, highlighting its capabilities to enhance teaching and learning experiences.
Emma McAnulty, a senior hotel, restaurant, tourism, and event management major with a concentration in tourism and special events at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been awarded the prestigious Statler Foundation’s Scholarship of Excellence.
John Wesley Lowery presented at the 2024 NASPA Conference in Seattle last week on law and policy issues and the history of student affairs profession.
A list of students who graduated from IUP in December 2023 and January 2024.
Chin Yi Huang and Julie W. Ankrum’s article, “Exploring Taiwanese EFL Teachers’ Resilience Based on their Experience of Working through the Pandemic,” was recently published in Airiti’s "Journal of Sciences & Humanities." Airiti is a Taiwanese online journal.
Farheen Mahmood and Julie W. Ankrum co-authored an article in "Early Childhood Education Journal" describing research exploring the effects of a postcolonial mindset on the accessibility to instructional literature (picturebooks, storybooks, and anthologies/readers) in Pakistan.
It is with immense pleasure and pride that the Center for Teaching Excellence announces the winners of this year's Faculty Recognition Awards. These accolades honor the outstanding achievements, tireless dedication, and remarkable contributions of our esteemed faculty members to academia and beyond.
IUP Punxsutawney students received $1,000 scholarships for their essays.
Waleed Farag, director of the IUP Institute for Cyber Security and professor of computer science, was recently invited to participate in the kick-off meeting for the newly formed Regional Cyber Hub.
Coming to IUP has helped student photographer Cameron Horning figure out a path to a career in sports. Learn more about him in this multimedia story, and see highlights of his work documenting the seasons of the Crimson Hawks.
Crystal Machado, professor in the Department of Professional Studies in Education, and Lizoon Nahar, a Curriculum and Instruction doctoral candidate, published the paper “Influence of a Multiphase Inquiry-based Learning Project on Students' Science Literacy" in the "Journal of Education in Science, Environment, and Health."
Crystal Machado, professor in the Department of Professional Studies in Education, published a chapter titled "Establishing Expertise: Writing Partnerships, Multiple Projects, and Online Presence" in Mary Renck Jalongo and Olivia N. Saracho’s edited book "Scholarly Writing: Publishing Manuscripts that are Read, Downloaded and Cited."
Brittany Pollard-Kosidowski received the Presidential Award for Service at this year's Association for Specialists in Group Work conference in Portland, OR.
As an undergraduate, Lara Luetkehans knew she wanted to work in higher education. She just didn’t know in what capacity. Learn more about Luetkehans, IUP’s provost and vice president for Academic Affairs, in this Q&A.
On Saturday, Feb. 17, 2023, the IUP Cybersecurity Team participated in the Nation Center of Academic Excellence – Northeast Cyber Competition and secured a fourth-place finish against 10 other cyber teams from US colleges and universities.
Indiana University Press has just released "Hosting States and Unsettled Guests: Eritrean Refugees in a Time of Migration Deterrence," co-written by Amanda Poole, professor of Anthropology at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Jennifer Riggan, professor of International Studies at Arcadia University.
This year's recipients of the Linda Drummond Deabenderfer Scholarship are Cameron Havens and Debra Flint. Each student will receive a $1,000 scholarship to use towards their educational expenses.
The IUP Department of Music brass faculty hosted the second annual IUP Brass Day on Sunday, February 18, 2024. This year, the Brass Day guest artist was Italian trumpeter Andrea Tofanelli. All IUP brass students, as well as area middle and high school musicians, participated.
Zach Collins, professor of Tuba, recently performed an invited recital at the 2024 US Army Band Tuba Euphonium Workshop in Fort Myer, VA.
Two Indiana University of Pennsylvania studio art faculty members are using a $70,000 Moonshot Grant to launch new worlds of opportunity for youth in Pittsburgh’s Brownsville area.
On February 5, 2024, IUP’s Institute for Cyber Security hosted seven delegates from Iraq as part of the International Visitor Leadership Program through the US Department of State.
Professor Kelli Jo Moran and students Ragia Hassan and Chin-Yi Huang presented a poster titled “Teaching Artists Teaching Future Teachers: Building Pre-Service Teachers’ Cross-Curricular Capacities through Teaching Artist Residencies.”
On Saturday, February 3, 2024, John Wesley Lowery, professor and department chair of Student Affairs in Higher Education, presented at ASCA conference held at Portland, Oregon.
Waleed Farag, professor of computer science and director of IUP’s Institute for Cyber Security, was an invited participant for a roundtable discussion with Jake Braun, acting principal deputy national cyber director in the Office of the National Cyber Director, on cybersecurity and workforce development.
Indiana Musicale (Indiana Chapter, Pennsylvania Music Teachers Association), in collaboration with the IUP Department of Music, hosted its seventh Monster Piano Concert in DiCicco Hall on Saturday, February 3.
Matt Vetter and co-authors (all former or current IUP doctoral students in English) published "Towards a Framework for Local Interrogation of AI Ethics: A Case Study on Text Generators, Academic Integrity, and Composing with ChatGPT" in the journal Computers and Composition.
John Wesley Lowery, department chair of Student Affairs in Higher Education, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been recognized by the NASPA Faculty Council as the 2024 recipient of the Faculty Service Award.
English department faculty member Bryna Siegel Finer (English) has taken on new roles at the journal Rhetoric of Health & Medicine and the book series Writing Spaces.
The new home of the Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics opened for the start of the semester last week. Get a look inside this 142,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility, now that its labs, classrooms, and common areas are in use.
Professor Ben Ford recently traveled to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to participate in the Underwater Cultural Heritage Conference organized by the Saudi Arabia Heritage Commission.
IUP piano professor Henry Wong Doe performed with the Johnstown Symphony Orchestra on January 14, 2024, in their Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration concert.
The University Museum presents a collection of works by Ivan Fortushniak as the first exhibit of 2024.
Matt Vetter (Department of English) and co-author Zach McDowell (University of Illinois, Chicago) recently published an article in the International Journal of Communication. "The Realienation of the Commons: Wikidata and the Ethics of 'Free' Data" interrogates ethical issues related to Creative Commons Zero licensing in one of the most influential engines of the semantic web.
Thanks to a ninth year of funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, Indiana University of Pennsylvania will offer a free, one-week GenCyber cybersecurity camp for middle and high school students.
Rick Adkins has a leadership role in a US National Science Foundation Campus Cyberinfrastructure program grant to develop a commonwealth-wide secure network and related cyberinfrastructure to interconnect Pennsylvania colleges and universities.
Following is the list of Dean’s List recipients for the fall 2023 semester as of January 8, 2024.
Mimi Benjamin, Student Affairs in Higher Education professor, co-authored “Why Living in a Sport Management Learning Community Matters,” recently published in the Sports Innovation Journal.
Professor Matthew Nice received the CSI’s Edwin L. Herr Fellowship for Excellence in Counseling Leadership and Scholarship. The Herr Fellowship includes funding to be used for research.
During the fall semester, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Men’s Ice Hockey club team raised $2,350 for the Western Pennsylvania Veterans Relief Fund and collected more than 200 stuffed animals for pediatric patients at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
When the IUP Ambassadors learned they had won the first-place prize for the 2023 IUP homecoming parade float competition, the group immediately made the decision to donate $500 of the prize funds to the IUP Food Pantry and Help Center.
Another year at IUP is almost behind us. Look back at some of the memorable moments in student life, academics, athletics, research, relaxation, and more in this gallery of photos.
Kelly Fox, a school counselor at Indiana County Technology Center, received the Department of Counseling's Claire J. Dandeneau Outstanding Supervisor award in 2023.
Erick Marco Ramos, an English PhD candidate at IUP, was recently interviewed by the American Council for the Blind.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold commencement ceremonies on Dec. 16 for 521 graduates, including 13 who completed their undergraduate studies with perfect 4.0 grade point averages.
The Indiana University of Pennsylvania Rugby Club won the national championship against the University of Memphis on Sunday, December 10, in Houston, Texas.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania has selected its second student cohort of Justice Research Fellows at the Administration and Leadership Studies Research and Training Center at IUP.
The Center for Multicultural Student Leadership and Engagement held its annual Winter Celebration on Friday, December 8.
What would bring 60 musicians back to the IUP campus for a weekend of rehearsals and a culminating performance in Fisher Auditorium? The return of Jack Stamp (BS’76), director of Bands at IUP from 1990 until 2015, and the first performance of the Keystone Wind Ensemble in almost eight years!
For the seventh year in a row, students in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Rho Tau Chi military service fraternity made a difference in the lives of homeless veterans in Indiana County and western Pennsylvania through the Homeless Heroes Holiday Stocking Project.
The newly formed Lettuce Eating Club held its first competition—seeing who could devour a head of iceberg lettuce the fastest. Find photos from the contest, see who was crowned “chomp-ion” (Head Lettuce), learn iceberg-eating strategies, and more.
IUP Comm Media faculty member Zack Stiegler and IUP media communication studies doctoral program graduate Todd Campbell co-authored a new book titled "Musical Intimacy."
IUP's Iota Mu Chapter of Sigma Delta Pi, the National Hispanic Honor Society, celebrated its 51st initiation ceremony on Friday, December 1, 2023.
Students named to the Fall 2023 list of Provost’s Scholars are listed alphabetically with the degree and major they are seeking.
IUP piano professor Henry Wong Doe recently released “Perspectives,” an album of six newly commissioned piano works by New Zealand composers on the Rattle Records label.
David I. Hanauer, a faculty member in IUP’s Department of English, has been named as one of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists” for 2023 by an international academic independent research center.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania President Michael Driscoll is recognized as one of the commonwealth’s 50 top leaders in Pennsylvania by City & State Pennsylvania.
Christina Huhn, Dawn Smith-Sherwood, Heide Witthöft, Marjorie Zambrano-Paff (Department of Foreign Languages), Harrison Wick (IUP Special Collections), and six students attended the Pennsylvania State Modern Language Association’s annual language teachers conference, held at Seven Springs resort.
Christina Huhn (Department of Foreign Languages) copresented the results of a collaborative research project, titled "Current Trends in Post-secondary Language Classrooms," at the annual Convention of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages.
Following a national search, a higher education professional with two decades of experience in sponsored research, grants management, and administration has been selected as the executive director of the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Research Institute by the IUP Research Institute Board of Directors.
IUP piano professor Henry Wong Doe performed on the Princeton Sound Kitchen series at Princeton University on Tuesday, November 14.
For the fourteenth year, members of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Greek community—its 24 fraternities and sororities—continued a holiday tradition of helping families in the Indiana community.
John Wesley Lowery, professor in the Student Affairs in Higher Education Department, co-authored a chapter on legal and ethical issues in academic advising administration with Susan M. Taffe Reed of Dartmouth.
Nafisah Ahmad Sulaiman, a comm media third-year PhD student, presented her paper, “Understanding Facebook Crisis Communication in the Context of Dialogic Theory of Public Relations: A Case Study of Twitter Ban in Nigeria,” at the National Communication Association's 109th annual conference in Washington, DC.
The Writing Center tutors and staff members presented at the National Conference on Peer Tutoring in Writing in Pittsburgh.
Studio Art faculty Sean Derry and Sharon Massey were awarded a $70,000 Moonshot Grant from Remake Learning for their upcoming project, Studio Stream.
For the seventh year in a row, students in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Rho Tau Chi military service fraternity are committed to helping homeless veterans in Indiana County and western Pennsylvania through the Homeless Heroes Holiday Stocking Project.
Gloria Park was invited to facilitate a Reflective Workshop for 400 Fulbright foreign language teaching assistants who are on a one-year grant, teaching their native languages in US higher education institutions.
Torri Ashbaugh, a senior undergraduate student in the Health and Physical Education Teacher Education program, was recognized as the 2023 recipient of the Outstanding Future Professional Award.
Calvin Masilela, professor of Geography and Regional Planning, has been awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the University of Zululand, South Africa, by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA).
Shijuan Liu, Department of Foreign Languages, gave an invited workshop for Chinese language faculty from several liberal arts colleges in the Great Lakes Colleges Association, held in Ann Arbor, Michigan, October 6–8, 2023.
The School of Graduate Studies and Research announces the winners of the Julius P. Filcik Doctoral Fellowship: Vanessa Gutierrez, criminology, PhD; and Farheen Mahmood, curriculum and instruction, DEd.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Chief Information Officer Bill Balint has been selected as University Technology Leader of the Year by EdScoop, an online newsletter for leaders in technology and digital learning, published by Scoop News Group.
IUP counselor education doctoral student Stephanie Onkst won the 2023 Pennsylvania Counseling Outstanding Graduate Student Award at the 2023 PCA annual conference in Harrisburg, PA.
Lindsay Aurand is the recipient of the Nancy Newkerk scholarship for 2023.
IUP computer science undergraduates Kamir Walton, Noah Grattan, and Jacob Vanluven competed in the 2023 ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest.
IUP Comm Media's COMM 360 Live Sports Football class won their third Crystal Pillar Award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences in the student productions category, awarded on October 14, 2023.
Common Goods is an annual pop-up store featuring laser-cut paper packages of items we need but cannot buy, like empathy, rest, and rainbows.
Ben Ford (Anthropology), James Delgado (SEARCH) and Michael Brennan (SEARCH) published an article on the Gulf of Mexico maritime cultural landscape.
Zach Collins, professor of tuba and euphonium, completed a tour of Tennessee and Arkansas with professional tuba-euphonium quartet, Brass Mammoth in October 2023.
On Tuesday, October 17, the Michael Hanni Memorial Scholarship was presented to Madi Kiser, a second-year SAHE student, by members of Michael’s family.
IUP’s Institute for Cybersecurity, in collaboration with the PC4A Project and Information Technology Support Center, will host the sixteenth annual Cybersecurity Day on October 31. This annual event features nationally recognized security experts as well as speakers from government, the security industry, and academia. It is free and open to the community.
Ben Ford, Department of Anthropology, was recently appointed chair of the Pennsylvania Historic Preservation Board.
Dana Driscoll (English, Writing Center) and Omar Yacoub (August 2023 graduate from the Composition and Applied Linguistics Doctoral program and former assistant director of the Jones White Writing Center) won a major article award for their 2022 article, “Threshold Genres; A 10-Year Exploration of a Medical Writer’s Development and Social Apprenticeship through the Patient SOAP Note.”
Indiana University of Pennsylvania can add a third Crystal Pillar Award and its first Emmy award from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences to its list of accolades.
Studio Art faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry teamed up with Molly Russell and Matt Burglund from Marketing and Communications to bring a STEAM project to the Pittsburgh Zoo on Monday, October 9, 2023.
Robert Orth will serve as the new managing director for the Administration and Leadership Studies Research and Training Center at Indiana University of Pennsylvania.
One of the legacies of the Jones White Writing Center has been to help open new writing centers and consult on writing centers globally. In fall 2023, Dana Driscoll (English, Writing Center) traveled to the Czech Republic to help open the first Writing Center Support Centre at VSB Technical University of Ostrava in Ostrava, Czech Republic.
Now in its thirteenth year at IUP, the Crimson Court will take part in all university Homecoming activities, including the parade. The Crimson Court consists of students chosen by a university-wide vote to represent each of the colleges at IUP.
Dana Driscoll (English, Writing Center) offered a series of five half-day workshops on teaching writing for universities in the Czech Republic. In partnership with VSB Technical University of Ostrava, the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Charles University, she offered workshops to support teaching writing in the disciplines and offered support for dissertation writers.
Kevin Eisensmith, retired professor of trumpet at IUP, and seven members of the IUP trumpet studio recently returned from a one-week trumpet festival held in Orvieto, Italy.
John Wesley Lowery, professor in the Student Affairs in Higher Education department, published an article in the fall 2023 issue of "Developments" on the Supreme Court’s recent affirmative action decision.
The textbook on Professional Catering structurally applies by design key essential and emerging management, marketing, strategic management, and supply chain concepts empowering the student, practitioner, event planner, chef, or aspiring entrepreneur with the appropriate knowledge, tools, and Tips from the Trade to start and position within the marketplace a competitive catering business.
IUP Comm Media faculty member Jeremy Waltman recently directed "The Veteran," which was invited to preview at the Nordkapp Filmfestival in Norway on September 14, 2023.
New tenure track faculty, temporary faculty, and teaching associates attended New Faculty Orientation, hosted by the Center for Teaching Excellence and sponsored by the Office of the Provost.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania will open the 2023–24 academic year’s planetarium shows on September 25 with “Awaiting the Darkening.”
Two Indiana University of Pennsylvania biology majors are just a little closer to their lifetime careers, thanks to Indiana Regional Medical Center’s Pre-Med Undergraduate Summer Internship.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania geoscience professor Kenneth Coles is part of the writing team of "Bennu 3-D: Anatomy of an Asteroid," a project that could help scientists make big new discoveries about the origin of the Earth and the Solar System.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania has received $996,350 from the Department of Defense to establish a pilot summer immersion program for cybersecurity students to develop language foundations and proficiency in Chinese. IUP is the only school in the nation chosen to develop the program.
"Writing Spaces: Readings on Writing" is an open-access textbook series geared towards undergraduate composition courses. Volume 5 includes 22 new open-access essays and offers multiple perspectives on a wide range of topics about writing.
Elizabeth Haffling, a senior hotel, restaurant, tourism, and event planning major from Martinsburg, has been awarded the prestigious Statler Foundation’s Scholarship of Excellence.
Bryna Siegel Finer, director of Undergraduate Writing Programs, published a new book, "Patients Making Meaning: Theorizing Sources of Information and Forms of Support in Women's Health," co-authored with Cathryn Molloy (University of Delaware) and Jamie White-Farnham (University of Wisconsin–Superior).
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Council of Trustees approved four resolutions on September 7 in honor of members of the IUP community, including two retired faculty members and two retired administrators.
Associate Professor Diane Shinberg presented "Toward More Inclusive Structural Intersectionality: Contextual Measurement of Structural Ableism" at the American Sociological Association's 118th annual meeting in Philadelphia, PA, on August 19, 2023.
Following are the Dean's List recipients for Summer 2023.
The College of Education and Communications congratulates Racheal Nuwagaba-K on receiving the College's Student Research Award.
The Office of the Provost has announced the promotion of several faculty members to full professor effect the fall 2023 semester.
At the conclusion of resident assistant training for the undergraduate student staff at IUP, the SAHE faculty formally presented the 2023 Ronald Lunardini Distinguished Alumni Award to Julene (Jules) Pinto-Dyczewski.
On Tuesday, September 5, tune in to KDKA-TV in Pittsburgh between 9:00 and 10:00 a.m. for an interview about science at IUP with President Michael Driscoll and Steve Hovan, dean of the Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics.
Cory Shay, director of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Military and Veterans Resource Center, has been selected for the 2023 Veteran Champions of the Year in Higher Education list by Military Friendly.
Leo Yan, of the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, presented a paper titled "Uncontainable Incommensurability" at the Value Incommensurability Workshop, held at Lund University, Lund, Sweden, May 25–26, 2023.
Doctoral candidates in Curriculum and Instruction share their experience of strategic integration and implementation of free digital resources, specifically eBooks, to cultivate interest in reading among preK to grade 8 students.
Waleed Farag received the Senate 2023 Distinguished Faculty Award for research.
The list of Dean’s List recipients for the summer 2023 semester.
Matt Vetter (Department of English) and co-authors published an article in the journal Technical Communication Quarterly comparing the marketing rhetoric of VR software and hardware with interviews of actual users to uncover disparities in how immersion is described and experienced.
A video produced by members of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Division of Student Affairs has been nominated for a 2023 Mid-Atlantic Emmy award by the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.
Two students at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Academy of Culinary Arts, Madison Macchia and Samantha Swidowski, have been selected as the 2023 recipients of the Tony and Emma Ricupero-Rustic Lodge Scholarship.
The Department of Music hosted two successful camps in June 2023. The second annual IUP Summer Music Camp was held June 12–16, and the Drum Major and Leadership Academy, which rebooted in 2022, was held June 26–30.
Join the SGSR and Office of Undergraduate Research in celebrating the culmination of a summer-long research project undertaken by students at this free event open to the public.
Gary Bird, emeritus professor of Music at IUP, was recently given the Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Tuba and Euphonium Association. The award was presented at the 2023 International Tuba and Euphonium Conference, held at Arizona State University.
Second-year culinary students Samantha Swidowski and Madison Macchia were selected as award recipients for the Ricupero Scholarship.
Amanda Poole, a faculty member in Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Anthropology, has been selected for the Fulbright Specialist Program and has been approved to work on a project in Madagascar.
Matt Vetter (Department of English) and co-authors Brent Lucia (University of Connecticut, English PhD alumnus) and Isaac Adubofour (English PhD candidate) have recently published an article, "Behold the Metaverse: Facebook's Meta Imaginary and the Circulation of Elite Discourse," in the journal New Media & Society.
Mimi Benjamin, professor in the Student Affairs in Higher Education department, participated in the final year of a three-year research seminar at Elon University June 25–30. 2023.
The Department of Anthropology has been selected by the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc. through the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency to continue its field study in Germany at the site of a crash of a World War II airplane. This is the third year that IUP has been involved in the DPAA mission.
Retired Indiana University of Pennsylvania biology professor Frank Baker and his wife, the late Mary Baker, along with members of the Baker family, have made a $50,000 gift to benefit IUP’s John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics Building Fund.
Richard Muth, director of Regional Campuses, presented "Rurality: Diversity, Perspectives, and Educational Impacts" at the Regional and Branch Campus Administrators Conference, which took place June 11–14, 2023.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Institute for Rural Health and Safety has received $104,000 in federal funding through the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation for the Indiana County Highway Safety Project, a program designed to promote safe driving, including seat belt use, in the region.
Matthew Vetter (English Department) has received the 2023 Conference on College Composition and Communication Wikipedia Initiative Award for Contributions to Public Knowledge.
Undergraduate students receive recognition on the Dean’s List for each fall, spring, or summer term(s) in which they earn at least a 3.25 GPA based on at least 12 credits of graded (not P/F) undergraduate coursework, or a combination of graded graduate and undergraduate coursework.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Safety Sciences American Society of Safety Professionals student section has been named the Outstanding Student Section of the Year by the American Society of Safety Professionals. The honor comes with a $5,000 award from the ASSP to fund scholarships and research.
Graduate Admissions Office Director Amber Dworek and Graduate Admissions Office Assistant Director Lucy Archer, working with Christina Koren, director of strategic partnerships in IUP’s Division of University Advancement, delivered snacks and gift items for members of the nursing staff at three regional medical facilities, including a voucher to waive the application fee for enrollment in any IUP graduate degree program.
Why does education harm refugees? Amanda Poole of the Department of Anthropology tackles this vexing question in an article published in the Journal of Refugee studies titled “What Kind of Weapon Is Education? Teleological Violence, Local Integration, and Refugee Education in Northern Ethiopia.”
Students from IUP's MA and PhD counseling programs have been named to the Executive Board of the Pennsylvania Association for Specialists in Group Work.
The IUP Men's and Women's Rugby teams traveled to Washington, DC on April 28–30 to take on the Collegiate Rugby National Championships. The IUP Women's rugby team entered their first national 7s championship tournament. In contrast, the Men's rugby team came in as defending national champions (2022).
The Philosophy and Religious Studies Department congratulates the winners of the 2023 Howard Z. Fitzgerald Philosophy Essay Contest.
Jon Lewis will be one of six Ocean Discovery Lecturers for the International Ocean Discovery Program for 2023–24.
Congratulations to Carol Lynn Hecht, from CES Cohort 4 at Pittsburgh East, for her recent awarding of an IUP Graduate Student Research Grant. This grant will help fund Carol Lynn's dissertation research, titled "Experiences Providing End-of-Life Counseling: A Narrative Inquiry."
Matthew Nice, Department of Counseling, recently published a research article in the Journal of Counseling and Development, the flagship journal of the American Counseling Association and the counseling profession. The article analyzes 31 years of wellness and well-being counseling research.
Three Department of Counseling faculty members were recognized for outstanding research.
John Mueller, a retired faculty member in the Student Affairs in Higher Education department, was recently granted emeritus status after 22 years of service to the university.
Gloria Park (English Department) and co-editors Sarah Bogdan, Madeleine Rosa, and Joseph Navarro are proud to announce their upcoming publication, "Critical Pedagogy In the Language and Writing Classroom: Strategies, Examples, Activities from Teacher Scholars."
Ben Ford, Indiana University of Pennsylvania professor of anthropology and chair IUP’s Department of Anthropology, has been selected as IUP’s 2023–24 Distinguished University Professor.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania held a commencement ceremony on Friday, May 5, honoring the 332 students receiving master’s degrees and 84 students receiving doctoral degrees. On Saturday, May 6, IUP celebrated students graduating with undergraduate degrees—1,021 bachelor's degrees and nine associate degrees.
On May 4, 2023, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Council of Trustees approved the naming of a geoscience laboratory in IUP’s John J. and Char Kopchick Hall in honor and memory of one of the founding members of IUP’s Department of Geoscience.
On May 4, 2023, Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Council of Trustees presented a resolution of appreciation to Maura King for her leadership, service, and commitment to IUP as the student member of the Council of Trustees.
SAHE students were honored at the Student Affairs in Higher Education banquet.
On May 4, 2022, IUP will recognize faculty members who had recent achievements in scholarship and University Senate Distinguished Faculty recipients.
Following a national search, an experienced academic leader has been selected to serve as the dean of Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Eberly College of Business. Stephen Ferris will begin his work at IUP on July 1.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania has announced recipients of the University Senate Awards and the list of new faculty, dean, and associate dean emeriti.
Shari Hoch (Mathematics, BS) was one of nine college students accepted into a National Science Foundation-sponsored REU (Research Experiences for Undergraduates) hosted this summer at Bryn Mawr College.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania will hold commencement ceremonies for 1,446 graduates on May 5 and 6 at the Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. Students graduating in May and August are eligible to participate in the ceremonies.
Lisa Halmes, administrative assistant for the Cook Honors College at IUP, has been selected as the winner of the 2023 NCHC Award for Administrative Excellence. Halmes was nominated by Chauna Craig, director of the Cook Honors College, for her consistent enthusiasm and passion for their educational mission.
The Department of Finance and Economics is very pleased to congratulate Trey Rainey for his Honorable Mention placement in the CFA Society Pittsburgh's ninth annual Collegiate Financial Plan Competition.
The Department of Finance and Economics is very pleased to congratulate current undergraduate students who presented their own econometric research at the annual Pennsylvania Sports Business Conference at Indiana University of Pennsylvania held on April 14, 2023.
The Department of Finance and Economics is very pleased to congratulate numerous student participants and award winners in the IUP Scholars Forum held on April 5, 2023.
The recipient of the 2022–23 Coppler Disability Awareness Award is Taylor Burkholder.
Bishop McCort Catholic High School recently presented Stephen Sondheim's musical "Anyone Can Whistle." Several people, including the assistant dean of the College of Arts and Humanities, a current student, and numerous alumni, served as members of the pit orchestra.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania students and faculty are working with Indiana Borough on a national pilot program to help create stronger and more informed community health, especially in rural areas.
Eric Barker will present his master's thesis project on Strategic Communications on April 26 at 3:00 p.m. in the Elkin Hall 125 Conference Room.
An Indiana County student attending Indiana University of Pennsylvania received the 2023 Patricia Hilliard Robertson Memorial Scholarship for Outstanding Female Science Student.
Shagufta Haque, an economics honors track and finance double major at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been approved to serve as a student trustee on the IUP Council of Trustees by the Pennsylvania State System Board of Governors.
Renallan Neckles, an environmental engineering major in the Cook Honors College at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship.
The Department of Student Affairs in Higher Education is pleased to announce Julene (Jules) Pinto-Dyczewski as the 2023 recipient of the Ronald Lunardini Distinguished Alumni Award.
Kevin Patrick has completed the new Stackpole book, “Near Woods; A Year in an Allegheny Forest,” available in May 2023.
Five Applied Archaeology program students presented research at the ninety-second annual meeting of the Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology. Four brought home awards. They were joined by alumni and emeritus professors in representing IUP.
Seventeen anthropology students presented a wide range of papers and posters at the April 5 IUP Scholars Forum. Topics ranged from coronavirus to shipwrecks and from equality to animal bones. The faculty and staff judges recognized four anthropology students with awards.
An Indiana University of Pennsylvania Food and Nutrition professor is providing innovative training to the inaugural cohort of medical residents at Indiana Regional Medical Center.
IUP’s Cybersecurity Club competed in a medical themes hackathon on April 4–7.
Art and Design faculty members Sharon Massey and Sean Derry presented at the Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) conference in Denver, Colorado.
Matthew Nice was awarded the Association for Adult Development and Aging's 2023 Outstanding Research Award at the ACA conference in Toronto.
IUP anthropologists were busy at the recent (March 29–April 2) Society for American Archaeology annual meeting. All of the archaeology faculty gave talks, as well as several talks and posters by graduate students. The IUP Ethics Bowl team took second in that competition.
Anthropologists Abigail Adams and Amanda Poole presented a paper titled “All in for Applied Anthropology” at the Society for Applied Anthropology national conference held in Cincinnati, Ohio, March 29–April 1. Their panel, “Leading and Assessing Curricular Reform in Higher Education,” was sponsored by the Higher Education Topical Interest Group of the SfAA.
Steven Jackson, professor of political science at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, has been selected for a nine-month residential fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington, DC.
Philosophy majors Shane Monteleone and Koan Weinstein presented posters at the IUP Scholars Forum on April 5, 2023.