The annual IUP Safety Sciences and Environmental Engineering Career Fair will be on September 25–26, 2024.
Wednesday, September 25, will be the Meet and Greet with students event at the KCAC from 5:30 to 7:00 p.m. On Thursday, September 26, recruiters will attend the sit-down luncheon at 11:00, and the Career Fair will take place from noon to 2:30 at the KCAC. Rooms for interviewing students will be held following the Career Fair on September 26 and all day on September 27, if interested.
Please reach out to Tracey Cekada (cekadat@iup.edu) for a detailed agenda and more information. Hope to see you there!
Congratulations to our alumni Lori聽Schroth and Brandon聽Hody for the selection of their article "Are My Workers Competent in EHS? Competency Based Training to Improve Learning" to be the 2023 ASSP "Professional Safety" journal article of the year.聽
The annual American Society of Safety Professionals Conference will be held August 7鈥�9, 2024. IUP Safety Sciences alumni are invited to join the IUP Safety Science and Environmental Engineering Department for an informal happy hour at the Yard House on Thursday, August 8, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Stop by the IUP booth in the ASP Career Center for more information!
The annual IUP Safety Sciences and Environmental Engineering Career Fair is set for September 26, 2024, at IUP's Kovalchick Convention and Athletic Complex. Registration is now open.
黑料吃瓜网 is addressing a need for trained professionals in the biosafety and biosecurity fields through its specialized Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate program.
黑料吃瓜网鈥檚 Safety Sciences American Society of Safety Professionals student section has been named the Outstanding Student Section of the Year by the American Society of Safety Professionals. The honor comes with a $5,000 award from the ASSP to fund scholarships and research.
Elizabeth Kinney, a senior at Cambria Heights Senior High School and daughter of Mike Kinney and Pauline Kinney, of Dysart, is a 2023 recipient of an IUP Dean鈥檚 Merit Scholarship to study safety sciences at IUP based on her research project, 鈥淪lip Resistance,鈥� sponsored by New Pig, of Tipton.
黑料吃瓜网 has received more than $460,000 from the United States Department of Agriculture to develop a specialized Biosafety/Biorisk Management Certificate program at IUP.
The MEMIC Group, specialists in workers鈥� compensation insurance, has awarded $30,000 to a faculty research team in IUP鈥檚 Department of Safety Sciences to investigate ways to limit workplace slips, trips, and falls.
Congratulations to Jeremy Bittlebrun, a senior safety, health, and environmental applied sciences major, for receiving the Mid-Atlantic Scholarship as well as the Board of Certified Safety Professionals Scholarship.
The eighth annual Professional Development Conference for the American Society of Safety Professionals, Western 黑料吃瓜网, held in conjunction with IUP and Slippery Rock University, will be held virtually on Thursday, March 11, 2021.
It is with deep regret that the Department of Safety Sciences announces the passing of Robert McClay, Jr., who joined IUP in the summer of 1972 as the first tenure-track faculty member in the newly formed Department of Safety Sciences.
The Department of Safety Sciences congratulates its fall 2020 Provost Scholars. To be named a Provost Scholar, students must have earned a minimum of 45 semester hours at IUP with a cumulative grade point average of 3.5 or higher. Provost Scholar recognition is given only once during a student鈥檚 time of study at IUP.
The Department of Safety Sciences will host a Virtual Career Fair on Thursday, October 15, 2020, from 10:00 a.m. until 2:00 p.m.聽
Kalie Hoover, MS in safety sciences student, successfully defended her thesis, titled 鈥淓xamining reaction time and compensatory behaviors and their effects on elderly drivers: A systemic review.鈥�
Upon graduation from IUP, Christopher (Blake) Downer 鈥�18, became the safety director for Contemporary Electrical Services, Inc.聽 Blake was instrumental in developing their safety program from the ground up.
Congratulations to Professor Luz Marin for being recognized by the American Society of Safety Professionals Communities as the 2019鈥�20 Hispanic Safety Professional of the Year.
Six students from the Department of Safety Sciences have won American Society of Safety Professionals Foundation scholarships for 2020.
The faculty and staff in the Department of Safety Sciences celebrated the class of 2020 on Friday, May 8, with a virtual commencement ceremony.聽
The American Society of Safety Professional's Editorial Review Board and the Council on Professional Development announced that Christopher Janicak and Majed Zreiqat鈥檚 article, 鈥淧erception Surveys: Development and Analysis to Study Safety Issues,鈥� received the second-place Professional Safety Article of the Year Award.
Wanda Minnick, Majed Zreiqat, Luz Marin, and Bryan Seal received ACPAC funding for wearable technology in the ergonomics lab, and for the purchase a photo-ionization detector.
OSHA鈥檚 primary resource is the OSHA COVID-19 official web page. This page is being updated routinely, and we encourage you to review it frequently.
Anthony Marletta, a safety and health professional at Liberty Mutual and a student in IUP鈥檚 PhD program in Safety Sciences, was selected into the first-ever cohort of the American Society of Safety Professionals Emerging Professionals Development Program.聽
John Mulroy and Francene Scott Diehl both graduated recently with PhDs in Safety Sciences from the IUP Department of Safety Sciences.
The faculty and staff in the Safety Sciences Department are mainly working off-site at the present time. Please log in to your classes at the scheduled time鈥攖hey are going on!
Congratulations to George Armstrong, our most recent PhD graduate in Safety Sciences at 黑料吃瓜网. 聽