The Penn State Altoona Alumni Society’s fourth annual Community for Kids Golf Tournament raised nearly $22,000 to support the Center for Child Justice, Penn State Altoona Intercollegiate Athletics, and the Alumni Society Scholarship Fund.
Using the skills he learned as part of the Sheetz Fellows program, Penn State graduate Steve Mullen, who attended the Altoona campus, landed a job with Lockheed Martin helping to develop the world’s first maritime ballistic missile defense system.
The North Eastern Athletic Conference has announced its 2017-18 Scholar-Athlete selections, and the list includes four Penn State Altoona men’s volleyball players.
The team officially claimed its first-ever NCAA Division III statistical championship July 16, when the national organization announced the finalization of the 2018 baseball season stats.
The sophomore from Dix Hills, NY was named a first team All-American by the Jewish Sports Review in the July/August edition of its bi-monthly publication.
Penn State has been awarded an $824,768 Child Care Access Means Parents in School (CCAMPIS) grant from the U.S. Department of Education to provide financial assistance for child care to qualifying low-income undergraduate and graduate student parents at University Park and 19 Commonwealth Campuses. The four-year grant will provide $206,192 in funding for the Student Parent Child Care Subsidy Program in 2018-19.
Prospects for graduates with an accounting degree are projected to be bright across the nation in the coming years. Recognizing the market demand, business faculty and academic administrators of Penn State Altoona have announced the addition of an accounting major starting in fall 2018.
The exhibition "Give Me a Hand: 16 Years of Puppetry" by Laurencio Carlos Ruiz will run Aug. 23 to Sept. 9 in the McLanahan and Sheetz galleries of the Misciagna Family Center for the Performing Arts.
Penn State Altoona was awarded a Certificate of Excellence by the health simulation company Kognito for outstanding leadership in executing its mental health and suicide prevention awareness program.
