Penn State Harrisburg's School of Humanities will present the winter concert “Candy Canes and Cocoa” at 7 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, Nov. 20 and 21, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre (SEC Building)
Penn State Harrisburg will host the ninth annual South Central PA Robotics Competition for high school students on Nov. 16, starting at 8 a.m., in the Educational Activities Building (North) on campus.
An evening with one of the world's most famous classical musicians, events celebrating Native American Heritage Month and lectures from two Pulitzer Prize winners are among the cultural highlights at Penn State this weekend and next week.
Penn State Harrisburg, in partnership with Penn State LionPulse, is making exceptional progress with improving health and wellness initiatives on campus — efforts that have impacted more than 2,500 students, faculty and staff to date.
Shigeko Sasamori, a Hiroshima atomic bomb survivor, will speak at noon Nov. 14, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center on campus. She will be joined by Clifton Truman Daniel, grandson of former U.S. President Harry Truman, to present "Tales of a Hiroshima Maiden: Navigating Peace with Shigeko Sasamori and Clifton Truman." The event is free and open to the public.
Baseball is an American tradition, with origins that date back to before the American Civil War. As the Washington Nationals celebrate a historic World Series win, a group of speakers at a recent Penn State Harrisburg symposium, titled "Athletes in Action: A Symposium About Diversity in Early American Baseball and Nittany Lion Lettermen's Contributes to the Great War," discussed how the history of baseball is deeply entwined in the history of America.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration has announced John Hubley as the school’s first sales executive-in-residence. Hubley has over 25 years of experience in corporate health care sales and marketing.
Derreck Kayongo, a successful entrepreneur, former CEO, and renowned human rights activist, will visit Penn State Harrisburg at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 7, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre (SEC Building) to present his journey of survival, social entrepreneurship, and humanitarianism.
This year’s Penn State Harrisburg Reads book is “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson. In keeping with the book’s themes of justice and mercy, the program will host a panel discussion on Thursday, November 7 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Olmsted Gallery Lounge (W107) that will explore the long-term effects of parental incarceration on children.
William Doan, Penn State Laureate for the 2019-20 academic year, will present his work titled “The Anxiety Project,” at Penn State Harrisburg on Tuesday, Nov. 5 at 11:30 a.m. in the Olmsted Building auditorium (C213).
