Penn State Harrisburg students recently “drove drunk” on campus with the assistance of the college’s Police Services.
Through the combined efforts of seven college support units, more than 100 students took advantage of a drunken driving simulation in which they donned goggles which duplicate the effect of alcohol on vision and coordination and then tried to steer a pedal car through a series of twists and turns.
Area residents can learn how to balance doctoral study at Penn State Harrisburg with a busy personal schedule at an Information Night Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 6 p.m.
The session in the Morrison Gallery of the college library will provide information on the D.Ed. in Adult Education, the Ph.D. in Public Administration, and the recently introduced Ph.D. in American Studies offered on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. Registration for the Information Night is not necessary.
An equipment donation from PPL will provide a unique learning experience for electrical engineering students at Penn State Harrisburg.
The donation to the college’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology – a 12-kilovolt circuit breaker and accompanying electromagnetic relays and hardware – “will take our undergraduate and graduate engineering power courses to a new level,” says Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Peter Idowu.
An undergraduate student’s effort to improve her capabilities with design software has resulted in the Penn State Harrisburg poster celebrating Martin Luther King Day in 2010.
Senior Communications major Vanessa Knight’s design was judged the winner of the annual student poster design contest in celebration of the holiday. Her poster will be used to promote the observance on campus.
An independent online service has rated Penn State Harrisburg the safest college campus in Pennsylvania and one of the safest in the nation.
StateUniversity.com, which ranks the nation’s colleges and universities in a variety of topics ranging from academics to overall enrollment, rates the Penn State Harrisburg campus as having the lowest incidence of serious crime in the Commonwealth.
Penn State Harrisburg Assistant Professor of Education and Reading Mary Napoli has been named to serve on the committee which chooses the coveted National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
The 11-member awards committee, consisting of education scholars from throughout the nation, “will review books of poetry for children that were published in 2009. We could easily have as many as 100 entries to consider,” Napoli says.
Penn State Harrisburg’s commitment to be a leader in sustainability was the focus of a recent public symposium.
Entitled “Sustainable Living: Concepts of sustainability and how communities and individual citizens can lead a more sustainable, environmentally friendly life,” the presentation was an installment in the Academic Perspectives on Current Events series hosted by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.
“THON” came to Penn State Harrisburg recently, thanks to an undergraduate student who saw an opportunity and a need.
Sophomore Cody Page was involved in mini-thons as a student at Annville-Cleona, but was “disappointed to learn students at Penn State Harrisburg had not organized their own event to raise funds for the annual Dance Marathon” at University Park, the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.
Hershey High School’s vocal ensemble, “Cantabile,” shared the stage with the Penn State Harrisburg student choir December 8 for a concert heralding the coming of the holiday season entitled “Faiths of Our Fathers.”
Featuring sacred music from a variety of cultures and traditions, the concert before a packed Morrison Gallery audience, the program included selections ranging from Hebrew to Nigerian to traditional spirituals and to English carols.
A class assignment in a School of Humanities course turned into a three-day exhibit of student creations in the college’s Gallery Lounge recently.
The final research project in Ilene Rosenberg’s art history class focusing on ancient to Medieval architecture involved each student choosing a structure or structure complex from prehistoric to Gothic, completing a research paper on that structure, and constructing an approximate scale model.
