The Career Studies program at Penn State Harrisburg offers individuals with intellectual disabilities, age 18 to 25, the opportunity to receive an inclusive post-secondary education. Peer mentors are the “heart” of the program, according to Sandy McBride, Career Studies program coordinator.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome historian Julie Keresztes for a discussion on "Nazi photography and the Holocaust" at noon on Friday, Jan. 27, via webinar. Jan. 27 is International Holocaust Remembrance Day — the day Auschwitz was liberated by Soviet forces.
Four Penn State Harrisburg professors have been awarded grants for projects related to news literacy as part of a pilot program through Penn State’s Bellisario College of Communications.
In a continuation of its longtime partnership with Penn State, Barnes & Noble College, a Barnes & Noble Education company, which operates the Penn State Bookstore, has awarded a 2022-23 round of grants to support a range of programs and initiatives across the University.
Students working the ITS Service Desk at Penn State Harrisburg help campus community members with a wide array of technology issues — from downloading software to deploying, building, and testing classroom and lab computers, and even occasionally trying to rescue someone’s device from an accidental spill. As they troubleshoot, they’re gaining valuable career experience that is giving them an advantage when it comes time to look for jobs.
Weston Kensinger, associate teaching professor of biobehavioral health and director of the Douglas W. Pollock Center for Addiction Outreach and Research at Penn State Harrisburg, has been appointed to serve on the Pennsylvania Advisory Council on Substance Use.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Humanities has been approved to and is now in the process of seeking candidacy for accreditation from the Council on Academic Accreditation in Audiology and Speech-Language Pathology for a new master’s of science in speech-language pathology. The program would admit its first class in fall 2026.
The director of Penn State’s Hammel Family Human Rights Initiative will discuss antisemitism and Holocaust education at one of Pennsylvania’s oldest synagogues in Middletown at 2:30 p.m. on March 12.
WPSU is hoping to help listeners who are seeking the day’s news to cut through the chaos with “News Over Noise,” a podcast produced as part of Penn State’s News Literacy Initiative.
Students from 10 area middle schools will gather at Penn State Harrisburg’s Capital Union Building for the 37th annual Mathcounts competition from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 4.
