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Head coach Mark Sapita was voted the AMCC’s co-Coach of the Year, while student-athletes Lexi Colaianni, Daniel Fulton and Abigail Morgan were all voted to places on the All-Conference team.

Six members of the Penn State Altoona men’s golf program were voted to the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s All-Conference team, the league office announced on Oct. 25.

Penn State Altoona forward/midfielder Mallorie Smith, of Bellefonte, was picked as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Offensive Player of the Week in women’s soccer on Monday, Oct. 28.

For the second time this season, Penn State Altoona student-athlete Caden Traggiai, of Sarver, was chosen as the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s Men’s Swimmer of the Week, the league office announced on Monday, Oct. 28.

A group of students called Tailgate Ambassadors, supported by Penn State Sustainability, the Office of Physical Plant, and Pepsi, are working reduce the amount of waste generated on game days. This partnership is incentivizing fans to learn about game-day recycling — and offering prizes to those who do.

As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 13 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.   

Spend a Summer Evening is Tuesday, July 16, and Spend a Summer Day will be Tuesday, Aug. 13. Advance registration is recommended.

Penn State Mont Alto recently hosted its 19th annual MedCamp, a weeklong day camp providing rising ninth and 10th graders with opportunities to learn about careers in health care and medical fields. Twenty area highschoolers from across Franklin, Adams, Cumberland and York counties were accepted into MedCamp 2024.

Penn State Mont Alto announces the Fall 2024 schedule for its popular Evening Series of Planetarium Shows, Evening Talks and Star Parties.

Penn State’s Schreyer Honors College welcomes John O’Neill, Jen Agans, and Michelle Sikes for its second cohort of Faculty Fellows.  

People who experience depression and concussions simultaneously have significantly worse symptoms for both conditions and disruptions to brain connectivity, according to a study by researchers at Penn State.

Lisa Davis, director of the Pennsylvania Office of Rural Health and outreach associate professor of health policy and administration at Penn State, was presented with the 2024 Calico Leadership Award and the Rural Sociological Society Distinguished Service to Rural Life Award.

People who want to support the well-being of youth and families in their communities can register for free online courses through Penn State’s Prevention Learning Portal. The portal offers instruction and resources on how to choose, implement and sustain programs and practices that promote healthy communities.

Gustavo Nader, professor of kinesiology and physiology in the Penn State College of Health and Human Development, has been named the Dorothy Foehr Huck and J. Loyd Huck Chair in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology by the Huck Institutes of the Life Sciences. 

Undergraduate students in the Penn State Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders traveled to Belize during spring break 2024 to help provide speech and audiology support to children and teens in the middle-income nation.

Hospitality stakeholders and organizations can serve a significant role in the integration of people who have criminal records or histories of incarceration back into the workforce, according to a new framework created by researchers in the Penn State School of Hospitality Management.

Researchers from the Departments of Nutritional Sciences and Food Science at Penn State have recently received $420,000 in funding from the McCormick Science Institute to study the use of herbs and spices in school lunch recipes over the next two years.

Lisa Gatzke-Kopp, professor of human development and family studies, recently was named president-elect of the Society for Psychophysiological Research. The presidential role spans three years, over which she will serve as president-elect, president and past-president, each for a one-year period.