Public administration doctoral student Huiting Qi has been selected as a 2022 Founders' Fellow by the American Society for Public Administration, a leading public administration academic association.
Penn State Harrisburg recently recognized outstanding employee contributions at the 2022 Faculty and Staff Recognition Program. Nominated by the college community and selected by various award committees, several faculty and staff members received awards.
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.
Camille Ingham, who recently graduated from Penn State Harrisburg with a master of arts in criminal justice, partnered with the Center for Survey Research at the college to assess how the publication of digital arrest logs impacted the future success of justice-involved individuals, especially arrestees, across Pennsylvania.
Penn State Harrisburg will host a panel discussion titled “Geopolitical Earthquake: The Russian Invasion of Ukraine” from noon to 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, March 22, in Room W107 Olmsted Building on campus.
With a $50,000 gift, Terry Davis and his wife, Marsha, have created the Terry L. Davis Criminal Justice Scholarship, the first endowed undergraduate scholarship for students studying criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg.
Nelson Rimensnyder, retired director of research for the U.S. House Committee on the District of Columbia and current director of the New Columbia Archives, and his wife, Lisa Nickerson, have made a commitment of $312,500 to establish the Rimensnyder Graduate Scholarship for Excellence in Public Administration at Penn State Harrisburg. The couple, who reside in Washington, D.C., share a legacy of public sector experience, both as federal employees and as civic activists.
Shaun Gabbidon, distinguished professor of criminal justice in Penn State Harrisburg's School of Public Affairs, was awarded the 2022 Outstanding Book Award by the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences for his book “Shopping While Black: Consumer Racial Profiling in America.”
