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Penn State Altoona will celebrate the 27th annual African-American Read-In Chain Feb. 14 to 15.

Michael Lowery, chief of police and safety at Penn State Altoona, will serve as interim director and chief of University Police and Public Safety at University Park campus.

The finished jeep top mechanism created by electromechanical engineering technology students.

The completely automated Autoloader, created by electromechanical engineering technology students, needs no operator once the machine is running and can produce 540 shells in an hour.

Walkway to West Halls Quad at Penn State University Park in Autumn

Known at Tom Phillips, left, to TV viewers, alumnus Tom Hannifan works hundreds of nights every year for the WWE with partners like Byron Saxton. 

Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, will be inducted into Blair County Arts Hall of Fame in October.

The outside of the Learning Factory, where thousands of students have worked on industry-sponsored and client-based capstone design projects.