Penn State Harrisburg has received an $817,000 grant from the Commonwealth Financing Authority to develop a $1.6 million Central Pennsylvania Laboratory for Biofuels research and teaching facility on campus.
True to her commitment to learning, Associate Professor of Finance Oranee Tawatnuntachai will share the funding she earned through a University award with her students.
Tawatnuntachai is one of only three faculty members University-wide to receive the Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and be named a 2010 Penn State Teaching Fellow.
In addition to the originating location, there will be three host sites at Penn State for the 2010 Environmental Forum titled "Improving Lives, Protecting Resources: The Challenge of Environmental Justice." The conference will be broadcast from 8 a.m. to noon on May 18 from its location in the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus to three other locations -- Penn State Greater Allegheny, Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State Dickinson School of Law at Carlisle. For more information or to register, go to www.green.psu.edu
Michele Nestor, president of Nestor Resources, Inc., has been elected chair of the Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center (RMC) board of directors for the 2010-2011 term.
Nestor succeeds Jim Shillenn, executive director of the Industrial Modernization Center.
There is increasing awareness that our everyday decisions have an impact on the environment and on people. This impact is often unseen and its cost (or benefit) unknown. News about electronic waste ending up in developing countries or the impact on drinking water from gas exploration makes us aware that our decisions impact people’s health and not just the environment.
Heather Leed Neary’s rapid ascent in the business world has earned her a prestigious Penn State recognition.
A 2009 Penn State Harrisburg MBA graduate and the chief marketing officer for Auntie Anne’s, the world’s largest franchiser of hand-rolled soft pretzels, Neary is a 2010 winner of the Penn State Alumni Association’s Alumni Achievement Award.
In the largest regional competition of its type in a seven-state area, Penn State Harrisburg electrical engineering students have walked away with top honors.
Held in concert with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Student Activities Conference at Temple University, the competitions involved 22 colleges and universities. Penn State Harrisburg electrical engineering and electrical engineering technology students earned first, second and third places.
Hummelstown resident Kelsey Kerr has capped her award-winning academic career at Penn State Harrisburg with another prestigious University honor.
A senior Information Sciences and Technology major who will graduate in May, Kerr has been named only the sixth Penn State Harrisburg undergraduate to win the Ralph Dorn Hetzel Memorial Award. Named for Penn State’s 10th president, the award recognizes high scholastic attainment and good citizenship and leadership in student activities.
