Penn State Harrisburg will hold its fall commencement on Saturday, December 19 at 9:30 a.m. at the Giant Center, Hershey, Pennsylvania. More than 650 degrees will be conferred at the ceremony.
Dr. Eva J. Pell, recently retired under secretary for science at the Smithsonian Institution and former Penn State senior vice president for research and dean of the Graduate School, will deliver the keynote address at the ceremony.
Emily Sano, an applied clinical psychology graduate student from South Lake Tahoe, California, in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, received the Anastasi Graduate Student Research Award given by the American Psychological Association’s (APA) Division 52: International Psychology.
Traci Langworthy, an American studies doctoral student, received the 2015 Bertrand H. Bronson Student Paper Prize presented by the American Folklore Society for the best student project that combines research and analysis of some aspect of a music or song tradition.
She is the first recipient of the award from Penn State.
Penn State Harrisburg's Diversity and Educational Equity Committee recently hosted a panel discussion on “Race and the Media,” one of several discussions designed to “start conversations on topics related to race that may be difficult to start outside of a structured environment,” according to moderator Noah Roufos-Abbey, Associate Director of Development.
Penn State Harrisburg recently welcomed back DeAnna D’Agostino, a 2001 graduate from the School of Business and Deloitte employee. She was on campus as a part of a team from Deloitte that held a project controller information session.
Penn State Harrisburg and Harrisburg Area Community College (HACC) choirs will perform “Winter in England,” a concert of English Christmas, popular, and art music on Thursday, December 3 at 7 p.m. at the Rose Lehrman Center on HACC’s Harrisburg campus, and Saturday, December 5 at 7 p.m. at St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Middletown.
As part of Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies speaker series, Lisa Shifren will have a gallery opening and artist’s talk to discuss her recent body of work, “Grace. Dignity. Humility. Compassion. Photographic Portraits: The Holocaust Survivors of Baltimore” on Tuesday, December 1 at noon in the campus library Morrison Gallery.