Penn State Harrisburg has announced the recipients of the college’s annual Alumni Achievement Awards. One graduate from each of the college’s five academic schools earned the accolade thanks to their outstanding professional accomplishments.
Recently tenured and promoted faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State's 2023 Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program. Each newly tenured or promoted faculty member was asked to select a book title for the University Libraries’ permanent collection, which will be affixed with a bookplate recognizing the faculty member’s achievement.
Recently tenured and promoted Penn State faculty across the University were honored Oct. 2 through Penn State’s Promotion and Tenure Recognition Program, now in its 21st year, during a private event held in the Paterno Family Humanities Reading Room on the second floor of Pattee Library at the University Park campus.
Madlyn L. Hanes Library employees honored with the Pennsylvania Library Association’s Library of the Year award include, from left, Sherry Bancroft, Interlibrary Loan and circulation; Kathy Mols, reference; Liz McIlhenney, archives assistant; Fay Youngmark, circulation manager; Alan Mays, supervisor, reference, IT; Beth Olmsted, administration; Glenn A. Rudy III, course reserves and circulation; Glenn McGuigan, director and head librarian; Emily Mross, business librarian; Andrea Pritt, STEM librarian; Bernadette Lear, behavioral sciences and education librarian; and Emily Reed, public affairs librarian and international student support. Not pictured are Heidi Abbey Moyer, archivist and humanities librarian; Yumi Rudy, circulation; and Sonia Malysz, circulation.
The Madlyn L. Hanes Library, named the 2023 Library of the Year in Pennsylvania, is one of more than two dozen statewide library locations within Penn State University Libraries. The three-story, 115,000-square-foot library houses more than 300,000 volumes and provides access to nearly 750 databases and 110,000 online full-text journals.
The Pennsylvania Library Association has named Penn State University Libraries’ Madlyn L. Hanes Library at Penn State Harrisburg the 2023 Library of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes the excellence of faculty librarians and staff members in innovation, leadership, advancement of employee development, and library service to the academic and public community.
John Haddad, professor of American studies at Penn State Harrisburg, has published a book that examines why American missionaries in China transformed from a soul-saving movement to one that built institutions of higher learning around the start of the 20th Century.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration will hold its inaugural professional sales competition Oct. 13-14 in the Capital Union Building on campus.
