Berks Startup Week features entrepreneurial workshops; networking events; a student pitch competition on WPSU’s “The Investment”; and presentations from startup founders and corporate innovators, including many Penn State alumni.
Berks students, community members, and Olivet Boys & Girls children will gather in Northwest Reading to clean up Baer Park and a section of the Schuylkill River Trail, from the River Road trail head to the Buttonwood Street Bridge, from 4 to 6 p.m. on Wednesday, April 17.
A new monthly program at Penn State Berks titled “Berks Community Connections” is opening the door to various cultures around the world. For the April program, Pauline Milwood will give a presentation about Jamaica with assistance from Sharon Pitterson-Ogaldez.
In an effort to highlight the Penn State Values among the student population, the Penn State Berks Diversity Committee held its first Penn State Values Poetry Writing Contest for students in the spring 2019 semester.
The Penn State Berks Theatre Department will present "An Enemy of the People,” written by Henrik Ibsen, Wednesday through Saturday, April 10-13, at 8 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
It wasn’t until Masen Suhadolnik became a senior in the electro-mechanical engineering technology degree program at Penn State Berks that he discovered a way to combine his love of weight lifting, his knowledge of engineering, and his desire to help others.
The Penn State Berks Human Movement and Research Center will host the college’s third annual National Biomechanics Day from 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10. This year, approximately 250 high school students are registered for the program.
A team of Penn State Berks faculty members received VentureWell’s Faculty Grant in the amount of $14,394 for the project titled “Cross Pollination of STEM Courses to Sustain Entrepreneur teams’ Disruptive-technology Solutions (STEM Seeds).”
At the 2019 College and University Public Relations and Associated Professionals (CUPRAP) Awards Ceremony, the Penn State Berks Office of Strategic Communications was presented with a Silver CUPPIE Award in the Poster category for their Macbeth Theatre poster.
Berks contributed $97.5 million to the Pennsylvania economy in FY 2017, and supported, 1,356 Pennsylvania jobs. A new study released Feb. 26 by Penn State, focused on measuring the University’s impact in communities across the Commonwealth.
