January 27 lecture to address Poland and the Holocaust

An internationally acclaimed scholar’s quest to interpret contemporary Poland’s treatment of the Holocaust comes to Penn State Harrisburg January 27.

In commemoration of U.N. Holocaust Remembrance Day, the lecture by Gratz College faculty member Michael C. Steinlauf will be at noon in the Gallery Lounge of the Olmsted Building on campus. The presentation is free and open to the public with a kosher reception following the discussion. For information, phone 948-6715.

Alumni named president, CEO of Fulton Financial

Penn State Harrisburg graduate E. Philip Wenger has been promoted to president and chief operating officer of Fulton Financial Corp., the company announced December 31.

A resident of Pequea, Wenger has served as senior executive vice president for the Lancaster-based financial holding company since 2006.

POGIL and clickers bring learning to classroom

Clickers and POGIL may not sound like academic terms, but a faculty member at Penn State Harrisburg is utilizing them to enhance learning and knowledge in his chemistry classrooms.

If you’ve seen the TV program "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," you’re familiar with personal response systems — those clickers the audience uses to register their votes. Associate Professor of Chemistry Thomas Eberlein is pairing clickers in the classroom with a student-centered active learning technique called Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning (POGIL) to encourage students to learn to reason through problems.

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