Depending on when you read this—sometime after I’m posting it on Tuesday afternoon, or not until after you get your daily email reminder on Wednesday morning—you might have a chance to catch Penn State alumnus Jean-Pierre “J.P.” Jamous ’07 Behrend on NPR. Jamous grew up in Lebanon and, at age 14, was a casualty of the country’s civil war. Blinded in an explosion, he came to the U.S.—alone—to have surgery on his eyes. The damage couldn’t be undone, but Jamous—who spoke no English—stayed in the States and eventually attended and graduated from Penn State Erie. He’s now an entrepreneur running his own computer business.

Last summer, Mary Connerty, an English instructor at Erie, interviewed Jamous for NPR’s StoryCorps project. Their interview is set to run at 6:08 a.m. Wednesday morning, and again at 8:06 a.m., on NPR’s “Morning Edition.” If you missed it, you should be able to find it soon on the StoryCorps Web site.

Ryan Jones, senior editor