The Penn State Berks Theatre Department will present the annual Festival of Plays, a showcase of student written and produced plays, at 7 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium on campus. This event is free and open to the public.
When Krisann Cruickshank was growing up in Jamaica, she never dreamed that she would someday graduate from Penn State. She will walk across the stage to receive her bachelor of science in criminal justice diploma at Penn State Berks' commencement ceremony at 2 p.m. on Saturday, May 5.
The Berks' women's tennis team won the title for the third time in four years and the ninth time in program history. The Nittany Lions have won their seventh consecutive contest and improve to 9-5 on the season.
The Penn State Berks men's golf team won its first ever North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) and Andrew Cornish became the first Golfer of the Year in program history after finishing as the individual champion on Sunday afternoon.
Penn State Berks will host its 20th annual Careers with Math Options Conference on May 9 for female middle school students from Berks County and surrounding school districts.
More than 60 courses will be offered in the two summer sessions, with the first six-week session running from May 14 to June 21, and the second seven-week session running from June 25 to Aug. 2.
Six members of the Penn State Berks graduating class received their Schreyer Honors Medals at the Academic Achievement Awards Ceremony held on Sunday, April 22.
Penn State Berks held a celebration April 25 to highlight the early success of the campus' efforts in "A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence," a University-wide campaign to raise $1.6 billion by 2021.
Jess Rozick was named the North Eastern Athletic Conference Player of the Year and Pitcher of the Year and the Penn State Berks softball team had six members earn all-conference honors, as voted on by the league's coaches.
The Penn State Berks softball team had to do things the hard way as it worked back from the loser's bracket with three wins on May 5 to claim its fifth North Eastern Athletic Conference championship in six years. Berks topped Wilson College, 8-0, in five innings to start off the day. The team then had to beat Keuka College twice, which it would go on to do by scores of 12-3 (five innings) and then 5-0 in the winner-take-all seventh game of the tournament.
