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.
“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.
Penn State Harrisburg has received a $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation to strengthen a regional college-industry research partnership.
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.
Jamiel Terry grew up as the adopted son of one of America’s most outspoken opponents of abortion and homosexuality.
Termed “a child of movement royalty” by the Washington Post, Jamiel was even an active supporter of his father, Randall Terry and his Operation Rescue. That ended when Jamiel revealed he was gay in a 2004 magazine article.
Penn State Harrisburg and its School of Humanities celebrated a milestone September 15 with a gathering to welcome the inaugural class of the college’s doctoral program in American Studies.
A panel of experts featuring the chief medical officer at Pinnacle Health Systems in Harrisburg will sort through the issues surrounding American health care reform Wednesday, Oct. 7 at Penn State Harrisburg.
The free public presentation will be in the Gallery Lounge of Olmsted Building on campus beginning at noon.
Actors Ron Jones and Larry Tish brought their unique message of tolerance and understanding to Penn State Harrisburg recently.
Tish is Jewish and Jones is black. But what they have in common has resulted in “The Black Jew Dialogues,” which came to the Olmsted Building Auditorium September 22.
Even the midstate is not immune to the fastest-growing criminal activity in the world – human trafficking.
“We know it is going on in Central Pennsylvania; we just don’t know where it is,” says Penn State Harrisburg Professor of Criminal Justice Barbara Sims. “The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) estimates total annual revenue for world-wide trafficking in persons to be between $5 billion and $9 billion.”
International scholar Dr. Matthias Maass will provide a glimpse of the 2008 U.S. presidential election as seen from abroad Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 7 p.m. in Penn State Harrisburg’s Gallery Lounge.
Free and open to the public, the presentation by the German-born academic is sponsored by the college’s American Studies, Political Science, and Public Policy programs.
