The University’s Commission for Women will be under the leadership of Penn State Harrisburg’s Auden Thomas in 2009 and 2010.
Dr. Thomas, the director of the Center for Survey Research in the college’s Institute of State and Regional Affairs, has been elected the commission’s chair-elect for the 2008-09 academic year and will become chair in 2009.
Penn State Harrisburg honored 85 outstanding students at its 2008 Student Awards Convocation Sunday, April 6. Students honored and their places of residence include:
SCHOOL OF Behavioral Sciences and Education Outstanding Graduate Student in Psychology
Allyson Fay Brothers, York
Outstanding Social Science Student Award
Tosha Desenberg, Steelton
A “Quick Action Deployment” training session hosted by Penn State Harrisburg Thursday, April 17 will expand college and municipal law enforcement abilities to deal with an active shooter incident.
Five Penn State Harrisburg officers and others from nearby departments will undergo the training delivered by the North American SWAT Training Association. The eight-hour session will include four hours of classroom instruction and four hours of practical field exercises.
Seven Penn State Harrisburg undergraduate students majoring in Structural Design and Construction Engineering Technology have each been awarded $2,500 scholarships by the Associated General Contractors of America.
The seven scholarships, awarded annually until the students graduate, are the second most awarded nationally to any college or university. Only the University of Washington, with eight, surpassed the Penn State Harrisburg total.
Twenty-six undergraduate and graduate students in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration have achieved excellence in their studies and have been inducted as lifetime members of Beta Gamma Sigma.
Penn State Harrisburg Assistant Professor of Humanities and Art History/Visual Culture Robin Veder will deliver an invited lecture April 14 at Princeton University as part of its spring Architecture and Urbanism Lecture Series on the theme of “Gardening.”
The series is arranged by the Princeton Center for Architecture, Urbanism + Infrastructure.
Michael Fiaschetti, senior vice president of the Mid-Atlantic Region for Highmark Inc., is the Penn State Harrisburg chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma 2008 Distinguished Honoree.
With more than 20 years of executive leadership experience in the health insurance industry, Fiaschetti earned an MBA from Penn State Harrisburg in 2004. He also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Dayton and has held his present position at Highmark since 1997.
