Students from Penn State Harrisburg and five other colleges put their sales skills to the test on Oct. 13 and 14 at the inaugural sales competition hosted by the School of Business Administration. The competition, sponsored by D&H Distributing, featured a case competition, elevator pitch competition, networking opportunities and more.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will host Shira Klein, associate professor of history at Chapman University, at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 25, via webinar. Klein will present a lecture titled “Editing the Holocaust: Distortion of History on Wikipedia.”
Penn State has named Richard M. Barger, a 1971 graduate in business from Penn State Harrisburg, and William C. Lane, a 1975 graduate of the Smeal College of Business, as the 2023 Fundraising Volunteers of the Year.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will present its fall play, “Clue,” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26-27 and Nov. 1-4, and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the SEC Building on campus.
The Harrisburg LaunchBox, powered by Penn State will host the Truist Empowered Entrepreneurs Executive Series at Penn State Harrisburg this fall. The series will kickoff on Oct. 25 with a panel discussion “A Thriving Region,” featuring guest speaker Norman Bristol-Colón, Pennsylvania’s first chief diversity officer.
Penn State Harrisburg student Griffen Martello, left, and Dassou Nagassou, assistant professor of mechanical engineering, examine the project that Martello worked on over the summer through the Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates. Martello sought to improve the design of a plasma chemical gliding-arc reactor, a device that takes carbon dioxide and decomposes it to produce alternative fuels.
