Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs, will host a pre-election panel on Thursday, October 27 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Olmsted Building, Gallery Lounge on campus.
The panelists will discuss topics related to immigration, leadership capacity, minimum wage and racial issues within policing. This discussion will be moderated by Dr. Anne Douds, lecturer in criminal justice.
Far from being a war zone as Donald Trump recently described it, Harrisburg has a substantial creative class and the resources to overcome years of deindustrialization, nationally renowned urban studies expert Richard Florida said.
At the Innovation Café fall forum event, organized by Penn State College of Medicine’s Office of Technology Development, engaging conversation and great ideas, were on the menu. Innovation Café is a networking program, held quarterly to encourage collaboration between investors, entrepreneurial faculty, students and industry professionals committed to building a vibrant startup community in central Pennsylvania.
Starting fall 2017, Penn State Harrisburg intercollegiate athletics will add women’s golf as the 17th NCAA Division III sport offered at the college. The program will compete in the highly competitive Capital Athletic Conference (CAC).
The Penn State Harrisburg Commission for Women and members of the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology’s faculty, will hold a STEM panel discussion on Friday, October 14 at 11:15 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. in C213, Olmsted Building.
Heidi Abby Moyer, associate librarian and coordinator or archives and special collections at Penn State Harrisburg, presented a research paper titled "Teaching the 'F Word' to the Next Generation: The Intersection of Archives, Women's History, and Fourth-Wave Feminism" at the Oxford Women’s Leadership Symposium (OWLS) at Somerville College, Oxford University in August.
Dr. Esfakur Rahman, lecturer in mechanical engineering in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology, will present “Joining of Metallic Alloys using Transient Liquid Phase (TLP) Diffusion Bonding Method” on Wednesday, October 12 from noon to 1:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge on campus.
On October 5, Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology (SSET) held its first career fair. The fair attracted more than 60 employers from local, regional and national industry leaders including TE Connectivity, Exelon, Metso Minerals, and Reynolds Enterprises.