Sai Kakuturu, assistant professor of civil engineering, will discuss how internal soil erosion, or erosion within infrastructure, causes costly failures, from levee breaks to highway damage, at noon on Wednesday, Jan. 30, in the Auditorium, C-213 Olmsted Building, at Penn State Harrisburg.

In 2009, the American Society of Civil Engineers gave a "D" grade to America's aging infrastructure. Kakuturu will explore erosion within structures such as levees and dams; erosion below infrastructure, including buildings, highways, and bridges; and research challenges on the topic.

When Charlie Kupfer, associate professor of American studies and history at Penn State Harrisburg, began research for his second book, "Indomitable Will: Turning Defeat into Victory from Pearl Harbor to Midway," he sometimes felt like a time traveler.

This summer, research at Penn State Harrisburg is taking students places, from rooftops to the Rockies, and even back in time.

Penn State Harrisburg senior engineering and engineering technology students may be on to something big. Projects they've developed during their capstone design course have the potential to save lives in the workplace, make land and air transportation safer, and aid people with disabilities.

On Saturday April 21, students will present these senior projects and more during the campus' first Engineering Capstone Design Conference, 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., on the Penn State Harrisburg campus in Middletown, Pa.

Penn State Harrisburg student and faculty authors discussed their works at the campus' annual publishing celebration on March 15. The event honors those who have published a book during the past year, highlighting texts ranging from local history, to children's education, to political interests.

Graduate student Silvia Serrano is thousands of miles from home as she studies in the humanities program at Penn State Harrisburg. But her research, which garnered a University-wide award this past spring, takes her back to her native Colombia, South America.

Robin Veder, associate professor of humanities and art history/visual culture at Penn State Harrisburg, has received a fellowship at Harvard University's Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection for the 2011-12 academic year.

In today's unstable economic climate, the need for financial literacy is greater than ever. A team of Penn State Harrisburg researchers recently studied ways that adults are being taught about this important topic in community-based programs.