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Two IUP Students Present Research During Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol Event

Two standout undergraduate student researchers at Indiana University of Pennsylvania were selected to participate in the 2026 Undergraduate Research Day at the Capitol event held on March 24.

  • 30 March 2026

Meet the Fusion Fellows

Meet the IUP Fusion Fellows, four students leading interdisciplinary research to solve complex, real-world problems. By pairing biology with media and archaeology with history, these innovative projects prove that collaboration creates results greater than the sum of their parts.

  • 30 March 2026

Theresa McDevitt Women in STEAM Research Award

The IUP Women in STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics) student organization invites applications for the first annual Theresa McDevitt Women in STEAM Research Award. This award recognizes an outstanding woman whose research demonstrates excellence, innovation, and impact across the STEAM fields.

  • 16 February 2026

IUP’s John and Char Kopchick Hall Offering Indiana Glass Exhibition as Part of Science on Display Project

Kopchick Hall’s “Science on Display”—featuring skeletons of prehistoric animals, the Charles Darwin Collection, a flight suit of the late IUP alumna and astronaut Patricia Hilliard Robertson, and a student-created DNA Bunsen Burner sculpture—features more than 100 pieces of decorative and carnival glassware produced by the Indiana Glass Company, which operated in Indiana between 1892 and 1931.

  • 21 January 2026

IUP Scholar in Residence, Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient, Wins International R&D Award for Breakthrough in Mass Spectrometry; Proof of Technology Demonstrated at IUP

Howard M. “Skip” Kingston, a scholar in residence at Indiana University of Pennsylvania’s Madia Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry, and Physics, IUP, and the IUP Research Institute has won a 2025 R&D 100 Award for a breakthrough that has the potential to advance precision medicine and rural healthcare.

  • 29 September 2025
John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • John J. and Char Kopchick College of Natural Sciences and Mathematics
  • 421 North Walk
     Indiana, PA 15705
  • Phone: 724-357-2609
Office Hours
Monday through Friday
8:00 a.m.–Noon
1:00 p.m.–4:30 p.m.