Penn State Harrisburg community members are helping to instill a love of reading in children and celebrate diversity through participation in Reading 365, an initiative of the Harrisburg-based American Literacy Corporation.
Penn State Harrisburg has selected six graduates to represent each academic school and graduate studies as student marshals for fall 2022. The graduates will bear the banners representing each academic school and, together with the faculty marshals, lead the graduating students during the commencement processional.
Students from Penn State Harrisburg recently attended the Grace Hopper Celebration, billed as the world’s largest gathering of women and non-binary individuals in technology, where they were able to network with technology leaders and, in one student’s case, land a summer internship.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its fall 2022 commencement ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 17 at the Giant Center in Hershey. Jennifer A. Chambers will deliver the keynote address at the ceremony. Chambers is senior vice president and chief medical officer at Capital Blue Cross in Harrisburg.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will welcome Holocaust survivor Peter Stern for a virtual presentation of his story on Thursday, Dec. 1. The event is co-sponsored by the Holocaust Awareness Museum and Education Center in Philadelphia.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Student Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in the Office of Student Affairs will host a Multicultural Graduation Celebration at 1 p.m. Friday, Dec. 16, in the Capital Union Building events room. The event is intended to celebrate the accomplishments of historically underserved and underrepresented students.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration and School of Science, Engineering, and Technology recently inducted 13 new student members, and an honorary alum into the Sigma Chapter of Upsilon Pi Epsilon, the international honor society for the computing and information disciplines.
Alumni leaders power the Penn State Alumni Association. There are nearly 300 affiliate groups that aim to unite Penn Staters through shared interests, academic colleges, campuses and geographic regions. These groups are led by dedicated volunteers, with guidance from the Alumni Association. The Alumni Association celebrated the inspiring efforts of these groups and their leaders last month during the 2022 Volunteer Awards.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Kulkarni Cultural Series will celebrate the holidays with a stage adaptation of a classic holiday film, “It’s a Wonderful Life: Live from WVL Radio Theatre,” on Wednesday, Nov. 30, in the Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center on campus.
