Students from 18 area schools will gather on Penn State Harrisburg’s Capital Union Building for the 27th annual MATHCOUNTS competition Saturday, January 29, 2011.
After listening to 33 hours of audio recordings of Spanish-American War veterans, American Studies graduate student Lindsay Harlow admits that she is attached.
“I hold them so close to my heart that I cannot abandon their stories,” she said.
Penn State Harrisburg student Khizra Hussain has been awarded the Dr. Mary Ravita Memorial Scholarship for outstanding academic record, performance, and leadership.
Hussain received the $3000 scholarship at the 2010 Pennsylvania Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development (PASCD) Annual Conference. A Secondary Mathematics Education major, Hussain has made the Dean’s List every semester, earning a 3.77 GPA.
In keeping with the campus’ commitment to environmental sustainability, Stacks Market and the Penn State Harrisburg Conservation Committee will begin a month long pilot program to assess the feasibility of collecting post-consumer food waste for composting starting Monday, Jan. 24. A labeled collection container will be placed near the waste and recycling containers in the food court area for diners to deposit paper and food waste.
Jen Hirt, instructor of English, has won the Drake University Emerging Writer Award for her first book Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees and will be hosted for a book signing April 6.
Dr. Erdener Kaynak, professor of marketing and coordinator of the Marketing program in the School of Business Administration, was recognized as one of the most prolific authors – eighth place – of exporting articles published during the period 1960-2007.
Remnants and Renaissance: Photographs by Ruth Ellen Gruber of Europe’s Jewish Heartland will be on display from Jan. 25 through May 1 in the library’s Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room on campus. Gruber also will be on campus March 21 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Jewish life in Eastern Europe today.
Two members of the Harlem Globetrotters visited the Penn State Harrisburg gym recently to practice the team’s new shot – the four-pointer –and to meet with local media.
![Globetrotter Anthony "Buckets" Blakes](/sites/harrisburg/files/styles/teaser_thumbnail/public/globetrotters1.jpg?itok=CDrg6fzT "Globetrotter Anthony "Buckets" Blakes")