Nearly 11,000 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2009, accounting for 32% of all traffic deaths, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $180,000 grant to Penn State Harrisburg that will allow teachers from across the United States to walk in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin.
Marissa Graby Hoover was named interim director of development and alumni relations at Penn State Harrisburg, effective January 31, 2011. She replaces Jason Ketter who joined the Kutztown University Foundation.
Penn State Harrisburg’s International Film Festival celebrates its 11th year with a program that includes notable films from around the world for adults and children alike.
Adding to his growing list of national awards, Penn State Harrisburg American Studies doctoral candidate Trevor Blank recently received the W. W. Newell Prize for the best student essay on a topic in children's folklore from the American Folklore Society.
Penn State Harrisburg’s 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Lecture Series will begin Feb. 22 with Rinku Sen, president and executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and publisher of ColorLines magazine. Beginning at 12:30 p.m. on campus in the Gallery Lounge, Olmsted Building, the lecture is free and open to the public.
Students from 18 area schools will gather on Penn State Harrisburg’s Capital Union Building for the 27th annual MATHCOUNTS competition Saturday, January 29, 2011.
After listening to 33 hours of audio recordings of Spanish-American War veterans, American Studies graduate student Lindsay Harlow admits that she is attached.
“I hold them so close to my heart that I cannot abandon their stories,” she said.
Penn State Harrisburg student Khizra Hussain has been awarded the Dr. Mary Ravita Memorial Scholarship for outstanding academic record, performance, and leadership.
Hussain received the $3000 scholarship at the 2010 Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (PASCD) Annual Conference. A Secondary Mathematics Education major, Hussain has made the Dean’s List every semester, earning a 3.77 GPA.
In keeping with the campus’ commitment to environmental sustainability, Stacks Market and the Penn State Harrisburg Conservation Committee will begin a month long pilot program to assess the feasibility of collecting post-consumer food waste for composting starting Monday, Jan. 24. A labeled collection container will be placed near the waste and recycling containers in the food court area for diners to deposit paper and food waste.
!["Lost and Found," one of the animated films to be presented during the college's International Film Festival's Kid Flix Mix](/sites/harrisburg/files/styles/teaser_thumbnail/public/lost_and_found.jpg?itok=fJ6HO_ND ""Lost and Found," one of the animated films to be presented during the college's International Film Festival's Kid Flix Mix")
