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Penn State Harrisburg will host illustrator Brian Pinkney and writer/editor Andrea Davis Pinkney, April 24 at 11:50 a.m. in the Library’s Morrison Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.

Significant contributors to the field of children’s literature, the pair will speak about their creative process and also will sign autographs.

Marcellus Taylor, a senior sociology student at Penn State Harrisburg, has received the University’s 2012 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award. Named for Penn State’s tenth president, the award recognizes outstanding scholastic achievement, good citizenship, and leadership in student activities and is presented to just two students University-wide each year. Taylor is the eighth Penn State Harrisburg student to receive the honor.

Penn State Harrisburg will host an Earth Day Celebration Thursday, April 19 at 10:00 a.m. on the Vartan Plaza. Free and open to the public, the event is organized by the campus Society of Environmental Engineers.

Activities for the annual celebration include tie-dye t-shirts, flower arranging, exhibits, and an engineering student “green” competition. Participants can also plant a tree for the annual Earth Day Stream Restoration Project.

(Updated April 6, 2012)

Dr. Glen Mazis, professor of humanities and philosophy, has published The River Bends in Time, a book of poetry about life along the Susquehanna River and also the nature of time. It is published by Anaphora Literary Press.

The collection of poems follows the flow of time and the river as it unwinds in a small town in Pennsylvania along the banks of the Susquehanna.