Penn State Harrisburg and PenOwl Productions Theatre Company will present the 26th and final production in its annual Martin Luther King Jr. campus play series, “Miss Lydia’s Church,” at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20, in the Mukund S. Kulkarni Theatre on campus.
Ellen Stockstill, associate professor of English at Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Humanities, has published a new book that looks at Victorian documentary novels that presented themselves as nonfiction works.
Penn State Harrisburg will host its 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. commemorative banquet at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 15, at the Hershey Lodge in Hershey. The event's theme — "Where Do We Go From Here: Chaos or Community?" — is based on King’s 1967 book of the same name, which advocated for human rights and a sense of hope.
Purav Patel will receive his master of science in information systems at Penn State Harrisburg’s fall 2023 commencement ceremony. His road to graduation has been “nothing short of a dream realized, marked by a series of hurdles, adjustments to a new culture, and significant personal growth.” Below, he details his journey.
As part of our regular “We Are!” feature, we recognize 13 Penn Staters who have gone above and beyond what’s asked of them in their work at the University.
Penn State Harrisburg has named six graduates to represent each academic school and graduate studies as student marshals for the fall 2023 commencement ceremony. The graduates will bear the banners representing each academic school and, together with the faculty marshals, lead the graduating students during the commencement processional.
