Monday, February 20, 2012
Penn State Altoona was out in full force at the Bryce Jordan Center on the University Park campus for the 40th annual IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon (THON). Altoona campus contributed nearly $83,000 to the record-breaking $10.68 million total, coming in second among all commonwealth campuses. (more)
Monday, February 20, 2012
Richard Flarend, associate professor of physics at Penn State Altoona, has earned a research collaboration fellowship for this summer. Flarend will collaborate with University Park colleague Jeffrey Brownson, assistant professor of energy and mineral engineering in Penn State's College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, on a project titled "Seasonal Storage of Solar Thermal Energy."
This University-wide fellowship program was established in order to encourage research collaboration among faculty members across Penn State. (more)
Monday, February 20, 2012
Magda Bagnied, associate professor and head of the Radio and TV Department at Ahram Canadian University in Cairo, Egypt, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in room 150 of the Hawthorn Building at Penn State Altoona. (more)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Just out from Michigan State University Press is "Fast Break to Line Break: Poets on the Art of Basketball," edited by Todd Davis, professor of English at Penn State Altoona. (more)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Tim Slekar, professor of education, is co-host of the new radio talk show, "The Chalk Face," on WTDY, out of Madison, Wis. The one-hour talk show is dedicated to covering the biggest issues in education, from standardized testing to No Child Left Behind. It airs Sunday mornings at 9 a.m. (more)
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Omekongo Dibinga will perform at 7 p.m. on Feb. 22 in Penn State Altoona's Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. Dibinga, recording artist, CNN contributor, Congolese activist, and diversity educator will present "Be an Upstander, not a Bystander!" He will use his voice to inspire audience members to not only make a change in their own lives but in their communities and throughout the globe. (more)
Monday, February 06, 2012
Penn State Altoona's Office of Institutional Equity, Diversity, and International Student Services is sponsoring or co-sponsoring a number of events in commemoration of this year's Black History Month. (more)
Monday, February 06, 2012
Lt. Col. Robert J. Darling will speak at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9, in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. (more)
Monday, February 06, 2012
Exhibitions of work by Melissa Wilkinson and Denise Bookwalter will be on display in the McLanahan and Sheetz Galleries of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts from Feb. 23 to April 1. (more)
Monday, January 30, 2012
Erin Murphy, associate professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has just signed a contract for her fifth book of poetry, "Distant Glitter." The collection will be published by Word Press of Cincinnati, Ohio, in July 2013.
"Distant Glitter" features the poem "Debriefing: A Poem in Parts," winner of the 2011 Normal School Poetry Prize. Murphy's previous poetry collections include "Word Problems," "Too Much of This World," "Dislocation and Other Theories" and "Science of Desire." In addition, she is coeditor with colleague Todd Davis of "Making Poems: 40 Poems with Commentary by the Poets," an anthology of poetry and creative nonfiction.
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