News Releases September 2009 

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»	SRU campus rates in nation's Top 25 Safe Campus report SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University has been named one of the safest university campuses in the nation by The Daily Beast. SRU was listed at No. 14.
»	SRU music professor to be center stage for Pittsburgh's G20 SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – When world leaders, including U.S. President Barack Obama, French President Nicolas Sarkozy, Russia’s Dmitry Medvedev, and others in Pittsburgh for the G20 gather tonight in Heinz Field’s Great Hall, Slippery Rock University’s Music Professor Stephen Hawk will be front and center.
»	SRU graduate recounts Vietnam horrors; current life as Zen monk SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Claude Anshin Thomas, a Zen monk, international peace activist, award-winning author and Slippery Rock University graduate, will deliver a public lecture at 7 p.m. Sept. 24 detailing his horrifying experiences and life during and after military service in Vietnam
»	SRU president taps Montero to lead diversity and inclusion program SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University President Robert Smith today named Jessamine Montero, director of Slippery Rock University’s Act 101 program and an assistant professor, as the special assistant to the president, senior officer for diversity and inclusion.
»	SRU honors 5 alumni for leadership, distinguished service SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Five Slippery Rock University graduates have been named to this year’s class of Distinguished Alumni Award recipients and will honor them as part of the University’s annual homecoming Oct. 2-3.
»	SRU student group hosts Meet Our Elected Officials program SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s Students Organizing for America is bringing State Rep. Jaret Gibbons, D-10th, State Sen. Mary Jo White, R-21st, and U.S. Rep. Kathy Dahlkemper, D-3rd, to campus to answer questions from students and discuss the importance of public service.
»	Disability advocate Simi Linton lectures at SRU SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Simi Linton, an award-winning author and one of America’s foremost experts on disability and the arts, will lecture at 1 p.m. Oct. 13 at Slippery Rock University’s University Union. Linton is an advocate for increasing disability studies in curriculum and improving the way disability is represented and depicted in the arts.
»	SRU shows greening leadership - again SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University continues to show leadership in campus greening, with the introduction of new recycling containers in buildings and the switch to Green Seal Certified cleaning products that are being used daily campuswide.
»	SRU music department strikes chord with new women's choir SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – The Slippery Rock University music department has apparently struck a chord with the campus and community. The department’s newly formed SRU Women’s Choir has already drawn more than 30 members.
»	SRU faculty form Middle East Studies Center to promote knowledge SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University faculty have teamed up to establish a Middle East Studies group to foster and enhance knowledge of the Middle East, including its past and current economic, social, historic, artistic cultural and political development.
»	Books by SRU professors help schoolteachers make the grade SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Veteran school teachers, as well as those entering the classroom for the first time, now have a wealth of help awaiting them as the learn to deal with the problems of assessing student learning. The help comes in the form of books written by Slippery Rock University’s John L. Badgett and Edwin P. Christmann.
»	SRU dance department kicks off Saturday program for children SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University’s dance department will kick off an 11-week Saturday Dance Program for children ages 3–12 beginning Sept. 12.
»	Contest Flyer Special Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education Contest Flyer for Logo
»	SRU adds new system to emergency alert strategies SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – Slippery Rock University and Metis Secure Solutions, LLC announced today they have entered into an agreement to install a state-of-the-art, location-based emergency notification system at the University.
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