One supervisory employee in a licensed food establishment must be certified in food safety and sanitation in order to be in compliance with the state’s Department of Agriculture Food Employee Certification Act.
Penn State Harrisburg is bringing courses that fulfill those requirements to Carlisle, Lebanon, Middletown, and New Bloomfield this fall.
The work of veteran artist Joanne Landis will be on public exhibit Monday, August 20 through Friday, October 12 in the Morrison Gallery of Penn State Harrisburg’s library.
The exhibit, entitled "The Nature of Women," is free and open to the public Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. An artist’s reception and gallery talk will be 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6.
Pennsylvania’s most comprehensive single-day forum for the latest research and developments in demographic data will focus this year on the use of data in community planning.
The annual Data User Conference, hosted by the Pennsylvania State Data Center based at Penn State Harrisburg, will be at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg/Hershey Thursday, September 13. This year’s theme is "Building Pennsylvania Communities: Using Data to Plan the Future."
James C. Byerly, president and CEO of HDH Byerly, has been named chair of Penn State Harrisburg’s Board of Advisers.
Previously vice chair of the board, Byerly will serve a two-year term as chair.
Elected vice chair is Christine A. Sears, senior vice president and chief financial officer at Penn National Insurance. Sears previously served as board treasurer.
The new board treasurer is Richard E. Bentz, president of Edenridge Enterprises.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member Samuel Winch is taking his teaching and research expertise in media ethics to Tajikistan.
Dr. Winch, the coordinator of the college’s undergraduate major in Communications, has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Office of International Programs grant to visit the Central Asian nation in September to speak with journalists, editors, students, and faculty about journalism ethics.
Age-group competitive swimmers in the area will have the opportunity to receive instruction from Olympic Gold Medalist Josh Davis when Penn State Harrisburg's aquatics center hosts a clinic Saturday, Nov. 10 from 1 to 5 p.m.
The popular Sunday Latin dance classes at Penn State Harrisburg are returning September 16.
The free lessons, open to the public, have proven to be popular with community residents since their inception two years ago.
Lessons under the direction of Loida Esbri will be from 3 to 5 p.m. on consecutive Sundays through October 21 in the Multipurpose Room of the Capital Union Building on campus.
Esbri also coordinates a local dance group called Forlanco.
He is not white. He is black. Yet, Klan-Destine Relationships musician and author Daryl Davis has come in closer contact with members of the Ku Klux Klan than most white non-members and certainly most blacks.
And he continues to do so, making him one of the most unique lecturers on the college speaking circuit today.
A native of Philadelphia, Romont Harris got his first taste of the spotlight while in high school, where he reigned as the unofficial class clown.
Since then, he has taken his comedic talents on the road where he has become a popular performer entertaining audiences with a "well-rounded show of comedy, song, and dance."
