NFL star speaks at leadership conference
ByThe Shippensburg Area Chamber of Commerce (SACC) hosted the second annual Leadership Conference in the Tuscarora Room at Shippensburg University on Feb.
The Shippensburg Area Chamber of Commerce (SACC) hosted the second annual Leadership Conference in the Tuscarora Room at Shippensburg University on Feb.
Only five miles from Ayn al-Asad military base, a U.S. training site for Iraqi soldiers, militants of the Islamic State group (IS, ISIL or ISIS) captured a town that has been subject to numerous skirmishes, according to The New York Times (NYT). IS soldiers, numbering in the hundreds, attacked the town al-Baghdadi in two directions, according to Reuters and Fox News.
The second Major/Minor Fair was held at Shippensburg University on Thursday, Feb. 12, from 3 – 5 p.m.
Shippensburg University professors received a $1 million grant to study the Delaware River Basin. Shippensburg University professors Claire Jantz and Scott Drzyzga will use the money to fund a project that will map and analyze land use in the Delaware River Basin.
Israel, France, Spain and the Dominican Republic are just a few of the places Shippensburg University students have visited.
Local: Wil Haygood plans H.O.P.E Diversity lecture at SU Shippensburg — Author of the best-selling book “The Butler: A Witness to History,” Wil Haygood, is scheduled to give an annual lecture at the Luhrs Performing Arts Center at Shippensburg University, according to Public Opinion. His lecture, “Helping Our People Excel (H.O.P.E) Diversity Scholarship Program,” will start at 8 p.m.
President Barack Obama and his administration published the new 2015 National Security Strategy (NSS) on Feb.
Every year, 12 Shippensburg University students travel to Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, during winter break, where they partner with the Pathways of Learning School.
Riddled with back pain and unable to bend down to tie his own shoes, Stuart Singer did not realize the end of his basketball career was the beginning of his life’s work.
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for others?’” The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. used his speech as a way to connect people of all races and take a stand for justice.
Nathan Mao, a Shippensburg University English professor, died on the evening of Feb. 1 in the presence of family at John Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland.
Local: Two consecutive nights with reported gunfire Shippensburg — At approximately 2 a.m.
As construction ends on Dauphin Drive, Shippensburg University looks to Lancaster Drive for its next closure.
Nearly 55 years ago, under the leadership of President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the U.S. placed a partial trade embargo on Cuba as tensions with the Soviet Union grew.
The Shippensburg University Council of Trustees unanimously voted in favor of a new tuition program on Friday, Jan.
The race begins so early that no one ever hears, “Get ready, set, go!” Students do not even realize they are elbowing for room on the track as they move up the rungs of the school system, competing for success.
Snow crunched underfoot as marchers followed the voice of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. into the winter air at Shippensburg University for the 27th March for Humanity.
The Shippensburg University Council of Trustees unanimously voted to implement a change in how students will pay for their education at SU in order to offset cutbacks in state funding that have cost the university more than $30 million over the past decade.
Local: Shippensburg pastor charged with possession of child pornography Shippensburg — The Attorney General's Child Predator Section charged Keith Bell, pastor of the Church of God in Upper Strasburg with two counts of possession of child pornography, according to The Sentinel. Bell, who lives in Shippensburg, pleaded no contest to the charges, which were placed on him in June of 2013. An investigation uncovered files containing images of children participating in sexually related acts, which led to Bell's arrest.
“I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent,” Nelson Mandela, former president of South Africa, said. Mandela’s dream is far from a reality as Boko Haram, a radical Islamist army, rages its way through Nigeria. According to the New York Times (NYT), at least 10,000 people died in the past six years and hundreds of thousands were displaced from their homes. “We are very happy with what happened at the heart of France,” Abubakar Shekau, Boko Haram’s leader, said, referring to the Charlie Hebdo terrorists attacks that occurred in Paris earlier this month, according to Bloomberg. Shekau later took responsibility for slaughtering 2,000 civilians and razing 3,700 buildings at Baga, a Nigerian town near the border of Cameroon, according to the New York Daily News.