Kofi Adu, professor of physics at Penn State Altoona and graduate faculty member in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Penn State University Park, has been awarded a Fulbright scholarship for STEM research and education in the department of physics at the University for Development Studies in the Northern Region of Ghana beginning this fall.
Thirty-one students earned Discovery Grants to help fund their summer research and projects, gaining the opportunity for valuable experience in the field, in the lab and abroad.
Liliana DeMarco and Ally Black, students from Penn State Altoona's Integrated Social Science Research Lab, presented at the recent annual conference of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences held in Dewey, Delaware.
Penn State Altoona’s Rail Transportation Engineering program is the recipient of a U.S. National Science Foundation grant that will bolster the Research Experience for Undergraduates Site: Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure Using Rail as a Living Laboratory project.
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.
