Penn State Harrisburg has selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the spring 2024 commencement ceremony. The graduates will bear the banners representing each academic school and, together with the faculty marshals, lead the graduating students during the ceremony processional.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will present its spring concert titled “The Sounds of Stage and Screen” at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 17 and 18, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome Holocaust survivor Ronnie Reutlinger Breslow at noon on April 11 via webinar. Breslow, born in Kircheim, Germany, will share how her stamp collection saved the lives of her and her mother as they tried to gain safe passage to the United States during the Holocaust.
Two doctoral students in Penn State Harrisburg’s American studies program have received 2024 graduate student awards, prestigious university-wide recognition given by the Graduate School. Maria Rovito won the 2023-24 Alumni Association Dissertation Award, while Timothy D. Smith received the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Office of Research and Outreach will host Research and Discovery Day on Wednesday, April 10. This event intends to showcase current areas of research and scholarly activities at the college.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will celebrate the 15th anniversary of its American studies doctoral program with a symposium titled “American Studies in Public: Justice, Meaning, and Community Engagement” on Saturday, April 6, from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery, Madlyn Hanes Library on campus.
Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Kehuma Langmia, chair in the Department of Strategic, Legal and Management Communication, School of Communications, Howard University, on April 1 and 2.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities will present its spring musical, “Urinetown,” on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 3 to 5, at 7:30 p.m., and Saturday, April 6, at 2 and 7:30 p.m. The performances will take place in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center building at Penn State Harrisburg.
Senel Poyrazli, professor of counseling psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, and David Witwer, professor of American studies and history, School of Humanities, have been named distinguished professors by the Penn State Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. They are among 13 distinguished professors named in 2024.
Two doctoral students in Penn State Harrisburg’s American studies program, have received prestigious honors — one awarded a University Graduate Fellowship, and the other awarded a prize from the American Folklore Society.
