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Engineering review courses offered in preparation for exams

Penn State Harrisburg is offering instruction to professionals and students planning to take the April 2011 Professional Engineering or Fundamentals of Engineering exam.

The college’s School of Science, Engineering, and Technology and its Office of Continuing Education are partnering to offer the review courses in advance of the April exams.

Heard on campus – alcohol and the adolescent brain

Research over the past decade has seen a dramatic increase in scientific evidence of the effect of drugs and alcohol on the adolescent brain.

“Neuroscience research has been able to utilize imaging to view an active brain and gain valuable information on the impact of drugs and alcohol on youth,” says Penn State Harrisburg Associate Professor of Health Education Sam Monismith.

Students to benefit from faculty member’s award

True to her commitment to learning, Associate Professor of Finance Oranee Tawatnuntachai will share the funding she earned through a University award with her students.

Tawatnuntachai is one of only three faculty members University-wide to receive the Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and be named a 2010 Penn State Teaching Fellow.

Annual Environmental Forum broadcast to three Penn State locations

In addition to the originating location, there will be three host sites at Penn State for the 2010 Environmental Forum titled "Improving Lives, Protecting Resources: The Challenge of Environmental Justice." The conference will be broadcast from 8 a.m. to noon on May 18 from its location in the HUB-Robeson Center on Penn State's University Park campus to three other locations -- Penn State Greater Allegheny, Penn State Harrisburg and Penn State Dickinson School of Law at Carlisle. For more information or to register, go to www.green.psu.edu

Penn State Harrisburg to present University Environmental Forum

There is increasing awareness that our everyday decisions have an impact on the environment and on people. This impact is often unseen and its cost (or benefit) unknown. News about electronic waste ending up in developing countries or the impact on drinking water from gas exploration makes us aware that our decisions impact people’s health and not just the environment.