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» SRU Seeks Volunteers, Merchants to Help with Freshman Move In Aug. 25-26
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. -- Slippery Rock University is inviting community volunteers to help move in one of the largest freshman classes in recent history Aug. 25-26. The Week of Welcome includes orientation activities and programs through Labor Day weekend.

» SRU, Clarion, Edinboro Universities Form Minority Nursing Scholarship to Honor Pioneer
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. –Many students who graduated from Pittsburgh Public Schools might not recognize Hattie Turk’s name, but they owe a lot to the leadership she exerted when she led the school district’s health services. And now her inspired leadership, in multiple settings,  is being acknowledged by the naming of a scholarship in her name. 

» Australian Olympic Pole-Vaulting Coach Leads High School Camp at SRU
SLIPPERY ROCK, Pa. – High school pole-vaulters are learning the up and over from a former Olympic coach from down under. Alan Launder, an Australian pole-vaulting instructor who coached 2000 Olympic silver medallist Tatiana Gregorieva and 1984 gold medallist Glynis Nunn, is offering tips this week at Slippery Rock University’s Pole-Vaulting Camp for high school girls.