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Self-Portrait by Cory Korsah

Self-Portrait by Cory Korsah

The spring 2023 issue of Hard Freight, Penn State Altoona's literary arts magazine, is now available online. It showcases undergraduate poetry, short fiction, creative nonfiction, visual art, audio, and a faculty spotlight featuring the work of Ian Marshall, emeritus professor of English and environmental studies. The cover art for the spring 2023 issue is "Self-Portrait" by Cory Korsah.
 

A letter from a survivor of the British Flu

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John Eicher photographed all the memory documents he found, and through the efforts of student workers at Penn State Altoona and the University of Freiburg, he entered them into a searchable database.  

A map of reported cases of the 1918 flu across Europe

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John Eicher and his student workers took time to put together a map of the locations of flu victims who had written or were mentioned in the letters he reviewed.

A pair of students compete in the 2023 PA Science Olympiad at Penn State Altoona while a judge observes

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As part of the Olympiad, pairs of students compete in over 30 STEM-related events, such as engineering, where they built bridges, planes, vehicles, and rollercoasters to test. They also competed in laboratory events using scientific techniques to answer questions about chemistry, physics, and forensics, and events where they took tests to demonstrate their knowledge of a wide range of STEM topics, such as forestry, meteorology, rocks and minerals, and anatomy and physiology.

2023 PA Science Olympiad at Penn State Altoona

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More than 1,000 middle and high school students from across the Commonwealth gathered at Penn State Altoona for the 2023 Pennsylvania Science Olympiad held April 22.