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.
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.
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.
The VanGo! Museum on Wheels will be at Penn State Harrisburg from noon to 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 6, at the Olmsted Building parking lot. The event is sponsored by the college’s School of Humanities.
For the first time, Penn State Harrisburg participated in the Three Minute Thesis competition, which celebrates research conducted by graduate students. More than 200 universities participate in the annual competition, which was developed by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, to cultivate students’ academic, presentation and research communication skills.
As a part of Penn State Startup Week, a weeklong celebration of entrepreneurship that connects participants with Penn State’s vast network of resources aimed at driving innovation in all fields, Penn State Harrisburg will hold several events.
Entrepreneurs across the University will pitch their business ideas and create inventive solutions to common problems through a series of competitions and challenges held during Penn State Startup Week from April 1-5. The challenges are at the heart of Startup Week’s mission of teaching and inspiring participants to make innovation a part of their lives, communities and careers, either by starting their own companies or bringing a problem-solving approach to established organizations.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities’ theatre program will present the spring musical “25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee” at 7:30 p.m. April 4-6 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center on campus.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will welcome Gloria Kondrup to campus on Thursday, March 28 at 7 p.m. in Room 103 of the Educational Activities Building for a Society of Design presentation. "FEMINAE, Typographic Voices: of Women, by Women," is a presentation of political posters from the archives of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
