Penn State Harrisburg’s Office of Research and Outreach will host Research and Discovery Day on Wednesday, April 10. This event intends to showcase current areas of research and scholarly activities at the college.
Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State College of Medicine have announced a new initiative to support interdisciplinary research projects in health and medicine. The Penn State Inter-Campus Health and Medicine Research Program aims to enhance research capabilities across multiple locations, leverage diverse expertise and resources, and promote the translation of research findings into clinical practice and community health.
Shirley Clark, acting director of the School of Science Engineering and Technology at Penn State Harrisburg, and James Hunter, interim chair and associate professor of civil engineering at Morgan State University, will give the talk, “Challenges of Historic Urban Land Development and Soil Water Disturbance on Urban Stormwater Management,” at 4 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12.
Partisan polarization may make the passage of fewer but farther-reaching public laws likelier, according to a new study by researchers at Penn State and Colorado State University.
The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence has announced the results of its most recent seed funding competition. The center awarded over $105,000 to five interdisciplinary research projects that feature teams of researchers representing six colleges and campuses.
With the goal of alleviating uncertainties around smart power grids, the Appalachian Regional Commission has provided a collaboration of universities — including Penn State researchers — across multiple states with $10 million to develop and deploy services that enable electric utility companies and energy tech startups to model and test different scenarios before implementation.
Ellen Stockstill, associate professor of English at Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities, has published a new book that looks at Victorian documentary novels that presented themselves as nonfiction works.
Harrisburg student Griffen Martello spent the summer conducting research through the Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates program. The program allows undergraduate students to conduct a research project in conjunction with a faculty member from their home campus and one from University Park.
Indrit Hoxha, associate professor of economics at Penn State Harrisburg, was awarded a fellowship to work with researchers in Albania to explore the real estate market there and help build higher education research capacity in the country.
John Haddad, professor of American studies at Penn State Harrisburg, has published a book that examines why American missionaries in China transformed from a "soul-saving" movement to one that built institutions of higher learning around the start of the 20th Century.
