As student athletes and de facto ambassadors for Penn State Harrisburg’s upstart NCAA Division III athletics program, you couldn’t ask for more from Kenton Alston and Kara Boyd. They are good students and team leaders. Driven, yet grounded.
Samuel Monismith, associate professor of health education at Penn State Harrisburg, has received the University's 2012 Faculty Outreach Award.
The award honors faculty who have positively and substantially affected individuals, organizations or communities through problem solving or development as a result of extending their scholarship.
The Penn State Harrisburg Conservation Committee will hold its first annual environmental film festival on April 20 and 21, bringing to a close the college’s Earth Day celebrations. The film festival aims to raise local awareness of environmental concerns and show how each person can do their part to protect the environment.
Penn State Harrisburg senior engineering and engineering technology students may be on to something big. Projects they’ve developed during their capstone design course have the potential to save lives in the workplace, make land and air transportation safer, and aid people with disabilities.
On Saturday April 21, students presented these senior projects and more during the college’s first Engineering Capstone Design Conference on the Penn State Harrisburg campus in Middletown.
U.S. News & World Report has listed Penn State Harrisburg’s part-time M.B.A. program in its 2013 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Penn State Harrisburg was the only central Pennsylvania school ranked in these categories.
U.S. News & World Report has listed Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs in its 2013 Best Graduate Schools rankings. Penn State Harrisburg was the only central Pennsylvania school ranked in these categories.
Power to campus was interrupted this morning between 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. due to a transformer malfunction at PPL’s Swatara substation. The outage affected more than 3,000 PPL customers in Lower Swatara and other municipalities. PPL has reported to college officials that they do not anticipate additional outages.
Penn State Harrisburg will host illustrator Brian Pinkney and writer/editor Andrea Davis Pinkney, April 24 at 11:50 a.m. in the Library’s Morrison Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Significant contributors to the field of children’s literature, the pair will speak about their creative process and also will sign autographs.
Penn State Harrisburg recognized outstanding employee contributions at the 2012 Faculty and Staff Recognition Program on Thursday, March 29. Nominated by the college community and selected by various award committees, several faculty and staff members received awards. View a Flickr slideshow of the winners.
Marcellus Taylor, a senior sociology student at Penn State Harrisburg, has received the University’s 2012 Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award. Named for Penn State’s tenth president, the award recognizes outstanding scholastic achievement, good citizenship, and leadership in student activities and is presented to just two students University-wide each year. Taylor is the eighth Penn State Harrisburg student to receive the honor.
