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10/30/2026

For this Faculty Friday, you'll need your boots and shovel as we visit with UPJ's Queen of Soil, Dr. Mitzy Schaney!

10/29/2026

Happy National Cat Day!

10/28/2026

Internship Wednesday! Today we feature Samatha McGuire who did her internship at the Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium!

10/28/2026

UPJ alumni are everywhere! On Tuesday, Dr. Matt Sernell, Alumni Associoation President, and Dr. Chris Coughenour attended the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists to present their research. They met up with Christopher Laughrey (pictured with Dr. Sernell) UPJ class of 1977 who was presenting his own research.

10/28/2026

Drs. Sernell and Coughenour attended the Eastern Section of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists. The presented on their research "Automated grain-size
analysis of sandstone thin sections - A way to measure grain size that is fast and repeatable." They will be publishing a paper on this project in the coming year.

10/24/2026

Drs Sernell, Dabbs, and Johansson met with potential students this morning at our first Fall Open House!

10/23/2026

It's another Faculty Friday and today we learn a little bit about Dr. Ola Johansson the head of the Department of Geosciences and the Environment!

10/22/2026

On Tuesday, Dr. Robert Matson from our History Department hosted a traditional feast featuring food from India to bring some of the experience of the country to his UPJ Social Science Division History Special Topics Course on India.

Special thanks to Mrs. Neelam Maholtra and her husband, Dr. Vijay Maholtra.

Also to Dr. Matson's wife, Dr. Lisa Dallape Matson for her assistance.

10/22/2026

Today's Internships Wednesday takes us to Jessica Hollan who is one of the Geoscience Department's star Geology students. She completed her internship at the Pennsylvania Geological Survey. Geosciences is a combination of Social Science and Natural Science programs here at UPJ!

10/20/2026

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Dr. Robert Matson hosted a traditional feast featuring food from India to bring some of the experience of the country to his UPJ Social Science Division History Special Topics Course on India.

Special thanks to Mrs. Neelam Maholtra and her husband, Dr. Vijay Maholtra.

Also to Dr. Matson's wife, Dr. Lisa Dallape Matson for her assistance.

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450 Schoolhouse Road
Johnstown, PA
15904

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https://www.johnstown.pitt.edu/academics/majors-programs/social-sciences

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