As part of the Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies speaker series, panelists will discuss “Interrogating the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Peace and Violence in the Middle East -- Past, Present, and Future” on Wednesday, January 21 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the library Morrison Gallery.
In honor of the Martin Luther King national holiday, Penn State Harrisburg and PenOwl Productions will present the 17th annual MLK play in remembrance of Dr. Martin Luther King and his legacy of diversity and inclusion. This year’s original play is titled “Rizo,” Portuguese for laughter. The play centers on the life of Joseph Mendes, a Cape Verdean storyteller who shares folktales from the old country.
Dr. Jennifer Gibbs, assistant professor of criminal justice in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs will present a discussion on criminological explanations for terrorist attacks and what countries can do to reduce them on Wednesday, January 21, from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge on campus.
More than 180 alumni, current and former faculty and staff, and students from the Penn State Harrisburg School of Science, Engineering, and Technology gathered this fall for the school’s first alumni reunion and picnic.
Penn State World Campus was ranked highly in U.S. News & World Report’s 2015 Best Online Programs, including No. 1 for best online bachelor’s programs.
Penn State Harrisburg announced, today, the appointment of Dr. Patria de Lancer Julnes as director of the college’s School of Public Affairs, effective July 1, 2015.
Penn State Harrisburg held its fall 2014 commencement on Dec. 20 at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. More than 250 graduates were in attendance. William Stout of Gannett Fleming, Inc. gave the keynote address. Visit our facebook page at http://on.fb.me/1zcF9bi to see photos from the day.
At the fifteenth National Role Models Conference held in Washington, DC this fall, Dr. Sairam Rudrabhatla, associate professor of biology in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology and Middletown, Pennsylvania resident, received the Minority Access National Role Model Award.
Semontee Mitra, a doctoral candidate in the American Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg and Harrisburg, Pennsylvania resident, received the Jonathan T. Yeh Award for Student Scholarship in Asian and Asian American Folklore, given by the Transnational Asia/Pacific Section of the American Folklore Society.
