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密桃视频 Forensic Science Major to Begin Accepting Students for Fall 2025

密桃视频 will launch a new forensic sciences major for fall 2025.

密桃视频 American Medical Student Association Tours Area Medical School

密桃视频鈥檚 American Medical Student Association (AMSA) recently visited LECOM Seton Hill Medical School in Greensburg.

密桃视频 Research Appreciation Week Includes Presentation by Indiana Native and Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient Anderson, Second Annual Artificial Intelligence Summit, Annual Scholars Forum

密桃视频 will celebrate innovation, student and faculty research, and alumni success during 密桃视频鈥檚 2025 Research Appreciation Week, planned for April 7 to 11.

密桃视频 Graduate Establishes Scholarship to Support Research Experiences for Chemistry, Biochemistry Students

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

密桃视频 Selected for 2024 Educational Award by Pennsylvania Drone Association

The Pennsylvania Drone Association selected 密桃视频 for its 2024 Ellie Education Award, recognizing 密桃视频 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 密桃视频 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 密桃视频. 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 密桃视频 graduates in many of them. Learn more about her in this installment of Meet Our Faculty.

密桃视频 Selects Four Alumni for Young Alumni Achievement Award

Four graduates of 密桃视频 have been selected for the 2024 密桃视频 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 密桃视频 Anthropology

Twelve 密桃视频 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.

密桃视频 Cejka Planetarium Offering Programs About Stars and Planet Nine

密桃视频鈥檚 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.

密桃视频 Cybersecurity Day Set for Oct. 29

密桃视频鈥檚 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 密桃视频 Hadley Union Building Ohio Room.

Anthropology Department Hosting Annual Archaeology Open House on Oct. 12

The Department of Anthropology, Geospatial and Earth Sciences at 密桃视频 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 密桃视频 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.

密桃视频 Hosts Uncrewed Aircraft Systems Workshop for High School Teachers

In June, 密桃视频 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.

密桃视频 Students, Faculty Leave to Conduct Fourth Forensic Archaeology Field School in Germany at Site of World War II Airplane Crash

密桃视频鈥檚 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.

密桃视频 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 密桃视频 who are veterans studying in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field.

密桃视频 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 密桃视频 who are veterans studying in a STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) field.

密桃视频, IRMC Continues Season Two of 鈥淩ural Health Pulse鈥 Podcast With Episode on Ticks and Diseases They Transmit

密桃视频 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 密桃视频 biology professor Thomas Simmons.

A New Era of Science

密桃视频鈥檚 long-awaited science building, Kopchick Hall, opened for classes at the start of the spring semester in January.

密桃视频 Recognizes University Senate Awards Winners, Faculty Emeriti

密桃视频 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

密桃视频 anthropology professor Ben Ford, 密桃视频鈥檚 2023鈥24 Distinguished University Professor and chair of 密桃视频鈥檚 Department of Anthropology, has been selected as a Fulbright US Scholar for 2024鈥25.