The Penn State Altoona Alumni Society’s eighth Community for Kids Golf Tournament will be held June 23-24. The event benefits the Blair County Children’s Advocacy Center, the Penn State Altoona Alumni Society scholarship program, and Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Athletics.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has two poems featured in the June 2022 issue of Poetry magazine, which, according to the publication, is “the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.”
“How They Got Over: Gospel Quartets and the Road to Rock 'n' Roll," a documentary film produced and narrated by Jerry Zolten, professor of communication arts and sciences and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona, will debut on Turner Classic Movies on June 19.
Penn State Altoona welcomes nominations of individuals and teams for the second class of the Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Athletics Hall of Fame.
Penn State Altoona Athletics placed second in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s 2021-22 Presidents Cup standings, coming in as the runner-up in a field of nine conference member institutions.
In her first official duty as Poet Laureate of Blair County, Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, visited Mario Grugan, a Tyrone Area High School senior who is one of nine national finalists for the 2022 Poetry Out Loud competition.
Even before taking the reins as Penn State’s 19th president this month, Neeli Bendapudi has spent much of the spring traveling across the commonwealth on her listening tour of the University’s campuses.
