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ASME and Rocket Club take to the skies with rocket launch

4.18.2013 It was perfect weather for Penn State Altoona's Rocket Club and American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) to take to the skies this week. On Tuesday, April 16, members of both clubs met on...

Penn State Altoona hosts gun control debate

4.18.2013 Penn State Altoona presented the Great Gun Control Debate, Tuesday, April 16, 2013. Michael Shermer, affirming the resolution and publisher of Skeptic magazine, and John Lott, denying the resolution a...

TEDxPSU talk by De Reus now available online

4.17.2013 A recent TEDxPSU talk given by Lee Ann De Reus, associate professor of Human Development & Family Studies and Women Studies and co-founder of Panzi Foundation USA, is now available online. “Dar...

Professor presents reading at Constitution Review Committee of Liberia’s Liberian Women’s Consultative Forum

4.17.2013 Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, associate professor of English, was invited to read her poetry at the Constitution Review Committee of Liberia’s Liberian Women’s Consultative Forum on April 9, 2013. The c...

Students present posters at Pennsylvania Academy of Science meeting

4.17.2013 Penn State Altoona was represented by nine students who presented six different posters at the Pennsylvania Academy of Science meeting held in early April in Bradford, PA. Sixty-two student posters fr...

Sigma Tau Delta book drive to benefit Better World Books and Books for Africa

4.17.2013 Sigma Tau Delta, Penn State Altoona's English Honorary Society, is asking members of the Penn State Altoona community to support Books for Africa by donating used books. Green and white collectio...

Grant recipients and authors honored at annual reception

4.16.2013 Penn State Altoona held its annual Research Reception on April 16, 2013. The reception honors those who received external grants and/or who have published books over the last year. Twenty-three grants...

11th annual Undergraduate Research Fair features news creative component

4.16.2013 Penn State Altoona’s annual undergraduate research fair added a new component this year, allowing more students to participate. First held in 2003, the goal of the fair is to showcase to the entire ...

Charity Basketball Game a Success

4.12.2013 Penn State Altoona's Student Athlete Advisory Council spearheaded the Second Annual Faculty/Staff vs. Student-Athletes Charity Basketball Game, which was held on Wednesday evening in the Adler Gy...

93 Penn State Altoona Student-Athletes Named to Academic All-Conference Team

4.12.2013 To celebrate the fourth day of NCAA Division III Week, the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference released its 2013 Academic All-Conference Team on Thursday morning. The list included 93 student-ath...