Carolyn Griess, assistant teaching professor in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, wants more people to know what to do in youth mental health crises. She is teaching a one credit course titled "Youth Mental Health First Aid."
Officials from Penn State, chambers of commerce and trade associations, along with business and civic leaders from across the state, will meet at Penn State Harrisburg from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Friday, Oct. 25, to discuss the economic challenges facing Pennsylvania, and to help generate ideas to drive innovation and prosperity across the commonwealth.
Beverley Driver Eddy, professor emerita of German at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, will visit Penn State Harrisburg at noon on Oct. 29 in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge (room W107) to present a lecture on American soldiers trained at Gettysburg during World War II.
Cybersecurity and innovation will take center stage at the Penn State Outreach and Online Education Appreciation Dinner on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Nittany Lion Inn. Penn State Outreach and Online Education will honor four distinguished guests with the Dubin Pioneer Award, Fischer Award of Distinction, and Penn State World Campus Outstanding Alumni Awards.
Nobuntu, an all-female, a cappella quintet from Zimbabwe, will perform at Penn State Harrisburg at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 13, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center on campus.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will present Oscar Wilde's “The Importance of Being Earnest,” on October 30 and November 1 at 7:30, and November 2 at 2 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre (SEC Building) on campus.
Senel Poyrazli, professor of counseling psychology in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, was recently elected a fellow of the Society of Counseling Psychology, Division 17 of the American Psychological Association.
“Merleau-Ponty and the Face of the World: Silence, Ethics, Imagination, and Poetic Ontology,” a book by Glen A. Mazis, distinguished professor of philosophy and humanities at Penn State Harrisburg, has been chosen to be honored by a book session at the upcoming Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy’s annual conference.
That pint of ice cream after a nasty breakup may not do as much damage as you think. Despite the emotional turmoil, people on average do not report gaining weight after a relationship dissolution, according to new research from Penn State Harrisburg.
The Penn State Center for Security Research and Education, in collaboration with Penn State Harrisburg, Penn State Homeland Security Programs, and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency, held a tabletop exercise that addressed first-responder and whole-community response and resilience to the ongoing opioid crisis.
