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Brooke Colledge (left) and Makenzie Lukehart (right) from March 2020. Image: Penn State Penn State Altoona takes fourth in AMCC Softball Preseason Poll March 16, 2021 NORTH BOSTON, N.Y. — The Penn State Altoona softball team was predicted to finish in fourth place in the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference this season, when the league announced the results of its 2021 Preseason Coaches’ Poll.  Mount Aloysius College, which won each of the previous two AMCC championships, was voted int...

Award recognizes alumni 35 and younger for their professional accomplishments The Penn State Alumni Association will recognize 16 outstanding Penn Staters during a virtual ceremony on Tuesday, April 13. Registration is open and free to all Penn Staters, and you can sign up online.  Image: Penn State Alumni Association Alumni Association to honor 16 Penn Staters with Alumni Achievement Award March 15, 2021 UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — The Penn State Alumni Association will recognize 16 outstanding...

IMAGE: Penn State Behrend The building, which was dedicated in 2010, is, for many, the first impression of Penn State Behrend. Campus tours depart from its two-story lobby. Other offices in the building support core functions of the college, from financial aid and billing to transcripts and introductions to the alumni network. “Students need different forms of support at different points in their college experience,” Ford said. “Bob and Sally Metzgar’s longtime giving has provided resou...

Hunter Breon receives preseason honors, Lions ranked No. 3 in poll Penn State Altoona senior shortstop Hunter Breon (Boiling Springs, PA/Boiling Springs) was voted the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference’s co-Preseason Player of the Year. Image: Penn State Hunter Breon receives preseason honors, Lions ranked No. 3 in poll March 04, 2021 NORTH BOSTON, N.Y. — Penn State Altoona senior shortstop Hunter Breon (Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania/Boiling Springs) was voted the Allegheny Mountain ...

Fall 2021 plan will expand in-person learning Penn State Behrend plans to return to a full on-campus experience with in-person academic courses for the fall 2021 semester. Penn State Behrend plans to return to a full on-campus experience with in-person academic courses for the fall 2021 semester. The plans are being designed with a flexible structure, which will allow the College to quickly respond to changing pandemic conditions, if necessary. “Our top priority continues to be the health a...

Image: Canstock photo February 1, 2021 ERIE, Pa. — Health care workers are in higher demand than ever, and Penn State Behrend’s Office of Community and Workforce Programs is helping to fill that need with a new Clinical Medical Assistant (CMA) program that will prepare students to sit for national certification examinations in just four months. “CMAs work in physicians’ offices, clinics, chiropractic offices, hospitals and outpatient facilities, where they perform a variety o...

Image: Contributed photo January 12, 2021 ERIE, Pa. — Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, discussed social justice activism, including the Black Lives Matter movement, in an online forum that will open Penn State Behrend’s 2021 celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The Jan. 18 program, which was hosted on Zoom, was free and open to the public. Martin, 17, was shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer in Sanford, Florida, in 2012. The man who killed him was a...

Sybrina Fulton, the mother of Trayvon Martin, will discuss social justice activism, including the Black Lives Matter movement, in an online forum that will open Penn State Behrend’s 2021 celebration of Martin Luther King Jr. The Jan. 18 program, which will be hosted on Zoom, is free and open to the public.