Feature Archive

Experience Features

Students hold up balloons spelling Pride at the Penn State Altoona Pride Parade

Showing their pride

Penn State Altoona’s Pride Alliance joins with the community to hold the first Pride Parade in the city.

Students Gary Josh Weyandt (with his decorative milk jugs) and Jacob McMullen.

Visual art studies (VAST) students took a field trip designed to show them how to find special things, like treasures, to include in their artwork or to use as raw material, reference, or inspiration.

Gabrielle Davidson sits on the steps outside Oak Hall at Penn State Altoona

Home Is Where the Heart Is

Gabrielle Davidson reflects on her undergraduate career at Penn State Altoona and why it will always be home to her.

Joey Hernandez in front of the Sheetz Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence

Looking Forward and Giving Back

Recent graduate Joey Hernandez reflects on his time at Penn State Altoona and what made his college experience so memorable.

Installation of the first three boxes is complete.

The Bats of Shaver's Creek

Professor Michael Gannon and Penn State Altoona students partner with Shaver's Creek Environmental Center to help Pennsylvania's bat population to grow.

Samantha Nash poses with the Walker Award during the Student Awards Ceremony, held April 28, 2019.

Walking away with the Walker Award

Samantha Nash was chosen as this year’s recipient of the prestigious Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award.

Catherine Rivera Chardon works the room at the Mile 22 premiere for Acceso Total

Doing it Her Way

A string of internships in the entertainment business has propelled Catherine Rivera Chardon to the stars.

Owning It

Taylor Stoudnour combines her love of science and entrepreneurship into a future she can manage.

The Art of Puppetry

Penn State Altoona sits down with Laurencio Carlos Ruiz to talk about his early love of puppetry, what the art form means to him, and his newest theatre creation, "theLASTree."

Lacey Wallace nears the finish line of the 2018 York, PA, marathon.

Hitting Her Stride

Penn State Altoona faculty member Lacey Wallace qualifies for the 2019 Boston Marathon