Drs. Anne Douds, Eileen Ahlin, and Dan Howard, criminal justice faculty members in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg, have been approved by Dauphin county commissioners to study the county’s specialty courts for veteran and drug offenders. At the commissioners’ behest, they will also study offenders with mental health problems.
On March 28, 1979, the worst accident in commercial nuclear power history in the United States began unfolding at the Three Mile Island (TMI) plant outside Middletown, Pa. The events of the ensuing week would rivet the attention of the world on the Harrisburg area.
Adam Frutiger received the 2014-15 Beta Gamma Sigma Exemplary Chapter Student Award.
Frutiger, of Camp Hill, PA, is working on dual majors in accounting and finance. He anticipates graduating in May 2015. He is the son of Donald and Patricia Frutiger of Covington, LA.
Penn State Harrisburg’s International Study Tours provide students an exciting opportunity to travel around the world and learn about different countries through firsthand experience. This spring, the tours took students to China, Ghana, India, Guatemala and London, where students went beyond classroom learning and immersed themselves in the culture of these countries. Check out our
The top priority in For the Future: The Campaign for Penn State Students was keeping a Penn State degree affordable for students and families. On May 2, 2014 students revealed the total raised at Penn State Harrisburg of $15,402,082 during the Capital Society Dinner and Campaign Celebration.*
Melinda Logan, financial assistant in the Bursar’s Office, was recently awarded Penn State’s Outstanding Office Professionals Award by the University’s Educational Office Professionals (PSEOP). This award recognizes an administrative support employee who has provided exceptional service on behalf of Penn State. Logan was one of two award recipients.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education has recently been approved by the Pennsylvania Department of Education to offer a Mathematics Coach Endorsement program.
Penn State Harrisburg will host the 2014 Adult Education Research Conference (AERC), June 4 to 6, from 7:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and June 7 from 7:30 a.m. to noon at various locations on campus.
Thirty-one students from Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration recently were inducted into Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society that recognizes students in the top 10 percent of baccalaureate and top 20 percent of graduate programs at schools accredited by AACSB International – the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
On March 28, 1979, the worst accident in commercial nuclear power history in the United States began unfolding at the Three Mile Island (TMI) plant outside Middletown, Pa. The events of the ensuing week would rivet the attention of the world on the Harrisburg area.
