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College offers three summer study tours

This summer, you can learn about the arts and decorative arts of Pennsylvania, take a grand tour of Lancaster County, and even study the natural history of the Hawaiian Archipelago through study tours offered by the college’s Office of Continuing Education.

The study tours are offered on credit and noncredit bases and are led by experts in their respective fields.

Harry Yaverbaum, K.D. Patel join college Board of Advisers

Two community and business leaders, Harry I. Yaverbaum and K.D. Patel, have been appointed to the Penn State Harrisburg Board of Advisers.

Yaverbaum, a Certified Public Accountant, has nearly 38 years of experience in the profession with local, regional, and national accounting firms and 12 years of experience as Pennsylvania deputy auditor general during which he supervised the first state-wide audit of the Commonwealth.

Alexander Guk earns Alumni Achievement Award

Mechanicsburg resident Alexander Guk’s rapid ascent in the business world has earned him a prestigious Penn State recognition.

The vice president of technology for the Harrisburg-based Webclients Internet firm, Guk recently received the Alumni Achievement Award from the Penn State Alumni Association during ceremonies in University Park.

Man on a mission

To say that Pennsylvania State Police Commissioner Jeffrey B. Miller, ’01 MPA, is driven is an understatement. He decided around junior high age to be a state trooper and centered his life around that. He took Latin in school because he knew that was the root of the law.

Certificate program serves mental health counselors

Penn State Harrisburg now offers a graduate-level certificate program aimed at preparing mental health counselors to work in community mental health settings.

Advanced Graduate Studies in Psychology: Applications in Clinical Psychology is a 12-credit, treatment-oriented program focusing on the major subfields of applied clinical psychology to enhance training received in a traditional master’s program.

Boobies Ball Check Presentation 2007

Lion Ambassadors’ Boobies Ball raises $1,100

Shown at the check presentation to fund cancer awareness are, left to right, Penn State Harrisburg student and Feel Your Boobies Foundation intern Lorena Roedan, Foundation founder Leigh Hurst, ball chairman Holly Artz, Lion Ambassador president Melissa Yingling, and Lion Ambassador adviser Laurie Dobrosky.

The recent "Boobies Ball" hosted by the Lion Ambassadors on campus to fund cancer research resulted in an $1,100 to a local foundation.

Faculty members’ textbook earns top honor

The work of two Penn State Harrisburg faculty members has been honored as the best computer science and engineering textbook of the year.

The Essentials of Computer Organization and Architecture by Associate Professor of Computer Science Linda Null and Instructor in Computer Science Julia Lobur has been selected as the winner of the prestigious "Texty" textbook award presented by the Text and Academic Authors Association.

Jane Kochanov

Jane Kochanov earns University-wide IST award

A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has received the 2007 University-wide Information Sciences and Technology Faculty Award.

Jane Kochanov was honored for her classroom innovations, ability to inspire students, outreach efforts with middle and high school students, and for her commitment to community both on and beyond the campus.