Penn State Harrisburg swim instructor Holly Maitland-McKenna will hold the 11th annual “Swim for a Cure” event Sunday, Oct. 9, to raise money for the fight against pediatric cancer.
A group of Penn State Harrisburg students enhanced their leadership skills by joining nearly 250 of their peers from every Commonwealth Campus at the Summer Leadership Conference.
Abu Asaduzzaman, assistant professor of chemistry in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering and Technology, was awarded a nearly $150,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF), Division of Chemistry, to pursue research into the environmental interactions of mercury in the Arctic.
Award-winning journalist and author Amy Goodman will present “Democracy in Crisis: The Power of Independent Journalism,” on Wednesday, Oct. 5, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre at Penn State Harrisburg.
Holding a bachelor's degree from King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals in Saudi Arabia, Tawfiq Alashoor was seeking more academically. While researching the best schools to pursue a master’s degree, he constantly found Penn State highly ranked on the lists. This was enough for Alashoor to make Penn State his school of choice, especially as it was a well-known institution back in his home country of Saudi Arabia.
Penn State was named a collaborating institution in a $66 million dollar U.S. Department of Energy Urban Integrated Field (Urban IFL) program designed to study the impacts of climate change on American cities.
A Penn State Harrisburg engineering student won the 2022 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Susquehanna Section Capstone Award for his work to design "smart" shoes that can track the wearer’s weight, steps and distance.
