Penn State Harrisburg has named six graduates to represent each academic school and graduate studies as student marshals for the spring 2023 commencement ceremony. The graduates will bear the banners representing each academic school and, together with the faculty marshals, lead the graduating students during the commencement processional.
Students in Amy Sauertieg’s event planning class spent the spring semester planning and executing a fundraiser as a real-life experience for the course.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its spring 2023 commencement ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 6, at the Giant Center in Hershey. Pennsylvania state Rep. Patty Kim will serve as the keynote speaker for the ceremony. April Demsko, who will receive her bachelor of science degree in marketing at the ceremony, will serve as the student speaker.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities will present its spring musical, “Cabaret,” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 19-21, and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. The performances will take place in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center building at Penn State Harrisburg.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will welcome Kyera Singleton to present the annual American studies lecture on Thursday, March 30, in the Gallery Lounge (W107), Olmsted Building on campus. Singleton, executive director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, will present "All Who Dare to Be Free: Confronting the Legacies of Slavery in Museums."
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities will present its spring concert, titled “Lord of the Dance,” Wednesday and Thursday, March 22 and 23, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Jeffrey Herf to campus on Tuesday, March 28, in the Kulkarni Theatre, SEC Building on campus. The event is free and open to the public.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities and School of Public Affairs will host an event featuring interactive discussions on voting rights, the Constitution and civic engagement on Wednesday, Feb. 22, in the Capital Union Building (Room 210) on campus.
Two poems by Penn State Harrisburg student Jesse Cristoforo were selected for publication in the Sigma Tau Delta Rectangle, a journal of creative writing published by the international English honor society.
Penn State Harrisburg will welcome 2022-23 Penn State Laureate Velvet Brown for MOJATUBA: Tuba and Dance Fusion at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Feb. 9, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre. The event is free and open to the public.