Sen. Vance to deliver commencement keynote

State Senator Patricia H. Vance will deliver the keynote address when Penn State Harrisburg confers more than 500 undergraduate and graduate degrees during fall commencement ceremonies Saturday, December 19.

The ceremonies for students who have earned associate, bachelor’s master’s, and doctoral degrees will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Giant Center, Hershey.

Heard on campus – Franklin and the Junto

Penn State Harrisburg faculty member and Benjamin Franklin scholar George Boudreau terms his recent discovery of a long-lost poem written in 1732 as “one of the greatest finds of my career.”

An associate professor of humanities and history, Boudreau’s research interests focus on Franklin and his philosophical organization called the Junto and the role it played in the cultural transformation of Philadelphia in the 1700s. Boudreau recently related his research findings during a Gallery Lounge presentation hosted by the offices of Academic Affairs and Research and Graduate Studies.

Research, innovation partnerships profiled at ’EnerG‘ symposium

Penn State Harrisburg recently hosted a “Research Symposium on EnerG,” an overview of the Innovation Transfer Network effort pairing area business with regional faculty and students on energy-related initiatives aimed at accelerating commercialization.

The symposium brought together all parties involved for an update on the partnerships progress.

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