Penn State Altoona's Harriett Gaston and Jerry Zolten will present at the Railroaders Memorial Museum's History After Hours double feature on Thursday, July 7.
Penn State Altoona students Tyler Frye, Rachel Kosaka and Alicia Williams won the David Orrick Undergraduate Student Paper Competition at the annual meeting of the Northeastern Association of Criminal Justice Sciences.
Timothy and Tammy Peterman, of Altoona, have committed a seven-figure gift to establish the Zachary T. Peterman Class of 2014 Memorial Electro-Mechanical Engineering Student Scholarship Fund at Penn State Altoona.
Stefanie Kempton, assistant professor of communications, and communications alumnus Mark Frederick have been named to the Altoona Mirror’s “20 Under 40” list.
The webinar “Business Entities and Legal Issues for Startups” will be offered by the Altoona LaunchBox supported by the Hite Family and the Saint Francis University Small Business Development Center on June 23. This free, live webinar will feature the Penn State Law Entrepreneurship Assistance Clinic, which provides free legal assistance to Pennsylvania entrepreneurs.
School shootings, which may appear to be common, actually represent only a small fraction of the gun violence that occurs in the U.S. each year, according to Lacey Wallace, associate professor of criminal justice at Penn State Altoona. Although no action can bring back those lost in these acts of violence, individuals can try to see to it that any reactions are grounded in research evidence rather than political fervor and emotion, explains Wallace in a new Insights from Experts post.
The Penn State Altoona Alumni Society’s eighth Community for Kids Golf Tournament will be held June 23-24. The event benefits the Blair County Children’s Advocacy Center, the Penn State Altoona Alumni Society scholarship program, and Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Athletics.
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has two poems featured in the June 2022 issue of Poetry magazine, which, according to the publication, is “the oldest monthly devoted to verse in the English-speaking world.”
