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Penn State Harrisburg, with the largest selection of master’s and doctoral programs in the region, is hosting a Graduate School Open House at 6:00 p.m., Thursday, March 31 in the campus library.
            
The open house will offer the opportunity to meet and talk with faculty, obtain application, registration, and financial aid information, and learn about Penn State Harrisburg’s master’s and doctoral programs. Certificate and certification programs are also available.

Camilla Robinson, criminal justice graduate student at Penn State Harrisburg, has received a second award, the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences (ACJS) 2011 Master’s Student Scholarship Award, for her research paper, “The Use of Cell Phones in Law Enforcement.”

Offering a little known perspective on American painter Georgia O’Keeffe, Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture Robin Veder will explore O’Keeffe’s muscle memory challenges and the innovative solutions that kept her painting until she was almost 100 years old.

Central Pennsylvania college students will gather March 25 at Penn State Harrisburg for the first time to discuss issues of diversity.

The College Student Diversity Summit will host students, faculty, and staff from sponsoring institutions – Penn State Harrisburg, Messiah College, Harrisburg Area Community College, and the Dauphin County Diversity Forum.

Exploring the voice of the intelligence of the right hemisphere of the brain, “In Our Right Minds: A Performance Celebrating Women, the Sacred Feminine and the Right Brain” will come to Penn State Harrisburg’s Olmsted Kunkle Auditorium Thursday, March 24 at 6:00 p.m.

The Penn State Harrisburg library will celebrate the 20th anniversary of acquiring the Alice Marshall Women's History Collection,Wednesday, March 16 from 1:30-5:00 p.m. in the library’s Morrison Gallery. The Alice Marshall collection is one of the nation’s largest privately-compiled research collections on women’s history.

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Literary works with topics ranging from power and politics to farms and trains, including several books with local appeal, were among those honored March 3 when Penn State Harrisburg recognized 11 faculty members at its annual Publishing Celebration.

At a press conference Wednesday morning (March 9), Penn State President Graham Spanier said he will do everything in his power to fight the massive, unprecedented cuts in funding for public universities proposed in Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett's budget unveiled on Tuesday. The governor has proposed a 52.4 percent reduction in Penn State's appropriation, which represents a decrease of $182 million.

"This is devastating news that could fundamentally change Penn State and our sister institutions in the state and have major negative impacts for the citizens of Pennsylvania and their families," Spanier said. "Penn State's appropriation is mostly used to offset the cost of education for Pennsylvania residents, and the direct impact of these cuts would be to undermine the support of in-state tuition for Pennsylvania resident-students. It will undoubtedly push the cost of a Penn State education out of reach for many Pennsylvania families who are already at the maximum level for loans and grants."

Penn State and other Pennsylvania public universities are slated for the most dramatic appropriation cut in the history of American higher education, based on the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania's budget proposal released today (March 8) by Gov. Tom Corbett.

Penn State Harrisburg will host the fifth annual Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (STEM) Career Launch on March 9 at 8:30 a.m. in the Olmsted building on campus.  Designed to introduce ninth grade students to science, technology, math and business environments, the program features lectures, teamwork activities, hands-on discovery and mentoring.