Examining the candidates’ stances on issues of inequality in income and opportunity, the next in Penn State Harrisburg’s 2012 discussion series of election-year topics, “Academic Perspectives on the Election Season,” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 17 at noon in the Gallery Lounge, W-107 Olmsted Building.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold a Graduate School Open House on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6:00 p.m. in the library.
The open house will offer the opportunity to learn about the college’s more than 30 graduate programs; meet with faculty; and obtain admission requirements and financial aid information. RSVP preferred, but not required.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Homecoming 2012, a college-wide week-long celebration, runs this week through Oct. 14, and includes a community parade, held with Middletown School District to highlight the homecoming celebrations of both institutions. The parade begins at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13 on Market Street’s 100 block in Middletown.
The next in Penn State Harrisburg’s 2012 discussion series of election-year topics will examine how scientific issues are incorporated into public policy and how they should affect voter decisions. Scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 10 at noon in the Gallery Lounge, W-107 Olmsted Building, the next “Academic Perspectives on the Election Season” will discuss infrastructure, energy, climate change, and pandemic vaccinations.
Penn State Harrisburg will host an Undergraduate Open House on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 9:00 a.m. in the Capital Union Building.
The event will present information for prospective students about the college’s more than 30 bachelor’s degree programs and options for completing the first two years of study leading to more than 160 undergraduate majors offered throughout Penn State.
Two song cycles, groups of songs performed in a sequence as a single entity, by Adam Gustafson, instructor of music at Penn State Harrisburg, will be recorded on commercial albums by the Vox 3 Collective, a Chicago-based, professional music group whose aim is to preserve and promote art song.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will kick off its 2012-2013 calendar of events with a lecture by Dr. Martin Dean titled “From War Crimes Investigation to the Encyclopedia of Camps and Ghettos: Documenting Holocaust Sites in Close Detail” at 12:00 noon on Oct. 18, 2012 in the college’s Capital Union Building Quiet Study.
Simon Bronner, Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore and chair of the American studies program at Penn State Harrisburg, recently published a comprehensive review of student traditions in college culture.
A panel discussion examining the presidential candidates’ campaign strategies is next up in Penn State Harrisburg’s fall 2012 series “Academic Perspectives on the Election Season,” which looks at important election-year topics. Scheduled for Wednesday, Oct.
