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» Musicians' Concert Band Plans 4 Summer Concerts at SRU; Plus Special Jazz Orchestra Event
» Grove City Resident Turns Horse Farm into SRU Scholarship Funds
» Slippery Rock Farmer's Market Begins May 20
» Eight SRU Faculty Receive International Travel Grants to Futher Research
» EDITOR'S ADVISORY: Commencement Moved Indoors
» Opera Recital in Butler a Fund-Raiser for SRU Junior
» SRU to Confer 1,050 Degrees May 13; Mary Del Brady to be Commencement Speaker
» Aebersold Student Center Plans Friday Open House
» SRU Physical Education Faculty Member Named to PE4Life Award
» SRU Jazz Festival to Include High School Jazz Musicians, Saxist Gary Smulyan
» SRU Piano Students to Offer Sunday Piano Extravanga
» Summer/Fall Registration Open for Community at SRU's Child Care Center
» SRU Aquatics Professor One of Six in Nation Honored
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News Releases May 2006 

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» $410,995 Grant to Fund Pedestrian Walkways at SRU
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – In Slippery Rock University’s ongoing efforts to upgrade safety for students and visitors, the university has received a $610,995 federal grant to construct lighted pedestrian paths in the southeastern corner of campus and along Harmony Road.

» SRU's Macoskey Center Gets 'Outstanding Organization' Award
 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s Robert A. Macoskey Center for Sustainable Systems Education and Research has received the “Conservation Award for Outstanding Organization” from the Bartramian Audubon Society, a non-profit organization promoting environmental education and conservation in western Pennsylvania.

» Musicians' Concert Band Plans 4 Summer Concerts at SRU; Plus Special Jazz Orchestra Event
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –  The Musicians’ Concert Band, under its new conductor Jeff Kroner will again offer a four-concert summer series plus a special concert by the Musicians’ Concert Band Jazz Orchestra as summer entertainment on the Slippery Rock University campus.

» Grove City Resident Turns Horse Farm into SRU Scholarship Funds
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – A 30-acre Grove City horse farm, known as “Sincerrey Andalusians,” is being turned into scholarship funding to help Slippery Rock University students and the gift honors family members of the farm’s owner, Lois Hamilton

» Slippery Rock Farmer's Market Begins May 20
SLIPPERY ROCK – The success of last summer’s Slippery Rock Farmer’s Market, organized by Slippery Rock University students, has prompted organizers to establish the market again beginning May 20. It will run every Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon, through Oct. 28.

» Eight SRU Faculty Receive International Travel Grants to Futher Research
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –  Eight Slippery Rock University faculty have been awarded President’s International Professional Development Grants that will allow them to present papers and undertake research at academic conferences around the world as part of their academic work. The grants will also allow two music department faculty, joined by the SRU Jazz Ensemble, to perform at prestigious jazz festivals in Switzerland, France and Holland this summer.

» EDITOR'S ADVISORY: Commencement Moved Indoors
Due to expected inclement weather for Saturday [May 13], Slippery Rock University will hold its spring commencement exercises indoors. The 11 a.m. Saturday ceremony will see more than 1,050 diplomas, including 42 doctor of physical therapy degrees, presented in Morrow Field House.

» Opera Recital in Butler a Fund-Raiser for SRU Junior
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – In an effort to make his way to the international Opera Theatre and Music Festival in Lucca, Italy, this summer, award-winning Slippery Rock University vocal major Michael Desnoyers will sing classical and jazz selections when he offers a fund-raising recital at 3 p.m. May 20 at Covenant Presbyterian Church in Butler.

» SRU to Confer 1,050 Degrees May 13; Mary Del Brady to be Commencement Speaker
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Mary Del Brady, a 1972 Slippery Rock University graduate and entrepreneur whose 30 years of professional experience include the founding and ownership of several companies in the services and biotechnology industries and recently honored by Pittsburgh’s technology community, will be the speaker when the university awards nearly 1,050 diplomas, including 42 doctor of physical therapy degrees and 110 masters degrees at commencement ceremonies set for May 13.

» Aebersold Student Center Plans Friday Open House
 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –  As a way of boosting membership in the Slippery Rock University Robert N. Aebersold Student Recreation Center, the facility will host a 4 to 8 p.m. Member Appreciation /Open House May 12.

» SRU Physical Education Faculty Member Named to PE4Life Award
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – For promoting physical education on a national level and creating a new outreach program at Slippery Rock University, physical education faculty member Randy Nichols has received the Excellence in Advocacy-Education award from PE4Life.

» SRU Jazz Festival to Include High School Jazz Musicians, Saxist Gary Smulyan
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –  The Fifth Annual Slippery Rock University Jazz Festival is being hosted on Saturday [May. 6] in Swope Music Hall, with the final concert for the event featuring guest artist, award-winning, saxophonist Gary Smulyan in Miller Auditorium at 7 p.m. Saturday.

» SRU Piano Students to Offer Sunday Piano Extravanga
 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Piano duets students in Dr. Nanette Kaplan Solomon’s classes at Slippery Rock University will offer a “Piano Extravaganza” at 4 p.m. Sunday [May 7] in Swope Recital Hall, featuring works by a wide range of composers including Mozart, Brahmas, Dello Joio and Rachmaninoff.

» Summer/Fall Registration Open for Community at SRU's Child Care Center
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –  The Slippery Rock University Student Government Association Preschool and Child Care Center is accepting summer and fall student registration for full- and part-time youngsters from across the community with special programs planned for those ages 3 to 5 and those ages 6 to 12, including such themes a computers, growing a garden and creepy, crawly bugs.

» SRU Aquatics Professor One of Six in Nation Honored
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – For his contribution to aquatic safety on a national level, Slippery Rock University physical education faculty Robert Ogoreuc has received the 2006 National Honor Award from the Aquatic Council of the American Association for Physical Activity and Recreation. Five other people nationwide received the award.

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