Schoolteachers and administrators working to improve their students’ proficiency in mathematics have another academic partner at Penn State Harrisburg.
Penn State Harrisburg’s academic programs have a longstanding reputation of reinforcing skills learned in class through team projects.
Fostering a successful teamwork atmosphere increasingly important in the professional world, undergraduate and graduate students alike partner in projects mirroring real-world scenarios.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member Kimetta Hariston’s commitment to expand community awareness of the value of diversity in education has earned an award from the African American Chamber of Commerce of Central Pennsylvania.
It’s difficult to determine who gained the most from the work of three Penn State Harrisburg American Studies majors at the National Civil War Museum in Harrisburg – the facility itself or the graduate students.
America’s recent economic struggles have intensified the need for effective personal financial planning in all sectors of society.
Data indicate that those most likely to take advantage of financial planning opportunities are from a professional class. But what about other areas of society?
Penn State Harrisburg marked another celebration of its growth today (June 4) with groundbreaking ceremonies for construction of a 100-bed student residence hall on campus.
Each of five major child injury hazards -- motor vehicles, drowning, burns, falls and poison -- can be found in the back yard during the summer. Riding mowers, inflatable pools, home playground equipment and even natural vegetation and sunlight require a few simple precautions. All of the safety guidelines you apply to sports, playgrounds and swimming apply to those activities in your own back yard, says this week's edition of The Medical Minute, a service of the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
If every on-campus student at University Park reduced his or her time in the shower by just five minutes, Penn State would save 100,000 gallons of water each school year. That is enough to fill five swimming pools and lower the University's carbon footprint by 18,980 pounds every year.
