Senel Poyrazli, professor of counseling psychology, School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, and David Witwer, professor of American studies and history, School of Humanities, have been named distinguished professors by the Penn State Office of the Vice Provost for Faculty Affairs. They are among 13 distinguished professors named in 2024.
Two doctoral students in Penn State Harrisburg’s American studies program, have received prestigious honors — one awarded a University Graduate Fellowship, and the other awarded a prize from the American Folklore Society.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Kulkarni Cultural Series will welcome the world-class contemporary taiko group, San Jose Taiko, for a brief artists’ residency Tuesday, Feb. 27, through Thursday, Feb. 29.
Penn State Harrisburg’s Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies will welcome historian Rachel Einwohner at noon on Thursday, Feb. 22, via webinar. She will present “Hope and Honor: Jewish Resistance in the Ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, and Łódź.”
Penn State Harrisburg students and staff recently took their production of “Clue” on the road to perform at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival, Region 2, in Pittsburgh. The campus production was one of five shows selected for the festival.
Penn State Harrisburg's School of Humanities will present “Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo,” a darkly comic tale narrated by a tiger held captive in the Baghdad Zoo at 7:30 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, Jan. 26 and 27, and Friday and Saturday, Feb. 2 and 3, as well as at 2 p.m. on Saturday, Jan. 27, in the Black Box Theatre, EAB 204 on campus.
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 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.
Penn State Harrisburg communications major Caleb Steindel recently earned third place in the College Media Association’s 2023 Film and Audio Festival sports category for a video package he produced about the college baseball team.