Society, Arts and Humanities

John Eicher

Penn State Altoona history professor named 2023-24 Bechtel Lecturer

John Eicher, associate professor of history at Penn State Altoona and 2023-24 Bechtel Lecturer at the University of Waterloo's Conrad Grebel University College, delivered the lecture "A Plot-Driven People: Mennonite Narratives in the Age of Nationalism (1870-1945)" on March 22 at the college. 
Todd Davis, professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona

Todd Davis, Mary E. Rolling Reading Series

Award-winning poet Todd Davis, known for his lyric meditations on the natural beauty of his Pennsylvania home ground, will offer a reading as part of the Mary E. Rolling Reading Series. Davis is also a professor of English and environmental studies at Penn State Altoona. 

Group Improv Session

Happy Valley Improv fuses artform with pedagogy

Penn State faculty Andrea McCloskey and Sam Tanner are quite serious about the often comedic artform of improv. They are two of the four founders of Happy Valley Improv, and behind the performative emotions the two are whittling away at how their artform can serve to transform teaching in the classroom.