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.
Students from Penn State Altoona’s Integrated Social Science Research Lab traveled to Erie on Saturday, April 22, to compete in a research fair hosted by Penn State Behrend and co-sponsored by Sigma Xi, a scientific research honor society.
The magazine 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.
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.
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.
John Eicher, assistant professor of modern European history at Penn State Altoona, was recently awarded a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities for his work researching the 1918 influenza pandemic in Europe, historically known as the "Spanish flu."
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.
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.
