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亚色影库 Research Appreciation Week Includes Presentation by Indiana Native and Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Anderson, Second Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit, Annual Scholars Forum

亚色影库 will celebrate innovation, student and faculty research, and alumni success during 亚色影库鈥檚 2025 Research Appreciation Week, planned for April 7 to 11.

亚色影库 Graduate Establishes Scholarship to Support Research Experiences for Chemistry, Biochemistry Students

Thomas Baker 鈥05, a graduate of 亚色影库鈥檚 Cook Honors College and the Madia Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics, and his wife have committed $100,000 to 亚色影库 to establish a scholarship to support students in chemistry or biochemistry research programs.

亚色影库 Selected for 2024 Educational Award by Pennsylvania Drone Association

The Pennsylvania Drone Association selected 亚色影库 for its 2024 Ellie Education Award, recognizing 亚色影库 as 鈥渁n educational institution that has helped to elevate the drone industry in our commonwealth in a meaningful and significant way. 鈥

2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards

Recipients of the 2024 Distinguished Alumni Awards were honored in April at a gala sponsored by the 亚色影库 Alumni Association.

Visit of Discovery

In an office and laboratories on the upper floors of Kopchick Hall, Skip Kingston 鈥73, M鈥75 occupies a unique place in the life of 亚色影库. Kingston is a visiting scientist, or scientist in residence, continuing his work on various projects relating to analytical chemistry.

Tracey Cekada on the Ubiquitousness of Safety鈥擬eet Our Faculty

One of the things Tracey Cekada loves about safety sciences is that jobs in the field are everywhere, and she has helped put 亚色影库 graduates in many of them. Learn more about her in this installment of Meet Our Faculty.

亚色影库 Selects Four Alumni for Young Alumni Achievement Award

Four graduates of 亚色影库 have been selected for the 2024 亚色影库 Young Alumni Achievement Award: Brianne Lenhart, Donte Palmer, Casey Ryan, and Mark Smith.

Waleed Farag on the Noble Profession鈥擬eet Our Faculty

Waleed Farag鈥檚 career can be compared to a quote from Mark Twain: 鈥淔ind a job you enjoy doing, and you will never have to work a day in your life.鈥 Learn more about him in this week鈥檚 Meet Our Faculty.

Day of Service with 亚色影库 Anthropology

Twelve 亚色影库 archeologists participated in service events at Historic Hanna鈥檚 Town in Westmoreland County and at the historic Lebanon Cemetery in York, PA, on Saturday, October 26.

亚色影库 Cejka Planetarium Offering Programs About Stars and Planet Nine

亚色影库鈥檚 Cejka Planetarium in John J. and Char Kopchick Hall will host two programs during the fall semester: 鈥淢agical Lights: Stars鈥 and 鈥淗ow Many Are There? Planet Nine.鈥 These programs are free and open to the community.

亚色影库 Cybersecurity Day Set for Oct. 29

亚色影库鈥檚 Institute for Cyber Security, in collaboration with the PC4A Project and Information Technology Support Center, will host the seventeenth annual Cyber Security Day on October 29 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the 亚色影库 Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

Anthropology Department Hosting Annual Archaeology Open House on Oct. 12

The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences at 亚色影库 will hold its annual Community Archaeology Day on October 12 from 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. in celebration of International Archaeology Day. All Archaeology Day events are free and open to the community.

Chris Schaney Is Hooked on Geography鈥擬eet Our Faculty

Chris Schaney went to graduate school and landed in the world of geographic information systems. He now shares his passion as a member of the 亚色影库 faculty. Learn more about him in this week鈥檚 installment of Meet Our Faculty.

Above and Beyond: Professor, Student Study Shoreline Erosion with Drones

Faculty member Chris Schaney and graduate student Lilee Lux spent part of their summer researching the effects and pace of erosion on Saxis, Virginia, a tiny fishing village along the Chesapeake Bay.

Josiah Townsend on Learning about Life鈥擬eet Our Faculty

Since he was little, Josiah Townsend has been curious about anything that lives and breathes. He took that curiosity and made a career for himself. Learn more about him in this week鈥檚 Meet Our Faculty feature.

亚色影库 Hosts Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Workshop for High School Teachers

In June, 亚色影库 hosted a workshop on uncrewed aircraft (drones) for teachers in eight area high schools who are teaching the aviation curriculum in their schools. The workshop focused on how teachers can integrate drone education into the curriculum. Teachers represented districts in Allegheny, Clearfield, Indiana, and Westmoreland counties.

亚色影库 Students, Faculty Leave to Conduct Fourth Forensic Archaeology Field School in Germany at Site of World War II Airplane Crash

亚色影库鈥檚 Anthropology faculty have been selected by the Department of Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, through the Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine Inc., to continue its field study near Frankfurt, Germany, at the site of a crash of a World War II B-17 airplane.

亚色影库 Distinguished Alumna Establishes Scholarship for Veterans in STEM

Retired Rear Admiral CJ Jaynes has made a donation to establish an endowed scholarship for full-time students at 亚色影库 who are veterans studying in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field.

亚色影库 Distinguished Alumna Establishes Scholarship for Veterans in STEM

Retired Rear Admiral CJ Jaynes has made a donation to establish an endowed scholarship for full-time students at 亚色影库 who are veterans studying in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field.

亚色影库, IRMC Continues Season Two of 鈥淩ural Health Pulse鈥 Podcast With Episode on Ticks and Diseases They Transmit

亚色影库 and Indiana Regional Medical Center鈥檚 joint podcast, 鈥淩ural Health Pulse,鈥 continues with 鈥淟yme and Other Tickborne Diseases鈥 with 亚色影库 biology professor Thomas Simmons.

A New Era of Science

亚色影库鈥檚 long-awaited science building, Kopchick Hall, opened for classes at the start of the spring semester in January.

亚色影库 Recognizes University Senate Awards Winners, Faculty Emeriti

亚色影库 has announced recipients of the鈥疷niversity Senate Awards鈥痑nd the list of new faculty emeriti.

Distinguished University Professor Ford Chosen for Fulbright Award for Study in Portugal

亚色影库 anthropology professor Ben Ford, 亚色影库鈥檚 2023鈥24 Distinguished University Professor and chair of 亚色影库鈥檚 Department of Anthropology, has been selected as a Fulbright US Scholar for 2024鈥25.

亚色影库 Cejka Planetarium to Host First Shows

亚色影库鈥檚 Cejka Planetarium, in the university鈥檚 newly opened John J. and Char Kopchick Hall, will host three shows during the spring semester, all free and open to the community.

亚色影库 Offering Free Advanced Cybersecurity Camp for Middle and High-School Students

Thanks to a ninth year of funding from the National Science Foundation and the National Security Agency, 亚色影库 will offer a free, one-week GenCyber cybersecurity camp for middle and high school students.