The Penn State Altoona women’s soccer team took third place in this year’s edition of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference preseason coaches’ poll.
The Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference released its 2023 men’s soccer preseason coaches’ poll on Aug. 21, including the Penn State Altoona men’s soccer team being voted into fifth place out of 10 spots.
Pamela Blackmon, professor of political science at Penn State Altoona, recently interviewed the Canadian ambassador to the World Trade Organization for a podcast series.
Several Penn State Altoona performing arts groups will hold auditions over the first few weeks of the fall 2023 semester. Auditions are open to all Penn State Altoona students.
Penn State Altoona will hold its annual Day of Dance from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 17. Dancers ages 10 to 18 will learn about various dance styles and topics, including choreography, weight sharing, Scottish Highland, belly dance, and ballet. The tap and music duo Relative Rhythm will also offer workshops for all levels of tap dancers.
Penn State Altoona will host an open dance class with the Allied Motion Dance Company from 1 to 2:15 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 20, in Room 148 of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
Five student teams from Penn State’s Engineering Leadership Development program in the School of Engineering Design and Innovation earned recognition in the 17th annual University Design Competition for Addressing Airport Needs, sponsored by the Transportation Research Board’s Airport Cooperative Research Program.
The deadline for fall 2023 submissions to “Hard Freight,” Penn State Altoona’s online student literary magazine, is Tuesday, Oct. 24 at midnight. Up to three entries per student in the categories of fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, drama, visual art, and multimedia work may be submitted online.
