Penn State Altoona held its annual Student Awards Ceremony on Monday, April 27, in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The event concluded with the presentation of the Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award to senior psychology student Layna Henry.
Members of the Penn State Altoona Integrated Social Science Research Lab (ISSRL) were successful once again at the annual Penn State Behrend-Sigma Xi Undergraduate Student Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference held in Erie on Saturday, April 25. The competition is open to Penn State students and undergraduates from other colleges and universities in the Erie region.
The Penn State Altoona Integrated Social Science Research Lab swept the undergraduate research poster competition for the third consecutive year at the 2026 Pennsylvania Association of Criminal Justice Educators conference, held March 27 and 28 at Seton Hill University in Greensburg.
Carolyn Mahan, professor of biology and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, testified before the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources on Feb. 26 in Washington, D.C. Invited by the congressional staff, Mahan provided her professional input on the management of electrical transmission line rights-of-way on federal lands.
Microscopic animals called tardigrades are providing real insight into how humans could adapt extraterrestrial resources to support space exploration, as well as whether such resources could help protect against the Earthly contaminants that humans might shed.
Critically endangered Apennine brown bears, which reside in central Italy, have significantly reduced genetic diversity compared to other bear populations around the world, according to a team that included Carolyn Mahan, professor of biology and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona.
Penn State’s Environmental Health and Safety team will host virtual and in-person events for the University’s research and academic community as part of its Lab Safety Awareness Week initiative, Feb. 9-13.
Amir Marvasti, professor of sociology at Penn State Altoona, has conducted research for decades on topics like race, ethnicity and the social construction of emotions. Now, some of the stories he’s collected on the idea of courage have taken center stage.
Riley Fegley and Yusra Haroon, two students in Penn State Altoona’s Integrated Social Science Research Lab, won the 2025 American Society of Criminology’s Division of Feminist Criminology’s Undergraduate Student Research Paper Competition.
Freshwater tidal marshes trap large amounts of diverse plastics and the most hazardous polymers — such as the large molecules found in single-use plastics — are posing significant environmental dangers, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State.
