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College offering SAT Prep course

Penn State Harrisburg is offering the New SAT Exam Prep Course to students in grades 9 through 12 on six consecutive Saturdays, January 30 through March 6.

The course will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on each day in the Educational Activities Building on campus.

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Story of Holocaust survival comes to campus

In 1989, all Martin Lemelman wanted to do was record his mother’s Holocaust experiences for future generations.

Seventeen years later, that video project evolved into a book which is now regarded as a unique contribution to Holocaust Literature and a weapon against anti-Semites.

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Book revisits U.S. efforts at establishing democracies

The prospects for success in the U.S. effort to introduce democracy to the Middle East remain bleak, a Penn State Harrisburg researcher says.

Director of the college’s School of Public Affairs Steven A. Peterson and co-author Distinguished Professor Emeritus at Southern Illinois University Albert Somit have just updated their 2005 analysis in The Failure of Democratic Nation Building: Ideology Meets Evolution and suggest little has changed.

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Terror threat renews focus on homeland security research and programs

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.

Doctoral Programs Information Night Feb. 9

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.

Students ‘drive drunk’ in simulation

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.

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Welcome back events offer fun, prizes

To mark the start of the spring semester, students are invited to participate in a pair of Welcome Back events on campus.

“Blizzard of Bucks” and “Mind Tripping” will bring fun, amazement, and perhaps some cash to students as they settle in for another term.