Eating disorder and alcohol abuse screenings offered starting Feb. 27

Penn State Harrisburg’s Counseling Services will offer free eating disorder and alcohol abuse screenings Monday, Feb. 27 through Friday, March 2 as part of National Eating Disorders Awareness Week.

Confidential and voluntary, the services will be available to students from Noon-2:00 p.m. in the Olmsted Building Gallery Lounge. Penn State Harrisburg Licensed Professional Counselor Sarita Sankey, Ph.D., will give an eating disorder presentation before each session.

Penn State Harrisburg campus rated safest in Pennsylvania

An independent online service has rated Penn State Harrisburg the safest college campus in Pennsylvania and among the safest in the nation.

StateUniversity.com, which ranks the nation’s colleges on topics ranging from academics to overall enrollment, rates the Penn State Harrisburg campus as having the lowest incidence of serious crime in the Commonwealth.

Lear receives library association honor

Bernadette Lear, associate librarian at Penn State Harrisburg, received the Pennsylvania Library Association’s (PaLA’s) Certificate of Merit for her work reviewing, updating, and organizing the PaLA archives. One of PaLA’s highest honors, the Certificate of Merit annually recognizes an individual’s outstanding contributions to the Commonwealth libraries.