It takes a special kind of student to choose a more rigorous academic path than is the norm. Yet with applications to the Penn State Harrisburg Honors Program increasing thirteen-fold between 2010 and 2011, plenty of students are seeing the appeal.
Watch the Penn State Harrisburg men’s and women’s basketball teams in person or online as each begins pursuit of a first NCAA Division III tournament bid on Saturday, Feb. 25.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Counseling Services will offer free eating disorder and alcohol abuse screenings Tuesday, Feb. 28 as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.
Confidential and voluntary, the services will be available to students from Noon-2:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge. Penn State Harrisburg Licensed Professional Counselor Sarita Sankey, Ph.D., will give an eating disorder presentation before the session.
An independent online service has rated Penn State Harrisburg the safest college campus in Pennsylvania and among the safest in the nation.
StateUniversity.com, which ranks the nation’s colleges on topics ranging from academics to overall enrollment, rates the Penn State Harrisburg campus as having the lowest incidence of serious crime in the Commonwealth.
Bernadette Lear, associate librarian at Penn State Harrisburg, received the Pennsylvania Library Association’s (PaLA’s) Certificate of Merit for her work reviewing, updating, and organizing the PaLA archives. One of PaLA’s highest honors, the Certificate of Merit annually recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the Commonwealth libraries.
Dr. Peter Idowu has been appointed assistant dean for graduate studies at Penn State Harrisburg.
The position, designed to support the growth of the college’s graduate programs and serve as a liaison with the University Graduate School, “reinforces Penn State Harrisburg’s commitment to graduate education and consolidates its role as a regional leader in the field,” said Chancellor Mukund Kulkarni.
Stacey Shubitz, Kappa Delta Pi Teacher of Honor and literacy consultant, will hold a literacy workshop Wednesday, Feb. 22 from 5:00-7:30 p.m. in the Library’s Morrison Gallery. The event is free and open to the public.
Shubitz will discuss writing strategies and techniques, and will hold a book signing session for her new book, “Day by Day: Refining Writing Workshop through 180 Days of Reflective Practice,” co-written with Ruth Ayres.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Computer Science program will hold the 2012 Programming Contest on Friday, Feb. 24, from 4:00-6:00 p.m. in C15, Olmsted Building.
Free and open to current students, the competition will offer cash prizes – up to $100, sponsored by the School of Science, Engineering, and Technology – for the top three undergraduate and graduate students. Students must register by Wednesday, Feb. 22.
More than 200 student delegates from regional high schools will debate topics ranging from human trafficking to al Qaeda and the Taliban during Penn State Harrisburg’s 40th Anniversary Model United Nations. The event, which has attracted more than 10,000 students to the college since its inception, will feature a keynote address by retired Army Col. James A. Helis, Ph.D., chairman of the U.S.
