Penn State alumni Victor and Dena Hammel have committed $450,000 to support the University’s Holocaust, Genocide and Human Rights Education Initiative.
Students studying hospitality management and entrepreneurship will save money on textbooks, thanks to a grant from Pennsylvania Grants for Open and Affordable Learning.
Penn State Berks will celebrate transfer students during National Transfer Student Week, from Oct. 18 to 22. Organized by the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students, NTSW is an annual event held during the third week of October.
On Thursday, October 7, the portrait of Chancellor Emeritus R. Keith Hillkirk was unveiled in the Penn State Berks Thun Library. The work of Ellen Cooper, this portrait joins those of the college’s four retired leaders. The portrait was funded by the Dr. Ruth M. Freyberger Endowment for the Arts and Art Education. Suzanne and R. Keith Hillkirk took a moment to pose next to the portrait.