John Urschel, a Penn State graduate and standout on the University’s football team, spoke of his twin passions to educators and college, high school and middle school students recently at Penn State Harrisburg.
Students in Middletown Area School District are using robotic devices provided by Penn State Harrisburg to create, using the language of computer programming known as “coding.”
John Urschel, former Penn State football player, will visit Penn State Harrisburg on Nov. 8 to share his journey of where a love of math has taken him and where it can take students. He will explain how math extends far beyond the confines of the classroom and into everyday life.
Katarina Winhauer, a master’s student studying community psychology and social change, has received the 2017 SCRA National Student Representative Research Grant.
Penn State Harrisburg will highlight four of its more than 30 graduate programs during a series of online open houses in November. Virtual attendees will receive an application fee waiver.
As part of the Penn State Harrisburg Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies speaker series, Hannah Spector, assistant professor of education in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, will present "Cultivating the Ethical Imagination: Perspectives from Three Jewish Intellectuals," from 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in C213 Olmsted Building.
A recent study conducted by Dr. Marissa Harrison, and her colleague Susan M. Hughes, found that you could detect the likelihood that a person has cheated on committed, romantic partners simply by hearing the speaker’s voice.
The Central Pennsylvania Mathematics Content and Coaching Project at Penn State Harrisburg, made possible by a $1.36 million Pennsylvania Department of Education grant, is helping elementary, middle school and high school teachers improve their mathematics teaching skills in today’s classrooms.
The Middletown Area School District in Middletown, Pennsylvania, this spring brought coding to their schools through a partnership with the Capital Area Institute for Science and Mathematics (CAIMS) at Penn State Harrisburg.
Two Penn State Harrisburg programs have been named in the U.S. News and World Report list of top graduate schools for 2018. The MBA offered in the School of Business Administration has been included in the publication’s part-time MBA list and degrees in education offered in the School of Behavioral Sciences and Education have been named on the publication’s list of schools of education that offer a doctorate.
