A lasting legacy at Penn State DuBois of serving others in need was apparent this summer. A group of alumni who participated in past Alternative Spring Break (ASB) service trips reunited and carried out their own, independent service trip to the Lakota community in South Dakota.
Area golfers are invited to sign up a team for the Eighth Annual Penn State DuBois Golf Benefit, hosted by the DuBois Educational Foundation. This four-person scramble is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 22, at the Treasure Lake Silver Course. Registration will begin at 10:30 a.m., and lunch will be provided prior to a shotgun start at noon.
For the Penn State DuBois General Engineering Program, what happens in Vegas doesn't just stay there; it's heard around the world. Six students from the program attended the international conference on powder metallurgy, POWDERMET 2017, this summer in Las Vegas, Nevada, and presented research. Their participation in the conference was made possible by a student grant from the National Science Foundation, a grant the students qualified for due to the merit of the research they're conducting within their degree program.
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences recognized the recipient of the Outstanding Senior Award, as well as Outstanding Students in golf course turfgrass management, forest technology and wildlife technology for the 2016-17 academic year.
Alec Baker has had a lifelong interest and passion for the outdoors and its inhabitants, especially black bears. This passion set the Clarion native on a path to enroll in the Wildlife Technology degree program at Penn State DuBois, and eventually led him to earn the Erikson Discovery Grant from Penn State's Office of Undergraduate Education.
Penn State DuBois Associate Professor of Mathematics and Geosciences Byron Parizek has been honored with the University College Faculty Scholar Award. In its inaugural year, the award will be given annually to a full-time or part-time faculty member in Penn State's 14-campus University College system who has demonstrated excellence in research, scholarship and/or creative accomplishments. It is also in recognition of significant and sustained contribution of research, scholarship and creative accomplishments accumulated during their employment at Penn State, as well as with undergraduate students, and to those who have had a significant impact on their academic field of study.
All members of the community are welcome to attend a program explaining the ideals of leadership and organizational success in Seneca culture. Flip White, former director of career development with the Seneca Gaming Corporation of Salamanca, New York, is slated to speak at 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, June 28, in Room 228 Swift at Penn State DuBois.
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.
