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Dr. Goktug Morcol

Faculty member co-edits study of business improvement districts

Business improvement districts, initiated and governed by property or business owners under the authorization of local or state government, have received mixed reviews.

To some, they are innovative examples of self-government and public-private partnership. To others, they are yet another example of the movement toward the privatization of what should be inherent government responsibilities.

Dr. Barbara Sims

Barbara Sims named Academic Leadership Program Fellow

Penn State Harrisburg Associate Professor of Criminal Justice Barbara A. Sims is one of only five University faculty members to be named a Fellow of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation’s Academic Leadership Program.

The CIC is the academic consortium of the Big Ten universities plus the University of Chicago.

Finance Club’s investments to assist deserving students

Members of Penn State Harrisburg’s student Finance Club will soon gain real–world experience in investments while raising funds to support deserving students.

The generosity of friends and alumni of the School of Business Administration has resulted to this point in a fund of $5,000 which the Finance Club members will use to invest in the stock market with profits supporting an annual award presented to an undergraduate student majoring in Finance.

2008 MET Senior Project - Twardzik

Creative students demonstrate senior projects

 

What do a solar-heated pet shelter, a realistic race car simulator, and a go-kart which can negotiate land and water have in common?

They and others were created by Penn State Harrisburg Mechanical Engineering Technology students as part of their course requirements for the senior design project.

Olmsted window replacement project

The college Office of Physical Plant reports the project to replace all windows on the south face of Olmsted Building will begin Friday, May 16. In order to be ready for fall semester, the contractor is under a very tight schedule.

Dr. James Ruiz and Joongyeup Lee

Career in criminal justice is far from Korea, economics degree

 

When Joongyeup Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in economics in his native South Korea, he had no inkling that a career in criminal justice was in his future.

But two years in the South Korean Army and master’s degree study at Penn State Harrisburg have put him on a new path that has already resulted in academic honors and a full scholarship.

Sue Copella

Data Center director elected to national post

Sue Copella, director of the Pennsylvania State Data Center on the campus of Penn State Harrisburg, has been elected vice chair of the Federal/State Cooperative Program for Population Projections (FSCPPP).

Elected at the organization’s annual meeting in New Orleans, Copella will serve as chair in 2009.