College earns $131,000 HP Technology for Teaching Award

Penn State Harrisburg has been awarded a 2008 HP Technology for Teaching Leadership Award designed to transform teaching and learning in the classroom through innovative uses of technology.

Leadership Awards are higher-value reinvestment grants awarded to HP Technology for Teaching grant recipients whose projects have demonstrated success in their first year of implementation. Penn State Harrisburg was selected for reinvestment because of its success in using HP technology to enhance instruction – demonstrating a measurable, positive impact on student achievement – and for proposing innovative plans to expand their programs to have broader impact on student success.

Olmsted window replacement project

The college Office of Physical Plant reports the project to replace all windows on the south face of Olmsted Building will begin Friday, May 16. In order to be ready for fall semester, the contractor is under a very tight schedule.

Dispatch from Korea: Thoughts about culture, respect, and transportation

Stephen Dyson, a senior Criminal Justice major, is spending July at Pukyong National University in Busan, South Korea as part of a cultural and educational exchange program.

This trip has been amazing,

I was surprised to see how much corporate sponsorship there is. There are apartment buildings built by LG and Samsung. The baseball teams don’t have the cities’ names in them, just the businesses name. Like here in Busan, it’s not the Busan Giants it’s the Lotte Giants. Lotte is a very large department store like Sears.

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