This eight-day excursion offers students the experience of service-learning by visiting the El Yunque National Forest in Puerto Rico. Students will participate in conservation projects and a disaster relief and resiliency project in the local community.
If a picture is worth a thousand words, Annie Taylor hopes videos will bring an invaluable experience — an opportunity to learn about sustainability — to everyone, without traveling far from home. Last year, Taylor, senior assistant dean for distance learning in the Penn State College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, and Kaitlin Farnan, a business instructor at Penn State Altoona, led 20 Penn State students on a trip to New Zealand and Australia to learn about sustainable business practices. Their experiences on that trip were captured on video and are now available online as a collection in the University’s Repository for Open and Affordable Materials.
Penn State Altoona will host an Education Abroad Fair on Oct. 26. The fair provides an overview of study abroad programs available through Penn State and an opportunity to talk to advisers and partner providers.
Penn State Altoona's new Student Success Center is designed for students to easily access tools and services they may need during their time at the college, allowing them to get help and get ahead in their education.
Penn State Altoona alumnus Haldan Jacobson used his study of the German language to unlock doors of travel, growth and discovery — and encourages others to do the same through their own language studies. “Do it — do all of it. You will grow so much as a person and learn so much about yourself and the world.”
Penn State Behrend graduate Olivia Dubin could not attend the college's May 3 commencement ceremony because she is completing an internship in Germany. Dubin, who earned a degree in plastics engineering technology, used one of the college's robots to participate in the program remotely.
Thirteen students from three campuses observed National Nutrition Month in a fitting way: traveling to Honduras for a spring break service learning trip through Healthy Niños Honduras, a Pennsylvania-based organization that focuses on helping children with malnutrition.
A group of students waits at John F. Kennedy International Airport for their flight to Honduras to take part in a spring break service learning trip through Healthy Niños Honduras. The students—from Altoona, Schuylkill and University Park campuses—collected 17 suitcases full of donated personal items to distribute to families in the rural villages they visited.
A group of students waits at John F. Kennedy International Airport for their flight to Honduras to take part in a spring break service learning trip through Healthy Niños Honduras. The students—from Altoona, Schuylkill and University Park campuses—collected 17 suitcases full of donated personal items to distribute to families in the rural villages they visited.
