Penn State University Police and Public Safety will be conducting its second confidential University-wide survey to gain a better understanding of attitudes and opinions related to policing, public safety, programs and services, and overall campus safety at Penn State.
Rebecca Weiler-Timmins, associate teaching professor of kinesiology in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, has been named Penn State Harrisburg’s faculty athletic representative, serving as as a liaison between the college and the athletics department, assisting student-athletes in balancing their athletics and academics, and representing Penn State Harrisburg in conference and NCAA affairs.
The Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies at Penn State Harrisburg will host Marion Kaplan on Wednesday, Sept. 22 at noon. Kaplan will discuss her book “Hitler’s Jewish Refugees: Hope and Anxiety in Portugal.”
Penn State’s Consortium on Substance Use and Addiction recently announced five new co-funded faculty members who will join the consortium in the 2021-22 academic year: Kristina Brant, Sarah Brothers, Brandy Henry, Jennifer Nyland and Sujeong Park.
At Penn State Harrisburg, 87% of full-time employees indicated they are fully vaccinated, including 100% of administrators, 89% of academic personnel (instructors, researchers and faculty) and 86% of nonunion staff.
Candace Hogue, assistant professor of kinesiology at Penn State Harrisburg, was awarded the Dorothy V. Harris Memorial Award by the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.
A Carbon Emissions Reduction Task Force has been created to reconsider Penn State’s greenhouse gas emissions goal with a view toward setting a more aggressive target as well as a revised timeframe.
