Government Career Fair Events

Prepare for the Government Career Fair

Presented by Sue Zehner of the PA Dept. of Labor & Industry

Tuesday, February 26, 2013, 12:00pm - 1:00pm Library Room 302 

Alumni, undergraduate students, and graduate students of all majors are encouraged to attend this event for an insider's look at careers with the Pennsylvania government.

Guests will learn about: 

• How to present yourself to recruiters
• How to learn about specific opportunities
• Benefits of working for the state
• The Civil Service application and hiring process

For further information and to indicate your plans to attend, please stop by Penn State Harrisburg Career Services in the Susquehanna Building, call 717-948-6260, or emailcmg11@psu.edu.

Pennsylvania State (plus Local and Federal) Government Job & Intern Mini-Fair

Thursday, February 28, 2013, 10:00am - 1:30pm, Olmsted Gallery Lounge

This is an opportunity to meet with recruiters from some the departments and agencies of state government for both civil service and non-civil service career opportunities. Alumni and students from all majors should plan to attend! Internships and full-time positions will both be represented. Bring your resumes and be prepared to network with recruiters! Don't miss this chance to find out about employment procedures and opportunities with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

The federal, state, and local agencies who have already signed up for our fair are:

1.    Administrative Office of PA Courts

2.    County of York

3.    Cumberland County Adult Probation and Parole

4.    Dauphin County Personnel

5.    Drug Enforcement Administration

6.    Executive Offices – Office of Human Resources     

7.    Lebanon VA Medical Center

8.    Letterkenny  Army Depot

9.    Pennsylvania  Board of Probation and Parole

10.   Pennsylvania Bureau of Administrative Services – Office of Inspector General

11.    Pennsylvania Capitol Police

12.    Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture

13.    Pennsylvania Department of Conservation and Natural Resources

14.    Pennsylvania Department of Corrections

15.    Pennsylvania Department of Corrections - SCI Camp Hill

16.    Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

17.    Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry

18.    Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry, Office of Equal Opportunity

19.    Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare

20.    Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistance Agency

21.    Pennsylvania Historical Museum Commission

22.    Pennsylvania House of Representatives – Bipartisan Management Committee

23.    Pennsylvania House of Representatives Archives

24.    Pennsylvania Office of Administration – Office of Information Technology

25.    Pennsylvania Office of Budget

26.    Pennsylvania State Civil Service Commission

27.    Pennsylvania State Employees’ Retirement System

28.    Pennsylvania State Police

29    Pennsylvania State University Harrisburg - Semester Internship and Seminar Program

Penn State Harrisburg visit to Duck Duck Go

On Feb 15th, a group of students visited the headquarters of Duck Duck Go (DDG), a search engine with new approaches to solving the search problem.  We had a lively discussion about the increasing personalization of web content and the problem of the filter bubble, Duck Duck Go's approach to this problem specifically and search in general.  There was a great discussion about startups, and we also learned about DDG's open source approach to developing search features, with a demonstration of how we can create new features for the DDG search engine.

“Ask not what STATISTICS can do for BIOLOGY; Ask what BIOLOGY can do for STATISTICS"

You are invited to the following talk, sponsored by the Penn State Harrisburg Math Club.


Speaker:  Dr Oclay Akman
                Professor of Mathematics, Illinois State University

Date and Time:  Tuesday, 19 February 2013 at 6 pm
Location:  257E Olmsted Building at 6pm

About the Talk:
For eons, biologists have used statistics to analyze the data they collected through field
studies or lab experiments. Now it is time to turn the tables and see how biology can contribute
to the advancement of statistics.  In this talk, I will show how a common regression model
selection can be improved by leaps and bounds by implementing the principles of natural
selection and evolution.

Biography:
Dr. Akman received his B.Sc. (1983) and M.Sc. (1986) in Statistics from Middle East
Technical University and his M.S. from the University of Connecticut in 1986. He received his
Ph.D. from the University of Maine. He is currently a Math professor at Illinois State
University. Before Dr. Akman taught at Illinois State he was a professor at College of
Charleston, Cornell University, Utah State University, and Coastal Carolina. Dr. Akman’s
research includes modeling for lifetime data, weighted distributions, selection models, and
statistical computing. He is also an Associate Editor for Frontier in Systems Biology, Advanced
and Applications in Statistics and Journal of Applied Statistical Science.

FOOD WILL BE PROVIDED!

If you have any questions please contact Viplav Patel at vnp5004 (at) psu (dot) edu or Dr. Boman at ecb5 (at) psu (dot) edu.

Penn State Harrisburg Hosts 2013 MathCounts

Penn State Harrisburg hosts MathCounts. Congratulations to the winners, and a big thanks to all of the volunteers from the Math and Computer Science programs.  For coverage of the contest, follow this link to the Patriot News article.

Visit to DuckDuckGo

What is DuckDuckGo.com?  Why would an entrepreneur launch a search company to take on Google?  What's it like to work for an Internet startup?

Join Dr. Blum for a visit to find out what is behind the Internet search start-up DuckDuckGo (DDG).  The business model behind DDG's search engine is radically different than other search engines like Google's.  DDG places a premium on protecting users' privacy and purposefully does not tailor search results based on users' past history.  Not only is privacy protection an important goal in and of itself, DDG argues that these tailored search results create a "filter bubble" that limits the information that a user is able to access.

The trip will take place this Friday, February 15th.  We will take the 11:10am train from Middletown, and arrive at DDG's headquarters in Paoli around 12:30 pm.  DDG will provide lunch for us, give us a tour of their headquarters, and talk to us about the philosophy behind DDG.  We will be able to find out what it is like to work for an Internet startup, and, also, how we can contribute to DDG, including by creating new search capabilities.  At 4:10 we will depart Poali, and arrive back at the Middletown Amtrak station at 5:10 pm.

While this trip is part of the Distingished Honors Faculty Program (DHFP), there are a limited number of slots that are available on a first-come, first-served basis for Computer Science students.  All expenses will be paid by the DHFP and DDG.  If you would like to join the trip, send an email to Stephanie Ponnett (slp29 (at) psu (dot) edu).