MONDAY: ACHIEVEMENTS

Navigating uncharted waters with experiences at sea; helping high school ensembles connect virtually; bettering refugee education; and more

Creating Paths to Success through Regeneration Research

From IUP to Harvard

For Morgan Glasser ’20, the path from IUP to Harvard went through Houston, Texas. Her opportunity as IUP’s second Kopchick Summer Fellow gave this small-town student a chance to show that science is the “ultimate path to creativity.”

INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION WEEK RUNS THROUGH WEDNESDAY. CYBER SECURITY DAY AND NATIONAL DAY ON WRITING ARE TUESDAY.

Jon Lewis, right, with 2016 STEMSEAS participants.

“Going to sea is really quite life-changing the first time one goes, I think, regardless of your stage in life. It is very powerful.”

—Jon Lewis, professor of geoscience at IUP and co-principal investigator of STEMSEAS

“Mentorship during a Pandemic: Transitions from Lab and Sea to Virtual,” Eos, a publication of the American Geophysical Union

ACHIEVEMENTS

Music Professor, Student Help High Schoolers Stay Creative in Virtual Setting

In an online clinic with Gateway High School’s Wind Ensemble, Zach Collins and sophomore Kayla Holsopple performed a duet and shared how to create virtual ensembles, like the IUP Tuba and Euphonium Studio’s Together video from April.

Anthropologist Presents Paper at International Conference on Refugee Education

Amanda Poole presented “Teleological Violence: Disjuncture between Refugee Aspirations and Structural Constraints on Progress among Eritrean Refugees in Ethiopia” at the ReBuild Conference, rescheduled from May and adapted to a virtual format by the Peace Research Institute Oslo.

Department Participates in Appalachian Language Society Event

Several Foreign Languages Department students and alumni attended the Appalachian Professional Language Educators’ Society (APPLES) annual fall event. Faculty member Christina Huhn is the organization’s president.

Keller Scholars Receive Gifts

The Beaumont Foundation, which established a scholarship in honor of criminology graduate C. Edward Keller ’74, recently gave scholarship recipients Samantha Bainey, Jessica Borghise, and Madison Shafron gifts to support their IUP studies.

Kenning Publishes Spin-Glass Research in Physics Journal

Professor Gregory Kenning published “Experimental Determination of the Critical Spin-Glass Correlation Length in Single-Crystal CuMn” in the journal Physical Review B.

Student Assistance Fund

Help those facing financial hardship stay in school

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