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.
In this Q&A, Tony Lynch, assistant professor of supply chain management at Penn State Harrisburg, explained how tariffs, the longest government shutdown on record and the grounding of the MD-11 cargo planes used by UPS and FedEx may impact Black Friday deals and product availability through the holidays.
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.
Graduate assistants across multiple Penn State campuses will soon vote in a unionization election, following an order issued by the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board. All students are encouraged to make a thoughtful, informed vote, and can find information on how unionization would affect them at gradfacts.psu.edu.
Penn State Clinical and Translational Science Institute, with co-sponsorship from the Center for Medical Innovation, has awarded $200,000 in grants to support four interdisciplinary, multi-investigator pilot research projects. The projects were awarded under the Bridges to Translation Pilot Funding Program and the Translational Science Pilot Funding Program, both of which were designed to give researchers an opportunity to explore new ideas and gather more information in preparation for larger grant opportunities from outside organizations.
On the heels of the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, Penn State faculty will host the Goddard Forum 2025 — Flood Risk in the Mid-Atlantic, with the aim of enhancing collaboration and engagement in flood risk management.
Four teams of faculty from Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State College of Medicine have been awarded planning and seed grants in the second year of funding through the Penn State Inter-Campus Health and Medicine Research Program.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty Md Faisal Kabir, assistant professor of computer science, and Sara Imanpour, assistant professor of health administration, were awarded $100,000 through the AIM-AHEAD Program for Artificial Intelligence Readiness program, funded by the National Institutes of Health. They will use the funding to establish a research lab focused on using artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve health care access and outcomes.
The Pennsylvania Center for Latino Research at Penn State Harrisburg has launched a new statewide survey aimed at identifying the most pressing issues and challenges facing Latino communities across the commonwealth.
The Social Science Research Institute’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction recently hosted the sixth annual conference in the Eric J. Barron Innovation Hub at Penn State University Park.
