So many of us use the Facebook Web site, not only as a recreational means of social interaction, but for business and school-related networking as well. By now many students may have noticed that that were unable to access Facebook beginning Wednesday Aug.
After months of research and focus group meetings, Shawnee State University has launched a new "look," or brand, that includes a new logo for the university, a new logo for the Athletic Department, and a new marketing campaign designed to attract more students.
The fifth annual Shantytown fundraiser and homelessness awareness event took shape April 21 in front of Massie Hall in the form of a multitude of cardboard hovels. Students lived in their makeshift shelters through April 23 in order to simulate the hardships that the homeless often endure, while collecting donations for the local homeless shelter.
Tuesday, April 14 more than 100 Shawnee State students were inducted into Phi Eta Sigma, a national honor fraternity. With the Verne Riffe Center auditorium filled with family and friends of the students, Dr. Jim Settle, vice president of student affairs, lead the inductees in at 6:30 p.
Dr. Keith Miller, a paleontologist from Kansas State University, lectured on "Darwin's Forgotten Defenders: Then and Now" April 17 in the main theatre of the Vern Riffe Center for the Arts as part of the Jane M.G. Foster Distinguished Lecture Series. "The year 2009 is the 200th anniversary of Charles Darwin's birth and the 150th anniversary of 'Origin of the Species,' and it's being commemorated internationally," said Dr.
Many students coming to Shawnee State University will be looking for part time work in August. New students will begin arriving at the university on Aug. 15 just before the new semester begins on Aug. 19. To make it easier for employers and students, the Office of Career Services at Shawnee State University is sponsoring a Part Time Job Fair for the first time from 1 to 4 p.
Shawnee State University has elected to freeze its fall tuition rates despite the approval of a two-year budget passed by state lawmakers earlier this week that permits state universities to increase tuition rates by 3.5 percent in each of the next two academic years.
David Mwambari, graduate student in Syracuse University's Pan African Studies Program, spoke during Prof. Shannon Lawson's honors English class Thursday, April 23. Nathan Lorenz, son of Dr. John Lorenz, accompanied Mwambari to film the session for a documentary.
SSU professor Julia Coll and some of her intermediate Spanish students presented a new way of learning foreign language in the classroom Thursday April 9, during The Celebration of Scholarship. The presentation was based on a program called Skype which has been around for some time, but is just now being used in the foreign language department at SSU.
A special screening of the four-part film "Appalachia: A History of Mountains and People" will be shown in the Flohr Lecture Hall at Shawnee State University's Clark Memorial Library from 7:30 to 10 p.m. on Monday, April 27 and Tuesday, April 28. The screening is free and open to the public as a gift from Will and Barb Burke.
The Portsmouth Rotary recently awarded a $1,000 scholarship to Alihussein Noordin, of Nairobi, Kenya. He is the first recipient of the Scholarship for International Students. "He has volunteered his time in the community working with Habitat for Humanity and he is an outstanding student academically," said Dr.
