A big "Thank you!" to everyone who submitted entries for the Penn State Today pet photo contest. This spring's contest was the most popular to date, with more than 200 submissions. It was a difficult task to whittle down so many wonderful photos to a Top 10 list, but here are the winning entries:
— Geddy, hamster, submitted by Colleen Ganzelli, former student at Penn State Altoona
— Henry and Penny, French bulldogs, submitted by Justin Ingala, 2006 alumnus
Penn State Harrisburg now offers two new integrated programs in criminal justice and information systems, enabling qualified students the ability to earn a bachelor’s and master’s degree in five years.
With 37 other business students competing from across the northeastern United States, Irenitemi Famadewa, an MBA student in the School of Business Administration at Penn State Harrisburg, took the top position in the third annual Bloomsburg University BU/UPS Sales Competition in March.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its 2018 spring commencement at 9:30 a.m. on Saturday, May 5. Approximately 780 degrees are expected to be conferred at the ceremony. Madlyn L. Hanes, vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and executive chancellor at Penn State, will deliver the keynote address at the ceremony.
Senior engineering students at Penn State Harrisburg to showcase innovative and creative projects at the college’s annual Capstone Design Conference on Friday, May 4, from 7:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. on campus.
Pictured from left to right: Jeremy Finn, Clayton Trout, Stacey Lehr, Darryl Marcus, Samantha Rishell, Jacob Nickalls, Mandeep Singh, Samuel Krauter, Irenitemi Famadewa, Michaela Anderson, Justine Fabian, Jacklyn Bennett, Dr. Chinintorn Nakhata, Elizabeth Hamonko, Joelle Rolko, Manasi Sathe, and Dr. Meng-Hua Hsieh. Not pictured: Russell Lang and Carly Davis
Fourteen graduate students received the Penn State Alumni Association Dissertation Award and Distinguished Doctoral Scholar Medal in recognition of their outstanding professional accomplishments and achievements in scholarly research in any of the disciplinary areas of arts and humanities; social sciences; physical and computational sciences; life and health sciences; and engineering.
