The United States Collegiate Athletic Association recently announced its 2018 and 2019 baseball and softball national championships will be held in DuBois. The USCAA Small College World Series will be hosted by the USCAA national office in conjunction with the city of DuBois and Penn State DuBois.
Chancellor M. Scott McBride has announced that Jessica Mondi, of DuBois, has assumed the role of marketing strategy specialist at Penn State DuBois. She is preceded in this position by Matt Checchio, who has accepted a position as an instructor in marketing with the Smeal College of Business at University Park.
A group of six honors students from Penn State DuBois seized a unique opportunity to bolster their education through international travel this spring. Following the close of the academic year, a faculty coordinator for the honors program, Associate Professor of Economics Evelyn Wamboye, along with Career Services Coordinator Anna Akintunde, oversaw the students on the trip to Berlin, Germany.
Penn State DuBois student-athlete Kristy Hanes closed out her collegiate athletic career by receiving the John S. Egli Scholar-Athlete Award during the annual Penn State University Athletic Conference awards dinner.
United States Army veteran Kyle Bear sought out the Penn State DuBois engineering program in order to launch a second career after his service in the armed forces. He got more than he planned for already, however; while still a sophomore Bear co-authored an article on research he is conducting with a faculty member, and his work is getting international attention.
This summer, the Penn State DuBois Arts, Science and Technology Institute will offer seven youth camps during the weeks of June 12-16, and June 19-23, 2017, for students entering grades 7 - 12. The courses focus on theatre, fly fishing and fly tying, perfume making, forensics and mock trial, mosaic art, wild turkey, teen entrepreneur, and music making on an iPad.
The primary goal of the Penn State DuBois Summer Youth program is to provide challenging, educational activities for students of various grade levels.
Four projects have been selected to receive funding through the Penn State College of Engineering's new Multi-campus Seed Grant program. The program aims to foster research collaborations between engineering faculty at the University Park campus and at the Commonwealth campuses.
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.
Members of the public are invited to a reception, sponsored by Penn State DuBois and the DuBois Educational Foundation, to welcome new chancellor M. Scott McBride to the community. Held in conjunction with the Greater DuBois Chamber of Commerce, this After Hours Mixer is planned for 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 17, in the Hiller Building Student Union at Penn State DuBois.
