Pitt-Johnstown Social Sciences Division

Kudos to History students and Dr. Paul Newman! Learning history by doing history, while contributing to the community.

Documenting heritage, history: Johnstown African Americans recall their pasts Reginald Floyd said he, like many police officers, doesn’t like to open up publicly.

Congrats to the Pitt-Johnstown students who completed an alternative spring break with a week of work at National and State Parks.

Pitt-Johnstown students spend spring break volunteering at parks A group of nine Pitt-Johnstown students took part in an “alternative spring break,” in which they spent their entire vacation volunteering at national and state park sites.

Kudos to Dr. Ross Kleinstuber, Associate Professor of Justice Administration and Criminology, for moderating this important discussion of the opioid crisis and potential solutions.

Panel focuses on changes to laws concerning opioid charges, treatments A recent change in state law and new evidence database for law enforcement will allow more serious charges against major drug distributors in Pennsylvania, Richland Township police Detective Thomas Keirn

Congrats to Halee Sesock and Kayla Soltis for being selected as the recipients of the 2018 Vira I. Heinz Scholarship for Women in Global Leadership. Halee is a double Geography and Environmental Studies major. Kayla is a Psychology major.

UPJ students win Women in Global Leadership scholarship Two University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown students will study abroad this summer after winning a scholarship that aims to “prepare women leaders for tomorrow’s global challenges” and to “develop and

This will be interesting: Rich Ragan, UPJ '78 Civil Engineering grad and hugely successful in business and Andrew Maraniss, author of Strong Inside, a biography of Perry Wallace, a civil rights pioneer who integrated SEC basketball, speaking on innovation, leadership, and success. March 21, 7p. Free and open to the public.

Pitt-Johnstown Geography and Environmental Studies majors are acquiring skills in taking and analyzing aerial photography using drone technology.

WATCH VIDEO: ‘The future is now’ | UPJ drone program stirs enthusiasm With the quick whirl of four propellers, a small white drone lifted upwards into a clear azure sky and, in a few seconds, was flying hundreds of feet off the

Dr. Paul Newman's Historical Research Methods and Theories Class, with Clea Hollis, author of The Saga of the Johnstown Schools. Dr. Newman's students' class term project is to make a thorough Annotated Bibliography of African-American history, and Johnstown's African-American History for the African American Historical Society to use in the creation of its Research Center at the Johnstown Area Heritage Association. Johnstown Area Heritage Association Paul Douglas Newman

"To save man from the morass of propaganda is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from fiction." Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Congratulations to Jim Alexander, Professor of Political Science, whose article, "Chasing Echoes of Obscenity Exceptionalism in Copyright: Recent Swarm Cases," is forthcoming in the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property.

Welcome back to the... spring?!? semester.

Study tips for a new semester:

Before You Study, Ask for Help That’s one of several ways students can better prepare themselves for tests in the new school year.

Matt Baun (Political Science '96) spoke recently by videoconference technology to Dr. Wrabley's Natural Resource Policy class from his office in Yreka, CA. Matt is the Klamath Basin Coordinator for the US Fish and Wildlife Service. He has played a key role in bringing tribal governments, state and county governments, federal agencies, and local farmers together to settle contentious water rights issues in the Klamath Basin. The settlement will lead to the largest river-dam removal project in the world.