Students from Penn State Altoona’s Integrated Social Science Research Lab traveled to Erie on April 23 to compete in a research fair at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference, hosted by Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Altoona men’s tennis head coach Megan Stern was voted the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Coach of the Year, student-athlete Casey Hess was selected the Newcomer of the Year, and the Lions got six total placements on the AMCC’s All-Conference tennis team.
Lee Peterson has two new collections of poetry forthcoming: a chapbook, “The Needles Road,” from Seven Kitchens Press, and her second full-length collection, “In the Hall of North American Mammals,” winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will be the featured reader at Spoken Word Night on Tuesday, April 26, from 6 to 8 p.m. at ArtsAltoona.
Penn State President-elect Neeli Bendapudi visited Penn State Altoona on Wednesday, April 20, as part of a listening tour to meet with students, faculty and staff across the Commonwealth Campuses.
Penn State Altoona’s Office of Residence Life and Student Government Association are co-hosting Res Fest from 4:30 to 7 p.m. on Wednesday, April 27, on the Cedar Hall quad.
Penn State alumni Robert Bowman, class of 1969, and Jeffrey Bowman, class of 1973, have made a $250,000 gift commitment to establish the Robert and Virginia Bowman Scholarship for Rail Transportation Engineering at Penn State Altoona.
