College playing key role in national intelligence effort

Penn State Harrisburg is a key partner in a federally funded University initiative aimed at encouraging Pennsylvania school students to consider college majors which lead to careers in the U.S. intelligence community.

The two-year, $1 million grant from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) involves Penn State Harrisburg, the University’s College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST), and the Penn State Office of Military and Security Programs.

Health care reform will come, expert panel concludes

The consensus of a panel of experts addressing health care reform in America is that change will come, but it will be in increments.

The 90-minute session taped for statewide broadcast by the Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN) was moderated by Assistant Professor of Health Administration Jill Rumberg. The panel consisted of Dana Kellis, senior vice president of medical affairs and chief medical officer at Pinnacle Health Systems, Associate Professor of Health Education Sam Monismith, and Associate Professor of Health Care Administration and Policy Cynthia Mara.

Fidel Castro’s daughter profiles life in Cuba

Alina Fernandez, the daughter of former Cuban president Fidel Castro, has no desire to return to her totalitarian homeland following his death.

“I won’t be the first one on the first plane after he dies,” she told a packed Capital Union Building Student Center at Penn State Harrisburg Wednesday, Oct. 6. “I am an enemy (of Cuba)” and would be treated like one if I returned, she adds.

Penn State Harrisburg offers New SAT Exam Prep Course

Penn State Harrisburg is offering the New SAT Exam Prep Course to students in grades 9 through 12 on six consecutive Saturdays Oct. 24 through Nov. 28.

An outreach service of the college’s School of Behavioral Sciences and Education, the prep course will meet each Saturday from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Educational Activities Building on campus.

Lecture on Holocaust ‘forgetfulness’ November 12

Acclaimed scholar Hasia R. Diner brings her quest to dismantle the idea of American Jewish “forgetfulness” regarding the Holocaust to Penn State Harrisburg November 12. Diner’s free public presentation in the Gallery Lounge begins at noon. For information, phone 717-948-6039.

The Paul S. And Sylvia Steinberg Professor of American Jewish History at New York University, Diner contends her newest literary effort, We Remember With Reverence and Love: American Jews and the Myth of Silence After the Holocaust, 1945-1962 “is one that I should have not had to write.”

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