Noted Eritrean author Alemseged Tesfai will deliver his talk "Global
Diversity ... The More We Get Together" at 7 p.m. on Tuesday, Nov. 8, in
The Morgan Auditorium, Penn State Schuylkill. The lecture is free and
open to the public.
Alemseged Tesfai is the most prominent writer in Eritrea, a country
in the Horn of Africa that is bordered by Sudan, Djibouti and Ethiopia
His books include history, political analysis, novels, short stories,
plays, criticism and tales for children.
Penn State Schuylkill students raised $8,400 recently in a series of
canning events in Schuylkill County as part of the The Penn State
IFC/Panhellenic Dance Marathon, affectionately referred to as THON. The
students collected funds at Boyer's Markets locations in Schuylkill
Haven and Orwigsburg, Pa., and at Palermo's restaurant in Minersville,
Pa. The funds will go to the Four Diamonds Fund, which offers financial
and emotional support to pediatric cancer patients and their families,
and also funds cancer research.
The Penn State Schuylkill Commission for Women and members of the
campus' Dance Marathon (THON) team have gathered 50 teddy bears for
donation to children at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center. The bears
will be given to children entering the emergency room and the pediatric
unit, and to children being treated in the hospital's hematology and
oncology units.
Each bear sports a navy T-shirt that reads, "Penn State Loves You."
The bears will be presented to the Penn State Hershey Medical Center on
Oct. 11.
A criminal just symposium entitled: Serious Mental Illness: Protecting Officer Safety will be offered on November 9, 2011 at the Penn State Schuylkill Campus. This symposium is sponsored by the Schuylkill County Commissioners through the County MD/ID Program.
The symposium will run from 9:00 am until 3:00 pm and at the completion of the session those in attendance will be able to:
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- An application available starting Tuesday (Sept. 27) through eLion gives Penn State students at all campuses the opportunity to compare their non-class schedule conflicts with open courses to make scheduling classes easier.
Schedule Planner, an online application, aligns a student's intended courses with self-identified event conflicts -- such as a recurring work schedule, meetings, rehearsals and practice times -- and reports back open class sections that work around those conflicts.
The Penn State Schuylkill Campus Bookstore will be hosting a book signing for author Joe Muldowney on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. at the Ciletti Memorial Library. Mr.
Heavy rain and wind from Hurricane Irene are expected to impact southeastern portions of Pennsylvania from the afternoon on Saturday, Aug. 27 through the evening of Sunday, Aug. 28. The National Weather Service has issued a hurricane warning for Pennsylvania's Philadelphia and Delaware counties, and a tropical storm warning for Bucks, Montgomery and Chester counties. A flood watch is in effect in those locations, as well as in Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Monroe and Northampton counties.
As of July 1, Mary Feeney Bonawitz, assistant professor of accounting
at Penn State Schuylkill, was installed as chair of the American
Society of Women Accountants Educational Foundational (ASWAEF).