President Patterson joins Team Pennsylvania Foundation

Shippensburg University’s president, Dr. Charles E. Patterson, was named the newest member of the Board of Directors of the Team Pennsylvania Foundation (Team PA). As a nonpartisan public-private partnership, Team PA’s Board of Directors is co-chaired by the sitting governor and a private sector leader. Representatives from the public sector include leaders from all four…

President Patterson named to Higher Education Trailblazers list

Shippensburg University President Charles E. Patterson, PhD, is listed as one of City & State’s 2024 Higher Education Trailblazers. The list recognizes leaders who have responded to the changing economic, social and technological landscape with innovative programming, outreach both tangible and virtual and, in some cases, restructuring to accommodate the ambitions of a new generation.…

Dhiman Chattopadhyay recent publications & interview with WITF

Dr. Chattopadhyay was interviewed on WITF’s award-winning radio show “The Spark” on May 2nd. He spoke to the show’s co-host Marquis Lupton on his 18-year career as an international journalist and his two recent books – one on Indian Journalism & the Impact of Social Media, and the other, an edited volume titled Global Journalism…

Scott Drzyzga presents work at 2024 GIS Conference at State College

Dr. Scott Drzyzga attended the 2024 Pennsylvania GIS Conference at State College and presented his work titled: “New Datums and a new State Plane Coordinate System Are Coming in 2025.” He also mentored two “Advanced GIS” students, Theresa Haug (GR) and Ekaterina Hampton (UG), who presented their map of the migrant crisis in the mountainous…

J.D. Griffith’s recently published article

Dr. Griffith and co-author Chris Trenge, lead author and former student in the Applied Psychology online graduate program, recently published “Master Turkers” An Assessment of Data Quality” in Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences.

Amber Norwood, Tom Hatvany & Jim Griffith’s Psychology Research

Drs. Norwood, Hatvany, Griffith and two student authors, recently published an article titled “Scholarly Accomplishments: A United States Survey of Academic Psychologists” in the journal – Current Psychology, in its February 2024 issue. The paper contributed to the academic literature by establishing average metrics in scholarly activity across different forms of academic productivity, including published…