It is Penn State York’s inaugural women’s softball season but Mother Nature hasn’t been kind, with snowstorms and weather that has cancelled season openers and forced most practice indoors. Despite the weather, Sue Ilyes, head women’s softball coach, has had her team practicing and preparing for their first game. If the weather holds, the team heads to Penn State Schuylkill on March 29 for an away game.
Penn State Laureate Andrew Belser will present his innovative and award-winning multimedia exhibition, “FaceAge,” at Penn State York from April 9-13 in the conference center of the Main Classroom Building. The program is open to the campus community and the general public.
Penn State York students in the Council on Family Relations (PSY-CFR) Club, and members of other human development and family studies (HD FS) classes are preparing for the seventh annual candlelight vigil for child abuse awareness set for Thursday, April 5 at the campus. The vigil takes place at 5:30 p.m., but other programming and information will be available beginning at 4 p.m. as part of the weekly Coffee Hour on campus.
Marcia Boyesen and Roger Latzgo will bring their musical tribute to Hans Christian Anderson to the stage at the Pullo Family Performing Arts Center at Penn State York on April 5. The free performance, at 7 p.m., closes out the cultural series, which is open to the public.
Penn State York students in the human development and family studies program will be conducting self-report survey research during the Diabetes Expo that will be held on campus from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on March 24. The free event, open to the public, is sponsored by the Diabetes Coalition of York, and will be held in the conference center of the Main Classroom Building.
“When I Opened My Eyes – The Dwovian Encounter” is a new science fiction book by Karl "Kip" P. Trout, a faculty member at Penn State York. Trout’s book, released in late 2017, is a story about scientists on Earth struggling to save life on two planets from extinction.
Emily Colon, a women’s basketball player, and Richard Grant, a men’s basketball player, both at Penn State York, have added honors from the United States Collegiate Athletic Association to the accolades they received earlier from the Penn State University Athletic Association.
Students can start preparing to take the Scholastic Aptitude Test by enrolling in Penn State York’s SAT prep course beginning March 31. The four-week course meets from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. every Saturday, in Room 112 of the Edward M. Elias Science Building.
Penn State York students participating in an alternative spring break this week in Texas have shared a few photos as their experience is coming to a close. The York group, consisting of 10 students and two chaperones, joined students and staff from five other Penn State campuses for a week of disaster-relief work in areas ravaged by Hurricane Harvey.
“Amusing, Informing, and Amazing Ourselves to Death: Contemplating the Technological Tempest of our Times,” will be the topic when Lance Strate, a media ecologist from New York's Fordham University, speaks on March 14 at Penn State York. This free presentation, set for noon in the Community Room of the Joe and Rosie Ruhl Student Community Center, is open to the public.
