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On Saturday, Dec. 3, Penn State Harrisburg senior guard Dorothea Dixon became the ninth women’s basketball player in NCAA history across all divisions to record a rare quadruple-double, in a 91-42 victory over Penn State Berks.

Dixon, of Middletown, totaled 11 points, 11 rebounds, 12 assists and 10 steals in front of a hometown crowd at the college’s Capital Union Building. Her accomplishment is the first in school history and the first quadruple-double by a women’s player in any of the NCAA’s three divisions since 2009. 

Penn State Harrisburg engineering students planning careers in the electric utility industry will have an edge on the competition when they graduate, thanks to nearly $200,000 in gifts of software, equipment, and financial support from PPL Corporation and leading electric utility suppliers.  The PPL Electric Utilities Power Laboratory on campus offers students hands-on training with the same equipment utility companies use to control and protect the nation’s power systems.

Three Penn State Harrisburg education professors have combined their unique perspectives on teaching and areas of expertise to create a book that helps to teach math in a new way. In “Cowboys Count, Monkeys Measure, and Princesses Problem Solve: Building Early Math Skills through Storybooks,”Associate Professor of Mathematics Education Jane Wilburne, Associate Professor of Early Childhood Jane Keat, and Associate Professor of Reading Mary Napoli suggest teaching mathematics using literature.

Jolene Busher, Penn State Harrisburg American Studies graduate student, has published her first book, “Patchtown: Life in Eckley Miners' Village 1860-1920,” which began as her award-winning undergraduate thesis in the college’s Honors Program.

Eckley Miners’ Village, a historical society, will host a reception for the book’s release Sunday, Nov. 13 at 2:00 p.m. Busher currently volunteers at the society, serving on the Board of Associates and as the fundraising committee chair.