An in-kind gift to Penn State Altoona from Norfolk Southern more than a decade ago, PSU 2020, a SD60i freight locomotive, had been housed at Curry Rail Services in Hollidaysburg. Now, its ownership will be transferred to the Railroaders Memorial Museum, and it will be stored in the museum’s Harry Bennett Memorial Roundhouse.
Penn State recognizes first-generation students as those whose immediate parents or legal guardians have not completed a baccalaureate degree. Over 35% of students are first generation at Penn State Altoona.
Ivyside Dance Ensemble will present a fall semester dance concert at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday and Friday, Nov. 9 and 10, in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona.
Students in Penn State Altoona's communication program produced a documentary that will air at noon on Nov. 4 on WPSU-TV. “The History of the Pennsylvania Railroad in Altoona” explores the origins of the industry in central Pennsylvania and explains how the railroad in the Altoona area served as a major contributing factor to the nation’s industrial, commercial and cultural development.
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.
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.
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.
