Continuing education will offer a one week study tour “Ethnicity and the American Experience: The Pennsylvania Germans –A Living Tradition” on July 11-15. Offered as a non-credit or three-credit course,the tour examines the living traditions of the Pennsylvania German culture and efforts to preserve those traditions; and explores the history and background of the culture through visits to museums and other sites. A pre-session will be held July 9.
Penn State Harrisburg hosts its 100th graduation ceremony, Saturday, May 14. In the 45 years since the campus was created on the decommissioned Olmsted Air Force Base in Middletown, many things have changed.
When Camilla Robinson took a sabbatical from her job as a London police officer to pursue a master’s degree in criminal justice at Penn State Harrisburg, she wasn’t sure what to expect. She had studied in the U.S. before, having graduated from Ohio State in 2000, and she is outgoing and adventurous. Still, she said that despite many similarities, the U.S. and her homeland of Great Britain are very different culturally. She knew that could be challenging.
Rosa C. Stroh, vice president and treasurer for The Hershey Company and a graduate of Penn State Harrisburg’s MBA program, will deliver the keynote address at Penn State Harrisburg’s spring commencement Saturday, May 14. Celebrating its 100th commencement, the college will confer nearly 600 undergraduate and graduate degrees during the 9:30 a.m. ceremony at the Hershey Giant Center.
The men’s golf team made Penn State Harrisburg history on April 27 by earning the college’s first NCAA championship berth, while also capturing the NEAC conference championship with a total team score of 612. The Nittany Lions will travel to North Carolina for the NCAA Division III Championship beginning May 7.
Dr. Erdener Kaynak, professor of marketing and coordinator of the Marketing program in the School of Business Administration, is playing a lead role in organizing the Twentieth Annual World Business Congress, to be held July 3-7 at Poznań University of Economics in Poland.
Penn State Harrisburg presented faculty and staff awards at the 2011 Faculty and Staff Recognition Program, March 31 in the Capital Union Building Student Center.
Applied Clinical Psychology master’s degree student, Dawn McElhenny, has received The Patricia M. Bricklin Student Ethics Award from the Pennsylvania Psychological Association (PPA) for her paper about the principles and ethical standards of conversion therapy. As the award winner, she is writing an article for the “Pennsylvania Psychologist.”
Penn State Harrisburg has teamed with the Association of Independent Colleges and Universities of Pennsylvania (AICUP) to offer the award-winning Harrisburg Semester internship program to students at the state’s private higher education institutions.
