Professors McQuaid and Burnham greeted Governor Rendell at a Lock Haven rally October 27, 2004.

The Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania Center for Civic Life received a $455,455 grant from the United States Department of Education. Funded under the Comprehensive Program, the grant will run for three years and will be utilized to expand the “Democracy Lab” program, a web-based strategy for transforming learning and engaging citizens.  Kudos to Dr. James Knauer, creator and innovator of the Democracy Lab.  More information here: Pennsylvania Center for Civic Life

2003

A reception honoring high-achieving students in our department was held on May 1, 2003. Dean Roger Johnson of the College of Arts and Sciences attended as did LHUP President Craig Dean Willis.  Awardees are pictured with Professors and Administrators outside Sullivan Hall

Kendra Kozak (International Studies) has been awarded a highly competitive NSEP Fellowship to study in Ukraine this year. In Spring 2003 Kendra was a participant in The Harrisburg Intership Program.

Three of our majors have been selected for the state government internship program in Harrisburg this year. They are (from left to right) Lora MacDonald (Political Science), Lilit Poghossian (International Studies), and Stephanie Ruggeri (Political Science).

On Thursday April 10, 2003 a group of our majors participated in a live teleconference with three UN Ambassadors using the facilities of LHU's full-featured teleconference center.

On Saturday April 12, 2003 over sixty students in Dr. Farley's political science courses took part in a fourteen country global simulation exercise. The scenario for the simulation was the world political system beginning in the year 1900.

Sean Kimball (Political Science) participated in the Fund for American Studies/Georgetown University Summer Program in Crete, Greece, this past summer. In the fall Sean began his graduate studies in International Relations at the prestigious Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

Svetlana Koukhartchouk (International Studies) participated in the Fund for American Studies/Georgetown University Summer Program in Prague, Czech Republic, this past summer.

Silvana Bice, a May 2003 graduate with a B.A. in Economics, began her graduate studies at Drexel University this past fall.

Friday March 28, 2003 was History Day at LHU. Dr. Janet Irons, an historian in the Department, is one of the organizers of History Day--an outreach program to the area high schools.

Students in Dr. Farley's POLI 370 United Nations and International Organizations course participated in the ICONS Africa simulation in April. Teams of university students at colleges in the United States, in Europe, and in Africa took part in this pioneering online, real time simulation exercise. Our students represented Ghana in the simulation.

The field trip to New York City visited UN headquarters and the office of the Organization of African Unity. Most spring semesters we run a trip into NYC for students in some of the upper level political science classes.

Two hundred and twenty top high school students from the region participated in a two day model U.S. constitutional convention organized annually by the Department of History, Political Science, and Economics. The program is directed by Dr. Farley and is conducted by political science, history, economics, and secondary ed. social studies majors. For more information about the program click here: http://www.lhup.edu/lfarley/conhome.htm

More follow-up courses for the International Studies Minor have been approved. Students who study abroad on an LHU exchange program will now find it even easier to get the Minor. See your advisor for the details.