As part of National Hispanic Heritage Month, Penn State Altoona will host Carlos Andrés Gómez, a Colombian American poet, speaker, actor and author, who appeared in HBO's "Def Poetry Jam" and in the Spike Lee film "Inside Man." Gómez will offer a virtual presentation at 6:30 p.m. on Sept. 21.
Robert and Terri Price have created the Victoria N. Price Penn State Memorial Scholarship Fund, an annually funded scholarship that honors their recently deceased daughter.
Penn State has updated its public COVID-19 dashboard with the University's on-demand testing and random testing results from the period of Sept. 11-14, as well as new University testing results from the prior week. These numbers are evolving as many test results are still pending, which will then be validated and uploaded.
Todd Davis, professor of environmental studies and English at Penn State Altoona, has released the 14th installment of his "Notes from the Allegheny Front."
A new partnership between Penn State and the convenience store chain Sheetz will provide education benefits to the company’s employees, an initiative aimed at helping the employees complete their college degrees.
Penn State released its coronavirus testing results for the week of Sept. 4 to 10 on its COVID-19 dashboard today (Sept. 11). Among students tested at the University Park campus, Penn State received 260 positive results from its on-demand testing and 28 positive results from its random screening. Random screening of employees has returned one positive result for University Park thus far for the week.
Penn State Altoona will offer a virtual screening of the film "Suicide: The Ripple Effect" on Wednesday, Sept. 9 at 6 p.m., during National Suicide Prevention Week.
