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 will offer a new bachelor of science degree in cybersecurity analytics and operations beginning fall 2020. The new major is an interdisciplinary program that will help prepare students for careers as cybersecurity professionals.
Erdener Kaynak, a faculty member in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration has been named distinguished professor of marketing by the Penn State Office of the Vice Provost for Academic Affairs.
Last fall was the first time Penn State Harrisburg students participated in the ETF Global Portfolio Challenge. The first time proved to be good luck for the college and for senior finance major Sabastian Keister, who placed 19th in the competition, out of more than 700 global participants.
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 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.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its 2019 fall commencement at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Heather Neary, president of Auntie Anne’s, the world’s largest soft-pretzel franchise firm, will deliver the keynote address at the ceremony.
Heather Neary, who received a master of business administration from Penn State Harrisburg in 2009 and is president of Auntie Anne’s, the world’s largest soft-pretzel franchise firm with more than 1,800 stores operating nationally and internationally, has been named a Penn State Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration has announced John Hubley as the school’s first sales executive-in-residence. Hubley has over 25 years of experience in corporate health care sales and marketing.
