Lancaster County native Quay Hanna and author/musician Daryl Davis have committed their lives to confronting racism and intolerance in America.
Hanna’s quest has its roots in a cross-country bus trip and Davis’ with the Ku Klux Klan.
Both bring their personal stories to Penn State Harrisburg’s Gallery Lounge at 12:30 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 16. The presentation is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6273.
With the presidential election less than two months away, Americans are faced with examining and making sense of a variety of major and many times quite complicated issues.
The Fall 2008 Humanities Graduate Lecture at Penn State Harrisburg will feature a presentation on how we learn to read pictures.
The lecture by Dartmouth College Professor Emeritus of English James A.W. Heffernan will be in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building at 7 p.m. October 6. The presentation is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6194.
Penn State Harrisburg, with the largest selection of master’s and doctoral programs in the region, is hosting a Graduate School Information Night at 6 p.m., Thursday, Sept. 25 in the campus library.
Students interested in taking part in the college’s upcoming study tour to Peru have until September 22 to register.
The 3-credit trip is one of eight international study opportunities available to Penn State Harrisburg students in 2008-2009. Other locations planned are Spain, Rome, Brazil, France, London, Germany, and Poland.
For thousands of Pennsylvania residents, hunting is a tradition.
From small game, to bear, to turkey, to the prized buck, hunters of all ages take to the fields in the annual shooting sport. But is hunting a bygone activity, out of touch with modern life? Or is it a valuable escape from it?
Does hunting promote violence, not just to animals, but to humans as well? And is hunting, with its connection to the land and frontier experience, a heritage worth preserving?
That first semester of college for a student fresh out of high school can be both overwhelming and intimidating.
Schedules, books, instant homework, and getting the feel for a new home away from home fill a new student’s days as they become acclimated to college life.
As America’s leading politicians and candidates attempt to create a future for the nation which is appealing to its citizens, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member is urging citizens to craft their own future.
“The America of the future should not happen to citizens, but should instead be created by citizens,” Dr. James T. Ziegenfuss Jr. writes in his newest book.
Penn State Harrisburg will celebrate Constitution Day on September 17 with a look at the little-known, yet vastly historic “Library of the Founding Fathers.”
