Erik Becker and Khizra Hussain Honored at Student Awards Ceremony

Graduating seniors Erik Becker and Khizra Hussain were honored at Penn State Harrisburg's Student Awards Ceremony on April 15, 2011.

Erik Becker received the Computer Science Outstanding Student Award for overall academic performance.

Khizra Hussain was called to the podium multiple times, receiving three different awards:

• The Mathematical Sciences Outstanding Student Award for overall academic performance.
  
• The Kappa Delta Pi Excellence in Education Award (Secondary). This excellence award for education majors is sponsored by the Sigma Alpha Chapter, and is presented to seniors of a graduating class who have excelled in their program of study. Selected individuals are nominated by faculty for their commitment to education, ethics, professionalism, and academic performance.
  
• The Eric A. and Josephine S. Walker Award, to recognize Penn State Harrisburg students whose outstanding qualities of character, scholarship, leadership, and citizenship have been directed into programs and services that have positively influenced fellow students and have contributed to the prestige and well-being of the campus, and hence, to the reputation of the University as a whole.