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The Pennsylvania State Data Center is offering its one-day Census Data Workshop April 12, May 23, and June 21 at the Penn State Harrisburg Eastgate Center.

The cost for the 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. workshop is $99. The Eastgate Center is at 1010 N. Seventh St. in Harrisburg.

The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Penn State Harrisburg a $210,000 grant to explore the life and ideas of Benjamin Franklin. "A Rising People: Benjamin Franklin and the Americans" will bring teachers from throughout the United States to historic Philadelphia during the summer of 2007 to explore the sites of America’s founding and study with some of the country’s preeminent historians.

Penn State Harrisburg’s Visiting Fulbright Scholar from Israel, Dr. Haya Bar-Itzhak, will discuss "In Quest of a Narrative — Ethnography in an Israeli Kibbutz" Tuesday, Feb. 27 at 6:15 p.m. in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building.

The presentation is based upon research she did for her book, Israeli Folk Narratives: Settlement, Immigration, Ethnicity published by the Wayne State University Press.

Applications are now being accepted for the Harrisburg Semester public service leadership internships in the state capital this summer.

The opportunity is available to undergraduate students throughout the Penn State system with an application deadline of March 1, 2007.

The next installment in the college Faculty Seminar Series sponsored by the offices of Academic Affairs and research and Graduate Studies will feature a focus on data mining.

Assistant Professor of Computer Science Qin Ding will speak on "Data Mining and Its Applications on Images" from noon to 1:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 19 in the Gallery Lounge.

Pink will replace the traditional blue and white when the Penn State Harrisburg women’s basketball team takes to the court Thursday, Feb. 15.

And it’s all for Breast Cancer Awareness.

When the Model United Nations returns to Penn State Harrisburg Feb. 22 to 24 for the 35th consecutive year, participating high school students will not only debate and discuss contemporary world issues, but will return to international topics from 1973.

Prints by Jean Sanders are on public exhibit in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building at Penn State Harrisburg through March 6.

The exhibit is free and open to the public from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and from 8 a.m. to 5p.m. Friday.

A public, day-long symposium to examine issues related to health care and quality of life in the region comes to Penn State Harrisburg Friday, March 2.

Co-sponsored by Penn State Harrisburg, Penn State Dickinson School of Law, and the Penn State College of Medicine, the gathering will bring together experts from academia, the medical professions, and the public sector.

One of nation’s foremost public administration scholars will discuss "statelessness" in contemporary America in a public lecture Wednesday, March 28 at Penn State Harrisburg.