The Christmas Eve 2009 suicide bombing attempt by an Al Qaeda operative on an air flight from Nigeria to Detroit has brought renewed focus nationwide on homeland security and terrorism issues. Penn State Harrisburg advisory board members were on campus recently to learn about faculty research and academic programs in some of these areas.
Area residents can learn how to balance doctoral study at Penn State Harrisburg with a busy personal schedule at an Information Night Tuesday, Feb. 9 at 6 p.m.
The session in the Morrison Gallery of the college library will provide information on the D.Ed. in Adult Education, the Ph.D. in Public Administration, and the recently introduced Ph.D. in American Studies offered on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. Registration for the Information Night is not necessary.
Penn State Harrisburg students recently “drove drunk” on campus with the assistance of the college’s Police Services.
Through the combined efforts of seven college support units, more than 100 students took advantage of a drunken driving simulation in which they donned goggles which duplicate the effect of alcohol on vision and coordination and then tried to steer a pedal car through a series of twists and turns.
A Dauphin County family received an early holiday gift December 3 when four Penn State Harrisburg students unveiled a web site they created to help in the battle to cure a rare genetic neurological illness.
The Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center (RMC) at Penn State Harrisburg has played a key role in the creation of a $10 million electronics recycling facility, Kuusakoski Philadelphia, LLC.
“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.
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.
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.
An equipment donation from PPL will provide a unique learning experience for electrical engineering students at Penn State Harrisburg.
The donation to the college’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology – a 12-kilovolt circuit breaker and accompanying electromagnetic relays and hardware – “will take our undergraduate and graduate engineering power courses to a new level,” says Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Peter Idowu.
