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The Community-Engaged Research Core Faculty Fellowship Program is a year-long opportunity that matches a researcher with a mentor. Gina Brelsford found the experience rewarding as it allowed her to explore different spheres of research, learn about clinical translational science, and to attend both the Clinical and Translational Science Institute board meeting and the Appalachian Translational Research Network meeting.

Penn State Harrisburg faculty are dedicated to understanding this crisis and combating addiction in the state. To that end, the college will host two discussions related to the current opioid epidemic in Pennsylvania.

Penn State Harrisburg presented Alumni Achievement Awards to one graduate of each of the five academic schools who demonstrates outstanding professional accomplishment. The awards were presented during the Alumni Awards Dinner in October 2017.

Penn State Harrisburg faculty are finding unique ways to educate students on how they can be a part of battling the opioid epidemic. Dr. Weston Kensinger is helping by providing tools to graduate students to make a positive difference. He hopes the students in his colloquium class — mostly working professionals — will take their newfound knowledge to the wider community.

Penn State Harrisburg will hold a Graduate School Open House on Tuesday, February 13 at 6 p.m. in the college library.

For several weeks of a human development and family studies course titled “Perspectives on Aging,” Penn State Harrisburg students were paired with residents at a continuing care retirement community to mine their memories and deepen their understanding of each other in ways they didn't expect.

John Urschel, a Penn State graduate and standout on the University’s football team, spoke of his twin passions to educators and college, high school and middle school students recently at Penn State Harrisburg.