Working remotely and from in-person sites at the Harrisburg and University Park campuses, teams spent three focused days in June attending workshops and webinars, collaborating with coaches and each other, as they worked on their projects related to student success and providing opportunities for students in the higher education space.
Penn State Altoona men’s basketball student-athletes Chris Jarosz and Kevin Woodland Jr. were recognized as part of the 2023-24 National Association of Basketball Coaches’ Honors Court.
A paper written by William Van der Sluys, assistant teaching professor of chemistry at Penn State Altoona, has been published in “Acta Crystallographica Section C: Structural Chemistry.”
Dani Fry, interim senior director of Student Affairs at Penn State Altoona, has received the spring 2024 Distinguished Advisor Award from the National Society of Leadership and Success.
“Your Brother ‘Bud,’ Photographs by John H. Gebhardt” will be on exhibit until Thursday, Sept. 5, in the Sheetz and the McLanahan Galleries of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. There will be a reception from 4 to 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 27. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.
A $100,000 gift from Penn State Altoona alumnus Stephen Pace and his wife, Rita Pace, has endowed a new scholarship for students in the College of IST. The Pace Family Scholarship will support full-time IST undergraduate students who have demonstrated a financial need and are transitioning from a Penn State campus to University Park.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was the featured poet on the June 30 episode of “Rattlecast,” a national podcast sponsored by Rattle magazine.
Six Penn State Commonwealth Campuses recently named faculty members as Open Champions, recognizing their work with open education in the third year of Penn State's Open and Affordable Educational Resources Champion Awards.
A total of seven Penn State Altoona student-athletes from three different teams were named to the College Sports Communicators’ NCAA Division III Academic All-District At-Large team, which was announced on Tuesday, June 25.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was awarded the Judge Emma Shannon Walser Medal of Patriotism for decades of contributions to Liberian Literature.
