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.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Elizabeth C. Strauss, assistant professor of history at Mount St. Mary’s University in Emmitsburg, Maryland, at noon on March 28 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center. Strauss will present “And Tomorrow Death Will Come: Individual and Collective Aging in the Łódź Ghetto, 1939-1944.”
In November 2018, Penn State Harrisburg Student Government Association President Justin Jones developed “It’s Bigger Than You,” a student-led service initiative that challenges student clubs and organizations on Penn State campuses to perform at least one community service event every month for the remainder of the academic year.
As Penn State University Libraries launches into its third University-wide Libraries Short Stories writing contest, previous Penn State authors’ winning works now have twice the potential to be printed and read across Pennsylvania, with the University Libraries’ installation of new Short Edition story dispensers at five of its Commonwealth Campus libraries.
At Penn State Harrisburg, the Student Government Association (SGA) and the Office of Student Life and Intercultural Programs are collaborating to encourage college participation at Advocate Penn State Capital Day on March 20.
Retired astronaut and Penn State alumnus Guion “Guy” Bluford Jr. recently presented a talk titled “STEM Forward: Minorities in Engineering” at Penn State Harrisburg. In his talk, Bluford discussed his space shuttle flights and the future of manned space flight. He also gave insight on his journey to obtaining a degree, and persevering and advancing in a science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) career.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will present an afternoon of music and storytelling by Yiddish folk artist Susan Leviton at noon on Tuesday, Feb. 19, in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge (Room W107). Leviton will perform historical and contemporary Yiddish songs interwoven with folk tales.
