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Penn State Harrisburg has announced that alumna Megan Bennett has been named the college’s new associate director of alumni relations.

Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology will hold its annual Capstone Design Conference on April 22 at various locations on campus. Each year, engineering and computer science students culminate their undergraduate studies with these senior projects where they are given the opportunity to combine classroom learning with real-life applications, as well as collaborate with industry sponsors.

Penn State Harrisburg and York College of Pennsylvania will host the 2023 American Society of Civil Engineers Mid-Atlantic West Student Symposium, an event that will draw student teams from colleges around the region to participate in engineering-themed competitions.

Penn State Harrisburg will add field hockey as its newest varsity athletic program beginning fall 2024. 

Penn State Harrisburg’s Smart Home Research Initiative will host a virtual symposium titled, “The Future of Aging: Smart Home Technology, Healthcare, Research and Practice,” from 11:15 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. on Friday, April 14.

The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities will present its spring musical, “Cabaret,” at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 19-21, and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 22. The performances will take place in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center building at Penn State Harrisburg. 

Starting in fall 2023, Penn State Harrisburg students assigned to buildings with upgraded laundry facilities will use their LionCash account for laundry services.

As we look to the second half of April, events continue to be offered to celebrate Campus Pride Month on Penn State's campuses.

Albert "Bert" Evans, chair of Evans Delivery Company Inc. in Schuylkill Haven, Pennsylvania, has made a commitment of $100,000 to establish the Bert and Josette Evans Internship Fund to support students in the applied behavior analysis program at Penn State Harrisburg.

Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Mary Murphy to campus for a discussion titled “Creating Cultures of Inclusion in STEM” on Tuesday, April 11, from 11:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. in Room 210, Capital Union Building on campus. Murphy is the Herman B. Wells Endowed Professor of Psychological and Brain Sciences and the founder of the Equity Accelerator at Indiana University.