Faculty experts at Penn State Harrisburg shared their opinions on the fiscal cliff and debt ceiling at an Academic Perspectives forum titled “Over the Cliff, Through the Ceiling’’ on Feb. 6.
Dr. David Buehler, assistant professor of economics, moderated the event that featured Dr. Thomas Amlie, associate professor of accounting; Dr. Nihal Bayraktar, associate professor of economics; and Dr. Beverly A. Cigler, professor of public policy and administration.
Dr. Asli Colpan, associate professor of corporate strategy at Japan’s Kyoto University Graduate School of Management, presented “Business groups in late-industrializing nations: Characteristic resources and competitive dynamics” to Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration faculty on Feb. 12, 2013.
The 2012-13 academic year marks the 40th anniversary of creation of Penn State Harrisburg master’s degrees in public administration and American studies, two of the college’s 25 master’s programs.
Dr. Robin Veder, associate professor of art history and visual culture and humanities at Penn State Harrisburg, will present “Washington’s Top Garden Gets Rhythm: Italianate Design and Physiological Aesthetics at Dumbarton Oaks in the 1920s” on Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2013 at noon in the Gallery Lounge, Olmsted Building. The event is free and open to the public.
Penn State Harrisburg student volunteers raised $53,186.51 for THON, the Penn State student dance marathon that benefits the Four Diamonds Fund and pediatric cancer patients, families, and researchers at Penn State Hershey Children’s Hospital. Totals were announced Feb. 17 at the conclusion of the 46-hour, no sitting, no stopping marathon. The Harrisburg amount eclipsed last year’s by some $22,000 and set a new record for the campus, contributing to THON’s overall total of a record-breaking $12,374,034.46 raised this year.
Dr. Sairam Rudrabhatla, associate professor of biology and director of the Central Pennsylvania Research and Teaching Laboratory for Biofuels at Penn State Harrisburg, will discuss biotechnology and its potential to create solutions for a sustainably inhabitable planet on Wednesday, Feb. 20 at noon in the Gallery Lounge, Olmsted Building.
Free and open to the public, the seminar also will be broadcast live via Adobe Connect.
A screening and discussion of “Battle Me,” a full-length, locally produced, independent film will be held in Penn State Harrisburg’s Oliver LaGrone Cultural Arts Center (W-132 Olmsted Building) on Wednesday, Feb. 20 starting at 4:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public.
York City Mayor C. Kim Bracey will speak on Tuesday, Feb. 19 at noon in the Penn State Harrisburg Library Morrison Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Bracey will speak about her experiences in becoming the first female and African-American elected as York mayor. A motivational speaker and veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Bracey works to inspire young people to get involved in the political process.
Effective Feb. 18, the asphalt walkway running from the bookstore to the Educational Activities Building (EAB) has been closed for the EAB expansion project. Fencing will surround the entire project area and completely block pedestrian access.
Pedestrians can access the EAB by following the sidewalk, which parallels College Avenue, to the crosswalk west of the Capital Union Building. The fencing will be in place until project completion, which currently is projected to be June of 2014.
Our digitized world of instant communication is enabled by the transfer of high-speed signals across many systems within a device. As modern signal speeds are pushed to quickly accommodate gigabytes of data, disturbances that were once considered minor, such as weather changes, now become more serious, with the potential to stop systems and corrupt data.
Dr. Sedig Agili, associate professor of electrical engineering at Penn State Harrisburg, and Dr. Aldo Morales, professor of electrical engineering, have developed a formula to help understand the effects of humidity and temperature on electronic signals.
