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2008
May
5/13/2008 VIDEO/SNAPSHOTS: Spring 2008 Commencement
Penn State Altoona held its spring commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 10, in the Adler Athletic Complex. As in past years, there were two commencement ceremonies. The first, beginning at 9 a.m., in ...
5/13/2008 SNAPSHOTS: Petrulionis Receives 2008 Meling Award
On April 10, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, professor of English and American studies at Penn State Altoona, accepted the 2008 Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities. Petrulionis h ...
April
4/28/2008 Theatre Students Present Scenes and Demonstrations
On Wednesday, May 7, students from THEA 102 ACTING FUNDAMENTALS will present an informal showing of scenes from 3:10 to 5 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Ar ...
4/22/2008 Ivyside Chamber Ensemble to Perform Spring Concert
The Division of Arts and Humanities invites you to attend a performance of the Ivyside Chamber Ensemble on Friday, April 25 at 5:30 p.m. in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre of the Misciagna F ...
4/21/2008 Penn State Altoona to feature spring music program concerts
Penn State Altoona’s Division of Arts and Humanities will present the University Choir and University Jazz Band on Saturday, May 3, at 2:30 p.m., in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre of ...
4/17/2008 Penn State Altoona professor headed for summer 'Shakespearience'
Meg Powers Livingston, associate professor of English and women's studies, was recently accepted into a National Endowment of the Humanities Summer Institute. The program, "Shakespeare's Blackfri ...
4/15/2008 Penn State Altoona holds inaugural Pioneer Reunion in conjunction with spring commencement
Penn State Altoona will hold its Spring Commencement ceremonies Saturday, May 10, 2008 in the Adler Athletic Complex. As in past years, there will be two commencement ceremonies. The first will begi ...
4/15/2008 Dance Program Features Annual Spring Concert
The Penn State Altoona Dance Program will present their annual spring concert on April 23 and 24 in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn ...
4/14/2008 Important Financial Aid Information for Students
STUDENTS: In order to ensure a funding source for your lending needs, Penn State will be participating with the Federal Direct Lending Program. This program has the same interest rate and repayment as ...
4/14/2008 Penn State Altoona Student Organizations Sponsor Book Drive
Penn State Altoona's Sigma Tau Delta and the African Student Association are running a Better World Books campus book drive to benefit Books for Africa and would love to have your support. The goal of ...
4/9/2008 Auditions for Fall 2008 Theatre Production
The Penn State Altoona Theatre program will hold auditions for the fall 2008 production of Charles L. Mee’s "Big Love" on April 14 – 16 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre ...
4/4/2008 Performance Poet to Visit Penn State Altoona
Debra Marquart, professor of English at Iowa State University, will offer a poetry and prose reading, at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 8 in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel. ...
4/1/2008 Former Penn State Altoona students wins big for poetry
Jason Colberg, a former Penn State Altoona student, won $10,000 from Poetry.com for his poem, "Questions for My Grandfather." Colberg, now a University Park journalism major, wrote the poem ...
4/1/2008 Professor honored with annual Meling Award
On April 10, Sandra Harbert Petrulionis, professor of English and American studies at Penn State Altoona, will accept the 2008 Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts and Humanities. Petrulioni ...
4/1/2008 Annual French Cheese-Tasting Event
The French Program at Penn State Altoona will be hosting its annual French Cheese Tasting on Thursday, April 10, 2008 from 12 - 1 p.m. in the TV Lounge of the Slep Student Center. The event is free an ...
March
3/27/2008 VIDEO: Penn State Altoona's Gala Poetry Reading
On Thursday, February 28, 2008, Penn State Altoona's Division of Arts and Humanities presented a Gala Poetry Reading in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel celebrating the publication of new books of poetry by ...
3/25/2008 Penn State Altoona to host Guerrilla Girls On Tour
Penn State Altoona’s Women Studies program is pleased to announce that Guerrilla Girls On Tour, an internationally acclaimed anonymous theatre collective, will perform at 7:30 p.m., April 9 in t ...
3/25/2008 Penn State Altoona galleries feature student art
WORKOUT, works by visual arts students, will be featured in the Sheetz and McLanahan Galleries at Penn State Altoona. A reception for student artists, faculty and the public will be held on Thursday, ...
3/25/2008 Penn State Altoona graduates, faculty win PAPBA awards
Pennsylvania Associated Press Broadcasters Association, PAPBA, has announced winners of the 2007 AP awards. Two Penn State Altoona communications graduates and a communications instructor have won awa ...
3/20/2008 Students and Faculty Participate in Dance Conference
Ten members of Penn State Altoona's student dance company, Ivyside Dance Ensemble, traveled to SUNY Brockport for the American College Dance Festival Association conference, held March 12 - 16. Stude ...
3/19/2008 Penn State Altoona part of One Book Blair County
Penn State Altoona's Robert E. Eiche Library is part of One Book Blair County, a group awarded a $2,500 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA). One Book Blair County is one of 127 commun ...
3/12/2008 Assistant professor named semi-finalist in playwright's conference
Robin Reese, assistant professor of theatre arts, has been selected as a semi-finalist in the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center's 2008 National Playwrights Conference in Waterford, Conn. Founded in 1964 i ...
3/5/2008 Assistant professor's jewelry featured in international exhibition
Rebecca Strzelec, assistant professor of visual arts at Penn State Altoona, is one of just two Americans featured in SCHMUCK 2008, an international juried jewelry exhibition held in Munich, Germany, t ...
3/5/2008 Lecturer's work on display at alumni exhibition
Nancy Brassington, lecturer in visual arts at Penn State Altoona, had her oil painting, "Waiting," accepted into the Centennial Alumni Exhibition at the University of Mary Washington. The ex ...
3/4/2008 SNAPSHOTS: Faculty and Staff 2008 Service Awards
On Tuesday, March 4, Penn State Altoona honored Faculty & Staff members for years of service. The annual Service Awards were established to honor those faculty and staff members who have been working ...
February
2/26/2008 SNAPSHOTS: Allied Motion Presents Final Performance
Penn State Altoona's Allied Motion Dance Company gave its final performance, SPACES WITHIN US, on February 14 -15 in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre in Misciagna Family Center for Performin ...
2/26/2008 Theatre Program To Present Tennessee Williams Classic
Penn State Altoona will present Tennessee Williams' classic drama, "Summer and Smoke," April 3 - 6, 2008 in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre in the Misciagna Family Center for Perfo ...
2/25/2008 Gala Poetry Reading Features Three Penn State Altoona Faculty Members
The Division of Arts and Humanities will present a Gala Poetry Reading celebrating the publication of new books of poetry by three Penn State Altoona faculty members: Todd Davis, Erin Murphy, and Patr ...
2/20/2008 Penn State Altoona professor gets grant for banned books project
Kirsten Bratt, assistant professor of education, received a 2008 Public Scholarship grant in the amount of $1,000 from the Laboratory for Public Democracy to develop a project titled "Defending t ...
2/19/2008 SNAPSHOTS: Presenting TWO ROOMS
Penn State Altoona's theatre program presented Lee Blessing's "Two Rooms," a play centered on events of the 1980s hostage crisis, from January 31 through February 2, 2008. The play was prese ...
2/11/2008 Curtain drops on Penn State Altoona’s resident dance company
Penn State Altoona’s Allied Motion Dance Company will give its final performance, Spaces Within Us, February 14 -15 in the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre in Misciagna Family Center for P ...
2/7/2008 VIDEO: Get to Know Megan Marcaurelle
Penn State Altoona presents the next installment in a series of video vignettes highlighting our students, faculty, and staff. This week's entry features Megan Marcaurelle, a sophomore English major f ...
2/6/2008 Student Actors Receive Scholarship Nominations
Student actors Clay Anthony Hasychak, Mallorie Hallsal, and Marina Johnson were nominated for the Irene Ryan National Acting Scholarship Competition by the Kennedy Center's American College Theatre Fe ...
2/5/2008 Penn State Altoona professor receives fellowship
Erin Murphy, assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona, received a 2008 Individual Creative Artist Fellowship in Poetry from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts in the amount of $5,000. Mu ...
2/5/2008 Award-winning Poet to Present Reading
Award-winning poet Jan Beatty will read selections from her work on Tuesday, February 12 at 7 p.m. in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel at Penn State Altoona. Beatty is the author of "Red Suger" an ...
2/4/2008 The Altoona College Majors Expo is Coming!
Students: Still searching for a major? Want to learn more about the degree programs offered at Penn State Altoona? Then join the DUS staff at the eighth annual Altoona College Majors Expo (ACME) on We ...
January
1/28/2008 English Professor Appears on WPSU-TV
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was recently interviewed on WPSU-TV's "Pennsylvania Inside Out." Her interview, which included a poetry reading, ...
1/23/2008 Former church to become home for Visual Arts building at Penn State Altoona
The University Board of Trustees Jan. 18 approved the purchase of a new building in Altoona to be used for the Penn State Altoona Visual Art Studies Program (VAST). ...
1/23/2008 Theatre Program Presents Lee Blessing's "Two Rooms"
The Penn State Altoona Theatre program will present "Two Rooms" by Lee Blessing from Thursday, January 31 through Saturday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m. with a matinee performance on Saturday, Fe ...
1/17/2008 VIDEO: Get to Know Dr. Ken Womack
Penn State Altoona presents the next installment in a series of video vignettes highlighting our students, faculty, and staff. This week's entry features Dr. Ken Womack, professor of English and head ...
1/15/2008 Faculty Member's Poem Featured in New Anthology
Dr. Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, assistant professor of English, recently had her poem "Becoming Ebony" included in the second edition of "Approaching Literature: Writing + Reading + Thinkin ...
1/15/2008 Penn State Altoona Announces Two Film Series for Spring 2008
The Penn State Altoona Film Series and the Penn State Altoona/Sundance Film Series have both announced their schedules for the spring 2008 semester. For more information, visit http://www.altoona.psu. ...
1/4/2008 Penn State Altoona gears up for annual African American Read-In
Penn State Altoona will celebrate the Nineteenth National African American Read-In Chain this February with several events on campus. ...
2007
December
12/21/2007 SNAPSHOTS: Fall 2007 Commencement
Penn State Altoona held its fall 2007 commencement ceremony on Friday, December 21 at 11 a.m. in the Adler Athletic Complex. Over 100 students processed and received their respective degrees. ...
12/20/2007 Galleries at Penn State Altoona feature new artists
A new exhibition of work opens this Thursday, Dec. 20, in the Sheetz and McLanahan Galleries of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The works of sculptor and photographer Joe Meiser, as ...
12/17/2007 Theatre Students to Perform in Regional Acting Competition
Three students from Penn State Altoona's recent production of Moliere's "The Learned Ladies" were nominated for the Irene Ryan National Acting Scholarship by the Kennedy Center American Coll ...
12/14/2007 More than 100 students set to process at Penn State Altoona’s fall commencement
Penn State Altoona will hold its fall 2007 commencement ceremony Friday, December 21 at 11:00 a.m. in the Adler Athletic Complex. 127 students are slated to process. ...
12/13/2007 Acting Classes Present Final Scenes
The Penn State Altoona theatre program will present a wide array of dramatic and comedic scenes as part of the fall 2007 acting classes' final presentation. The scenes will be presented on Wednesday, ...
12/12/2007 Publication release party set for HARD FREIGHT
A coffee-house style open-mike reading will be held from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 13, in the Titelman Study Lounge of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. The event celebrates the ...
12/11/2007 Penn State Altoona Wraps Up Fall Semester with Music Performances
The Ivyside Chamber Ensemble will perform their fall concert on Friday, December 14, 2007 at 7:30 p.m. in the sanctuary of the Edith Davis Eve Chapel at Penn State Altoona. On Saturday, December 15, 2 ...
12/11/2007 VIDEO: Get to Know Courtney Sherkel
Penn State Altoona presents the next installment in a series of video vignettes highlighting our students, faculty, and staff. This week's entry features Courtney Sherkel, an integrative arts and elem ...
12/9/2007 Penn State Altoona Theology Specialist to Present Lecture
Penn State Altoona is pleased to announce that Dr. Mlen-Too Wesley will present "The Similarities between Judaism, Christianity, and Islam are more profound than the differences" on Thursday ...
12/9/2007 SNAPSHOTS: Presenting THE LEARNED LADIES
Penn State Altoona presented "The Learned Ladies," Moliere's classic comedy of the heart versus the mind, from December 6 through 9 at the Paul R. and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre in the Miscia ...
November
11/28/2007 Penn State Altoona Galleries Feature New Artists
The Division of Art and Humanities will open a new exhibition of work in the Sheetz and McLanahan Galleries of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts at Penn State Altoona on December 20, 200 ...
11/27/2007 Penn State Altoona professor lectures in Texas
Brian Black, associate professor of history and environmental studies, was an invited lecturer at the University of Houston's symposium "American Energy Policy in the 1970s." Titled "Th ...
11/27/2007 Poetry prize awarded to Penn State Altoona professor
Todd Davis, associate professor of English, has won the 2007 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize for his poem "Tree of Heaven." The poem will appear in the journal Mid-America. In addition, over t ...
11/27/2007 VIDEO: Get to Know Dr. Robert Trumpbour
Penn State Altoona presents the next installment in a series of video vignettes highlighting our faculty, staff, and students. This week's entry features Dr. Robert C. Trumpbour, assistant professor o ...
11/27/2007 Ivyside Juried Art Competition Applications Now Being Accepted
Applications are now being accepted for entry in the 2008-2009 Penn State Altooan Ivyside Juried Art Competition. For more information about the competition and details about how to enter, visit http: ...
11/26/2007 Award-Winning Poet Authors Latest Collection
Erin Murphy, assistant professor of English at Penn State Altoona, has published her latest book of poetry, "Dislocation and Other Theories." The collection, published by Word Press of Cinci ...
11/19/2007 Important Information for Students: Semester Bill Payment Alert
Penn State Altoona will cancel the schedules of all students who have not paid their bill by the end of the fourth week of classes for each semester. For the spring 2008 semester, all schedules will b ...
11/14/2007 Penn State Altoona Professor Authors New Collection of Poems
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, assistant professor of English, has published her third collection of poetry. The new book, "The River is Rising," has just been released from Autumn House Press in P ...
11/12/2007 Penn State Altoona Presents Moliere’s "Learned Ladies"
Penn State Altoona's Theatre Program will present Moliere's "The Learned Ladies" on Dember 6, 7, and 8 at 7:30 p.m. and December 8 and 9 at 3 p.m. at the Paul and Margery Wolf Kuhn Theatre i ...
11/12/2007 Penn State Altoona Professor's Play to Debut in New York City
Robin Reese, assistant professor of Theatre Arts at Penn State Altoona, is proud to announce the debut of her one-act play, "The Inquisition," at The Looking Glass Theatre in New York City t ...
11/7/2007 Emerging Writer to Present Reading
Seth Sawyers, Penn State Altoona's emerging writer in residence, will present a reading on Tuesday, December 11, at 7 p.m. in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel Sanctuary. All are welcome to attend. This pr ...
11/7/2007 Penn State Altoona professor's radio special to air on public broadcasting station
Jerry Zolten, Penn State Altoona associate professor of communication arts and sciences, will host a Penn State Public Broadcasting radio special at 9 p.m. Friday, November 16. The program, "Bopp ...
11/6/2007 VIDEO: Get to know Ms. Rebecca Strzelec
Penn State Altoona presents the next installment in a series of video vignettes highlighting our faculty, staff, and students. This week's entry features Ms. Rebecca Strzelec, assistant professor of V ...
11/6/2007 Theatre Program to Hold Auditions for Spring Productions of "Two Rooms" and "Summer and Smoke"
Auditions for Penn State Altoona’s spring productions of Lee Blessing's "Two Rooms" and Tennessee Williams’ "Summer and Smoke" will be held on December 10, 11, and 12 f ...
11/1/2007 Change in Film Series
The Penn State Altoona film series will present the 1997 film "The Castle" on Sunday, November 4 at 7 p.m. in the Devorris Downtown Center. The Castle will replace the previously announced f ...
11/1/2007 Penn State Altoona professor featured on iTunes U
Brian Black, associate professor of history and environmental studies and co-coordinator of environmental studies, was recently the featured speaker at Penn State's Institute of Arts and Humanities at ...
October
10/24/2007 Author Barbara Hurd to Speak at Penn State Altoona
Author Barbara Hurd will offer a reading from selections of her writing about the natural world on Thursday, November 8, at 7 p.m., in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel. Hurd is the author of "Stirring ...
10/19/2007 Faculty Colloquium: KT Huckabee
The Division of Arts and Humanities is pleased to announce that KT Huckabee, assistant professor of Integrative Arts and Dance will present "Movin' and Groovin': Using Bartenieff Fundamentals for ...
10/19/2007 Author Chad Ross to Speak at Penn State Altoona
Chad Ross, author of Naked Germany: Health, Race, and the Nation will present "For the Good of the People: Nature, Nudism, and the Nation" on October 29, 2007 at 7 p.m. in room 150 of the Ha ...
10/11/2007 Mark Your Calendar: MAJOR EVENT OF THE YEAR
Choosing a major and career is a decision every student faces, but they often know very little about actual majors or career possibilities for those majors. To help answer the myriad of questions stud ...
10/10/2007 Penn State Altoona professor receives art awards
Annette Zalanowski, Penn State Altoona associate professor emerita of music, received two Special Recognition Merit Awards for her artwork in the ninth annual Abstraction Juried Online International A ...
10/3/2007 Poet and Translator to Read Monday, October 8
Poet and translator Carolyne Wright will be reading from her work on Monday, October 8 at 4 :30 p.m. in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel at Penn State Altoona. ...
10/3/2007 Poetry reading scheduled for Edith Davis Eve Chapel
Philip Terman will be in the spotlight at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 9, when he gives a poetry reading in the Edith Davis Eve Chapel. Terman is the author of three poetry collections, including "The H ...
September
9/26/2007 Letters, Arts, and Sciences Luncheon
Want to design your own major? The Penn State Altoona Letters, Arts, and Sciences program will host a luncheon for interested students on Wednesday, October 3, 2007 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in conference ...
9/17/2007 Penn State Altoona Organizing Bus Trip to Theatre in Brooklyn, NY
The Penn State Altoona Theatre Arts program is organizing a bus trip to see a production of "Hotel Cassiopeia" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NY on Saturday, October 13, 2007. ...
9/15/2007 Walter Everett to Receive Meling Arts and Humanities Award
Penn State Altoona is pleased to announce that Walter Everett, a leading scholar in the fields of musicology and music theory, will be presented with the Kjell Meling Award for Distinction in the Arts ...
9/13/2007 Interactive Story-teller Darius Puff presents "Who were the Lenape?"
Darius Puff will present "Who were the Lenape?" on Thursday, September 12, 2007 from 10:30 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. in the sanctuary of the Edith Davis Eve Chapel on the Penn State Altoona campus. ...
9/11/2007 Penn State Altoona’s Allied Motion Dance Company taking center stage
Penn State Altoona’s Allied Motion Dance Company will present its annual fall concert, Old Friends, September 27 and 28 at the Railroader’s Memorial Museum, Memorial Hall. ...
9/6/2007 Theatre Program Offers Free Voice Workshop
The Penn State Altoona Theatre program will offer a free voice workshop on Friday, September 28, 2007 from 6 to 10 p.m. in the Brown Room of the Adler Athletic Complex. Participants will learn the exi ...
August
8/30/2007 Theatre Program Hosts Open House/Pizza Party
The Penn State Altoona Theatre program will be holding a Pizza Party/Open House on Tuesday, September 12 from 6 to 7:30 pm in the Titelman Study of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. Any ...
8/30/2007 Auditions for Moliere's THE LEARNED LADIES
Theatre Auditions for the following roles will be Tuesday and Wednesday, September 4 and 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Wolf Kuhn Theatre in the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts. Readings will b ...
8/28/2007 Penn State Altoona Welcomes New Faculty and Staff Members
Penn State Altoona welcomes the following new full-time faculty members ...
8/23/2007 Penn State Altoona professor invited to international poetry festival
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, assistant professor of English, was among 72 invited poets from 56 countries around the world who were featured at the Seventeenthh International Poetry Festival of Medellin in ...
8/22/2007 Theatre Professor to Participate in Competition
Robin Reese, assistant professor of Theatre Arts, is one of five playwrights selected to take part in Philadelphia’s The Cardboard Box Collaborative Speed the Muse Competition at the 2007 Ph ...
8/14/2007 Penn State Altoona Announces New Ivyside Juried Exhibitions
The newest Ivyside Juried Exhibition at Penn State Altoona will open in the Sheetz and McLanahan Galleries of the Misciagna Family Center for Performing Arts Thursday, August 23. The exhibition featur ...
July
7/31/2007 Penn State Altoona associate professor’s essays online
Two essays by associate professor of history and co-coordinator of environmental studies Brian Black are published on the Internet. The first essay in "Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Cu ...
7/16/2007 Division of Arts and Humanities Presents Free Theatre Performances
Penn State Altoona's Division of Arts and Humanities will present the theatre piece "What About Frou Frou?" on Friday and Saturday, July 20 and 21 at 7:30 p.m. in the Paul R. and Margery Wol ...
7/2/2007 Tracing the History of Independence Day: Faculty Member Offers Book Reading
Have you ever wondered how traditional celebrations for the Fourth of July began? Mary Lou Nemanic, associate professor of Communications, will share the histories of this festive celebration from her ...
June
6/25/2007 Penn State Altoona features local art collector’s repertory
The summer art exhibition series continues at Penn State Altoona with "Visions Of Never: Contemporary Fantastic Illustration From The Wilshire Collection" in the Sheetz and McLanahan Galleri ...
6/15/2007 Faculty Members Receive Promotions
The following promotions for Professor and Associate Professor at Penn State Altoona are effective July 1, 2007. ...
6/12/2007 PENN STATE ALTOONA PROFESSOR PRESENTS AT HISTORY CONVENTION IN TEXAS
Bob Trumpbour, assistant professor of communications at Penn State Altoona, presented "Stadium Building in the Post-World War II Era" at the North American Society of Sport History annual co ...
May
5/29/2007 Penn State Altoona professor to hold book signing
Kenneth Womack, professor of English and head of the division of arts and humanities at Penn State Altoona, brings the Beatles to life with his new book, "Long and Winding Roads: The Evolving A ...
April
4/27/2007 MEDIA ADVISORY: Change of location for Allied Motion Event
4/27/2007 Penn State Altoona Announces Arts & Humanities Award Winners
Penn State Altoona announced today that two humanists, a musicologist at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a literary scholar from Penn State Altoona, have accepted invitations to receive th ...