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.
Penn State’s Cocoziello Institute of Real Estate Innovation has awarded seed grants to five interdisciplinary research projects. These grants support collaborative projects led by Penn State faculty who aim to generate innovative solutions to complex challenges in real estate and the built environment.
Penn State Harrisburg hosted its spring 2025 commencement ceremony on May 10 to mark the graduates of the class of 2025’s completion of their academic experience and to recognize their many accomplishments.
