Speaker and community advocate Carlos Ojeda Jr. will deliver the final presentation of the Penn State Harrisburg Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Lecture Series 2011, Tuesday, April 19 at 12:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building’s Gallery Lounge.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Student Government Association (SGA) and Blue and White Society will host the annual bonfire Wednesday, April 13 from 8:00 to 11:00 p.m. (weather dependent) in the field between the library and the Capital Union Building, as part of the campus-wide Rites of Spring week.
The Penn State Harrisburg Lion Ambassadors are sponsoring a community Easter egg hunt on campus Friday, Apr. 22 on the Vartan Plaza, adjacent to the Olmsted Building.
Toan V. Ngo, a senior information science and technology major at Penn State Harrisburg, has been named one of two recipients of Penn State’s 2011 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award.
Named for the University’s tenth president, the award recognizes a combination of high scholastic attainment, good citizenship, and participation and leadership in student activities.
One of the region’s most extensive summer educational endeavors, Penn State Harrisburg’s Summer Youth Program returns this year with a range of programs, from “Glee” camp to beginner martial arts to designing computer games.
Penn State Harrisburg students will present their research projects on topics ranging from organic roofing materials to word-of-mouth advertising on Facebook during the 6th Annual Student Symposium, Friday, April 8 from 8:30 a.m.-3:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building’s Gallery Lounge.
The symposium provides students with an opportunity to present their research and other scholarly and creative works and to encourage them to communicate about their work with others.
To celebrate the shared commitment of blacks and Jews to freedom from slavery and oppression, Penn State Harrisburg will host its first freedom seder, Wednesday, April 6 at 4:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Special Events Room.
Former Pennsylvania budget secretary Mary Soderberg and leaders from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, the state House of Representatives, and the Maryland Arts Council will address heritage funding, politics, and programming during the 2011 Annual Conference of the Middle Atlantic American Studies Association April 8 and 9 at the Pennsylvania State Capitol.
Filmmaker and hate crime victim Erin Davies will bring the story of her vandalized Volkswagon Beetle, known as the “Fagbug,” to campus on April 5.
Davies will discuss how she turned the story of her vandalized car into an award-winning documentary film and broader outreach campaign, from 12:30 - 1:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building’s Morrison Gallery. A public screening of the film “Fagbug” will be shown from 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery.
Penn State Harrisburg engineering students will benefit from a recent gift from the ArcelorMittal steel company. The ArcelorMittal Award, in memory of the late John “Jack” A.
