Students from Penn State Harrisburg and five other colleges put their sales skills to the test on Oct. 13 and 14 at the inaugural sales competition hosted by the School of Business Administration. The competition, sponsored by D&H Distributing, featured a case competition, elevator pitch competition, networking opportunities and more.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will host Shira Klein, associate professor of history at Chapman University, at noon on Wednesday, Oct. 25, via webinar. Klein will present a lecture titled “Editing the Holocaust: Distortion of History on Wikipedia.”
Penn State has named Richard M. Barger, a 1971 graduate in business from Penn State Harrisburg, and William C. Lane, a 1975 graduate of the Smeal College of Business, as the 2023 Fundraising Volunteers of the Year.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will present its fall play, “Clue,” at 7:30 p.m. Oct. 26-27 and Nov. 1-4, and at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the SEC Building on campus.
The Harrisburg LaunchBox, powered by Penn State will host the Truist Empowered Entrepreneurs Executive Series at Penn State Harrisburg this fall. The series will kickoff on Oct. 25 with a panel discussion “A Thriving Region,” featuring guest speaker Norman Bristol-Colón, Pennsylvania’s first chief diversity officer.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the Penn State Harrisburg School of Behavioral Sciences and Education will host a multi-speaker event to promote awareness of domestic violence from a trauma-informed perspective from 11 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. on Oct. 27. The event will take place in Room C213 in the Olmsted Building on campus.
Harrisburg student Griffen Martello spent the summer conducting research through the Multi-Campus Research Experience for Undergraduates program. The program allows undergraduate students to conduct a research project in conjunction with a faculty member from their home campus and one from University Park.
Indrit Hoxha, associate professor of economics at Penn State Harrisburg, was awarded a fellowship to work with researchers in Albania to explore the real estate market there and help build higher education research capacity in the country.
Penn State Harrisburg will host a Graduate School Open House at 6 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in the Hanes Library on campus. The session will offer an opportunity to learn about the college’s more than 30 graduate-level programs, including master’s, doctoral and certification options.
American Indians experience particularly unique and inequitable difficulties, often being subjected to harmful stigmas, poverty, abuse, lack of resources and much more, according to the nonprofit organization Native Hope. Despite these often overwhelming odds, American Indians like Stacia Fredericks, a current student in Penn State Harrisburg’s Second Degree nursing program, help pave the way for others like herself through hope and perseverance.
