David M. Callejo Pérez has been named chancellor and dean of Penn State Harrisburg, effective May 1. He has served as interim chancellor and dean at the college since October of 2023.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its spring 2024 commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 4, at 9:30 a.m. at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. First Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Chief Diversity Officer Norman Bristol Colón will serve as keynote speaker at the ceremony. Ashon Calhoun, of Pottstown, Pennsylvania, who will receive a bachelor of arts in communications degree at the ceremony, will serve as student speaker for the event.
Penn State Climate Consortium announced 11 workshops designed to create and implement climate change solutions through its Climate Solutions Accelerator program.
Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities will present its spring concert titled “The Sounds of Stage and Screen” at 7 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, April 17 and 18, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre in the Student Enrichment Center.
Amma Johnson, who most recently served as the manager of the Harrisburg LaunchBox powered by Penn State, has been named director of the Penn State Harrisburg Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship.
Shaun Gabbidon, distinguished professor of criminal justice in the School of Public Affairs at Penn State Harrisburg, is among six Penn State faculty members to receive the 2024 Faculty Scholar Medal for Outstanding Achievement.
Jennifer Shultz, director of the Pennsylvania State Data Center within Penn State Harrisburg’s Institute of State and Regional Affairs, has been honored with the Gustafson Award in recognition of her contributions to the State Data Center program.
The Center for Signal Integrity at Penn State Harrisburg will host the 17th annual Combined Central Pennsylvania Symposium on Signal Integrity and Mid Atlantic Semiconductor Hub Forum on April 19 in the Capital Union Building on campus.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome Holocaust survivor Ronnie Reutlinger Breslow at noon on April 11 via webinar. Breslow, born in Kircheim, Germany, will share how her stamp collection saved the lives of her and her mother as they tried to gain safe passage to the United States during the Holocaust.
Children’s author and poet Janet Wong will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Tuesday, April 16. Wong will present workshops on writing and teaching poetry at 9 a.m., noon and 6 p.m. in the Hanes Library’s Morrison Gallery on campus.
