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Beginning her interim term on June 16, Alcohol and Other Drug Program Initiative Director Julie Lyzinski Nettleton will serve until Michele Goldfarb’s permanent replacement is appointed. She will continue to lead the AOD — where she has worked since 2005 — while serving as interim director.
In Harper Polling's "Our Commonwealth Poll", 24 percent of participants chose Penn State over Bucknell University, Carnegie Mellon University, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Temple University, University of Pennsylvania, University of Pittsburgh and Villanova University.
The Wharton Class of 2014 is the first class to graduate
with a Communication Curriculum, which includes one writing course and two
speaking courses. “In a recent survey,
alumni indicated that the ability to write well is crucial to their career
success,” said Brennan Maier, instructor and director of the writing course.
Mathematics students
and faculty are speaking out against the conversion of part of the
Math-Physics-Astronomy Library into an active learning classroom.
Part of the Math, Physics and Astronomy Library in David Rittenhouse Laboratories will be converted to an active learning classroom and the Engineering Library in the Towne Building will close at the end of the semester.
Students will no longer be penalized a quarter of a point for getting the wrong answer and obscure vocabulary words will be replaced in favor of words relevant to college courses.
From dreadlocks to post-baccs and from rock
bands to shaking hands, the “non-traditional” students of five Ivy League universities
came together this past Saturday.The second annual 2014 Ivy
Returning Students Conference was hosted at the Kislak Center on the sixth
floor of Van Pelt-Dietrich Library.