Penn State has been awarded an $824,768 Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide financial assistance for child care to qualifying low-income undergraduate and graduate student parents at University Park and 19 Commonwealth Campuses. The four-year grant will provide $206,192 in funding for the Student Parent Child Care Subsidy Program in 2018-19.
The sophomore from Dix Hills, NY was named a first team All-American by the Jewish Sports Review in the July/August edition of its bi-monthly publication.
The team officially claimed its first-ever NCAA Division III statistical championship July 16, when the national organization announced the finalization of the 2018 baseball season stats.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference has announced its 2017-18 Scholar-Athlete selections, and the list includes four Penn State Altoona men’s volleyball players.
Using the skills he learned as part of the Sheetz Fellows program, Penn State graduate Steve Mullen, who attended the Altoona campus, landed a job with Lockheed Martin helping to develop the world’s first maritime ballistic missile defense system.
The Penn State Altoona Alumni Society’s fourth annual Community for Kids Golf Tournament raised nearly $22,000 to support the Center for Child Justice, Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Athletics, and the Alumni Society Scholarship Fund.
Four student-athletes from Penn State Altoona women’s bowling were named to the 2017-18 National Tenpin Coaches Association (NTCA) All-Academic Team, which was released on July 2.
