The grass won’t be the only thing "greening up" this spring on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. While students were away for winter break, many buildings on the Harrisburg campus were receiving energy-efficient improvements.
The Second Annual Pennsylvania Weed and Seed Conference, "Empowering Communities for a Change," comes to the Sheraton Harrisburg-Hershey June 7 and 8.
Implemented in 1995, Pennsylvania’s Weed and Seed program addresses the problem of high crime rates, especially with respect to drug and violent crime, and the presence of social deterioration, such as juvenile delinquency, poverty, and unemployment in medium-sized communities.
One of the area’s most extensive and ambitious summer educational experiences for schoolchildren of all ages is returning to Penn State Harrisburg the weeks of June 18, June 25, July 9, July 16, July 23, and July 30.
Kids College, which attracted more than 600 children to the Penn State Harrisburg campus last summer, offers more than 50 camps this year for children in grades 3 through 12.
Richard M. Barger, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries, is the Penn State Harrisburg chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma 2007 Distinguished Honoree.
Barger was honored at the recent induction ceremony of the student chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society for undergraduate and graduate business students.
For her recent induction as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Penn State Harrisburg Professor of Public Policy and Administration Beverly Cigler has been honored by the state’s House of Representatives.
Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate students in Penn State Harrisburg&s School of Business Administration have achieved excellence in their studies and earned 2007 invitations to Beta Gamma Sigma membership for the academic year.
Poor customer service has been a subject of attention across all professions and industries — in both the private and nonprofit sectors. Corporate leaders have long known the value of customer support and even public agency leaders increasingly recognize the need to offer better service to citizens.
"Passion, for Better or Worse!" is the theme of Penn State Harrisburg’s popular public International Film Festival which begins an eight-movie run Thursday, April 19.
The seventh annual series, free and open to the public, is hosted by the college’s School of Humanities and features films from Spain, Argentina, Norway, Iran, France, Germany, China, and Japan.
All showings are at 7 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Auditorium.
Six faculty members and two staffers were names recipients of major college honors as part of Penn State Harrisburg’s annual Awards Convocation March 27.
The award winners included:
Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Shaun L. Gabbidon — Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity Award;
Information on all the undergraduate study opportunities at Penn State Harrisburg will be available when the College hosts an Information Open House beginning at 9 a.m. Saturday, April 14.
Penn State Harrisburg is home to two associate and 30 baccalaureate degrees and the first two years of study leading to more than 160 undergraduate majors available throughout the Penn State system — including 29 of its own.
