Technological advances in medicine have helped increase someone's chance of surviving cancer, recovering from a traumatic injury, or beating the odds of a disease that was once considered untreatable. But there are no advances that can substitute for the need of blood. The three major components of blood--red cells, platelets, and plasma--play a huge role in many patients' treatments and procedures. Across the nation, 5 million people in the United States receive life-saving blood transfusions on an annual basis, and only 5 percent of the eligible population donates.
Penn State Mont Alto nursing and information sciences and technology students collaborated on a capstone project to help improve the quality of services at Waynesboro Community and Human Services.
On Dec. 5, Penn State Mont Alto forestry students climbed a 135-foot yellow poplar on the Penn State Mont Alto campus in a 20-year annual exercise of forest technology instructor Craig Houghton’s arboriculture class.
On Feb. 25, Penn State Mont Alto will offer the American Mathematics Competition on campus. The Mont Alto campus is the only public site for the AMC in the area and one of only five in Pennsylvania, including Penn State New Kensington. The AMC is a national mathematics contest aimed at talented secondary students with the goal of “strengthening the mathematical capabilities of our nation’s youth.”
English professor Kevin Boon is nurturing locally grown cinema through his Penn State Mont Alto Film Project. His latest film is a horror movie titled "Ghosting."
Freshman engineering student Lara Vera and her teammates Danielle Grant, and Morgan Goodhart developed and presented a prototype of their Bingo board to Ruby Hassey, a 103-year-old resident of a senior living facility near the Penn State Mont Alto campus on Friday, November 21.
The Mont Alto Film Project announced that the project’s second feature, the supernatural thriller “Ghosting,” has been selected to screen at the inaugural Harrisburg-Hershey Film Festival (HHFF), which runs Sept. 11-15 at the Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. "Ghosting" screens with a block of three short films at 5 p.m. Sept. 12. "Ghosting" is one of only six juried feature films chosen for the festival. Tickets to the event are available on the festival website (http://harriburghersheyfilmfestival.com).
Beginning with the fall 2015 semester, Penn State Mont Alto will offer a bachelor of science degree in health policy and administration (HPA) in collaboration with Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs. The program will prepare students for mid-management and policy positions or graduate study in the health care field.
Award-winning motivational speaker Jon Vroman returned to the Penn State Mont Alto campus on Aug. 22 to kick off New Student Welcome activities. Speaking to a crowd of about 500 in the Multipurpose Activities Center, he encouraged students to "live college life in the front row," asking them to step away from their comfort zones and push themselves to pursue what they believe to be important and meaningful in their lives.
Academic regalia, welcome speeches, recommendations and encouraging words opened Penn State Mont Alto’s 2015-2016 academic year during the annual Founders Convocation ceremony in the Multipurpose Activities Center on Aug. 22.
