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Penn State Greater Allegheny is looking north this academic year.
The McKeesport campus' "Teaching International" program will focus its 2013-14 world programming on Canada, with an accompanying theme of global health, a spokeswoman announced.
The first speaker in the fall will be anthropologist Greg Bondar, who will present "Vikings in Canada: The Failed Vinland Colony," from noon to 1 p.m. Sept. 17, in the Ostermayer Room in the Student Community Center.
Bondar has been teaching at Penn State for 20 years in anthropology, archaeology and related disciplines. In archaeology, his research in geochemically tracing stone tools has taken him around the north Atlantic from Georgia to Newfoundland and Britain, and to Iceland and Scandinavia.
Starting with Teaching Haiti in 2004, Penn State Greater Allegheny each year adopts a country or region of the world through its Teaching International program as a common focus to inspire teaching and scholarship.
An addition to the program starting in 2008 was a theme to accompany the regional focus.
Teaching International is a partner along with the Greener Allegheny initiative and the Honors Program to bring lectures, films and other activities on globalization and sustainability to the campus.
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