Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s most recent biographer, Penn State Professor of History and Women‘s Studies Lori D. Ginzberg, will profile the nineteenth-century feminist during a free public book talk presentation at 5 p.m. Monday, Oct. 26 in the Morrison Gallery of the Penn State Harrisburg library.
The Capital Area Writing Project (CAWP) at Penn State Harrisburg has scheduled a number of public events in observance of National Writing Day.
Created by the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) "to help make writers from all walks of life aware of their craft," the National Day on Writing will be celebrated in a number of ways.
Penn State Harrisburg is a key partner in a federally funded University initiative aimed at encouraging Pennsylvania school students to consider college majors which lead to careers in the U.S. intelligence community.
The two-year, $1 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) involves Penn State Harrisburg, the University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), and the Penn State Office of Military and Security Programs.
The art work of Lancaster Countian Milt Friedly is on exhibit in the Penn State Harrisburg library through October 24.
Entitled “Remnant – Mixed Media Printmaking and Other Curious Objects,” the exhibit is free and open to the public Monday through Thursday from 8 a.m. to 9.m. and on Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Choirs from six Penn State campuses will “Raise the Song!” in a free public concert Oct. 28 at the Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts in Harrisburg.
The landmark event for the University and Penn State Harrisburg will be at 7:30 p.m. in the Sunoco Performance Theater. Tickets and information are available by phoning 948-6470.
Vigilance is a key to stemming the criminal epidemic of human trafficking, a Penn State Harrisburg faculty researcher claims.
Professor of Criminal Justice Barbara Sims profiled the scourge of the $9 billion-a-year criminal activity in her recent campus presentation which included sobering details of what has been termed “modern-day slavery” that exists in every part of the globe, including Pennsylvania and the midstate.
Penn State Harrisburg is offering the New SAT Exam Prep Course to students in grades 9 through 12 on six consecutive Saturdays Oct. 24 through Nov. 28.
An outreach service of the college’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, the prep course will meet each Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Educational Activities Building on campus.
Penn State Harrisburg has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to strengthen a regional college-industry research partnership.
“The American presidential election is no longer just an American event – it has become a global event.”
That statement framed the presentation by international scholar Matthias Maass Sept. 29 at Penn State Harrisburg as he shared an international view of the election race which saw Barack Obama ascent to the White House.
For his longtime contribution to the field of applied behavior analysis, Penn State Harrisburg Professor of Psychology Richard Foxx has been named the 2009 winner of the annual Murray Sidman Award.
The award, named in honor of Sidman who wrote the acclaimedTactics of Scientific Research, will be presented to Foxx Oct. 15 at the annual conference of the Berkshire Association for Behavior Analysis and Therapy at the University of Massachusetts.
