Teams from eight area schools will square off when the High Achievers Academic Bowl returns to the Penn State Harrisburg campus for the eighteenth year on Thursday, March 22.
The event, sponsored by the Penn State Office of Multicultural Recruitment and Community Affairs, will be from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Student Center of the Capital Union Building. The program is free and open to the public.
Performances by an award-winning slam poet and an African dance and drum ensemble, and an appearance by "Frederick Douglass" highlight Penn State Harrisburg’s February observance of Black History Month.
All performances are free and open to the public.
The community is invited to participate in the National African American Read-In on campus at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5 as the month-long campus celebration begins.
Tiny Glover brings his crowd-pleasing, "clean" comedy to Penn State Harrisburg Wednesday, Jan. 24.
The performance by the veteran comedian is free and open to the public at 9:30 p.m. in the Community Center of the student housing complex east of Olmsted Building on campus.
"Traditional Music of Pennsylvania" is the focus of three upcoming concerts hosted by Penn State Harrisburg’s library.
The concerts are free and open to the public and begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery of the library. The music for the concerts is based on traditional tunes and ballads collected by Penn State folklorist Samuel Bayard and archived on Penn State’s University Park campus.
Hershey Middle School will be seeking its fourth straight championship when teams from 25 area schools converge on Penn State Harrisburg Saturday, Feb. 3 for the 23rd annual MATHCOUNTS Competition.
More than 160 area schoolchildren are registered to participate in the day-long competition which begins with the "Sprint Round" at 9:45 a.m. and closes with the "Countdown Round" at 1:05 p.m. The awards presentation is scheduled for 2 p.m.
The work of Harrisburg artist Viktor Terechko is on public display through March 30 in the main central hallway of Olmsted Building at Penn State Harrisburg.
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Terechko is a self-taught artist who originated a style of carving called "photo-wood dech art." The new technique and medium involves the delicate removal of layers of acrylic-coated birch wood, often in different colors.
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member´s ongoing research is aimed at helping the U.S. Justice Department and law enforcement authorities thwart possible terrorist attacks against the United States.
In honor of his tireless volunteer efforts on behalf of the University, Life Sciences Greenhouse Senior Vice President Kevin M. Harter, '90 IS, '05 MBA, has been named the recipient of one of the Alumni Association's most coveted honors.
Harter, chair of the Penn State Harrisburg Board of Advisers, received the University's Philip Philip Mitchell Service Award during formal ceremonies October 13 at University Park.
Throughout his distinguished academic career, music and service to students were passions of Dr. William J. Mahar. His 35 years at Penn State Harrisburg included tenures as director of the School of Humanities from 1984 to 2002 and then as Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs until his retirement this year.