Athan Spanos, chef at Penn State Harrisburg, represented Penn State and won an American Culinary Federation (ACF) gold medal for his signature dish at the National Association of College and University Food Services (NACUFS) Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Culinary Challenge, held Jan. 15 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Penn State Harrisburg will hold an Idea TestLab, an intensive five-week startup course for University and community entrepreneurs at Startup Harrisburg, Feb. 21 through March 21. The non-credit program focuses on the customer discovery process, in which participants will validate the customer problems they hope to solve with their proposed business ideas.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold several events in February in honor of Black History Month, including an African-American Read-In, the traveling True Black History Museum, and a lecture by Penn State alumnus and first African-American Astronaut Guion Bluford.
Penn State student organizations and units at campuses across the Commonwealth will be holding events in honor of Black History Month. Here’s a look at some of the events taking place at the University’s campuses during the month of February.
Retired astronaut an Penn State alumnus Guion “Guy” Bluford Jr. will present “STEM Forward: Minorities in Engineering” at 7 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 7, at Penn State Harrisburg. Bluford will discuss his space shuttle flights and the future of manned space flight, as well as the difficulties he faced as a minority in a STEM field. In 1983, Bluford became the first African-American to fly in space.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology will hold its two-week STEM Summer Enrichment Program (STEM-SEP), June 10 to 21 on campus. The program introduces high school students to STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) disciplines and careers. Applications are now being accepted.
Tyler Love, assistant professor of elementary and middle grades STEM education in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education and director of the Capital Area Institute for Mathematics and Science, has received the 2018 CareerSafe Safety Educator of the Year award.
Molly Goehring, undergraduate student in the letters, arts, and sciences program in the School of Humanities, was selected as the winner of Penn State Harrisburg’s Diversity and Educational Equity Committee (DEEC) annual Martin Luther King poster contest.
Coach Ken Carter, dean/headmaster behind the Coach Carter Impact Academy and the Carter Brand and inspiration for the film “Coach Carter,” will visit Penn State Harrisburg at 7 p.m. Thursday, Jan, 24. in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre, SEC Building.
Friendship that began at Penn State Harrisburg led alumni Scott Kupper, Karl Miller, and Craig Rosenberger to form the firm Kupper Engineering, and create a scholarship to give back to their alma mater.
