Penn State Harrisburg is now offering a graduate certificate in Folklore and Ethnography. The 15-credit graduate certificate program provides students with skills and practices used in projects and institutions of folklore and ethnography.
Yuefeng Xie, professor of environmental engineering at Penn State Harrisburg and Middletown, PA resident, has received the 2014 Penn State Faculty Outreach Award.
The award honors faculty who have positively and substantially affected individuals, organizations or communities through problem solving or development as a result of extending their scholarship.
Select Medical has made a $250,000 gift that will name the Select Medical Nursing Simulation Lab at Penn State Harrisburg, a 2,600 square-foot state-of-the-art facility with six patient beds, two simulation rooms, a central observation area, and an adjoining classroom.
To honor the many contributions of the late Dr. Louise Hoffman, associate professor of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will dedicate a memorial bench on Friday, April 4 at 9:30 a.m. on Vartan Plaza near the campus bookstore.
Dr. Hoffman was a dedicated faculty member in the School of Humanities, from 1985 until her death in 2010. She taught courses in history and humanities, about which she was passionate.
This summer, Penn State will transition to a new emergency messaging system, away from the current service known as PSUTXT. The transition to the new service, which will be called PSUAlert, will begin in late May and will continue through June. No action is required at this time; to learn more, visit this link
Penn State Harrisburg will present an Academic Perspectives on Current Events panel titled Digital Engagements: The 2012 NEA Survey and the Changing Face of the Arts, on Wednesday, April 2, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge.
The Center for Signal Integrity at Penn State Harrisburg will host the Eighth Central Pennsylvania Symposium on Signal Integrity, Friday, April 4 from 8 a.m. to 4:55 p.m. in the Capital Union Building on campus. Signal integrity involves the quality of electrical signals passing through connectors used in electronic devices like computers or cellular phones.
To mark the 35th anniversary of the Three Mile Island (TMI) nuclear accident, Penn State Harrisburg will host the conference TMI @ 35: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Crisis in Perspective – Analyses, Stories, Policies, March 27 to 28 on campus in the library Morrison Gallery. The conference opens at 3 p.m. on Thursday, March 27.
Daniel Victor, New York Times social media staff editor, will give the final presentation in this spring’s Communications Speakers Series at Penn State Harrisburg on Monday, March 24 at 7 p.m. in the Capital Union Building (CUB). His discussion will spotlight the fast-growing field of social media communications from the vantage point of the New York Times newsroom. One of the field’s young pioneers, Victor is a Penn State alumnus and former Patriot-News reporter.