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Jen Hirt, instructor of English, has won the Drake University Emerging Writer Award for her first book Under Glass: The Girl with a Thousand Christmas Trees and will be hosted for a book signing April 6.

By Patrick Cusatis, Ph.D., CFA*

Written for Quarterly Investment Newsletter of Hershey Trust Company

Dr. Erdener Kaynak, professor of marketing and coordinator of the Marketing program in the School of Business Administration, was recognized as one of the most prolific authors – eighth place – of exporting articles published during the period 1960-2007.

There is an upcoming event for our teacher education students and alumni on March 30, 2011, sponsored by the Teacher Recruitment Day Consortium. This is an in-person event that brings together teacher candidates from 10 Central Pennsylvania colleges and over 100 school districts to discuss employment opportunities.

Remnants and Renaissance: Photographs by Ruth Ellen Gruber of Europe’s Jewish Heartland will be on display from Jan. 25 through May 1 in the library’s Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room on campus. Gruber also will be on campus March 21 at 7:00 p.m. to discuss Jewish life in Eastern Europe today.

Two members of the Harlem Globetrotters visited the Penn State Harrisburg gym recently to practice the team’s new shot – the four-pointer –and to meet with local media.

For its 13th Martin Luther King, Jr. celebration at Penn State Harrisburg, PenOwl Productions presents The Dinner Guest, a new twist on the classic play Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner, Monday, Jan. 17 at noon and Tuesday, Jan. 18 at 12:30 p.m. in the Olmsted Building auditorium.  The play is free and open to the public.

[Due to inclement weather on Jan. 18, the second performance will be rescheduled for a later date.]

Penn State Harrisburg faculty researchers Shanetia Clark and Barbara Marinak advocate a simple way to help stop the rise in bullying in our nation’s schools. Teach students about kindness – and show them through books, other materials, and discussion.

Penn State Harrisburg is offering the SAT Exam Prep Course to students in grades 9 through 12 on six Saturdays, January 22 through March 5, 2011.

The course will be offered from 8:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on each day in the Educational Activities Building on campus.  No class will be held February 5.

Yasmin Shiraz’s December 8 presentation, “The Politics of Hip-Hop,” offered a view of hip-hop society through the exploration of the sexism, racism and capitalism that permeates the culture.

As a former publisher and editor-in-chief of Mad Rhythms hip-hop magazine, Shiraz shared her inside knowledge of life in the hip-hop entertainment industry.