Penn State, The Lancaster Center is celebrating its grand opening Thursday, Jan. 18, from 5 to 7 p.m. at its new location at 1383 Arcadia Road in the recently expanded Farm and Home Center. Visit the new facility and discover what Penn State has to offer in Lancaster. The public is invited to attend.
Area residents can learn how to fit doctoral study at Penn State Harrisburg into a busy schedule at an Information Night Wednesday, Feb. 7 at 6 p.m.
The session in the campus library will provide information on the D.Ed. in Adult Education and Ph.D. in Public Administration offered on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. Registration is not necessary.
Those attending will have an opportunity to speak with faculty and meet current students in the two programs.
Assistant Professor of American Studies and Literature John Haddad recently returned from a two-day workshop at the Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles designed to explore and discuss its large and unique collection of Chinese photographs.
Teams from eight area schools will square off when the High Achievers Academic Bowl returns to the Penn State Harrisburg campus for the eighteenth year on Thursday, March 22.
The event, sponsored by the Penn State Office of Multicultural Recruitment and Community Affairs, will be from 6 to 9 p.m. in the Student Center of the Capital Union Building. The program is free and open to the public.
The Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare (DPW) has asked a research team at Penn State Harrisburg to develop and implement a plan to explore issues related to current and projected participation in long-term care services.
Tiny Glover brings his crowd-pleasing, "clean" comedy to Penn State Harrisburg Wednesday, Jan. 24.
The performance by the veteran comedian is free and open to the public at 9:30 p.m. in the Community Center of the student housing complex east of Olmsted Building on campus.
Performances by an award-winning slam poet and an African dance and drum ensemble, and an appearance by "Frederick Douglass" highlight Penn State Harrisburg’s February observance of Black History Month.
All performances are free and open to the public.
The community is invited to participate in the National African American Read-In on campus at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 5 as the month-long campus celebration begins.
"Traditional Music of Pennsylvania" is the focus of three upcoming concerts hosted by Penn State Harrisburg’s library.
The concerts are free and open to the public and begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Morrison Gallery of the library. The music for the concerts is based on traditional tunes and ballads collected by Penn State folklorist Samuel Bayard and archived on Penn State’s University Park campus.
The work of Harrisburg artist Viktor Terechko is on public display through March 30 in the main central hallway of Olmsted Building at Penn State Harrisburg.
A native of St. Petersburg, Russia, Terechko is a self-taught artist who originated a style of carving called "photo-wood dech art." The new technique and medium involves the delicate removal of layers of acrylic-coated birch wood, often in different colors.
Hershey Middle School will be seeking its fourth straight championship when teams from 25 area schools converge on Penn State Harrisburg Saturday, Feb. 3 for the 23rd annual MATHCOUNTS Competition.
More than 160 area schoolchildren are registered to participate in the day-long competition which begins with the "Sprint Round" at 9:45 a.m. and closes with the "Countdown Round" at 1:05 p.m. The awards presentation is scheduled for 2 p.m.
