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Exhibit shows female Olympians throughout history
Tue, 07/17/2012
Artifacts from the Library exhibit "From Spectators to Champions: Female Athletes in the Olympic Games"
Photographs from the Library exhibit "From Spectators to Champions: Female Athletes in the Olympic Games"

Who is the most decorated Olympic athlete of all time? (Hint: it’s a woman.) Which Olympic swimmer gained more celebrity for carousing and breaking curfew than for her gold medal backstroke performance? Which athlete starred as Jane in the 1938 film Tarzan’s Revenge?

Find answers and see photos of these and other female athletes in the display “From Spectators to Champions: Female Athletes in the Olympic Games,” through Sep. 14 at the Penn State Harrisburg Library.

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Davisson receives University innovation award
Mon, 07/16/2012
Ryan Davisson and Kevin Morooney, vice provost of Information Technology. From it.psu.edu/connects/recognizes/recipients2012

Ryan Davisson, systems administrator at Penn State Harrisburg, has received the University’s Out of the Box Innovation Award for technology he designed for the college’s iPads.

Apple iPads – a line of tablet computers – lack the ability that traditional personal computers have for multiple users to log on. To accommodate students who rent the devices from the library for classwork or personal use, Davisson developed a technology that automatically erases any preference or software changes when students return them.  

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Penn State issues statement on Freeh report
Thu, 07/12/2012

Source: Penn State Live; July 12, 2012

SCRANTON, Pa. -- Today’s comprehensive report is sad and sobering in that it concludes that at the moment of truth, people in positions of authority and responsibility did not put the welfare of children first. The Board of Trustees, as the group that has paramount accountability for overseeing and ensuring the proper functioning and governance of the University, accepts full responsibility for the failures that occurred. The Board, in cooperation with the Administration, will take every action to ensure that events like these never happen again in our university community.

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This summer, research takes students places
Tue, 06/26/2012

This summer, research is taking students places, from rooftops to the Rockies, and even back in time.

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Lear receives national award for library history article
Fri, 06/15/2012
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Bernadette Lear, Penn State Harrisburg behavioral sciences and education librarian, of Middletown, received the 2012 Donald G. Davis Article Award. The award, presented biannually by the American Library Association’s Library History Round Table, honors an English language article on American or Canadian library history.

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Jones and team named NCAA stat champions
Thu, 06/14/2012
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Steve Jones (Harrisburg/Harrisburg H.S.), junior guard on Penn State Harrisburg’s men’s basketball team, was named the NCAA Division III 2012 statistical champion in steals per game, with an average of 4.19 swipes per contest.

The men’s basketball program also earned the 2012 statistical championship in steals as a team, with an average of 15 per game. This is the first NCAA Division III statistical championship for a team in campus history and caps off a historic year for the Lions, who posted a school-record 20 wins. 

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Chancellor speaks at international colloquium
Wed, 06/13/2012
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Chancellor Mukund S. Kulkarni joined educators from around the world to present “Applied Research: Connecting Education and Industry,” at the Hochschule Darmstadt – University of Applied Sciences International Colloquium, June 14, 2012, in Germany.

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College announces student award winners
Fri, 06/08/2012

Penn State Harrisburg honored graduate and undergraduate students for accomplishments in academics, service, and leadership at the 2012 Student Awards Convocation.

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The real Forrest Gump, Robert Sweetgall, to present healthy living workshop June 19
Tue, 06/05/2012
Robert Sweetgall

Once nicknamed “butterball,” Robert Sweetgall today has other names. The real Forrest Gump. The Pied Piper of walking. The only person to have walked all 50 states – 11,208 miles – in 365 consecutive days, Sweetgall will present the healthy living workshop “Motivation to Move,” Tuesday, June 19, 7:00-8:30 p.m. at Penn State Harrisburg. The event is free and open to the public.

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Idowu receives alumni award
Mon, 06/04/2012
Dr. Peter Idowu

Peter Idowu, Penn State Harrisburg assistant dean for graduate studies, was presented with The University of Toledo’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) 2012 Outstanding Alumnus of the Year Award at a ceremony on April 19, 2012.

Each year, the university’s EECS department gives the award to recognize the achievements of an alumnus “who has been especially successful either in private business or in professional employment.”

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