Rebecca Mallinson, assistant teaching professor of kinesiology and director of the Center for Fitness and Wellness in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education at Penn State Harrisburg, has earned the 2026 McKay Donkin Award. The award is presented to a full-time member of the faculty or staff or to a retiree who has contributed most to the “economic, physical, mental or social welfare of the faculty” of the University above and beyond their regularly assigned duties.
Award-winning author Pedro Martin will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Monday, April 6, for two speaking events featuring art demonstrations for students and the community.
Linda Rhen, teaching professor of special education at Penn State Harrisburg, has been named the 2025 Teacher Educator of the Year by the Pennsylvania Association of College and Teacher Educators (PAC-TE).
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.
Penn State Harrisburg will host psychologist Richard Tedeschi for a talk on posttraumatic growth from 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 17, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre on campus.
Twenty Penn State Harrisburg students were recently inducted into the campus chapter of Kappa Delta Pi, a prestigious national honor society for educators.
Tara McCarty, a Penn State alumna turned Penn State Harrisburg faculty member, is working to help improve communication solutions for children with a brain-based visual impairment.
