Penn State Harrisburg professor Raffy R. Luquis was named to the 2022 POWER 100 Who’s Who in Latino Pennsylvania list, an initiative of the Pennsylvania Latino Convention.
Madylene Triplett first stepped onto a Penn State campus when she was 13 to attend summer camps hosted by the Penn State School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. During the camps, she programmed robots, designed and built a vacuum, and spoke with women engineers from NASA, Google and elsewhere. Now, she is on her way to becoming one of those engineers herself, as she steps back onto a Penn State campus, this time as a first-year student.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome professor and author Jelena Subotić on Wednesday, Oct. 26, for a virtual presentation on her latest book, “Yellow Star, Red Star: Holocaust Remembrance after Communism.”
Many international medical professionals have come to the U.S. and found an opportunity to continue to practice medicine in their new country through Penn State Harrisburg’s Second Degree Nursing Program.
In acknowledgement of National Coming Out Day, Penn State Harrisburg Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion will host “Experiences through Storytelling” at 6 p.m. Oct. 11 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre.
Contemporary flamenco dance company, Pasión y Arte, will kick off the 2022-2023 Kulkarni Cultural series with a performance on Thursday, Oct. 13, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre.
The 2022 Summer Institute for Equity in the Academic Experience held in June saw 16 teams across Penn State colleges and campuses, as well as seven teams from regional colleges and universities, gather in person at Penn State Harrisburg and virtually to focus on expanding access and advancing academic equity at their institutions.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration recently was approved for two new student chapters of organizations that support women in information, computing and cybersecurity.
Pride at Penn State Harrisburg, the college’s student organization for LGBTQ+ students and allies, has relaunched with new student leaders who said they are looking forward to being a visible presence on campus and providing a “brave space” where students can be themselves.
Patricia Aguilera, assistant teaching professor in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education at Penn State Harrisburg, never intended to leave her home country of Mexico to live, learn and work in the United States. “It was more of a coincidence,” she recalled. A decade later, she's helping fellow international students find their place at Penn State, just as she did.
