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College Moving to Four-Year Nursing Degree Program

3.26.2013 As our health care delivery system is increasing in complexity, additional education is needed to support the nurses who must navigate it. To better align its curriculum with the projected future of n...

Spring Break programs offer students an alternative experience

3.26.2013 Penn State Altoona students were able to take part in a variety of alternative trips over spring break this year, in the United States and abroad....

Faculty member and student present research paper at national marketing conference

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Students invited to participate in Project Hope - Deadline March 30

3.21.2013 All Penn State Altoona students are invited to take part in Project Hope. Sponsored by the Health Advisory Board's Depression/Suicide Prevention committee, the project will challenge the stigma o...

LiveWire submission deadline extended to March 26

3.19.2013 Penn State Altoona's LiveWire submission date has been extended to March 26. All students are welcome to submit material including audio, photography, print, animation, and other creative works...

Chancellor to receive President's Medal of Distinctive Excellence from University of Pittsburgh Johnstown

3.19.2013 Chancellor Lori J. Bechtel-Wherry has been selected to receive the President's Medal of Distinctive Excellence from the University of Pittsburgh Johnstown. The highest award bestowed by Pitt Joh...

Deadline for April 9 Washington DC bus trip extended

3.15.2013 Penn State Altoona's History Society and Political Science Club are organizing a bus trip to Washington D.C. on Tuesday, April 9, 2013. Students can enjoy such attractions as the Smithsonian Muse...

Collection by Davis is finalist for Book of the Year Award

3.13.2013 Todd Davis’s edited collection, Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball published by Michigan State University Press, was announced this week as a finalist for the 2012 ForeWord Boo...

Black to participate in Civil War conference

3.13.2013 Brian Black, professor of history and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona, is an invited participant in the March 15, 2013, conference "The Future of Civil War History: Looking Beyond the...

Delta Health Technologies® Presents Software Licenses to Penn State Altoona

3.7.2013 A gift in kind presented to Penn State Altoona by Delta Health Technologies, LLC, will enable the campus’s nursing students to utilize electronic medical records software designed to document clinic...