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For the first time, Penn State Harrisburg selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the spring 2019 commencement ceremony. The graduates bore the banners representing each academic school, and together with the faculty marshals led the graduating students during the ceremony processional.

E. Philip Wenger, chairman and CEO of Fulton Financial Corp., who received his bachelor of science degree in finance in 1979 from Penn State and his MBA from Penn State Harrisburg in 1987, has been named an Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association.

Rick Barger, a 1971 bachelor’s of business administration graduate of Penn State Harrisburg, has received the Philip Philip Mitchell Alumni Service Award from the Penn State Alumni Association for his significant contributions in public service on behalf of the University.

Penn State Harrisburg recently honored students for accomplishments in academics, service, and leadership at the 2019 Student Awards Ceremony.

Penn State Harrisburg marketing and consumer research expert Chinintorn "Pom" Nakhata is examining how social media trends influence not just the habits of consumers, but their self-perception, and how brands are involved in shaping it.

Ten students in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration were recently inducted into Mu Kappa Tau, a national honor society that recognizes top students majoring in marketing.

AACSB International (the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business) has extended the accreditation for the business degree programs offered by Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration.

Penn State Harrisburg will highlight five of its more than 30 graduate programs during a series of online open houses in March and April.

As part of the Penn State Harrisburg Faculty Seminar Series, Sheela Pandey, assistant professor management in the School of Business Administration, will present “Textual Analysis Approaches in Social Science Research” from noon to 1:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 13, in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge on campus.

The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State Harrisburg will hold an Idea TestLab, an intensive five-week startup course for University and community entrepreneurs at Startup Harrisburg, Feb. 21 through March 21. The non-credit program focuses on the customer discovery process, in which participants will validate the customer problems they hope to solve with their proposed business ideas.