Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Rebecca Skloot and members of Henrietta Lacks’ family for a discussion on campus, at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 25 in the Capital Union Building events room.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will present a lecture by Natalia Aleksiun, titled “Family Networks and Surviving the Holocaust in Eastern Europe” at noon Thursday, Oct. 25, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center (SEC).
Maria A. Turkson, assistant teaching professor of psychology at Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, will lead an interactive discussion and presentation to bring awareness to domestic violence from 11:30 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. Friday, Oct. 19, in room W338 in the Olmsted Building on campus.
Penn State’s seventh annual Exercise is Medicine on Campus week will feature a variety of initiatives and events Oct. 8-12, including a “Class Challenge,” an expanded EIM Everywhere Alumni Initiative, and three Mobile Exercise is Medicine trips to Penn State Hazleton, Harrisburg and Hershey.
The Criminal Justice Club and the Diversity and Educational Equity Committee at Penn State Harrisburg will host "The Defamation Experience” from 7 to 9 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center on campus. The program features a riveting courtroom drama that explores the issues of race, class, religion, gender and the law with a twist: The audience is the jury.
Penn State Harrisburg is inviting the college community to travel the world during “World Fest,” an all-day event beginning at 11 a.m. on Tuesday, October 2.
Hunger is a real problem for today’s students, including those at Penn State Harrisburg. The college’s commitment to providing a supportive environment for its students has gone one step further with the opening of the WE cARE food pantry in August.
