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Ribbon-cutting festivities mark opening of new entrance

Ribbon Cutting

The new front entrance to Olmsted Building, formally opened with a ribbon-cutting ceremony on April 1, is the latest in an ambitious list of construction projects aimed at enhancing the look of campus while supporting its academic mission.

Participating in the ribbon-cutting festivities were: Chancellor Madlyn L. Hanes, Faculty Senate President Toni DuPont-Morales, Student Government Association President Sahar Safaee, Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs Mukund Kulkarni, and Anna Childe, the architect for the project with the firm of Weber Murphy Fox.

The University project was approved by the University Board of Trustees in late March 2007 and construction began in mid-summer. The Penn State Office of Physical Plant Design Services was the design professional for the 5,262-square-foot addition with Poole Anderson Construction the general contractor.

The enhanced entrance to the building is a three-story addition featuring a new atrium lobby, a café expansion, a new elevator to improve handicap accessibility, and a third floor conference room.

Since 2000, the ambitious expansion of the Penn State Harrisburg campus has included a 115,000-square-foot technologically enhanced library, all new student housing, an indoor aquatic center, new rear entrance to Olmsted Building, Ziegler Commons, the Hoverter Tennis Complex, new baseball field, and an addition to Church Hall including an elevator.

Construction Gallery Photos 2007:

Original Olmsted Building
Original Olmsted Building
Olmsted Building on July 19
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Olmsted Building on August 24
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Olmsted Building on Sept 18
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Olmsted Building on Sept 25
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Olmsted Building in January 2008
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Olmsted Building August 2008
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Olmsted Building August 2008
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Olmsted Building August 2008
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Olmsted Building on July 10
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Olmsted Building on August 10
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Olmsted Building on Sept 16
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Olmsted Building on Sept 20
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Olmsted Building on November 7
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Olmsted Building on January 4, 2008
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Olmsted Building in March 2008
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Olmsted Building August 2008
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Olmsted Building August 2008
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New book examines hunting from a cultural perspective

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Does hunting promote violence, not just to animals, but to humans as well? And is hunting, with its connection to the land and frontier experience, a heritage worth preserving?

These questions and more form the foundation for discussion in Killing Tradition: Inside Hunting and Animal Rights Controversies by Penn State Harrisburg Distinguished Professor of American Studies and Folklore Simon J. Bronner.

Constitution Day observance will profile ‘Library of the Founding Fathers’

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Penn State Harrisburg will celebrate Constitution Day on September 17 with a look at the little-known, yet vastly historic “Library of the Founding Fathers.”

The special collection, initiated by Benjamin Franklin for Pennsylvania’s Colonial General Assembly and now a part of the State Library of Pennsylvania, was a key asset at the First Continental Congress in 1774. Later it is likely that Thomas Jefferson consulted the law volumes while working on the Declaration of Independence.

Deadline to register for study tour to Peru is September 22

Students interested in taking part in the college’s upcoming study tour to Peru have until September 22 to register.

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