Hannah Spector, assistant professor of education at Penn State Harrisburg, has been awarded the 2019 Early Career Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association’s special interest group Critical Issues in Curriculum & Cultural Studies.
Math and technology and engineering teachers from 30 south central Pennsylvania middle schools participated in a one-day workshop offered by the Capital Area Institute for Mathematics and Science at Penn State Harrisburg on teaching mathematical modeling through 3D printing. Participants were given 3D printers to take back to their classrooms.
Philip Zimbardo, clinical psychologist and New York Times bestselling author known for his work on the Stanford Prison Experiment, will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Tuesday, April 16 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center.
The kinesiology program in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education will host a National Biomechanics Day event on campus for local high school students on Wednesday, April 10 in the Capital Union Building.
For the first time, Penn State Harrisburg participated in the Three Minute Thesis competition, which celebrates research conducted by graduate students. More than 200 universities participate in the annual competition, which was developed by the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia, to cultivate students’ academic, presentation and research communication skills.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty and staff will discuss their works, published during the past year, at the college’s annual Celebration of Book Publishing and Artistic Accomplishments on March 21 at 3 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge.
The Capital Area Institute for Mathematics and Science at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome sixth and seventh grade teachers from 30 public middle schools from throughout Pennsylvania to participate in a free training workshop on teaching mathematical modeling and how to use 3D printing in their lessons, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 22 in the Olmsted Building on campus.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold “TMI 40: Honoring the Community and Legacy of the Accident at Three Mile Island” to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Three Mile Island accident in the library Morrison Gallery from 3 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 27.
