Local nonprofit agencies are reaping the rewards of Penn State Berks Information Sciences & Technology class projects. Students enrolled in two IST classes will present their final class projects, which focus on helping local nonprofit agencies meet an existing need. These presentations are open to the public.
Megan Christel, a junior Communication Arts & Sciences major from Reading, has landed her dream internship at Best Friends Animal Society, the nation's largest no-kill animal sanctuary and shelter, located in Utah. Christel leaves for five-week internship in mid May.
Those who know Christel attest that she loves animals, especially dogs. She hopes to one day open her own nonprofit shelter for animals and this internship is the first step to help her realize her dream of helping create a better world.
Xezania Pitts, a first-year Journalism major at Penn State Berks, recently had two of her poems accepted by The Voices Project. "Lonely" will be published the week of June 23, 2014, and "Addicted" will be published at a later date.
Penn State Berks Middle School Youth Camps provide a fun, educational experience for middle school students. Camps run from Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
You Be the Chemist® Camp
Students attending Penn State Berks Discovery High School Youth Camps will learn about different career fields, the world around them, and themselves. The camps are for students entering ninth through twelfth grades in fall 2014. Camps run from Monday-Friday, July 11-14, 2014, from 8:30 a.m.- 4:00 p.m.
Terry Hafer, a sophomore Biochemistry and Molecular Biology major at Penn State Berks, was recently accepted into the 2014 summer Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Program at the Wadsworth Center. This National Science Foundation-sponsored REU Site program will run from June 9-August 14, 2014.
The Students for Sensible Drug Policy Club is hosting an event about opiate addiction on Tuesday, April 29, 2014, in the Perkins Student Center Lion's Den. This event is free and open to the public. Light refreshments will be served at 5:30 p.m., followed by the lecture and discussion at 6:00 p.m.
Penn State Berks will hold a Cyber Security Discovery Day for Reading School District middle students in the Penn State Educational Partnership Program (PEPP) on Tuesday, May 6, 2014 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Michael Hoehl, Chief Information Security Officer of Godiva Chocolatier, will be the guest speaker.
Dan Banks, a senior Penn State Chemistry major who began his studies at Berks, has received a research assistantship for Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Ph.D. program in chemistry.
While a student at Penn State Berks, Banks began conducting research with Dr. Leonard Gamberg, Associate Professor of Physics, in his freshman year, and continued after transferring to University Park campus. He wrote his honors thesis with Gamberg, titled "Studying the Partonic Structure of the Nucleon by Means of the Beam Spin Asymmetry."