Faculty members at Penn State Harrisburg are challenging students to make a difference in their community, utilizing service projects and public internships. By incorporating service learning, or community-impacting coursework, into their curriculum, professors promote civic responsibility and provide students with hands-on experience applicable in the workforce.
The Penn State Harrisburg women’s basketball team will host a Pink Zone game to benefit the Feel Your Boobies Foundation on Saturday, Feb. 19 at 12:00 p.m. versus Wells College. The team encourages all fans to wear pink during the game to support breast cancer awareness.
Mary Napoli, Penn State Harrisburg assistant professor of reading and children’s literature, recently received the Teacher of Honor Award from Kappa Delta Pi, International Honor Society in Education.
Jenny Kim, a first-year Communications major, won first place in the School of Humanities Fall 2010 Student Speech Award competition for her informative speech on plastic surgery in South Korea. Kim's speech was chosen from among those nominated by students in nine sections of CAS 100: Effective Speech. School Director Kathryn Robinson presented Kim with the award during a Dec. 10 ceremony.
Nearly 11,000 people died in alcohol-impaired driving crashes in 2009, accounting for 32% of all traffic deaths, according to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has awarded a $180,000 grant to Penn State Harrisburg that will allow teachers from across the United States to walk in the footsteps of Benjamin Franklin.
Marissa Graby Hoover was named interim director of development and alumni relations at Penn State Harrisburg, effective January 31, 2011. She replaces Jason Ketter who joined the Kutztown University Foundation.
Penn State Harrisburg’s International Film Festival celebrates its 11th year with a program that includes notable films from around the world for adults and children alike.
Adding to his growing list of national awards, Penn State Harrisburg American Studies doctoral candidate Trevor Blank recently received the W. W. Newell Prize for the best student essay on a topic in children's folklore from the American Folklore Society.
Penn State Harrisburg’s 2011 Martin Luther King, Jr. Commemoration Lecture Series will begin Feb. 22 with Rinku Sen, president and executive director of the Applied Research Center (ARC) and publisher of ColorLines magazine. Beginning at 12:30 p.m. on campus in the Gallery Lounge, Olmsted Building, the lecture is free and open to the public.
!["Lost and Found," one of the animated films to be presented during the college's International Film Festival's Kid Flix Mix](/sites/harrisburg/files/styles/teaser_thumbnail/public/lost_and_found.jpg?itok=fJ6HO_ND ""Lost and Found," one of the animated films to be presented during the college's International Film Festival's Kid Flix Mix")
