Three campus alumni were recognized for their achievements at the Penn State DuBois Alumni Society's Alumni Awards Banquet on Oct. 13 at the DuBois Country Club. Craig Ball received the Outstanding Alumni Award, Ronald Santini was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award, and Michael White received the Outstanding Young Alumni Award.
A nationwide robotics competition for middle and high school students will take place at Penn State DuBois, and all interested spectators from the public are invited to attend. The BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) robotics competition will take place Oct. 21-22 in the campus gymnasium, with Penn State DuBois serving as a local hub for the competition for the third year in a row.
All members of the Penn State DuBois community are invited to a special presentation by 2016 Alumni Fellow and leadership expert Craig Pearce. The event is planned for 12:05 p.m. Oct. 28 in Hiller Auditorium at Penn State DuBois. Pearce's presentation focuses on his concepts of shared leadership in business.
More than 130 people, including area middle and high school students, elected officials, and manufacturing industry representatives, took part in Manufacturing Day at Penn State DuBois on Oct. 7. Those attending learned about a significant need within areas of the manufacturing industry for skilled and well-educated workers.
A total of 40 men from Penn State DuBois stepped into high heels Sept. 28 for the Walk a Mile in Her Shoes event. The men's march is meant to raise awareness of the battle against rape, sexual assault, and gender violence, and to get more men involved in the fight. The men marched through campus, as well as off campus, along Route 255, and down Liberty Boulevard, then back. The round trip added up to the men walking a full mile in their pumps.
A total of 10 Occupational Therapy Assistant (OTA) students from Penn State DuBois, as well as two of their faculty members from the OTA program attended the American Occupational Therapy Association’s (AOTA) 2016 Hill Day in Washington, D.C., on Sept. 19. More than 650 politically active occupational therapy practitioners and occupational therapy students from across the United States descended on Capitol Hill to make their voices heard during the profession's annual advocacy event.
A group of young people interested in careers focused on wildlife conservation or research visited Penn State DuBois on Monday to learn about educational opportunities that could interest them. A total of 19 high school age students visited as members of the Wildlife Leadership Academy, based in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, and they learned more about the Penn State DuBois Wildlife Technology degree program during their visit.
The first round of a nation-wide robotics competition for middle and high school students will take place at Penn State DuBois in October. BEST (Boosting Engineering, Science and Technology) got underway on Saturday (Sept. 10) with the official Kickoff Day, as teams assembled on campus to gather information and the supplies they'll need to build their robot.
Attorney David Bish, of DuBois, has been named an instructor in the Administration of Justice program at Penn State DuBois. He has begun teaching as the fall semester gets underway.
Penn State DuBois men's basketball head coach Dylan Howard has announced the 2016 recruiting class. The team will include 13 new players to preseason this fall. The new faces will join nine returners from last season’s team that went 15-10 overall and earned the No. 5 seed in the PSUAC playoffs.
