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For the Kids

Penn State Altoona raises nearly $70,000 for THON 2024

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley at Presidential Inauguration

Making History

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, professor of English at Penn State Altoona, was selected to write and read an original poem at Liberia, West Africa’s, recent presidential inauguration. Wesley is the first poet or writer invited to perform at a presidential inauguration.