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The Penn State Altoona men’s volleyball team achieved a program first when the Lions received a berth to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference Division III Championship Tournament. 

The Kappa Delta Pi, Alpha Epsilon Pi Chapter at Penn State Altoona inducted 20 new members during the 2022 initiation held March 28.

Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will be a featured reader in the virtual Wednesday Night Poetry reading series at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, April 13.

Stefanie Kempton, assistant professor of communications at Penn State Altoona, was interviewed for a USA Today article published April 8.  

Penn State Altoona’s nursing, kinesiology and criminal justice programs collaborated to hold a Community Action Poverty Simulation on Thursday, March 31.

The daylong event will see up to 1,000 middle and high school students from across the commonwealth competing in STEM tournaments.

Penn State Altoona, supported by the Office of Research and Engagement, will hold the spring 2022 Student Showcase on Friday, April 29. The showcase highlights work by students in the Division of Business, Engineering, and Information Sciences and Technology.

Ivyside Pride will present “All Around the World,” on April 22 and April 23 in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.

Bonnie Cutsforth-Huber, professor of music at Penn State Altoona, is one of six finalists in the American Prize in Opera competition.

Penn State Altoona will host an online open discussion on the war in Ukraine with Tom Grove, a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal, at 12:15 p.m. on Tuesday, April 12 for the campus community.