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Mary Napoli

Napoli receives Teacher of Honor Award

Mary Napoli, Penn State Harrisburg assistant professor of reading and children’s literature, recently received the Teacher of Honor Award from Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education. 

School of Humanities Director Kathryn Robinson presents the Fall 2010 Student Speech Award to Jenny Kim

Student earns speech award

Jenny Kim, a first-year Communications major, won first place in the School of Humanities Fall 2010 Student Speech Award competition for her informative speech on plastic surgery in South Korea. Kim's speech was chosen from among those nominated by students in nine sections of CAS 100: Effective Speech. School Director Kathryn Robinson presented Kim with the award during a Dec. 10 ceremony.

Interim development director named

Marissa Graby Hoover was named interim director of development and alumni relations at Penn State Harrisburg, effective January 31, 2011. She replaces Jason Ketter who joined the Kutztown University Foundation.

Trevor Blank

Doctoral student adds to national awards

Adding to his growing list of national awards, Penn State Harrisburg American Studies doctoral candidate Trevor Blank recently received the W. W. Newell Prize for the best student essay on a topic in children's folklore from the American Folklore Society.   

Rinku Sen

Publisher to kickoff diversity lecture series Feb. 22

Penn State Harrisburg’s 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Lecture Series will begin Feb. 22 with Rinku Sen, president and executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and publisher of ColorLines magazine. Beginning at 12:30 p.m. on campus in the Gallery Lounge, Olmsted Building, the lecture is free and open to the public.

Student pieces together history of war

After listening to 33 hours of audio recordings of Spanish-American War veterans, American Studies graduate student Lindsay Harlow admits that she is attached.

“I hold them so close to my heart that I cannot abandon their stories,” she said.