Ed Boyle, a Penn State engineering alumnus and member of Penn State Altoona's Rail Transportation Engineering Program Advisory Board, has been named the first “Engineer of the Year” by a popular railway industry magazine.
Students, employees and visitors are required to practice physical distancing and wear face masks/coverings at all times in campus buildings; outdoors when they cannot be physically distant from others; and whenever state or local laws require.
Penn State released its preliminary coronavirus testing results for the period of Sept. 11 to 17 on its COVID-19 dashboard today (Sept. 18). Among students tested at the University Park campus whose test results have been received, Penn State received 306 positive results from its on-demand testing and 14 positive results from its random testing program.
As part of recent actions to make changes and address racism, bias and community safety across the University, the Student Code of Conduct task force shared its progress and preliminary recommendations for the code with University leaders and Board of Trustees members at a virtual meeting on Sept. 17.
Penn State Altoona's biology club and the Tribeta honor society have partnered to offer the Catalyst Speaker Series featuring science professionals of various backgrounds from around the world.
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.
