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Slippery Rock University wants to tackle Pennsylvania’s teacher shortage with a new program creating opportunities for potential teachers. Previous reporting has highlig...
July 01, 2025 Education
A Slippery Rock University student’s hands-on research aims to help purify water using innovative techniques. Carmen Hay, a senior biology major from Connellsville, takes...
July 01, 2025 Local News
Newly proposed legislation in the state General Assembly would provide a major boost for the more than 600 music therapists practicing in the state, something that Nicole...
June 28, 2025 Local News
Clay Wiesen was named the best defensive second baseman in the NCAA Division II Atlantic Region last week. The Slippery Rock junior was voted to the American Baseball Coa...
June 26, 2025 Sports
Children’s summer camp opportunities at the Macoskey Center for Sustainability Education & Research on the Slippery Rock University campus range from nature learning to i...
June 24, 2025 Local News
Braylon Littlejohn heard the whispers. He understood how they started and why people were curious. The Butler standout football and basketball player, who graduated high ...
June 13, 2025 Sports
Over a dozen Slippery Rock University seniors had one last chance to show off their artwork before they bowed out at graduation. Sixteen students at the university’s Bach...
May 15, 2025 Local News
Slippery Rock University students’ disability sports program on May 2 highlighted changing perspectives and inclusion with Slippery Rock Area High School students. Stude...
May 14, 2025 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK — After at least a semester of working with community organizations, students in Slippery Rock University’s Communication, Media & Sport Management program ...
May 12, 2025 Community
More than 1,600 students at Slippery Rock University were eligible to graduate over the weekend, May 9 and 10, at the Morrow Field House. Each of the four ceremonies tha...
May 11, 2025 Local News
Slippery Rock University and Butler County Community College will hold commencement ceremonies during next week to celebrate graduating students moving on and into the wo...
May 07, 2025 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK — Mayor Jondavid Longo said the Trump rally shooting was the first time he heard live gunfire like that since 2011, when he was serving in Afghanistan. He ...
May 01, 2025 Local News
It took a few practices for the Slippery Rock University cheerleaders to prepare routines to entertain an audience for an entire football game. The routine the squad perf...
April 29, 2025 Community
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Slippery Rock University’s Macoskey Center for Sustainability Education and Research wanted to use April 22 this year, Earth Day, to promote it’s init...
April 23, 2025 Local News
Slippery Rock University’s Early Childhood and Elementary Music Community Engagement Initiative will host “Tuneful Tales,” a morning of music-related events for children,...
April 17, 2025 Local News
Two students that Iuri Santos advises as a civil engineering professor at Slippery Rock University earned scholarships at the American Society of Civil Engineers Awards d...
April 15, 2025 Local News
It likely will take years before Slippery Rock University gets its full nine-figure request for capital projects. This is because potential funding from the state system...
April 14, 2025 Local News
A junior at Slippery Rock University and Zelienople native was named an SRU Outstanding Student Academic Leader. Matthew Deemer was presented the Outstanding Student Aca...
April 12, 2025 Local News
This week, Slippery Rock University student-athlete Mike Crist is donning his pads and playing spring football as if nothing ever happened. Less than a week earlier, he, ...
April 10, 2025 Local News
SLIPPERY ROCK TWP — Ali Zaidi’s climate action and leadership conversation at Slippery Rock University dove headfirst into confronting the high costs and vast impact of t...
April 08, 2025 Local News
Slippery Rock University’s annual Holocaust Remembrance Program will feature an Auschwitz survivor and the daughter of another Holocaust survivor. Art Gelbart and Debby ...
March 26, 2025
BUTLER TWP — Significantly more people are looking to the Summit Township center for their health care needs, according to the Jean B. Purvis Community Health Clinic’s 20...
March 25, 2025 Local News
Proposed renovations of on-campus buildings would cost around $120 million.
Proposed renovations of on-campus buildings would cost around $120 million.
March 25, 2025 Education
Slippery Rock University will host its annual Holocaust remembrance program from 3:30 to 5:15 p.m. on March 26. The presentation, which will take place at the Miller The...
March 15, 2025 Local News
Butler County colleges are prioritizing mental health services for students. Data shows a majority of college students, 60%, meet the criteria for at least one mental hea...
February 25, 2025 Local News
Christopher Fiorentino, Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education’s interim chancellor, said he will encourage the General Assembly to increase state funding to hel...
February 24, 2025 Local News
Slippery Rock University is holding a moderated discussion on “Securing the Sciences” on Thursday, Feb. 20. The discussion will include industry experts who will talk abo...
February 19, 2025 Local News
Some of Slippery Rock University’s sport management program students went on a field trip unlike any other — to the Super Bowl. The students had the opportunity to work ...
February 17, 2025 Local News
Police, fire units and a hazmat team were called to a home in the 200 block of Elm Street in Slippery Rock Borough on Sunday, Feb. 16, for a report of a deceased man. The...
February 16, 2025 Local News
A website that ranks universities for prospective students gave several high rankings for Slippery Rock University. Research.com, a website that helps students find “the ...
February 07, 2025 Education
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