Homer C. Floyd, former executive director of the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, will deliver the keynote address at Penn State Harrisburg’s fall commencement Saturday, December 17. The college will confer more than 550 undergraduate and graduate degrees during the ceremony, which starts at 9:30 a.m. at the Hershey Giant Center.
Two Penn State Harrisburg American Studies doctoral students received awards from the American Folklore Society Oct. 15 at the society’s annual conference in Bloomington, Ind.
Spencer L. Green, of Provo, Utah, received the William Wells Newell Prize for his paper, “Disastrous Alternatives: Boy Scout Disaster Stories and Legends and Imagining the Natural World.” During the conference, Green presented his paper, which was published in the “Children’s Folklore Review.” Green is the second consecutive Penn State Harrisburg student to win the prize, an international competition run annually since 1980.
Penn State Harrisburg engineering students planning careers in the electric utility industry will have an edge on the competition when they graduate, thanks to nearly $200,000 in gifts of software, equipment, and financial support from PPL Corporation and leading electric utility suppliers. The PPL Electric Utilities Power Laboratory on campus offers students hands-on training with the same equipment utility companies use to control and protect the nation’s power systems.
A study released today by the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) reveals Penn State Harrisburg outperformed its benchmark group in several aspects of engaging students, and scored higher than previous surveys.
Three Penn State Harrisburg education professors have combined their unique perspectives on teaching and areas of expertise to create a book that helps to teach math in a new way.
An upcoming presentation at Penn State Harrisburg will address mental health issues that many veterans face, especially as students, readjusting to their community.
“From Combat to College: Changing the Conversation about Mental Health,”will feature Rutgers student and veteran Bryan Adams, Wednesday, Nov. 9 from 7:00-8:30 p.m. in the Capital Union Building Student Center. The discussion is free and open to the public.
Jolene Busher, Penn State Harrisburg American Studies graduate student, has published her first book, “Patchtown: Life in Eckley Miners' Village 1860-1920,” which began as her award-winning undergraduate thesis in the college’s Honors Program.
Penn State’s Sustainability Council will hold a town hall meeting at Penn State Harrisburg to collect input from students, faculty, staff, administrators and community partners for the University’s Sustainability Strategic Plan. Free and open to the public, the meeting will be held on Thursday, Nov. 3 from 9:00-11:30 a.m. in the Gallery Lounge, W-107 Olmsted.
Penn State Harrisburg School of Public Affairs faculty recently discussed soaring partisanship on Capitol Hill. The presentation, “The Legislative Divide,” was the first this semester in the college series “Academic Perspectives on Current Events.”
