A three-day conference aimed at enhancing the education of English language learners in the region comes to the Holiday Inn Harrisburg East June 18 to 20.
A Penn State Harrisburg graduate who has led an area effort to provided skilled workers to employers is now taking the same initiative statewide.
Robert Garraty, a Hummelstown resident who holds two degrees from the college — Master of Public Administration ’91 and Ph.D. in Public Administration ’03 — has been named executive director of the Pennsylvania Workforce Investment Board by Gov. Edward G. Rendell.
Mechanicsburg resident Alexander Guk has only been a resident of the United States for 10 years, but his rapid ascent in the business world has earned him a prestigious Penn State recognition.
The vice president of technology for the Harrisburg-based Webclients Internet firm, Guk recently received the Alumni Achievement Award from the Penn State Alumni Association during ceremonies in University Park.
The grass won’t be the only thing "greening up" this spring on the Penn State Harrisburg campus. While students were away for winter break, many buildings on the Harrisburg campus were receiving energy-efficient improvements.
The Second Annual Pennsylvania Weed and Seed Conference, "Empowering Communities for a Change," comes to the Sheraton Harrisburg-Hershey June 7 and 8.
Implemented in 1995, Pennsylvania’s Weed and Seed program addresses the problem of high crime rates, especially with respect to drug and violent crime, and the presence of social deterioration, such as juvenile delinquency, poverty, and unemployment in medium-sized communities.
One of the area’s most extensive and ambitious summer educational experiences for schoolchildren of all ages is returning to Penn State Harrisburg the weeks of June 18, June 25, July 9, July 16, July 23, and July 30.
Kids College, which attracted more than 600 children to the Penn State Harrisburg campus last summer, offers more than 50 camps this year for children in grades 3 through 12.
Richard M. Barger, executive vice president and chief financial officer of Diakon Lutheran Social Ministries, is the Penn State Harrisburg chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma 2007 Distinguished Honoree.
Barger was honored at the recent induction ceremony of the student chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma, the international honor society for undergraduate and graduate business students.
For her recent induction as a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration, Penn State Harrisburg Professor of Public Policy and Administration Beverly Cigler has been honored by the state’s House of Representatives.
Twenty-nine undergraduate and graduate students in Penn State Harrisburg&s School of Business Administration have achieved excellence in their studies and earned 2007 invitations to Beta Gamma Sigma membership for the academic year.
