When his family fled Kuwait, refugee Mo Amer found a new home in Houston and grew up to be a comedian. Who knew he’d become a favorite with U.S. troops and on college campuses?
Amer brings his unique form of comedy to Penn State Harrisburg’s Capital Village Community Center at 9:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 27. The performance is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6273.
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member’s longstanding commitment to protect the Commonwealth’s water quality and resources has earned praise from a statewide organization.
Penn State Harrisburg’s nationally ranked Master of Public Administration (MPA) program has again earned reaccreditation from the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
Thomas Eberlein has been appointed co-director of two centers on the Penn State Harrisburg campus which deliver training and problem-solving assistance to operators of public water systems in the Commonwealth.
He will also serve as principal investigator for the Environmental Training Center (ETC) and the Small Public Water Technology Assistance Center (SPWSTAC), supported by the state Department of Environmental Protection and the federal Environmental Protection Agency.
Little data exists profiling the level of female victimization in the Latino community.
Supported by a grant from the National Institute of Justice, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has embarked on a nation-wide research project to fill that void in the scholarship.
Penn State Harrisburg Assistant Librarian Bernadette Lear played a key role in an American Library Association’s (ALA) effort to assist education majors at U.S. and Canadian colleges.
Lear, a member of the college library faculty since 2004, led a team of researchers in updating the ALA’s Directory of Curriculum Materials Centers which lists resources available to students at more than 200 higher education institutions.
A postcard exhibit available to the public through September 8 in Penn State Harrisburg’s library offers a glimpse at the “modern” American woman of the early 20th century through photos of “bathing beauties.”
The first two decades of the 20th century witnessed the emergence of a vibrant women’s movement and the birth of feminism.
In 1956, nationally syndicated labor columnist Victor Riesel was blinded in an organized crime-orchestrated sulfuric acid attack.
That tragic ambush on a New York City street is now the centerpiece of a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member’s ongoing research and upcoming third book on the history of journalism, organized crime, and labor racketeering.
