Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities has named 14 local business and organization leaders, including five Penn State Harrisburg alumni, to its new advisory board.
The Community-Engaged Research Core Faculty Fellowship Program is a year-long opportunity that matches a researcher with a mentor. Gina Brelsford found the experience rewarding as it allowed her to explore different spheres of research, learn about clinical translational science, and to attend both the Clinical and Translational Science Institute board meeting and the Appalachian Translational Research Network meeting.
Popular science author and media theorist Steven Johnson recently presented “Innovation: Where Good Ideas Come From” at Penn State Harrisburg as a part of the PNC Thought Leaders Lecture Series, a special event that features high-profile speakers from around the world focused on topics that have a significant impact on the local region.
Penn State Harrisburg will host Dr. Lazare Sebitereko Rukundwa, a visiting scholar from Penn State University Park, as he presents “The Concept of ‘Us and Them,” on Friday, March 23 from 3 to 4 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge on campus.
John M. Mason Jr., vice president for research and economic development at Auburn University in Alabama, has been appointed as chancellor of Penn State Harrisburg.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration has initiated the ETA LAMBDA colony of the National and Professional fraternity for men and women in sales, marketing and management, Pi Sigma Epsilon (PSE), as an official fraternity chapter in February.
The Penn State Harrisburg Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will present a screening of the documentary film “In Her Own Time: The Final Fieldwork of Barbara Myerhoff,” on Tuesday, March 27 at 4:30 p.m. in W338 Olmsted Building on campus.
Kristen Radtke, an award winning author, will present her graphic memoir “Imagine Wanting Only This” on Monday, April 2 from 6 to 7 p.m. in the library’s Morrison Gallery on campus.
Learn about the broad entrepreneurial ecosystem and how law and health care are closely intertwined within the commercialization of new technologies during the next Innovation Forum and Café from 2 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 17, at Penn State’s Dickinson Law, Lewis Katz Hall, Carlisle.
