Community leaders and scientists shared breakfast and sought solutions to problems like opioids, obesity and depression June 6 at the Community-Engaged Research Day.
Heather Hamilton, assistant teaching professor of English composition in the School of Humanities at Penn State Harrisburg, was awarded the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2018 for her manuscript "Here is a Clearing." The Poetry Society of America will publish her book in June 2019.
Nine recent Penn State graduates have been selected as 2019-20 Young Alumni Ambassadors. These outstanding young alumni will share a yearlong experience aimed at developing their skills to become Penn State’s future volunteer leaders.
Penn State University President Eric Barron recently welcomed members of the University Staff Advisory Council (USAC) and the recipients of the 2019 USAC Awards to his home at the Schreyer House for a celebration of the recipients’ outstanding accomplishments and contributions to the University.
For just the second time in program history, the Penn State Harrisburg baseball team competed in the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship Tournament, earning the No. 2 seed in the four-team regional and recording its first NCAA tournament win. During the season, the team won five games over nationally ranked teams.
Fifty-five undergraduate students from across the country have arrived at Penn State to take part in the first-ever Drawdown Scholars Research Experience for Undergraduates Program. Dubbed Drawdown Scholars, the students will spend eight weeks embedded in research programs across the University, with the aim of investigating positive solutions-orientated paths to take action on climate change.
Penn State Harrisburg swim instructor Holly Maitland-Mckenna is set to swim the English Channel this month, sometime between June 9 and 13. Her swim is dedicated to help raise money for Four Diamonds, in the fight against pediatric cancer.
The Office of the Vice President for Commonwealth Campuses has recognized three faculty members from across Penn State with the Jack P. Royer Active and Collaborative Learning Award.
For the third year in a row, the student chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration was recognized as a Highest Honors chapter by the AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.
From benefits to parental childcare leave to equality in the workplace, the world of human resource management is complicated. The world’s largest organization that addresses these complex issues is the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Now business students at Penn State Harrisburg have the opportunity to be a part of SHRM through the new student chapter on campus.