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.
The annual Road Scholars spring tour for Penn State faculty, hosted by President Graham Spanier, is accepting reservations for its May 10-12 trip across southeastern Pennsylvania. The tour offers new and newly tenured faculty several dynamic opportunities to learn about Penn State and Pennsylvania as they travel to several University campuses and tour businesses and popular historic sites. In addition, the tour provides an excellent opportunity for faculty to establish relationships with colleagues across the University, while the itinerary connects them with Penn Staters and residents of the Commonwealth.
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.
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.
A Dauphin County family received an early holiday gift December 3 when four Penn State Harrisburg students unveiled a web site they created to help in the battle to cure a rare genetic neurological illness.
The Pennsylvania Recycling Markets Center (RMC) at Penn State Harrisburg has played a key role in the creation of a $10 million electronics recycling facility, Kuusakoski Philadelphia, LLC.
Penn State Harrisburg Assistant Professor of Education and Reading Mary Napoli has been named to serve on the committee which chooses the coveted National Council of Teachers of English Award for Excellence in Poetry for Children.
