Penn State Harrisburg hosted its fall 2025 commencement ceremony on Dec. 20 to mark the graduates of the class of 2025’s completion of their academic experience and to recognize their accomplishments.
Penn State’s research enterprise exceeded $1.44 billion in research expenditures in fiscal year 2024-25 — marking another year of record University-wide growth — and Penn State Harrisburg made crucial contributions to that momentum. Building on the strength of the University’s expanding research impact, the college reached its own record levels of productivity this year, contributing $9.8 million in research expenditures, a 32% increase over the previous year.
Penn State Harrisburg has selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the fall 2025 commencement ceremony. The students will bear the banners representing each academic school and, together with the faculty marshals, lead the graduating students during the ceremony processional.
In this Q&A, Tony Lynch, assistant professor of supply chain management at Penn State Harrisburg, explained how tariffs, the longest government shutdown on record and the grounding of the MD-11 cargo planes used by UPS and FedEx may impact Black Friday deals and product availability through the holidays.
This Veterans Day, a Penn State Harrisburg staff member and her son hope to remind the campus community of the importance of military service, and the risks military members take every day to serve their country.
Penn State Harrisburg’s 2025 Sales Competition drew more than 50 students from the region to test their professional sales skills in front of real community business representatives.
Penn State Harrisburg has announced a new initiative with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to offer a 15% tuition discount on in-person and online graduate school programs at the college to all Commonwealth employees and their eligible family members.
Penn State Harrisburg has announced the appointment of two new school directors. Raffy Luquis will lead the college’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, and Amber Stephenson will head the School of Business Administration. The two were selected following national searches.
The Penn State Harrisburg chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) recently competed at the 2025 FBLA National Leadership Conference, with nine students placing in the top 10 in competitions and one student earning a national title.
