John Urschel, a Penn State graduate and standout on the University’s football team, spoke of his twin passions to educators and college, high school and middle school students recently at Penn State Harrisburg.
Since 1987, researchers in government, academia, business and the non-profit sector have turned to the Center for Survey Research (CSR) at Penn State Harrisburg for high-quality, cost-effective research. Now celebrating its 30th anniversary, the center continues to be a valuable data collection resource at Penn State, as well as throughout Pennsylvania, and nationwide.
On the evening of Nov. 6, Penn State’s new Center for Security Research and Education hosted its inaugural guest speaker, Gen. James Clapper, former director of national intelligence in the Obama administration, in the Sutliff Auditorium of the Lewis Katz Building on the University Park campus of Penn State.
Penn State Harrisburg keeps faculty, staff, and students informed of delays and cancellations due to severe weather through the PSUAlert system, social media platforms, and on the campus website.
Roderick Lee, associate professor of information systems at Penn State Harrisburg's School of Business Administration, and Jake Benfield, associate professor of psychology at Penn State Abington, will present “Commonwealth Campuses Distributed Research Network” on Wednesday, Nov. 15 in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge on the Harrisburg campus.
The Penn State Harrisburg fall 2017 ceremony will take place Saturday, December 16 at 9:30 a.m. at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Graduates, register to reserve your seat at the ceremony before November 15.
Penn State Harrisburg will host the seventh annual South Central PA Robotics Competition on Nov. 11. The event is designed to strengthen relationships between the region’s students and educators in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines and includes middle school, high school and college-level students.
Several weeks ago, the Pennsylvania Labor Relations Board (PLRB) provided Penn State and the Coalition of Graduate Employees (CGE) with the transcripts from the PLRB hearings that were held on the petition filed by the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) to unionize Penn State graduate students.
John Urschel, former Penn State football player, will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Nov. 8 to share his journey of where a love of math has taken him and where it can take students. He will explain how math extends far beyond the confines of the classroom and into everyday life.