Dr. Laura Rotunno offers details about Penn State Altoona's spring 2021 Undergraduate Research and Creative Activities Fair, which will be held on Saturday, April 10 beginning at 9:00 a.m. on Zoom.
This is a brief video of Robert E. Eiche's dog, Thor. Thor was a boxer who served in the Dogs for Defense program. This was the United States Army's first K-9, spearheaded by Alene Erlanger.
This video is a brief history of the Edith Davis Eve Memorial Chapel, the first interdenominational chapel on a commonwealth campus. Built from 1969 to 1970, this chapel has become a hallmark of the Penn State Altoona campus.
This video provides a brief history of Penn State Altoona. All newspaper articles come from the Altoona Mirror. Many of the pictures and narratives come from Penn State Altoona by Lori J. Bechtel-Wherry and Kenneth Womack. All other pictures come from the Robert E. Eiche Library Archives.
Dr. Mary E. Hawthorne graduated from the University of Rhode Island in 1937 with a biology degree, earned her master's in biology from Penn State in 1940, and become a faculty member of Penn State in 1940. She would go on to serve in the WAVES program in the class of 1944. There she helped create the first Physician's Assistant Program. She earned her Ph.D. in botany from Michigan State University in 1951. She was recalled to active service during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1971.
This video provides a background on the first director of Penn State Altoona which was called the Altoona Undergraduate Center established in 1939. This video showcases Dr. Robert E. Eiche's World War II Letter Collection where he corresponded with scores of servicemen and women who attended the University.
In which John answers the oft-asked question, "How do I figure out what to do with my life?" Along the way, he discusses adulthood, careers, movies, and the meaning of life and stuff.
It's difficult to understate the effect that other people's perceptions have on the kind of person you end up being. Of course, we also have tendencies and traits that are built into us, but mostly I think our selves are constructed out of what we need to become and what we are asked to become. And, in the best cases, our selves are constructed by what we want to become ... built with thoughtfulness and care.
