Opioid users fear accidental overdoses from street drugs laced with fentanyl, but unpredictable drug quality means they often lack reliable strategies to avoid it, according to a team of researchers who suggest that fentanyl test strips may reduce overdose deaths.
Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Teaching International program recently hosted Sheila I. Vélez Martínez to discuss how natural disasters affected Puerto Rico.
Penn State Greater Allegheny held their 36th Honors Convocation to award students, faculty and staff for their excellence.
More than 30 students received an award for their academic achievement at Penn State Greater Allegheny's recent Empowering Purpose Through Individual and Cultural-Awareness (EPIC) Awards event.
Penn State’s Consortium to Combat Substance Abuse recently announced the first three recipients of its Community Fellows Program awards, designed to provide release time for faculty members to develop community collaborations and build sustainable, evidence-based or evidence-informed programs, policies and practices that can effectively address substance use and related issues within a targeted community in Pennsylvania.
Penn State Greater Allegheny will open an art exhibit displaying the work of the next Crossing Bridges Summit speaker, Vanessa German. The display will run from Tuesday, April 2, to Saturday, April 6.
Regis W. Becker, Wade T. Lipscomb II, James E. Minarik, and Nancy and John Traina were honored at Greater Allegheny’s Scholarship and Distinguished Alumni Awards ceremony, on March 23, at the Duquesne Club in downtown Pittsburgh.
Penn State Greater Allegheny, New Kensington and Beaver visited Harrisburg on Capital Day, March 20, to discuss the impact of the University and higher education in the Commonwealth.
Students and administrators from Penn State Beaver, Greater Allegheny and New Kensington traveled to the Pennsylvania Capitol for Penn State Capital Day on March 20, 2019.
Johnathan White, instructor of history at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will be recognized for his work in the Langston Hughes Poetry Society on May 2, during The Pittsburgh Black Media Federation’s Robert L. Vann Media Awards.
Students from Penn State Greater Allegheny, along with other Commonwealth Campuses, went to Puerto Rico for an alternative spring break to help devastated communities. Students painted, cleared brush and more.
Penn State Greater Allegheny welcomes Vanessa German, a visual and performance artist, to campus on Friday, April 5, in the Wunderley Gymnasium.
Penn State Greater Allegheny students will not see an increase in price for housing on the 52-acre, McKeesport-based campus for the 2019-20 academic year. The cost for Penn State's meal plans increased slightly.
Penn State Greater Allegheny contributed $27.1 million to the Pennsylvania economy in FY 2017, and supported, directly and indirectly, 414 Pennsylvania jobs. A new study, released Feb. 26 by Penn State, focused on measuring the University’s impact in communities across the Commonwealth.
Penn State Greater Allegheny’s signature program received a $25,000 grant from The Pittsburgh Foundation’s organizing principle: 100 Percent Pittsburgh.
