Dr. Odd Stalebrink, associate professor of public administration, has been appointed to the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC) by the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF). The GASAC advises the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), a non-profit organization designed to establish and improve financial reporting and accounting standards for state and local governments.
The Penn State Harrisburg Alumni Society honored Lisa Tryson,’94 marketing; Jane Leipold, ’88 MBA; and Michael Fiaschetti, ’04 MBA, at its annual awards dinner, Oct. 22, 2011.
It takes a special kind of student to choose a more rigorous academic path than is the norm. Yet with applications to the Penn State Harrisburg Honors Program increasing thirteen-fold between 2010 and 2011, plenty of students are seeing the appeal.
Watch the Penn State Harrisburg men’s and women’s basketball teams in person or online as each begins pursuit of a first NCAA Division III tournament bid on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Counseling Services will offer free eating disorder and alcohol abuse screenings Tuesday, Feb. 28 as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Confidential and voluntary, the services will be available to students from Noon-2:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge. Penn State Harrisburg Licensed Professional Counselor Sarita Sankey, Ph.D., will give an eating disorder presentation before the session.
An independent online service has rated Penn State Harrisburg the safest college campus in Pennsylvania and among the safest in the nation.
StateUniversity.com, which ranks the nation’s colleges on topics ranging from academics to overall enrollment, rates the Penn State Harrisburg campus as having the lowest incidence of serious crime in the Commonwealth.
Bernadette Lear, associate librarian at Penn State Harrisburg, received the Pennsylvania Library Association’s (PaLA’s) Certificate of Merit for her work reviewing, updating, and organizing the PaLA archives. One of PaLA’s highest honors, the Certificate of Merit annually recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the Commonwealth libraries.
Dr. Peter Idowu has been appointed assistant dean for graduate studies at Penn State Harrisburg.
The position, designed to support the growth of the college’s graduate programs and serve as a liaison with the University Graduate School, “reinforces Penn State Harrisburg’s commitment to graduate education and consolidates its role as a regional leader in the field,” said Chancellor Mukund Kulkarni.
Stacey Shubitz, Kappa Delta Pi Teacher of Honor and literacy consultant, will hold a literacy workshop Wednesday, Feb. 22 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. in the Library’s Morrison Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Shubitz will discuss writing strategies and techniques, and will hold a book signing session for her new book, “Day by Day: Refining Writing Workshop through 180 Days of Reflective Practice,” co-written with Ruth Ayres.
