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Schuylkill Freshman wins PSUAC Cross Country State Championship

Penn State Schuylkill freshman, Darren Foreman completed an undefeated season in PSUAC meets, by winning the PSUAC cross country state championship meet, at Penn State Fayette, on Saturday, October 22, 2011.  Foreman is the first Schuylkill cross country runner to win the state title since 2004.  He covered the 5-mile course in 31 minutes, 16 seconds.   Foreman and team members, Shady Nasralla, Kyle Heffner, Rashanrd Allen and Lauren Malampy have been invited to compete in the U.S.

Veterans Day Service at Penn State Schuylkill

Join Penn State Schuylkill on Friday, November 11, 2011 at 12:00 pm when we honor the service of our Veterans!  This event is open to the public and will be held at the Veterans Memorial site just off campus (adjacent to the First United Church of Christ parking lot).  Penn State Schuylkill would like to thank the following groups who helped make this event possible:   Penn State Schuylkill Veterans Services, PA National Guard, Schuylkill Haven American Legion, and Pine Grove High School JROTC.

Penn State Schuylkill Commission for Women, THON, donate teddy bears

The Penn State Schuylkill Commission for Women and members of the campus' Dance Marathon (THON) team have gathered 50 teddy bears for donation to children at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. The bears will be given to children entering the emergency room and the pediatric unit, and to children being treated in the hospital's hematology and oncology units. Each bear sports a navy T-shirt that reads, "Penn State Loves You." The bears will be presented to the Penn State Hershey Medical Center on Oct. 11.

Lawyer turned freedom fighter to speak on global diversity on Nov. 8

Noted Eritrean author Alemseged Tesfai will deliver his talk "Global Diversity ... The More We Get Together" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, in The Morgan Auditorium, Penn State Schuylkill. The lecture is free and open to the public. Alemseged Tesfai is the most prominent writer in Eritrea, a country in the Horn of Africa that is bordered by Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia  His books include history, political analysis, novels, short stories, plays, criticism and tales for children. 

Penn State Schuylkill students raise funds for THON

Penn State Schuylkill students raised $8,400 recently in a series of canning events in Schuylkill County as part of the The Penn State IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, affectionately referred to as THON. The students collected funds at Boyer's Markets locations in Schuylkill Haven and Orwigsburg, Pa., and at Palermo's restaurant in Minersville, Pa.  The funds will go to the Four Diamonds Fund, which offers financial and emotional support to pediatric cancer patients and their families, and also funds cancer research.

Criminal Justice Symposium to be held at Penn State Schuylkill November 9, 2011

A criminal just symposium entitled:  Serious Mental Illness:  Protecting Officer Safety will be offered on November 9, 2011 at the Penn State Schuylkill Campus.  This symposium is sponsored by the Schuylkill County Commissioners through the County MD/ID Program. The symposium will run from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm and at the completion of the session those in attendance will be able to:

Schedule Planner helps students identify conflicts, open sections

UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- An application available starting Tuesday (Sept. 27) through eLion gives Penn State students at all campuses the opportunity to compare their non-class schedule conflicts with open courses to make scheduling classes easier. Schedule Planner, an online application, aligns a student's intended courses with self-identified event conflicts -- such as a recurring work schedule, meetings, rehearsals and practice times -- and reports back open class sections that work around those conflicts.