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Student’s design chosen for King Day poster

An undergraduate student’s effort to improve her capabilities with design software has resulted in the Penn State Harrisburg poster celebrating Martin Luther King Day in 2010.

Senior Communications major Vanessa Knight’s design was judged the winner of the annual student poster design contest in celebration of the holiday. Her poster will be used to promote the observance on campus.

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Student’s initiative brings THON fund–raiser to campus

“THON” came to Penn State Harrisburg recently, thanks to an undergraduate student who saw an opportunity and a need.

Sophomore Cody Page was involved in mini-thons as a student at Annville-Cleona, but was “disappointed to learn students at Penn State Harrisburg had not organized their own event to raise funds for the annual Dance Marathon” at University Park, the largest student-run philanthropy in the world.

Symposium profiles commitment to sustainability

Penn State Harrisburg’s commitment to be a leader in sustainability was the focus of a recent public symposium.

Entitled “Sustainable Living: Concepts of sustainability and how communities and individual citizens can lead a more sustainable, environmentally friendly life,” the presentation was an installment in the Academic Perspectives on Current Events series hosted by the Office of Research and Graduate Studies.

Faculty member named to national award committee

Penn State Harrisburg Assistant Professor of Education and Reading Mary Napoli has been named to serve on the committee which chooses the coveted National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.

The 11-member awards committee, consisting of education scholars from throughout the nation, “will review books of poetry for children that were published in 2009. We could easily have as many as 100 entries to consider,” Napoli says.

Choirs celebrate holiday season

Hershey High School’s vocal ensemble, “Cantabile,” shared the stage with the Penn State Harrisburg student choir December 8 for a concert heralding the coming of the holiday season entitled “Faiths of Our Fathers.”

Featuring sacred music from a variety of cultures and traditions, the concert before a packed Morrison Gallery audience, the program included selections ranging from Hebrew to Nigerian to traditional spirituals and to English carols.

Student creativity on display

A class assignment in a School of Humanities course turned into a three-day exhibit of student creations in the college’s Gallery Lounge recently.

The final research project in Ilene Rosenberg’s art history class focusing on ancient to Medieval architecture involved each student choosing a structure or structure complex from prehistoric to Gothic, completing a research paper on that structure, and constructing an approximate scale model.

Minors in Sociology and Psychology now available

New minors in Sociology and Psychology are now available to undergraduate students at Penn State Harrisburg.

The 18-credit minors were added this fall “due to continued student requests,” says Associate Professor of Sociology Kamini Grahame. “We already had established baccalaureate majors in the two disciplines, so it made sense to offer the minors.”