Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, has won the “Iron Horse Literary Review” poetry prize for his poem "Alverdia Finds a Fox in the Neighbor's Trap."
Penn State Altoona's University Jazz Band will perform Sunday, May 3, at 2 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The performance is free and open to the public.
The trip, open to students, faculty and staff, includes visits to four sites spanning American military history, presidential heritage and the nation's most hallowed commemorative grounds, offering participants a rich and varied experience of the Gettysburg area beyond its well-known Civil War legacy.
Sohail Anwar, professor of engineering at Penn State Altoona, will be a speaker at the Blair County Chamber of Commerce’s Pathways to Sustainability program on Thursday, April 16, from 8 a.m. to noon in the Liberty Hall of the U.S. Hotel Tavern in Hollidaysburg.
Penn State Altoona men’s volleyball’s opposite hitter Caleb Fries, of Altoona, was voted to the first team of the All-Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference squad, as the league office announced its postseason awards in the sport on April 14.
Members of the Pennsylvania State Police’s Use of Force Unit provided a “Realities of Use of Force” workshop at Penn State Altoona in early April. The workshop provided Penn State Altoona criminal justice students and members of Saint Francis University’s criminal justice club with instruction on case law, departmental policy and the application of force in the context of law enforcement.
An interview at the Country Music Hall of Fame, conducted by Penn State Altoona Professor Emeritus Jerry Zolten, is now available online. Zolten moderated the conversation with the Fairfield Four in support of the museum’s exhibit “Night Train to Nashville: Music City Rhythm & Blues Revisited.”
Pearl Gluck, the 2025-26 Penn State Laureate, will visit Penn State Altoona on Tuesday, April 28, at 12:15 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. She will screen and discuss her short documentary films, then take part in a Q&A led by Penn State Altoona Professor Emeritus Jerry Zolten.
Penn State Altoona faculty members Brian Onishi and Jeff Stoyanoff have released a new episode of their "Horror Joy" podcast, in which they interview author Rachel Harrison about the relationship between horror and joy, her writing origin story and her novel “Play Nice.”
Penn State Altoona alumnus Asher Carr recently participated in Startup Week, held in March, with a talk titled “The Execution Gap: Why Great Strategies Fail and How to Fix It."
