Penn State Altoona has announced the student marshals for spring 2022 commencement. Student marshals are chosen to represent their academic division based on outstanding academic achievement.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has been named the inaugural Poet Laureate of Blair County, a volunteer position that involves promoting poetry in the community.
Students from Penn State Altoona’s Integrated Social Science Research Lab traveled to Erie on April 23 to compete in a research fair at the Undergraduate Research and Creative Accomplishment Conference, hosted by Penn State Behrend.
Penn State Altoona men’s tennis head coach Megan Stern was voted the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference (AMCC) Coach of the Year, student-athlete Casey Hess was selected the Newcomer of the Year, and the Lions got six total placements on the AMCC’s All-Conference tennis team.
Lee Peterson has two new collections of poetry forthcoming: a chapbook, “The Needles Road,” from Seven Kitchens Press, and her second full-length collection, “In the Hall of North American Mammals,” winner of the Cider Press Review Book Award.