The Penn State Alumni Association will honor 16 Penn Staters on Oct. 23 with the Alumni Fellow Award, the highest award given by the Alumni Association.
The Penn State Bookstore, which is operated by Barnes & Noble College, has awarded its fifth round of grants to support a range of programs and initiatives throughout the University. Launched in the 2015-16 academic year, the grant program began through a $1.25 million commitment to Penn State to help advance the University’s most pressing priorities.
October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month, and the Penn State Harrisburg School of Behavioral Sciences and Education will host a multi-speaker event to promote awareness of domestic violence, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 17.
PSUAlert is an easy and accessible system that notifies users via e-mail or cell phone in the event of a campus closure or emergency. All Penn State students, faculty, and staff are automatically signed up to receive e-mail alerts via their Penn State e-mail address.
Actor Sean Astin will visit Penn State Harrisburg at 7 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 17. His discussion will focus on his battle with bipolar disorder, mental health awareness, his activism on campus, and more. The event will take place in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre (SEC Building).
Holly McKenna, swim instructor at Penn State Harrisburg, recently took on one of the most daunting physical challenges in the world, a swim across the English Channel, in an effort to raise funds for two charities close to her heart.
The Penn State Harrisburg library was awarded a Gold Star by PA Forward and the Pennsylvania Library Association for the second quarter of 2019 for activities that promote five essential literacies: basic; civic and social; health; information; and financial. This makes the Penn State Harrisburg library one of five academic libraries and 30 libraries total in Pennsylvania that have been awarded a star.