On a Sunday morning 66 years ago, a pre-emptive military strike on the United States Fleet base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, demolished U.S Navy battleships, cruisers, aircraft and destroyers, and killed more than 2,000 personnel.
The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy was intended to neutralize the U.S. Pacific Fleet so Japan could advance into other countries in the Dutch East Indies to take their major natural resources: oil and rubber.
Freelance journalist and photographer Lorna Tychostup brought "Iraq - the war you won't see on TV" to Penn State Harrisburg Monday, Dec. 3.
The presentation by Tychostup, who is also the senior editor for Chronogram magazine, is free and open to the public in the Olmsted Building auditorium on campus.
Recent Penn State Harrisburg graduate Jason Shanebrook was recently profiled in Techwire, published by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania.
Shanebrook, who earned a bachelor's degree in Information Sciences and Technology with an option in design and development, was the first recipient of the TechQuest Scholarship presented by the council.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member Richard Fiene is one of three University researchers who have been awarded a $130,000 grant to conduct a national study of early childhood professional development programs.
To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold 30 million copies and still sells several hundred thousand a year.
Yet, despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure, refusing since 1964 to give interviews or talk about her Pulitzer prize-winning novel.
Two prep courses for the new SAT Exam will be offered at Penn State Harrisburg on Saturday mornings February 2 through March 8 and March 15 through April 19.
Information sessions for the course will be from 6 to 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 8 and Thursday, Jan. 10.
Douglas A. Neidich, general manager of Harrisburg-based Amphenol InterCon Systems, Inc., will deliver the keynote speech at Penn State Harrisburg's December 22 fall commencement ceremonies.
More than 500 undergraduate and graduate degrees will be conferred during the 9:30 a.m. ceremonies in the Giant Center, Hershey.
To Kill a Mockingbird, the twentieth-century's most widely read American novel, has sold 30 million copies and still sells several hundred thousand a year.
Yet, despite the book's perennial popularity, its creator, Harper Lee has become a somewhat mysterious figure, refusing since 1965 to give interviews or talk about her Pulitzer prize-winning novel.
