Penn State police officers across Pennsylvania will host events for Penn State employees this summer featuring a variety of refreshments, from free coffee to pizza to ice cream and more.
Fifty-five undergraduate students from across the country have arrived at Penn State to take part in the first-ever Drawdown Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. Dubbed Drawdown Scholars, the students will spend eight weeks embedded in research programs across the University, with the aim of investigating positive solutions-orientated paths to take action on climate change.
For the first time, Penn State Harrisburg selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the spring 2019 commencement ceremony. The graduates bore the banners representing each academic school, and together with the faculty marshals led the graduating students during the ceremony processional.
Penn State University Libraries Short Stories’ “The Other Side” spring 2019 contest winners included 11 student honorees, three faculty/staff honorees, and one local middle school student honoree. Each of the four Libraries Short Stories Editorial Board winners and the People’s Choice winner will receive a $100 Visa gift card. All winners and honorable mentions will have their stories placed on the Libraries’ Short Edition short story dispensers.
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.
