Penn State Altoona celebrated the fifth class of Sheetz Fellows Feb. 27, during an induction ceremony at the Sheetz Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence.
2016 Sheetz Fellows celebrate their induction with program founders Steve and Nancy Sheetz. First row (left to right): Zane Helsley, Kimberly Chedgy, Sarajane Meyers, Nancy Sheetz, Steve Sheetz, Kayla Boucher, Alexis Koelle, Victoria Liebal. Second row (left to right): Luke Hallman, Thomas Wilson, Eric Maholtz, Jacob Byers, Tyler Dodson, Ethan Knepp.
In partnership with the Pennsylvania Bar Association's Young Lawyers Division and the Blair County Bar Association, Penn State Altoona and its Criminal Justice Organization will offer a Wills for Heroes program from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. April 9 in the Cypress Building on campus.
Staff and children from the Child Development Center took part in the annual African American Read-In on campus. The children performed old folk songs collected by the Harlem Renaissance writer Zora Neale Hurston with Christina Black and her Music 241 students.
Kat Valero, left, a freshman from York; the Nittany Lion; and Eden Tesfay, a freshman from Lancaster; flexed their muscles during Penn State York's Stand for State launch on Jan. 28.
Seniors Katie Zambanini and Roger Salguero posed with the Nittany Lion after making their marks on the Stand for State banner at Penn State Berks' kickoff event Jan. 25.
Susan Dale, staff assistant for Academic Affairs at Penn State New Kensington, helped a student apply a green handprint in support of Stand for State at the Jan. 27 launch, part of the Volunteer and Human Rights Fair during the campus' Martin Luther King Unity Week.
