The Penn State Altoona women’s soccer team had three of its student-athletes voted to the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference team. Forward Mallorie Smith, of Bellefonte, was voted first-team All-AMCC; defender Rachel Rutkowski, of Canonsburg, was a second-team pick; and forward Camryn Kurilla, of Mount Wolf, was selected to the third team.
Penn State Altoona student-athlete Adam Marawan, of Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was named the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Men’s Swimmer of the Week on Monday, Nov. 6.
Penn State Altoona women’s volleyball’s libero Anna Batrus, of Altoona, was announced as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week on Monday, Nov. 6, making it the league-high sixth time that she has garnered that recognition this season.
Penn State Altoona’s Division of Student Affairs is collecting boxes of cereal for the St. Vincent DePaul Assumption Chapel Food Pantry in Altoona from Oct. 30 through Dec. 6.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has published two new poems in the international journal The Ilanot Review. Murphy’s poems “In Case of Emergency” and “Conceived” are included in a themed issue on parents.
For the second year in a row, the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference head coaches predicted the Penn State Altoona men’s basketball team to finish atop the league standings, as the Lions were voted into first place in the 2023-24 edition of the conference’s preseason coaches’ poll.
The Penn State Altoona women’s basketball team has been predicted to finish third in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference, as the league released its 2023-24 preseason coaches’ poll on Thursday, Nov. 2.
Students in Penn State Altoona’s Criminal Justice Organization took part in the 2023 Federal Mock Sentencing Exercise at the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania in Johnstown on Oct. 24.
Harriett Gaston, an undergraduate studies adviser at Penn State Altoona, presented at the annual Pennsylvania Historical Association (PHA) conference held in October in Camp Hill, Pennsylvania.
At an event held on Oct. 31, leaders from the Student Philanthropy Network announced that the class of 2024 has voted to create the University Park Undergraduate Association Basic Needs Endowment as their class gift. The fund will provide sustained support for students facing hardships in pursuit of their degree.
