Writing Project helps teachers inspire students

As students around the region began the school year, a number of area teachers returned to their classrooms equipped with a new set of tools to help inspire students to improve their writing capabilities.

Eleven educators from central Pennsylvania were among more than 3,000 kindergarten through college teachers across the country who dedicated four weeks of their summer break to learning new strategies with the aim empowering their students.

Research to investigate victimization in Latino community

A Penn State Harrisburg faculty member has been awarded a $680,000 federal grant to help eliminate a research gap profiling victimization in the Latino community.

Assistant Professor of Social Science Chiara Sabina received the two-year grant from the National Institute of Justice to focus on the national level of dating violence and victimization among Latino adolescents which she a terms “mush more understudied” group than others in that community.

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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