Hannah Spector, assistant professor of education at Penn State Harrisburg, has been awarded the 2019 Early Career Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s special interest group Critical Issues in Curriculum & Cultural Studies.
Penn State Harrisburg's Office of Research and Outreach will hold its annual Research Week April 15 through 19. The event celebrates the creative and scholarly accomplishments of faculty and students.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its 2019 spring commencement at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 4. E. Philip Wenger, chairman and chief executive officer of Fulton Financial Corp., a financial holding company based in Lancaster, will deliver the keynote address at the ceremony.
As part of Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology Lecture Series, Gerald E. Galloway, retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army, will present “Dealing with the Growing Consequences of Urban Flooding: Floodplain and Stormwater Management in the Face of Climate Change, Aging Infrastructure, Lack of Funding and Apathy” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Tuesday, April 16.
Math and technology and engineering teachers from 30 south central Pennsylvania middle schools participated in a one-day workshop offered by the Capital Area Institute for Mathematics and Science at Penn State Harrisburg on teaching mathematical modeling through 3D printing. Participants were given 3D printers to take back to their classrooms.
Holocaust survivor Linda Schwab will visit Penn State Harrisburg at noon on Tuesday, April 16, in the Olmsted Building auditorium on campus. Schwab, a native of Poland, will discuss her family’s escape during the Holocaust.
Philip Zimbardo, clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author known for his work on the Stanford Prison Experiment, will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Tuesday, April 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center.
Penn State Harrisburg marketing and consumer research expert Chinintorn "Pom" Nakhata is examining how social media trends influence not just the habits of consumers, but their self-perception, and how brands are involved in shaping it.
The kinesiology program in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education will host a National Biomechanics Day event on campus for local high school students on Wednesday, April 10 in the Capital Union Building.
