Penn State Harrisburg’s Learning Center peer tutor training program has earned a five-year recertification from the College Reading and Learning Association. With this certification, Penn State Harrisburg remains one of only seven certified colleges in the capital region.
The certification provides recognition and positive reinforcement for the tutors’ successful work and sets a standard of skills and training for tutors.
A free, public symposium geared to a wide range of professionals will profile energy-related research and innovation at regional colleges on Friday, Nov. 13 at Penn State Harrisburg.
Little Shop of Horrors, with its man-eating plant Audrey II and toe-tapping music, comes to Penn State Harrisburg’s Olmsted Auditorium for a four-day run November 12 through 15.
Presented by the college’s Capital Players with a cast and crew of 24 undergraduate and graduate students, Little Shop of Horrors takes to the stage at 8 p.m. November 12, 13, and 14 with a 2 p.m. matinee November 15.
A local consultant physician and surgeon will join three Penn State Harrisburg faculty experts to give a public “Six-Month Checkup of the Obama Administration” at noon Wednesday, Nov. 4.
The presentation in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building on campus is free and open to the public. For information, phone 717-948-6315.
A unique and powerful art exhibit addressing the Holocaust by acclaimed Israeli artist Ardyn Halter will be on public display in the Schwab Family Holocaust Reading Room of Penn State Harrisburg’s library November 15 through April 15.
Entitled The Family I Never Knew, the prints and paintings “depict the Shoah (Holocaust) from the point of view of the second generation and also those were born after (it),” Halter explains.
A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has been awarded a $680,000 federal grant to help eliminate a research gap profiling victimization in the Latino community.
Assistant Professor of Social Science Chiara Sabina received the two-year grant from the National Institute of Justice to focus on the national level of dating violence and victimization among Latino adolescents which she terms a “much more understudied” group than others in that community.
Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”
Acclaimed scholar Hasia R. Diner brings her quest to dismantle the idea of American Jewish “forgetfulness” regarding the Holocaust to Penn State Harrisburg November 12. Diner’s free public presentation in the Gallery Lounge begins at noon. For information, phone 717-948-6039.
As students around the region began the school year, a number of area teachers returned to their classrooms equipped with a new set of tools to help inspire students to improve their writing capabilities.
Eleven educators from central Pennsylvania were among more than 3,000 kindergarten through college teachers across the country who dedicated four weeks of their summer break to learning new strategies with the aim of empowering their students.
Jamiel Terry’s “new approach to gay activism” begins with effecting social change before pushing for political change.
The estranged son of Randall Terry, one of America’s most outspoken opponents of abortion and homosexuality, Jamiel brought his personal story and “new approach” to Penn State Harrisburg in a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the college’s Multicultural Academic Excellence Program.
