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.
Bailey McCloskey, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, will receive a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering as part of the Penn State Harrisburg Class of 2025.
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 civil engineering major Bailey McCloskey worked as an intern with Alexander Building Construction over the summer, giving him a chance to work on the under-construction Academic Learning Center on campus.
Two members of the Penn State Harrisburg community — Shirley Clark and Vahid Motevalli — were honored recently at the 2025 Women in Technology Awards hosted by the Technology Council of Central Pennsylvania.
Penn State Harrisburg has announced a new initiative with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania to offer a 15% tuition discount on in-person and online graduate school programs at the college to all Commonwealth employees and their eligible family members.
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.
Two dozen high school students took part in hands-on STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) experiences at Penn State Harrisburg this summer, through a two-week program aimed at helping them explore future career paths and gain college experience.
