A competitive academic program, the Sheetz Fellows Program offers unique opportunities that ignite and inspire the entrepreneurial mindset of students at Penn State Altoona by fostering critical thinking, ingenuity, leadership, and problem-solving skills.
Penn State Altoona Greek Life students will be out and about March 23-24 from 8 a.m.–8 p.m. bouncing basketballs and accepting donations for the annual Bounce Marathon.
Junior center Cameron Gardner-Nicholson was selected the AMCC's Defensive Player of the Year while also taking third team All-Conference honors, as the league released its postseason awards.
A pair of Penn State Altoona women’s basketball players landed on the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s All-Conference team, which was released on Feburary 26, 2019.
Penn State Altoona women’s basketball has been chosen to compete in the Eastern College Athletic Conference’s Division III Championship Tournament, as the conference announced its postseason field of 13 teams on Monday, February 25, 2019.
Penn State Altoona contributed $137.8 million to the Pennsylvania economy in FY 2017, and supported, directly and indirectly, 1,724 Pennsylvania jobs, according to a new study measuring the University's impact across the Commonwealth.
In 2016, Jordan Christian graduated from Cristo Rey High School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and began studying civil engineering at Penn State Harrisburg with the help of a scholarship from his high school. Never forgetting those who had helped him succeed, a few years later, Christian made a commitment to pay it forward by creating a scholarship of his own.
