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The Penn State University Libraries’ 2024 Student Showcase and Outstanding Student Employee Awards offered viewers a glimpse into the outstanding achievements and perspectives of part-time student staff, undergraduate interns and graduate assistants who have worked alongside librarians, archivists and staff to further the Libraries’ mission and played a crucial role in supporting the academic and research needs of the Penn State community.

The Erickson Discovery Grant, which funds independent research projects for undergraduate students, has been awarded to 43 recipients this year.  

Five Penn State Altoona softball players were voted to the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference team when the league released its postseason awards on Tuesday, May 14.

Seven student-athletes from the Penn State Altoona baseball program were voted to the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference team as the league announced its postseason awards on Tuesday, May 14.  

Jared Frederick, assistant teaching professor of history at Penn State Altoona, has worked with John Homan, a World War II veteran, on the memoir “Into the Cold Blue: My World War II Journeys with the Mighty Eighth Air Force.”

Penn State Altoona inducted six new members into the Sigma Beta Delta Honor Society during a ceremony held on April 26.

Designed for all levels and abilities for those over 18, this class will provide instruction on classic jazz warm up techniques, stylized movements, and dynamic choreography exercises.

Penn State Altoona has received a $50,000 commitment from CSX Transportation to create the CSX Rail Transportation Engineering Scholarship, which will support students in the field of rail engineering.

Penn State Altoona held its first Open and Affordable Showcase on May 7. The day-long conference was sponsored by the Robert E. Eiche Library.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, Annie Taylor hopes videos will bring an invaluable experience — an opportunity to learn about sustainability — to everyone, without traveling far from home. Last year, Taylor, senior assistant dean for distance learning in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Kaitlin Farnan, a business instructor at Penn State Altoona, led 20 Penn State students on a trip to New Zealand and Australia to learn about sustainable business practices. Their experiences on that trip were captured on video and are now available online as a collection in the University’s Repository for Open and Affordable Materials.