The 2012 spring ice cream sale is currently underway at Penn State Mont Alto. Organized by the Penn State Mont Alto Lion Ambassadors, the sale offers an opportunity for the community to enjoy Penn State Creamery ice cream flavors a trip to State College. (more)
The Penn State Mont Alto Lion Ambassadors will sponsor a "Blue and White" 5k Walk/Run on Saturday, April 21, at Penn State Mont Alto. The event will benefit club programming, community outreach initiatives and student scholarships. There also will be a free one-mile "little lion" run with the Penn State Nittany Lion on the same day. (more)
Penn State Mont Alto will host a four-year degree fair for current students from noon to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 7, and from 4-6 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8. Both events will take place in The Mill on campus. Students will have the opportunity to meet faculty and find out how Mont Alto can help them get where they want to go. Professors from the baccalaureate degree programs in business; English; information sciences and technology; letters, arts and sciences; and the human development and family studies program will be present. (more)
"Two Days Back," (IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2083385/), a low-budget motion picture made entirely by students of the Mont Alto Film Project, will be the matinee feature at the Majestic Theatre in Gettysburg on Saturday, March 3, 2012. The Majestic is located at 25 Carlisle Street in Gettysburg. Tickets are available for the 12:30 p.m. showing online or by calling the theatre box office at 717-337-8200. (more)
Penn State Mont Alto will participate in the Pink Zone fundraiser headed by the Lady Lions basketball team at University Park. On Saturday, February 11, 2012, Mont Alto fans are encouraged to wear pink to the women's game at 1 p.m. and the men's game at 3 p.m. In addition, Pink Zone T-shirts are available for purchase at the campus bookstore; a portion of every shirt sold will go to the Pink Zone. (more)
Penn State Mont Alto will host a free information session for the Nurse Practitioner program at 5 p.m. on Thursday, Jan. 26, in the Heritage Room in the Millstream Cafe on campus. (more)
Cheryl Cheek, associate professor of human development and family studies at Penn State Mont Alto, and 10 of her students have developed a "retro room" for dementia patients at the Quincy Village Retirement Community in Quincy, Pa. The project was part of a senior-level class on aging.
Cheek said the retro room is intended to help dementia patients recall a time when they were most comfortable -- in most cases, the 1950s and 1960s. While the concept has been practiced with success in Europe, it has not yet been applied in the United States. "I thought it would be a perfect project for the aging class I teach," she said. (more)
The Mont Alto Film Project premiered its motion picture, "Two Days Back," to a crowd of more than 200 people on Friday, Nov. 18, at the Capital Theatre Center in Chambersburg, Pa. The film was written and made in its entirety by a handful of undergraduate students and their faculty advisor, Kevin Boon, at Penn State Mont Alto as part of a four-semester practicum in filmmaking. For updates and additional information, please visit the project's website, at http://twodaysback.com/. (more)
The Mont Alto Film Project will premiere its student-run, low-budget motion picture, TWO DAYS BACK, on November 18 and 19 at the Capitol Theatre Center at 159 S. Main Street in Chambersburg. The film was written and made in its entirety by a handful of undergraduate students and their faculty advisor, Dr. Kevin Boon, at Penn State Mont Alto as part of a four-semester practicum in filmmaking. (more)
Penn State laureate Linda Patterson Miller, professor of English at Penn State Abington, will continue her journeys throughout the Pennsylvania Commonwealth during the weeks ahead. Miller will be speaking at Penn State Harrisburg on Oct. 12 and at the Penn State Mont Alto campus on Oct. 13, where she will lecture on "Searching for the Lost Generation." This talk, open to the public, will be begin at 2 p.m. in the Mont Alto Library. At noon on Oct. 17, Miller will hold a public forum at Penn State York campus. Her presentation on the "Lost Generation and Why the Arts Matter" will be held in the Lee R. Glatfelter Library, in the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center.
Follow Miller's travelogue "Literary Landings," online at
http://laureate.psu.edu/Linda_Miller where her latest entry draws upon her recent experiences at Penn State Altoona and addresses a question she is often asked: "Why Hemingway?" (more)
