November
2002
AFGHAN REFUGEES TO BENEFIT FROM UPG STUDENT DRIVE
The Criminal Justice Club at the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg (Upsilon Psi Gamma) is collecting items to benefit Afghan refugees. New or lightly worn shoes or clothing, dental hygiene items, and paper products such as toilet tissue can be deposited at five separate collection points on the UPG campus through Friday, November 22.
Collection boxes are located in Chambers Hall, Powers Hall, Smith Hall, Millstein Library, and McKenna Hall. Donated items can be left from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m.
For information, call 724-836-9991.
SMART DEVELOPMENT WORKSHOP AT UPG
"Lowering Costs Through Better Design" is the title of a Friday, November 15 "Smart Growth" workshop from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg's Village Hall. Designed for developers, engineers, township planning offices and municipal officials, the program has a $25 registration fee that covers lunch and materials. The registration deadline is Friday, November 8. For information, call 724-836-7048.
Co-sponsored by the Westmoreland County Conservation District and the Smart Growth Partnership of Westmoreland County, the program features conservation development professional and author Randall Arendt. Perspectives on storm water, conservation by design, and municipal ordinances will be discussed by Westmoreland Conservation District staff, developers, engineers, and municipal officials.
Topics include lowering costs through better design, utilities and development costs, working with watershed groups to improve design and build community partnerships, community open space planning, and the municipal visioning process.
Arendt is a land-use planner, author, lecturer, and an advocate of "conservation planning." He is senior conservation advisor at the Natural Lands Trust in Media (PA) and former director of planning and research at the Center for Rural Massachusetts at Amherst, where he also served as an adjunct professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture and Regional Planning. The author of over 20 publications, he has lectured at national conferences sponsored by the American Planning Association, the Urban Land Institute, the American Farmland Trust, the American Society of Landscape Architects, the National Association of Home Builders, the Land Trust Alliance, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He earned his master of philosophy degree in urban design and regional planning at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, where he was a St. Andrews Scholar. He is an elected member of the Royal Town Planning Institute in London.
UPG PROGRAM FEATURES WESTMORELAND COUNTY GLASS INDUSTRY
Westmoreland County glass factories and the role they played in the history
of the industry will be the focus of a slide lecture by Anne Madarasz, chief
curator of the Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, at 12 noon Monday,
November 4 in the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg's Village Hall,
Room 118. The program is free to the public. For information, call University
Relations at 724/836-7497.
The national center of the glass industry beginning in 1840, this region
served as a major innovator in production technology, in the design and
development of new products, and as the nation's marketplace for glass.
Madarasz served as project director and curator for "Glass: ShatteringNotions"
and authored the accompanying catalog. She was awarded a Richards Fellowship
for research from the Corning Museum of Glass and lectures and writes frequently
on the subject of Pittsburgh regional glass. A graduate of Trinity College
in Hartford, Connecticut, she completed the coursework for her Ph.D. at
the University of Pennsylvania.
The program is sponsored by the Natural Sciences & New Technologies
Academic Village at UPG.
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