Across any university campus classrooms and dormitories, lights and computers, dining halls and recreation spaces all place large demands on energy use. According to Energy Star, in 2005 that cost in the United States was almost $14 billion. And that is only the financial cost—it doesn’t include the impact on … Continue reading
“Foresight” is a word we often associate with individuals who manage to dodge a dangerous situation, or get rich by investing in a struggling new company. Foresight can also be the ability to sense that an event will be noteworthy in the future and should have its beginnings documented. It … Continue reading
One piece of legislation—one small societal change—can sometimes have unimagined impacts on a culture. In her new book, Postal Plots in British Fiction, 1840-1898: Readdressing Correspondence in Victorian Culture (Palgrave, 2013), Laura Rotunno, associate professor of English and Honors Coordinator, has identified the mid-1800s postal rate change in the United … Continue reading
At Penn State Altoona, faculty members are doing phenomenal work both in and out of the classroom. Since we became a college in July 1997, our faculty has established a long and impressive tradition of pursuing research and teaching excellence. Indeed, the numbers speak for themselves: since 1997, our faculty … Continue reading
