The Penn State Altoona men’s and women’s swimming program is among one of three Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) teams transitioning to a different league, it was announced June 5. The Lions will join fellow conference members Penn State Behrend and Pitt-Bradford in moving to the State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) as associate members in swimming.
Participants will learn how to carve an image inspired by fireflies onto linoleum and use ink to print it onto paper. The firefly is the official insect of Pennsylvania. Also known as lightning bugs, they appear between the months of June and August.
Penn State Altoona baseball’s middle infielder Alex Hlivia was named to the College Sports Communicators’ NCAA Division III Academic All-District team for the third consecutive year.
The documentary film “How They Got Over: Gospel Quartets and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll” (2018), co-produced, co-written and featuring Professor Jerry Zolten, will be screened nationally on Thursday, June 19, at 1 p.m. on Turner Classic Movies as part of Juneteenth celebration programming.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has published a new collection of documentary poetry about labor and employment. “Human Resources” features poems about global, national and historical labor matters.
For the third year in a row, Penn State Altoona softball infielder Gianna Hoppel, of Lewistown, was recognized by the College Sports Communicators for her academic success, as she was named to the organization’s NCAA Division III Academic All-District team.
Campers in grades 4-6 will learn engineering principles by completing various projects and experiments. They will also design their own pine derby race car using the CNC machine and other lab equipment on campus, then race them on a special track at the end of the week.
Harriett Gaston, an academic adviser at Penn State Altoona, will give a lecture on Thursday, June 5, about Daniel Hale Williams, the doctor who performed the first successful open-heart surgery in 1893 and founded the first interracial hospital in the United States.
Commitment, hard work and dedication to each other powered Penn State Altoona’s ice hockey club through a 16-6-2 season, a place in two league playoffs and a College Hockey East Division 4 championship win.
Penn State Altoona faculty and staff members were honored for their exemplary work and outstanding contributions during the annual Faculty and Staff Awards Ceremony held May 22 on campus. Nominated by the college community and selected by an awards committee, several faculty and staff members received awards unique to Penn State Altoona.
