An independent online service has rated Penn State Harrisburg the safest college campus in Pennsylvania and one of the safest in the nation.
StateUniversity.com, which ranks the nation’s colleges and universities in a variety of topics ranging from academics to overall enrollment, rates the Penn State Harrisburg campus as having the lowest incidence of serious crime in the Commonwealth.
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.
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.
Schoolteachers from across the United States will again walk in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin through a National Endowment for the Humanities grant awarded to Penn State Harrisburg.
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.
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.”
Hasia R. Diner brought her quest to dismantle the notion of American Jewish “forgetfulness” of the Holocaust to Penn State Harrisburg’s Gallery Lounge recently with an hour-long presentation of her research findings.
When the student choirs from six Penn State campuses “raised the song!” recently in Harrisburg, it brought the University closer together for the nearly 200 singers who participated.
The work of Trevor Blank, an American Studies doctoral student at Penn State Harrisburg, has earned national honors from the American Folklore Society.
In observance of AIDS Awareness Month, Penn State Harrisburg is hosting a public presentation by filmmaker Brad Lowery and a showing of his acclaimed No One Will Ever Know on December 3.
The 12:30 p.m. film presentation and discussion are free and open to the public in the Gallery Lounge of Olmsted Building. For information, phone 717-948-6273.
