The deadline for submitting work to “Hard Freight,” Penn State Altoona’s student literary arts magazine, has been extended to Thursday, Nov. 9, at midnight.
Throughout the month of November, Penn State Altoona Sheetz Fellows will accept donations for new or gently used winter coats, sweatshirts, hats, gloves and scarves for Penn State Altoona students. They will also collect some stationary materials, such as new pens, pencils, highlighters, markers, sticky notes, notebooks and more.
Lauren Peng, a second-year student at Penn State Altoona, presented her research at the Academy of International Business U.S. Northeast Conference in Providence, Rhode Island, on Oct. 21.
Distinguished Professor of English and American Studies Sandra Petrulionis and student Emera Gregor will present "A Century of Reform: Writing the Long Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson," on Nov. 7.
For the fifth time this season, Penn State Altoona libero Anna Batrus, of Altoona, was selected as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week in women’s volleyball, the league office announced on Monday, Oct. 23.
Penn State Altoona goalkeeper Sasha Mohoruk, of State College, was chosen as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Defensive Player of the Week in men’s soccer on Monday, Oct. 23.
Penn State Altoona forward/midfielder Mallorie Smith, of Bellefonte, was selected as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week in women’s soccer on Monday, Oct. 23.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was the featured speaker at the WISE Women of Blair County organization’s annual membership meeting held Oct. 18.
The Penn State Altoona men’s golf team was rewarded for its successful fall on Thursday, Oct. 19, when six members of the program were named to spots on the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s All-Conference team, including two major individual awards.
When Penn State leaders made the decision to shift to remote learning for summer 2020 classes, Penn State instruction leaders realized they needed to rethink strategies for student support. Fortunately, an already-successful Penn State University Libraries-based technology training initiative, Tech Academy, had been introducing basic technology tools and skills to incoming students since 2017, and was ready to be transformed for online training needs.
