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Faculty member named to national award committee

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.

PPL donated circuit breaker

PPL donation expands learning

An equipment donation from PPL will provide a unique learning experience for electrical engineering students at Penn State Harrisburg.

The donation to the college’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology – a 12-kilovolt circuit breaker and accompanying electromagnetic relays and hardware – “will take our undergraduate and graduate engineering power courses to a new level,” says Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Peter Idowu.

Choirs celebrate holiday season

Hershey High School’s vocal ensemble, “Cantabile,” shared the stage with the Penn State Harrisburg student choir December 8 for a concert heralding the coming of the holiday season entitled “Faiths of Our Fathers.”

Student creativity on display

A class assignment in a School of Humanities course turned into a three-day exhibit of student creations in the college’s Gallery Lounge recently.

The Medical Minute: AIDS Awareness Month

It has been 28 years since the first case reports of individuals with a newly recognized immunodeficiency disorder called AIDS were described. Soon thereafter the viral cause of AIDS, the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), was discovered. This discovery led to the development of tests that could quickly and accurately diagnose HIV infection. We then began to watch as the epidemic spread not only in the United States and other developed nations, but to a much greater extent in the developing world, particularly on the African continent where the combination of a deadly infection coupled with an often non-existent health care infrastructure resulted in untold misery and hardship, says the newest edition of The Medical Minute, a service of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center.