John Douglas, a former special agent with the FBI and author of many books including Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit, will visit Penn State Berks on Thursday, October 22, 2015, at 7 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. This event is sponsored by the Penn State Berks Criminal Justice program and is part of a student research experience.
Keysha Whitaker, lecturer in English and Professional Writing at Penn State Berks, has recently received certification as a Developmental Education Specialist from the Kellogg Institute for the Training and Certification of Developmental Educators. Whitaker was one of 25 educators selected from across the United States to participate in the Kellogg Institute and its certification process during the 2014 academic year.
Penn State Berks students will be "lending their paws for a good cause" as they volunteer at a variety of nonprofit organizations during the academic year. The following is a list of community service initiatives in September and October 2015.
Students facing major life transitions, such as leaving the protected environment of home or school, have a lot of decisions to make. It can scary to face these choices, knowing that no one is going to tell you whether or not you are making the right ones. Tina Seelig, entrepreneur, neuroscientist, popular teacher, and author of What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20, will present a lecture on this topic on Wednesday, October 7, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
The Penn State Berks Department of Theatre will present The Siren Song of Stephen Jay Gould, a student-directed workshop production by Benjamin Bettenbender, on October 13, 15, and 16, 2015, at 8 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. Admission is free, and donations to the Theatre Department will be accepted.
Prospective students and their families are invited to a visitation program at Penn State Berks on Saturday, October 17, 2015, beginning at 9 a.m. at the Perkins Student Center, located just off Broadcasting Road in Wyomissing. The event is part of the University's "Penn State Day" in which Penn State campuses throughout the state host visitation programs on the same day. Students will have an opportunity to complete their application during the program and the college will waive the application fee for Berks.
What does your online activity reveal about you? New York Times best-selling author Christian Rudder will discuss this timely topic on Wednesday, October 21, 2015, at 7:30 p.m. in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium. Rudder, author of Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One Is Looking), brings his observations of human behavior in response to the data revolution to this presentation. This event is free and open to the public.
Penn State Berks students will be lending their "paws" for a good cause as they volunteer at a variety of nonprofit organizations during the academic year.
Penn State Berks will sponsor its first Local Hack Day on Saturday, October 10, 2015, from 9 a.m. - 9 p.m. in room 106 of the Gaige Technology and Business Innovation Building. This event is a 12-hour mini-hackathon where the local student hacker community teams up to build things like websites, applications, and hardware hacks. Simultaneously, students from other colleges and universities around the world will be hosting their own Local Hack Days, resulting in the largest single day of student hacking ever.