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Penn State Altoona is offering a six-week ballet class for adults beginning Tuesday, April 16.

Designed for all levels and abilities for those over 18, this class will provide instruction on barre exercises, alignment, flexibility, strength and coordination, as well as the fundamentals of turns, leaps, and dynamic traveling movements.

A graphic representing a solar eclipse

Solar eclipse

Penn State Altoona will host a community viewing event for the total solar eclipse that will take place on Monday, April 8. Viewers are invited to gather outside of the Slep Student Center beginning at 1:30 p.m. Eclipse glasses will be available on a first-come, first-served basis to the first 300 people. The eclipse is expected to begin around 2 p.m., with totality between 3:12 and 3:27 p.m.

There will also be hands-on science activities and a Planet Walk, a scale model of the solar system to take a stroll through.

Brian Black

Penn State Altoona professor is invited speaker at international conference

Brian Black, distinguished professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, was recently an invited speaker at the Banff Center for Arts and Creativity in Calgary, Alberta, which hosted the international conference "Everything , Everywhere All At Once: The Crises of the 1970s and the Transformation of the Postwar World."
A close-up of a ballet dancer's feet on point

adobestock_227522027.jpg

Penn State Altoona is offering a six-week ballet class for adults beginning Tuesday, April 16.

Designed for all levels and abilities for those over 18, this class will provide instruction on barre exercises, alignment, flexibility, strength and coordination, as well as the fundamentals of turns, leaps, and dynamic traveling movements.

A graphic representing a solar eclipse

Solar eclipse

Penn State Altoona will host a community viewing event for the total solar eclipse that will take place on Monday, April 8. Viewers are invited to gather outside of the Slep Student Center beginning at 1:30 p.m. Eclipse glasses will be available on a first-come, first-served basis to the first 300 people. The eclipse is expected to begin around 2 p.m., with totality between 3:12 and 3:27 p.m.

There will also be hands-on science activities and a Planet Walk, a scale model of the solar system to take a stroll through.