Weston Kensinger, associate teaching professor of biobehavioral health and director of the Douglas W. Pollock Center for Addiction Outreach and Research at Penn State Harrisburg, has been appointed to serve on the Pennsylvania Advisory Council on Substance Use.
Students working the ITS Service Desk at Penn State Harrisburg help campus community members with a wide array of technology issues — from downloading software to deploying, building, and testing classroom and lab computers, and even occasionally trying to rescue someone’s device from an accidental spill. As they troubleshoot, they’re gaining valuable career experience that is giving them an advantage when it comes time to look for jobs.
In a continuation of its longtime partnership with Penn State, Barnes & Noble College, a Barnes & Noble Education company, which operates the Penn State Bookstore, has awarded a 2022-23 round of grants to support a range of programs and initiatives across the University.
Four Penn State Harrisburg professors have been awarded grants for projects related to news literacy as part of a pilot program through Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome historian Julie Keresztes for a discussion on "Nazi photography and the Holocaust" at noon on Friday, Jan. 27, via webinar. Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — the day Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet forces.
The Career Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg offers individuals with intellectual disabilities, age 18 to 25, the opportunity to receive an inclusive post-secondary education. Peer mentors are the “heart” of the program, according to Sandy McBride, Career Studies program coordinator.
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence recently announced the results of its third seed funding competition. The center awarded $145,000 to advance six interdisciplinary research projects that feature researchers from eight colleges and institutes.
For more than three decades, Penn State Harrisburg’s Multicultural Academic Excellence Program, better known as MAEP, has served as a place for students to expand their horizons, meet new people, learn about academic or professional topics, and simply be themselves without judgment.
Penn State Harrisburg and PenOwl Productions Theatre Company will celebrate 25 years of the MLK Campus Play Series with “The Dream on Stage,” on Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre on campus. The event is free and open to the public.
In the 20 years since its inception, the Penn State Harrisburg applied behavioral analysis program — and the discipline in general — has seen exponential growth. Today, the program produces some of the most highly qualified, sought-after leaders in applied behavior analysis, with graduates working in hospitals, schools, and community-based organizations; as well as working as professors, clinicians, and researchers.
