At Penn State Harrisburg, students have an extra resource to turn to for help with basic advising questions – their fellow peers. Lion Guide Peer Advisers are students trained to help their fellow students with a host of basic advising and advising technology questions – making advising services more accessible and ensuring they are better utilized.
Three faculty members at Penn State Harrisburg completed a year-long Advising Fellows program, a new effort aimed at enhancing faculty advising to provide better support for students.
The Penn State Harrisburg chapter of Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) recently competed at the 2025 FBLA National Leadership Conference, with nine students placing in the top 10 in competitions and one student earning a national title.
Penn State's College of Agricultural Sciences has awarded funding to six faculty members across three teams to support the development of innovative curricula through the college's Harbaugh Faculty Scholars program.
Home to the conference’s top overall men’s athletic program this past season, Penn State Harrisburg secured a runner-up finish in the overall 2024-25 United East Presidents’ Cup standings.
Longtime NCAA Division I head coach Tom Gravante has been named Penn State Harrisburg’s first men's lacrosse head coach, Director of Athletics Rahsaan Carlton announced.
Penn State Harrisburg softball player Madelyn Lehigh has been named the United East Female Senior Athlete of the Year. The highest individual honor the conference bestows, the award represents the epitome of the student-athlete model thanks to their high level of performance in their respective sport, in the classroom and in their community.
Heidi Haas, assistant teaching professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State Harrisburg, works with children through a program called Speech Links to Literacy, an outreach effort she runs in partnership with Dauphin County Libraries. During the spring semester, two recent Penn State graduates who studied communication sciences and disorders gained hands-on experience in the field through the program.
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.
