Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, was interviewed for “Water~Stone Review” at Hamline University in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Penn State Altoona's Health and Wellness Center and the human development and family studies degree program are offering a peer advocate program during the spring 2024 semester. Trained students will serve as peer advocates to offer a supportive listening environment with drop-in hours.
Betsy Keene, museum curator of the National Parks of Western Pennsylvania, has been working with Penn State Altoona students on the Flight 93 National Memorial Oral History Project for more than 10 years. Her Jan. 18 presentation, “Preserving Stories in Our National Parks,” will explain the project and talk about plans to make it more widely accessible.
The 24th annual African American Read-In at Penn State Altoona will take place Feb. 18-19. This year’s theme, “Black Ecologies,” celebrates environmental writing by Black authors who examine the human relationship with the more-than-human world.
Penn State Altoona will display student artwork from Jan. 11 through Feb. 8, 2024, in the McLanahan Gallery of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. This exhibition, titled “Workout,” is free and open to the public.
Penn State students working with Penn State Sustainability are making an impact in communities across the state and gaining hands-on experience in the field with Sustainable Communities Collaborative projects. These efforts were on display during a recent Campus and Community Sustainability Expo that was co-hosted by State College Borough and Penn State Sustainability.
Brad Doliveira, director of consumer digital at Sheetz, Inc. will help participants learn the basics of AI and how to utilize AI technology to achieve business goals during the Altoona LaunchBox webinar on Jan. 9.
The Penn State Altoona World Languages program held a semester-end celebration honoring its best students in French, German and Spanish with certificates for outstanding achievement based on faculty nomination. The program also celebrated the sixth iteration of its Global Conversations initiative, connecting students with native speakers around the globe.
The Penn State Altoona Police Department was one of eight local departments honored this month for its outstanding efforts to increase road safety for all motorists.
Status as an accredited organization means that the Penn State Altoona Health and Wellness Center has, once again, passed a series of rigorous and nationally recognized standards for the provision of quality health care, set by the Accreditation Association.