The Penn State Center for Socially Responsible Artificial Intelligence recently announced the results of its third seed funding competition. The center awarded $145,000 to advance six interdisciplinary research projects that feature researchers from eight colleges and institutes.
For more than three decades, Penn State Harrisburg’s Multicultural Academic Excellence Program, better known as MAEP, has served as a place for students to expand their horizons, meet new people, learn about academic or professional topics, and simply be themselves without judgment.
Penn State Harrisburg and PenOwl Productions Theatre Company will celebrate 25 years of the MLK Campus Play Series with “The Dream on Stage,” on Saturday, Jan. 21, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre on campus. The event is free and open to the public.
In the 20 years since its inception, the Penn State Harrisburg applied behavioral analysis program — and the discipline in general — has seen exponential growth. Today, the program produces some of the most highly qualified, sought-after leaders in applied behavior analysis, with graduates working in hospitals, schools, and community-based organizations; as well as working as professors, clinicians, and researchers.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its inaugural Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Banquet Sunday, Jan. 15, at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
Penn State Harrisburg men's basketball players and coaches joined Middletown Police Detective Adam Tankersley and Penn State Harrisburg Police Officer Phil Peng to treat 20 local children to a holiday shopping spree at Ollie's Bargain Outlet in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for the second annual Shop with a Cop and Penn State Harrisburg Player event.
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.
