Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome Holocaust survivor Ronnie Reutlinger Breslow at noon on April 11 via webinar. Breslow, born in Kircheim, Germany, will share how her stamp collection saved the lives of her and her mother as they tried to gain safe passage to the United States during the Holocaust.
Children’s author and poet Janet Wong will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Tuesday, April 16. Wong will present workshops on writing and teaching poetry at 9 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. in the Hanes Library’s Morrison Gallery on campus.
Two Penn State Harrisburg doctoral students, Timothy D. Smith and Maria Rovito, are among recipients of Penn State’s most prestigious annual graduate student recognition awards, administered by the Graduate School in collaboration with several Penn State units.
Two doctoral students in Penn State Harrisburg’s American studies program have received 2024 graduate student awards, prestigious university-wide recognition given by the Graduate School. Maria Rovito won the 2023-24 Alumni Association Dissertation Award, while Timothy D. Smith received the Harold F. Martin Graduate Assistant Outstanding Teaching Award.
