Dr. Pagnucci’s Superhero Smash Live Radio Show Returns for the IUP Winter Break!
- Because listeners demanded it, the Superhero Smash Radio Show will be returning live for the winter holidays!
- Tune in for the Action-Packed Audio Issue #18 (12/26/23): Batman Noel!!
- Tune in for the Action-Packed Audio Issue #19 (01/02/24): Aquaman
- Tune in for the Action-Packed Audio Issue #20 (01/09/24): Captain Cold
- You can hear Gian on the radio every Tuesday from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. during for the IUP Winter Break from Dec. 19-Jan. 16
- Listen live to the best superhero radio show in the MCU, the DCU, and our U too!
- Superhero Smash can be heard exclusively on WIUP 90.1 FM
- Stream Superhero Smash Live Here!
Superhero Smash Returns for Christmas!
- Because listeners demanded it, Superhero Smash will be returning live for A Super Christmas!
- Tune in to hear Gian on the radio every Tuesday from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. (during the IUP Winter Break from Dec. 19-Jan. 16)
- Listen live to the best superhero radio show in the MCU, the DCU, and our U too!
- Superhero Smash can be heard exclusively on WIUP 90.1 FM
- Stream Superhero Smash Live Here!
Superhero Smash Returns for Thanksgiving!
- Because listeners demanded it, Superhero Smash will be returning live for Big Heroes, Big Appetites–A Thanksgiving Superhero Smash Giant-Sized Special!
- Tune in to hear Gian live on Wednesday November 22nd from 11:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
- This will be a super-sized episode of best superhero radio show in the MCU, the DCU, and our U too!
- Superhero Smash can be heard exclusively on WIUP 90.1 FM
- Stream Superhero Smash Live Here!
A Time to Support Students
While I like to share positive, “cool” news on my website, this has been a very hard time. IUP experienced a shooting during a Homecoming party and the Israeli/Hamas conflict continues to worsen with so much loss of life.
Provide Students with Opportunities to Reflect
As a narrative scholar, I believe stories have the power to help us heal and make meaning of tragedy. It’s not simple or easy work, but story telling and writing is one important key to helping us move forward through extreme challenges. I know right now teachers everywhere are struggling to help students who have been impacted by tragedies, especially those with close ties to the conflict in Israel and the Gaza Strip. So I want to encourage teachers to give students time to write, reflect, and talk about all the troubling things going on in the world around them. This does not mean a teacher has to be a counselor. They just need to be a supportive listener. A few words of acknowledgment and support from a teacher can mean so much to students.
At IUP, we also have support a number of important resources for students. Below is information on some of those services:
- IUP Rhonda H. Luckey Center for Health and Well-Being
- The Health Center offers an Open Support Group on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. (G-18 Suites on Maple East)
- IUP Care Team
- If you know of a student who is struggling and needs support, please alert the Care Team by filing a quick report:
- The College of Arts and Humanities Care Team Member is David Ferguson
- Additional Resources to Provide IUP Students with Help
Roots is a grassroots movement to build understanding and nonviolent transformation among Israelis and Palestinians. It offers a direct counterpoint to the violence now exploding in the Gaza Strip region.
- Video: The Roots Message of Understanding and Transformation
- This brief video on the Roots homepage provides a powerful message from Rabbi Hanan Schlesinger, Roots Director of International Relations
- I found Rabbi Schlesinger’s speech highly moving
- The rabbi talks about about how important it is for people to share their stories so they can achieve understanding and mutual respect
- I highly encourage you to watch the short speech: It is well worth a few minutes of your time
2023 APSCUF Scholarship Winner: Loughlin Pagnucci
- I am super proud of my son, Loughlin, for being the first IUP APSCUF Scholarship winner in more than a decade
- Loughlin is a Political Science/Economics double major with minors in English, History, and Business Administration
- IUP APSCUF President Dennis Frketich with Loughlin Pagnucci (on the right)
Celebrate National Comic Book Day!
- Sep. 25 is the annual National Comic Book Day
- This is a great day to read a comic book
