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Penn State Harrisburg's mens' tennis team celebrates with the United East championship trophy after winning the conference title in 2025. Penn State Harrisburg secured a runner-up finish in the 2024-25 United East Presidents’ Cup standings and claimed the top spot in the men’s standings.

Heidi Haas points to her lips as she demonstrates how to make a sound

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Heidi Haas, assistant teaching professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State Harrisburg, demonstrates how to make a sound to children during the Speech Links to Literacy program she runs with Dauphin County Libraries. During the spring semester, two undergraduate students helped her with the program, gaining experience in the field they plan to enter.

The CSUA annual conference poster winners pose for a photo.

2025 CSUA Annual Conference Poster Winners

The conference featured a poster session during the lunch break, which allowed dozens of researchers and graduate students to present their work, fostering strong engagement with attendees. Joshua Fansler, doctoral candidate in health policy and administration, Sujeong Park assistant professor of health policy and addiction studies at Penn State Harrisburg and SSRI co-funded faculty member, and Makenna Luzenski, incoming doctoral student in development psychology and research study coordinator at Penn State, received the honor of Best Poster at the conference.  

Heidi Haas points to a letter on a laminated card

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Heidi Haas, assistant teaching professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State Harrisburg, explains how children in her Speech Links to Literacy program will work on making different sounds. Haas works with Dauphin County Libraries to provide the program, an outreach effort that focuses on teaching caregivers how to promote speech and sound development and literacy skills in pre-school age children.

A child looks at symbols on a card, with a sensory bin of cotton balsl in front of him

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A child completes an activity during Speech Links to Literacy, a program that Heidi Haas, assistant teaching professor of communication sciences and disorders at Penn State Harrisburg, runs with Dauphin County Libraries.