Penn State Harrisburg has selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the spring 2022 commencement ceremony on May 7. 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 will hold its spring 2022 commencement ceremony at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 7, at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Ted Kauffman, alumnus and chairman of Kauffman Holdings, will be the keynote speaker.
David Witwer, professor of American studies in the Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities, has been named the 2022-23 Fulbright Bicentennial Distinguished Chair in American Studies at the University of Helsinki, Finland.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities will present its spring musical, “Little Shop of Horrors,” at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, April 6 to 8 and 2 and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, April 9. The performances will take place in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre at Penn State Harrisburg.
Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities will present its spring concert titled “Summer” on Wednesday and Thursday, March 23 and 24, at 7 p.m. in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center.
For David Witwer, American studies professor at Penn State Harrisburg, a key takeaway for students studying history is understanding how parts of history are selected and chosen to be remembered while other parts are left to be forgotten. One way he does this is through hands-on experience.
Mary Zaborskis, assistant professor of American studies and gender studies at Penn State Harrisburg, received an honorable mention in the National Women’s Studies Association (NWSA) “Feminist Formations” Paper Award.
