A Penn State research initiative which answered health and human services needs in the Harrisburg area from 2000 to 2003 is being resurrected by a Penn State Harrisburg faculty member.
Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies Richard Fiene has been awarded funding from the University’s Children, Youth, and Families Consortium which is bringing the Harrisburg Collaborative Research Scholar Initiative back to life after an absence of five years.
Penn State Harrisburg graduate Mark A. Austin has been promoted to deputy for facilities and engineering for the Pennsylvania Department of Military and Veterans Affairs.
Penn State Harrisburg is offering assistance to engineers and students planning to take the April 2009 Professional Engineering or Fundamentals of Engineering exams.
The college's School of Science, Engineering, and Technology and Office of Continuing Education are partnering to offer review courses in advance of the April exams.
A class assignment undertaken by Penn State Harrisburg undergrad Communications major Angelo DiMauro has become a film festival prize winner.
DiMauro’s short film entitled "A Good Thing" earned him the Emerging Artist Award and a $500 prize in the Susquehanna Shorts Film Festival in Lewisburg. The film was screened May 9 and 10 at the historic Campus Theatre as part of the festival sponsored by the Lewisburg Arts Council.
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.
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.
The annual College Venture Challenge sponsored by the Capital Area Economic Development Corp. normally involves teams of students competing for cash prizes and startup assistance for their business plans.
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.
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.
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.