Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.
From 1 to 2 p.m., exciting and fun science demonstrations will take place in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. From 2 to 4 p.m., children can engage, play and learn through hands-on activities in the Hawthorn Building.
The Penn State Altoona men’s golf team won the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship for the third consecutive season and eighth time overall when the Lions finished in first place out of nine teams at the conclusion of the second and final round of the tournament at Indiana Country Club.
A member of the Penn State Altoona women’s volleyball team earned another Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference weekly award on Monday, Oct. 9, when Lions’ outside hitter Lacee Barnhart, of Bellefonte, was named the league’s Defensive Player of the Week.
Steve Sherrill, professor of English and integrative arts at Penn State Altoona, will read from his new nonfiction book, “Motorcycles, Minotaurs, and Banjos: A Modest Odyssey," at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The reading will kick off the fall Hard Freight Café open mic event.
Hard Freight Café, an open mic event, will be held at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. Attendees are invited to read or perform their own work or music or share a favorite piece of poetry or prose. Participants will be invited to sign up at the beginning of the program.
English faculty will be on hand to chat from 6:30 to 7 p.m. and after the open mic that begins at 7 p.m. to share information about course offerings; the new, more flexible version of the English major and its minors; and its concentrations in creative writing and global narratives.
After wrapping up his career with the United States Navy, Aaron Kuhn, a second-year animal science student in Penn State’s College of Agricultural Sciences who currently studies at Penn State Altoona, returned home to Hollidaysburg to revive his family farm.
Penn State Altoona will hold an ADHD panel discussion from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 17, in the Slep Student Center. The event is designed to raise awareness of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder and its co-morbidity with other mental health conditions, such as autism, anxiety and depression.