With its win, Penn State Altoona (16-10) receives the AMCC's automatic berth to compete in the NCAA Division III Tournament later this week. Penn State Altoona will face Juniata, the top-ranked team in the nation among Division III women’s volleyball programs, in the first round of the Huntingdon Region bracket at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 16.
Penn State Altoona English faculty members Patricia Jabbeh Wesley and Erin Murphy will read from their works at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
Penn State Altoona student Madelyn Colello was the winner of the commercial music category at the National Association of Teachers of Singing competition.
Sandy Petrulionis and her undergraduate research student Emera Gregor recently presented their research “A Century of Reform: Writing the Long Life of Thomas Wentworth Higginson.”
Three Penn State Altoona men’s soccer student-athletes were voted to the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s all-conference team. Defender Owen Myers, of Spring Grove, was a second-team selection, while forward Luke Hall and goalkeeper Sasha Mohoruk, both of State College, were voted to the third team.
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.