Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s proposed college of osteopathic medicine will receive $1.9 million in community project funding through the FY26 federal budget that was just approved by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Donald Trump.
The following was shared with students on November 13, 2025:
The following was shared with students on November 13, 2025:
Four IUP students in the Cook Honors College from the Department of School Psychology, Special Education, and Sociology and the Department of Finance and Economics have been selected from a pool of exemplary nominees to be the fourth cohort of the IUP Justice Research Fellows at the Administration and Leadership Studies Research and Training Center.
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.
The following was shared with students on November 12, 2025:
These students have been recognized as Provost Scholars for fall 2025.
Indiana University of Pennsylvania alumni Tim and Deb Cejka were honored by the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education with the 2025 Keepers of the Flame Award for their sustained leadership, vision, and generosity.
Eric Crawford, an IUP psychology major and sociology minor who has completed two years of research through IUP’s Undergraduate Summer Opportunities for Applying Research (U-SOAR) program, was invited to present his U-SOAR research to an upper-level sociology class.
The following was shared with students on Tuesday, November 11, 2025:
Students and faculty from the Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences participated in the annual meeting of the Southeastern Archaeological Conference in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and the Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology annual meeting in Conshohocken, Pennsylvania.
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.
As director of the Military and Veterans Resource Center, Tedd Cogar is the go-to person for students using VA benefits to pay for college. He helps them and their families apply for and use these crucial resources. Learn more about him in this Faces of IUP feature.
When Kamden Boyle came to IUP, he wasn't sure if he’d fit in. But he took a leap and dived into organizations and clubs, and he quickly found that IUP was more than his school—it was his home.
Undergraduate student Belinda Lin Xu presented her summer research at the MD Anderson Cancer Center, where she investigated the role of the protein NONO in enhancing oncolytic virus therapies for glioblastoma.
Five graduates of Indiana University of Pennsylvania have been selected for the 2025 IUP Young Alumni Achievement Award.
