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Improving elementary teacher mathematics fluency

6/20/17

The Pennsylvania Math Initiative (PMI), founded at Penn State in 2012, will once again be hosting professional development workshops aimed at improving the mathematics fluency of elementary school teachers.

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Girls explore engineering, science at Greater Allegheny summer camp

6/19/17

Penn State Greater Allegheny is hosting "Take Flight," a weeklong, nonresidential summer camp from June 19 to 23 for girls entering sixth, seventh and eighth grades. The G.U.I.D.E.S. program stands for Girls Undertaking Interest in Design, Engineering, and Science.

UHS to collect student health insurance information for 2017-18

5/11/17

Penn State is moving toward a University-wide health insurance requirement for the 2018-19 academic school year. In preparation for the new requirement, University Health Services (UHS) will begin collecting student health insurance information in May 2017.

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Advisory Board Member to speak at Spring commencement

4/27/17

Penn State Greater Allegheny’s Spring 2017 commencement will be held at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 6, in the Wunderley Gymnasium on campus. Campus Advisory Board Member James Lawrence will be the keynote speaker.

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ABSENCE: A Celebration of the Arts

4/27/17

ABSENCE: Penn State Greater Allegheny's Literary & Visual Art Review announces its 2017 “A Celebration of the Arts: A Reading & Reception for Volume 19,” from 7-9 p.m. on Thursday, April 27, in the Ostermayer Room of the Student Community Center.

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Penn State announces spring 2017 commencement events and speakers

4/24/17

This spring Penn State expects to award 13,894 diplomas to students University-wide who are completing 226 associate, 11,435 baccalaureate, 1,590 master’s, 262 law, 244 doctoral and 137 medical degrees. Following is a compilation of commencement ceremonies and speaker information for Penn State’s 24 locations.

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Office for General Education announces Integrative Studies Seed Grant awards

4/20/17

The Integrative Studies Seed Grant Program, offered through the Penn State Office for General Education, will support 71 different course development projects this summer. In response to the large volume of highly qualified proposals, the budget was generously increased by more than 50 percent by the Office of the Provost and the Office of Undergraduate Education.

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Professor to present at colloquium

4/18/17

Zack Furness, associate professor of communications at Penn State Greater Allegheny, will present “Warring Representations of the NFL, Football Masculinity & Broken Bodies” from 3:30 to 4:30 p.m. Friday, April 21, in 276K Rec Hall on Penn State's University Park campus.

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Instructor to direct Willa Cather seminar

4/18/17

Penn State Greater Allegheny Senior Instructor in English James Jaap is co-directing "Beyond Nebraska: Willa Cather’s Pittsburgh," the 16th International Willa Cather Seminar, to be held at Duquesne University on June 11-17. Four English majors from Jaap’s English 487: Senior Seminar will be presenting at the seminar.

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