Penn State Harrisburg will hold a Graduate School Open House on Thursday, March 15, at 6:00 p.m. in the library.
The open house will offer the opportunity to learn about the college’s 24 master’s and three doctoral programs; meet with faculty; and obtain application, registration, and financial aid information. RSVP preferred, but not required.
Michael Ramsdell, speaker and filmmaker, will screen his film, “The Anatomy of Hate: A Dialogue for Hope,” on Thursday, March 15 at 6:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building’s Auditorium, for the next installment of Penn State Harrisburg’s 2012 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Lecture Series.
Ramsdell’s documentary explores common ideologies of hate, and how to overcome them. The event is free and open to the public.
Dr. Odd Stalebrink, associate professor of public administration, has been appointed to the Governmental Accounting Standards Advisory Council (GASAC) by the Financial Accounting Foundation (FAF). The GASAC advises the Governmental Accounting Standards Board (GASB), a non-profit organization designed to establish and improve financial reporting and accounting standards for state and local governments.
The Penn State Harrisburg Alumni Society honored Lisa Tryson,’94 marketing; Jane Leipold, ’88 MBA; and Michael Fiaschetti, ’04 MBA, at its annual awards dinner, Oct. 22, 2011.
It takes a special kind of student to choose a more rigorous academic path than is the norm. Yet with applications to the Penn State Harrisburg Honors Program increasing thirteen-fold between 2010 and 2011, plenty of students are seeing the appeal.
Watch the Penn State Harrisburg men’s and women’s basketball teams in person or online as each begins pursuit of a first NCAA Division III tournament bid on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Counseling Services will offer free eating disorder and alcohol abuse screenings Tuesday, Feb. 28 as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Confidential and voluntary, the services will be available to students from Noon-2:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge. Penn State Harrisburg Licensed Professional Counselor Sarita Sankey, Ph.D., will give an eating disorder presentation before the session.
An independent online service has rated Penn State Harrisburg the safest college campus in Pennsylvania and among the safest in the nation.
StateUniversity.com, which ranks the nation’s colleges on topics ranging from academics to overall enrollment, rates the Penn State Harrisburg campus as having the lowest incidence of serious crime in the Commonwealth.
Bernadette Lear, associate librarian at Penn State Harrisburg, received the Pennsylvania Library Association’s (PaLA’s) Certificate of Merit for her work reviewing, updating, and organizing the PaLA archives. One of PaLA’s highest honors, the Certificate of Merit annually recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the Commonwealth libraries.
