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Jennifer Gibbs

Jennifer Gibbs

Jennifer C. Gibbs, associate professor of criminal justice in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Public Affairs, was awarded the 2024 Teaching and Mentorship Award from the American Society of Criminology’s Division of Policing.

Three Penn State students work on a scientific payload for the NASA Rock On program

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 A team from Penn State Harrisburg spent a week at a NASA facility over the summer, building a scientific experiment and sending it to space through the RockOn! program. Penn State Harrisburg students Neil Lerch, a graduate student in electrical engineering, and Trent Townsend, a mechanical engineering major, and University Park student Sara Jambhekar, who is studying aerospace engineering, participated, along with Brian Maicke, associate professor of mechanical engineering at Penn State Harrisburg.

Taylor Swift

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With a net worth of $1.6 billion, Taylor Swift is now the richest female musician in the world, according to Forbes.

Large group photo of NASA Rock On participants

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NASA’s RockOn! is a weeklong, hands-on workshop teaching participants how to create a sounding rocket experiment and then launch it into space at the end of the workshop. Three students and a faculty member from Penn State Harrisburg were among the participants over the summer.

Students signed their names on the scientific payload they sent to space through the NASA Rock On program

NASA Rock On

A team from Penn State Harrisburg spent a week at a NASA facility over the summer, building a scientific experiment and sending it to space through the RockOn! program.