Boarding a plane in her home country of Ghana, bound for the U.S., Nana Annan could feel her heart beating. She was embarking on a journey that would take her thousands of miles away.
In a crisis you want a leader who is calm, unassuming, and honest. You want someone just like Harold Denton, said Dr. Holly Angelique, professor of community psychology at Penn State Harrisburg.
Denton, a nuclear engineer who had no experience dealing with the public, wasn’t flashy or loud or famous. But when the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear power plant suffered a partial meltdown in March 1979, Denton was the perfect person to explain the situation to a panicked public.
Penn State Harrisburg has begun preparing for the demolition of the Alice Demey Elementary School, set to take place later this month. A security fence has been installed around the project and actions have been taken to preserve and protect trees on the site. Interior work will begin soon.
The large parking lot on the west side of the Olmsted Building will be closed beginning Thursday, July 10. It is expected that the lot will remain closed for one week, reopening next Thursday, July 17.
The closure is a result of the road project removing the crosswalks that connect the parking lot with the Olmsted Building. Questions can be directed to the Physical Plant Office at 717-948-6235.
Penn State Harrisburg has recently been notified by United Water that our campus water supply, which is provided through Susquehanna Area Regional Airport Authority (SARAA), has been found to contain levels of an unregulated drinking water compound, Perfluorooctane Sulfonate (PFOS), that exceeded provisional health advisory standards.
The American Studies program in the Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities has welcomed Harika Zöhre to campus. Zöhre is a visiting scholar from Mersin University, Turkey, where she serves as a research assistant in folklore studies.
Drs. Anne Douds, Eileen Ahlin, and Dan Howard, criminal justice faculty members in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg, have been approved by Dauphin county commissioners to study the county’s specialty courts for veteran and drug offenders. At the commissioners’ behest, they will also study offenders with mental health problems.
On March 28, 1979, the worst accident in commercial nuclear power history in the United States began unfolding at the Three Mile Island (TMI) plant outside Middletown, Pa. The events of the ensuing week would rivet the attention of the world on the Harrisburg area.
Boarding a plane in her home country of Ghana, bound for the U.S., Nana Annan could feel her heart beating. She was embarking on a journey that would take her thousands of miles away. 
In a crisis you want a leader who is calm, unassuming, and honest. You want someone just like Harold Denton, said Dr. Holly Angelique, professor of 
On March 28, 1979, the worst accident in commercial nuclear power history in the United States began unfolding at the Three Mile Island (TMI) plant outside Middletown, Pa. The events of the ensuing week would rivet the attention of the world on the Harrisburg area.