Penn State Altoona's University Jazz Band will perform at 2:30 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11, in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
The choral group will perform “We Are … Hope” at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 3, with a matinee at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 4, in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
The next installation in Penn State Altoona's Oral History Project is a video featuring C. David Kimmel, focusing on his time as an administrator at Penn State Altoona.
Lauren Esposito, a scientist with a passion for scorpions and a curator at the California Academy of Sciences, will present a lecture on Tuesday, Dec. 7, at 5 p.m. in the HUB-Robeson Center at Penn State's University Park campus. The lecture will also be available for online viewing.
Penn State Altoona's Office of Research and Engagement will host an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Database workshop from 12:10 to 1:10 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 30 via Zoom.
Penn State Altoona alumnus Haldan Jacobson used his study of the German language to unlock doors of travel, growth and discovery — and encourages others to do the same through their own language studies. “Do it — do all of it. You will grow so much as a person and learn so much about yourself and the world.”
Todd Davis's poem, "Thoreau Casts a Line in the Merrimack," appears in the new anthology, "Echoes from Walden: Poems Inspired by Thoreau's Life and Work," published by Wayfarer Books.
Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, published a poem in “The Strategic Poet: Honing the Craft,” an anthology of poetic strategies and poems. Murphy's works were also featured in two literary journals
Penn State Altoona student Rae V. Griffith won the undergraduate poster competition at the Pennsylvania Sociological Society annual meeting, held virtually Nov. 5-6.
