Penn State Harrisburg this spring recognized outstanding employee contributions with the 2020 faculty and staff awards. Nominated by the college community, and selected by various award committees, several faculty and staff members received awards.
Penn State Harrisburg recently presented Alumni Achievement Awards to one graduate of each of the five academic schools who demonstrates outstanding professional accomplishment. The awards were presented during a ceremony on campus in September 2019.
Penn State Harrisburg will present a performance of “Millie D’s Bar & Grill” at noon on Jan. 20 and 21, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center (SEC) on campus. The performance is free and open to the public.
Brian Zang, a doctoral student in Penn State Harrisburg’s American studies program, received the American Folklore Society's Bill Ellis Prize for his article, "Conservative Cyborg Synagogues: Extending the Virtual Arms and Legs of Religious Communities."
Penn State Harrisburg has selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the fall 2019 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.
Baseball is an American tradition, with origins that date back to before the American Civil War. As the Washington Nationals celebrate a historic World Series win, a group of speakers at a recent Penn State Harrisburg symposium, titled "Athletes in Action: A Symposium About Diversity in Early American Baseball and Nittany Lion Lettermen's Contributes to the Great War," discussed how the history of baseball is deeply entwined in the history of America.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will present Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Being Earnest,” on October 30 and November 1 at 7:30, and November 2 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre (SEC Building) on campus.
“Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology,” a book by Glen A. Mazis, distinguished professor of philosophy and humanities at Penn State Harrisburg, has been chosen to be honored by a book session at the upcoming Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy’s annual conference.
