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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.

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Oct. 24 campus conversation at Penn State Harrisburg postponed 

The Commonwealth Campus conversation scheduled for Oct. 24 at Penn State Harrisburg has been postponed to allow more time for learnings to be shared and recommendations to be developed as part of the Future State Integrated Design Initiative. Postponing the event until additional information from this process is available will help to inform a more fulsome conversation about future plans for the Commonwealth Campuses, according to Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses and Executive Chancellor Margo DelliCarpini.  
Renee Flasher

Renee Flasher

Renee Flasher, associate professor of accounting in the Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration, has been selected as a 2024-25 Fulbright Scholar.

Grad earns full-time position through Pennsylvania state department program

Lindsay Mitchell, a Penn State World Campus graduate who earned a bachelor's degree in accounting in May, is one of Pennsylvania’s newest auditors after securing a position through an intern-to-hire program. World Campus offers the undergraduate accounting program in partnership with the Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration.