Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Point Park University's School of Education hosted its first C.A.R.E. Wellness Mental Health and Well-Being Symposium, inviting local educators to learn about addressing trauma and its impact on student learning, mental health and well-being while exploring the powerful relationship between community connection and the arts.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
"As leaders in the field, we are modeling best practices for our students and forging new opportunities for collaboration with mental health professionals and faculty from other universities in the U.S. and in the U.K."
Wednesday, September 27, 2023
"I encourage my students to ask questions about the world. Why are things the way that they are? How did they come to be this way? How could they be different? I want my students to stay curious about the world, near and far!"
Wednesday, August 9, 2023
The latest study out of Point Park University's Department of Community Engagement & Leadership in the Rowland School of Business offers a plan for transforming Downtown Pittsburgh's alleyways into inspiring spaces that add beauty and value to the city.
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
"I hope that our work shows not only the need for community resources and support but also the power of that community and caring connection."
Thursday, May 25, 2023
"The 'Digging Through the Archives' course is a prime example of how Point Park implements an experiential, hands-on approach that allows for passion, diversity and personal expression."
Wednesday, May 17, 2023
"Point Park's emphasis on non-traditional teaching styles and methods beyond the typical landscape prepared me to serve a wide variety of learners. It made me flexible and understanding of the fact that my students will have different backgrounds, needs and motivations. That student-first ideology sets Point Park apart from everyone else."
Monday, April 10, 2023
The impact of Styx's hit "Renegade" on the Pittsburgh Steelers, the legacy of Point Park University's founder and the search for extraterrestrial intelligence: The 2023 Faculty Research Symposium & Finkelhor Lecture highlighted the varied research interests and work of professors from the School of Arts & Sciences, Rowland School of Business, School of Communication and Conservatory of Performing Arts.
Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Point Park University students and faculty in the Department of Psychology will partner with several Pittsburgh organizations to host a “Chalk Out & Speak Out” event in Downtown Pittsburgh's Market Square on Thursday, April 20, 4–7 p.m., to raise awareness of street harassment, how to eradicate it and guidance on what to do when experiencing catcalling or other forms of unwanted comments.
Thursday, October 13, 2022
"Point Park's Department of Community Engagement & Leadership provides the space to pursue and work on meaningful community engagement with an emphasis on engagement. I see students and faculty working hand in hand with the community."
Tuesday, October 11, 2022
A professor in Point Park University's School of Education, Vincenne Revilla Beltrán, Ph.D., has spent the last couple of years researching the powerful connection between mental health and meditative hand-stitching, and now she is sharing her findings with the broader Pittsburgh community to encourage self-care and mental wellness.
Wednesday, October 5, 2022
School of Communication Professor Tatyana Dumova, Ph.D., received the Harvey Kelly Excellence in Teaching Award at the 2022 Pennsylvania Communication Association (PCA) Convention, held this fall at East Stroudsburg University.
Wednesday, September 28, 2022
"I want students to know that if you take my class or come to an event I'm putting on, my number one goal is to make you laugh. I absolutely believe in the power of joy."
Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Students researched the lack of access to public restrooms in the Golden Triangle of Downtown Pittsburgh that outlined potential solutions and benefits of installing public restrooms in the city.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Oleksandr Dobzhanskyi, Ph.D., an assistant professor of electrical engineering at Point Park University, spent his summer working on impactful research related to sustainable energy and transportation at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) at the U.S. Department of Energy through its visiting faculty program.
Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Point Park University's Department of Community Engagement & Leadership welcomed its fall 2022 cohort for the Ph.D. in Community Engagement program with a welcome weekend of volunteer service and real-world research presentations.
Wednesday, July 20, 2022
The JASON Project, a nonprofit that supports people in need of assistance navigating the court system, is preparing – with support from Point Park University – to make its services more widely available to Pittsburgh-area residents.
Tuesday, May 17, 2022
Following 15 years of research on young girls' experiences in schools, Britney Brinkman, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology at Point Park University, has published "Girls’ Identities and Experiences of Oppression in Schools: Resilience, Resistance, and Transformation," a book that explores "the ways in which girls and adults in school systems hold multiple realities, negotiate tensions, cultivate hope and resilience, resist oppression and envision transformation."
Monday, May 2, 2022
"This experience equipped me with some of the most valuable hands-on experience I've had as a pre-service teacher. It allowed us to have genuine fun with our students while implementing fundamental knowledge into a real classroom."
Monday, February 21, 2022
Point Park University sociology professor Marion W. Dixon, Ph.D., has won a $20,000 fellowship from the Tiny Beam Fund, an organization devoted to understanding and addressing the complex problem of industrial animal production around the world.
Tuesday, November 9, 2021
"The Mobile Thriving Respite adds immense value to the education I am receiving at Point Park. My involvement allows me to see what I am learning and problematizing in classes represented in real-world scenarios. This extends my education far beyond the classroom and aids in preparing me for the professional world."
Friday, October 15, 2021
"I envision myself as a stepping stone for the groundbreaking artists in the theatre department in the Conservatory of Performing Arts. I believe that my initiative, energy for innovation and enthusiasm will aid in students’ learning of music."
Monday, October 4, 2021
"The collaborative nature of this work allows me to connect business, community engagement, education and social justice under the same umbrella and bring back to Point Park and its students in the various programs the lessons learned internationally."
Friday, October 1, 2021
Britney Brinkman, associate professor of psychology and director of the Psy.D. program, along with doctoral students Shacoya L. Bates '23 and Orlandria Smith '23, recently published their research project, "Centering Black Girls in Sexual Harassment Research: A Community-Based Participatory Action Research Approach" in Taylor & Francis Online's Women & Therapy Journal.
Thursday, September 30, 2021
Jehnie Burns' new book, "Mixtape Nostalgia: Culture, Memory, and Representation," is a chronological look at the history of the mixtape from when it dethroned vinyl records as the format of choice in the 1970s to its resurgence as an icon of nostalgic analog technology today.
Friday, September 24, 2021
New to the Department of Psychology this semester is Amanda B. Lowe, Ph.D., an assistant professor of psychology with experience in clinical practice, entrepreneurship and research. In this Q&A, learn about Lowe's teaching style and the real-world experience she brings to the classroom.
Friday, February 5, 2021
Oleksandr Dobzhanskyi, Ph.D., is a new assistant professor of electrical engineering in the Natural Sciences, Engineering and Technology department.
Tuesday, June 2, 2020
For her research findings on hyperlipidemia onset occurring earlier in patients with multiple sclerosis, Diane Krill, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at Point Park University, was featured as a top three breaking news highlight in the online health care publication, Neurology Advisor.
Wednesday, May 6, 2020
Assistant Professor Brendan Mullan, Ph.D., who teaches physics and astronomy at Point Park University, was named a 2020 Science as Story Fellowship Recipient by The Creative Nonfiction Foundation.
Monday, May 4, 2020
Britney Brinkman, Ph.D., was published in a special issue of Training and Education in Professional Psychology for her scholarly research article "Doing Intersectionality in Social Justice Oriented Clinical Training."
Friday, March 6, 2020
Helena Knörr, Ph.D., professor of organizational leadership for the Rowland School of Business and Department of Literary Arts and Social Justice, recently presented her research at the University of Deusto in Bilbao, Spain.
Friday, November 22, 2019
Jessica McCort, Ph.D., assistant professor of composition and rhetoric for the Department of Literary Arts and Social Justice at Point Park University, recently had her article titled "The 'Interrupted Story': Elizabeth Bishop’s Fairy–Tale Aesthetics," published in the interdisciplinary journal, Women's Studies.
Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Robert Ross, Ph.D., associate professor for the Department of Literary Arts and Social Justice and coordinator of the social justice studies program, recently received a grant for $4,977 from the Institute for Human Geography, publisher of the journal Human Geography, to continue his research on the role of American Christians in the South African anti-apartheid movement.
Monday, September 16, 2019
At the Ecological Science of America 2019 conference in Louisville, Ky., Environmental Science Professor Matthew Opdyke, Ph.D., presented the work he and his students Paula Ambrose ’20, and Keri Rouse ’14, 19, did with Project Bee Watch, a local citizen project to assess the status of pollinators in the region.
Tuesday, September 3, 2019
Mitchel Nickols, Ph.D., part-time faculty member for the School of Education, Rowland School of Business and Department of Community Engagement at Point Park University, recently conducted a professional development session on the topic of implicit bias to more than 200 teachers and administrators in the Kiski Area School District.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Building on her research in cultivating care for older women living with eating disorders, Jamesena Talbott, Ph.D., DM, NCC, Point Park University professor of leadership and community engagement, is serving as a research fellow for the Institute for Social Innovation in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Thursday, March 21, 2019
Point Park University Organizational Leadership Professor Helena Knorr, Ph.D., recently traveled to Medellín, Colombia, to teach yoga and mindfulness as part of a wellness retreat.
Monday, February 4, 2019
Diane Krill, Ph.D., professor of biological sciences at Point Park University, presented research focused on the electrical stimulation of small flowering plants (Arabidopsis thaliana) at the International Conference on Plant Science in Paris, France.
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Helena Knörr, Ph.D., organizational leadership professor, presented remotely as a panelist for the Portuguese BioEntrepreneurship conference in Peso da Régua, Portugal.
Tuesday, October 23, 2018
Chris Lovett, digital product manager/team lead for PNC and part-time marketing instructor for the Rowland School of Business, presented his research titled “Convenience Store Study Group Digital Deep Dive,” in the Times Square section of New York City.
Friday, October 19, 2018
Professor Jamesena Talbott, D.M., presented her research on “Cultivating an Interprofessional Collaborative Ecology of Care” Oct. 9 to faculty in the areas of human development, human and organizational development and clinical psychology at Fielding Graduate University, located in Santa Barbara, Calif.
Friday, September 28, 2018
Patrick Mulvihill, D.Ed., and 2017 on-site MBA alumnus Todd Wilson, P.E., are among the authors of the new book, Engineering Pittsburgh: A History of Roads, Rails, Canals, Bridges & More.
Wednesday, September 19, 2018
Helena Knörr, Ph.D., associate professor of organizational leadership in the Rowland School of Business, was invited back to Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral (ESPOL), a university in Guayaquil, Ecuador, to present on social innovation and entrepreneurship.
Tuesday, September 18, 2018
For more than a decade, Brent Robbins, Ph.D., has studied the way people experience their bodies and emotions. As part of his research, Robbins explored how medical professionals in training come to learn about the body and how it impacts their clinical practices. This research inspired him to write the book, The Medicalized Body and Anesthetic Culture: The Cadaver, the Memorial Body, and the Recovery of Lived Experience.
Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Rowland School of Business Associate Professor of Organizational Leadership Helena Knörr, Ph.D., taught a full-day workshop April 16 to more than 40 faculty members in the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Escuela Superior Politécnica del Litoral in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Sarah Schulz, Ph.D., LSW, was one of 13 individuals selected to be part of a new effort to study gender bias within the city.
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Paige Beal, M.B.A., assistant professor and chair of the sports, arts and entertainment management department at Point Park University, co-chaired the Marketing Management Association Fall Educators' Conference, Sept. 20-22 at the Omni William Penn Hotel in Downtown Pittsburgh.
Wednesday, March 29, 2017
Brent Dean Robbins, Ph.D., associate professor of psychology and chair of the Department of Humanities and Human Sciences, served as co-author and guest editor of the March 2017 special issue of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, which focused on alternatives to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) approach to psychiatric diagnosis.
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Licensed psychologist Jill C. Thomas, Ph.D., recently joined Point Park University as an associate professor of psychology and director of clinical training in the M.A. in clinical-community psychology program.
Friday, July 15, 2016
Jessica McCort, Ph.D., assistant professor of composition and rhetoric and coordinator of the writing intensive program at Point Park University, served as editor of the recently published book "Reading in the Dark: Horror in Children's Literature and Culture."
Thursday, October 22, 2015
"The conference was a great experience to take something I did in class and present it in a real-world academic setting," said Carey McKelvey.
Monday, December 12, 2011
Associate Professor Brent Robbins, Ph.D., co-authored a national letter by the Society for Humanistic Psychology that has brought thousands into the public debate about revisions to the "bible" of American psychiatry.
