Penn State Altoona is premiering a college-wide collaborative poem in honor of National Poetry Month, a celebration of poetry that takes place each April.
The Penn State Altoona Athletics Advisory Council announced its first Hall of Fame class on February 17, naming five individuals and one team as its inaugural group of inductees.
To honor the achievements of Penn State's faculty throughout the pandemic, Teaching and Learning with Technology (TLT) will issue its first and only planned Distinguished Service Award to the entire Penn State faculty as part of the 2021 Penn State Faculty and Staff Awards ceremony.
Penn State Altoona men’s tennis junior Kirk Eichenlaub earned first team All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference honors for the No. 6 singles slot after going undefeated in his position this spring.
The raw numbers are staggering: nearly 87,000 courses have been added to the Credit Transfer Tool since 2016. More than 90% of reviewed courses have some type of equivalency at Penn State, and over 50% have a direct equivalency to a Penn State course. Among the 200-plus faculty reviewers, three Penn State professors have completed nearly 20,000 of the transfer course reviews.
Several Penn State Altoona students, professors, and alumni, along with community members, took part in a native planting initiative in Tipton, Blair County, organized by Altoona environmental studies graduate Angie Spagnoli.
Penn State is partnering with Walmart to offer a COVID-19 vaccination clinic that is open to Penn State students, employees and dependents of employees age 16 and older beginning Thursday, April 22, through Saturday, April 24, inside Pegula Ice Arena on the University Park campus. The clinic will run from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. each day.