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Anthony Bak Buccitelli, assistant professor of American studies and communications at Penn State Harrisburg, had his book titled “City of Neighborhoods: Memory, Folklore, and Ethnic Place in Boston” published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

The Penn State Harrisburg community will gather together on Wednesday, May 25 at 10:30 a.m. at the Capital Union Building on campus to send off Cameron Yon as he leaves to participate in the NCAA Championship.  Yon has qualified in the men's discus at the championships being held in Waverly, Iowa at Wartburg College, May 26 through 28. 

Yon is the first Penn State Harrisburg track and field athlete to qualify for the NCAA Outdoor Championships. 

Danang Endrayana Syeh Qodir of Yogyakarta, Indonesia, a graduate student in Penn State Harrisburg’s master of public administration program, was part of the Capital Region Site’s winning team at the 2016 Network of Schools of Public Policy, Affairs, and Administration (NASPAA) student simulation competition.

Penn State Harrisburg student and Political Science Major, Ann-Queen Sedhom, was elected campus chair of the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG) for the 2016-17 school year.

This position works to conduct meetings and promote unity across the commonwealth with duties including presiding over all meeting of the council and reviewing agendas.

The Penn State Harrisburg student chapter of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) took second place at this year’s Penn State Regional Rube Goldberg Machine contest. The competition was held earlier this year in Presidents Hall at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel at the University Park campus before a crowd of more than 300.

Ife Akinkugbe, a Penn State Harrisburg civil engineering student from Nigeria, Africa, recently placed second at the 2016 American Society of Civil Engineers Mid-Atlantic Region Student Conference in the technical paper competition. This year’s competition included students from 12 different universities, providing an opportunity for young civil engineers to further their professional development and gain national attention.

A new anthology co-edited by Jen Hirt, assistant professor of creative writing and English composition, is featured in Essay Daily, an online journal that focuses on creative nonfiction.

The book, “Creating Nonfiction: Twenty Essays and Interviews with the Writers,” was published in March by SUNY Press and co-edited with Erin Murphy, professor of English at Penn State Altoona.