Monday, April 23, 2012
Fifteen students and five faculty at Penn State Altoona spent several hours on Friday, April 20 planting trees as part of the Flight 93 Memorial reforestation project.
Students and faculty from the Environmental Studies and Honors programs joined about 150 other volunteers in the first of several tree planting phases at the Flight 93 Memorial Site. The area around the memorial is reclaimed mine lands, which make for a stark, windy landscape during much of the year. Led by the National Park Service and the Office of Surface Mining and Reclamation, the volunteers covered about 20 acres with tree saplings to help protect other trees planted in nearby memorial groves in honor of the plane's forty passengers and crew. (more)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Sigma Tau Delta, Penn State Altoona's English Honorary Society, is seeking donations for the ProjectEDUCATE Better World Books book drive to benefit Books for Africa and the Invisible Children Fund.
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Monday, April 23, 2012
Penn State Altoona's summer Kids' College is just around the corner! Sign your kids up for camps today! (more)
Monday, April 23, 2012
Penn State Altoona's University Jazz Band will perform at 2:30 p.m. Saturday, April 28, in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts.
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Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Penn State will honor four members of the College of Engineering faculty with the 2012 Faculty/Staff Awards. The annual awards recognize high levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service among employees from across campuses, colleges and administrative units. (more)
Monday, April 16, 2012
Penn State Altoona's Eco-Action team and the Blair County Conservation District are partnering up for this year's Earth Day celebration on campus. Events will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday, April 22 and will include games, activities, educational information and entertainment.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Penn State Altoona's Ivyside Dance Ensemble will perform at 7:30 p.m. April 26 and 27, in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts on campus. (more)
Monday, April 16, 2012
The Penn State Altoona SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) team was named Regional Champion at the SIFE USA Regional Competition held April 4, in Baltimore, Md.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
Two Penn State Altoona faculty have received University-wide awards for their levels of academic excellence, outstanding leadership and meritorious service.
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Monday, April 16, 2012
The ability for computer technology to automatically create a society of smart, tolerant citizens may be more hype and hope than reality, according to a Penn State Altoona researcher.
"We have to rethink some of our most common assumptions about modern life and, specifically, we need to rethink assumptions that the information age will naturally lead to a society that is intelligent and scientifically literate," said Shaheed Nick Mohammed, associate professor of communications. (more)
