Award-winning illustrator, educator, and speaker Shadra Strickland will lead two discussions on children’s illustrations during an Oct. 22-23 visit to campus. The events are free and open to the public.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Computer Science program is sponsoring a local site for the IEEEXtreme 24-hour programming contest on Friday, Oct. 19 beginning at 8:00 p.m. in the Sun lab, Olmsted W-210. Seventeen students from the campus chapter of IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) will compete in the contest.
Penn State Harrisburg introduces Weekend College, a program featuring classes held two weekends a month and online, to help working adults balance a busy schedule with attending college. Weekend College classes begin in January 2013; an information session will be held on Wednesday, Nov. 7 at 6:00 p.m. in the Educational Activities Building on campus.
Examining the candidates’ stances on issues of inequality in income and opportunity, the next in Penn State Harrisburg’s 2012 discussion series of election-year topics, “Academic Perspectives on the Election Season,” will be held Wednesday, Oct. 17 at noon in the Gallery Lounge, W-107 Olmsted Building.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold a Graduate School Open House on Thursday, Oct. 25, at 6:00 p.m. in the library.
The open house will offer the opportunity to learn about the college’s more than 30 graduate programs; meet with faculty; and obtain admission requirements and financial aid information. RSVP preferred, but not required.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Homecoming 2012, a college-wide week-long celebration, runs this week through Oct. 14, and includes a community parade, held with Middletown School District to highlight the homecoming celebrations of both institutions. The parade begins at 11:30 a.m. on Saturday, Oct. 13 on Market Street’s 100 block in Middletown.
The next in Penn State Harrisburg’s 2012 discussion series of election-year topics will examine how scientific issues are incorporated into public policy and how they should affect voter decisions. Scheduled for Wednesday, Oct. 10 at noon in the Gallery Lounge, W-107 Olmsted Building, the next “Academic Perspectives on the Election Season” will discuss infrastructure, energy, climate change, and pandemic vaccinations.
Penn State Harrisburg will host an Undergraduate Open House on Saturday, Oct. 20 at 9:00 a.m. in the Capital Union Building.
The event will present information for prospective students about the college’s more than 30 bachelor’s degree programs and options for completing the first two years of study leading to more than 160 undergraduate majors offered throughout Penn State.
Two song cycles, groups of songs performed in a sequence as a single entity, by Adam Gustafson, instructor of music at Penn State Harrisburg, will be recorded on commercial albums by the Vox 3 Collective, a Chicago-based, professional music group whose aim is to preserve and promote art song.
