This year, the Penn State Berks Alternative Spring Break took a group of six students and two staff advisers to Petersfield, Jamaica, where they worked with early education and elementary school children.
As part of the Penn State Berks Sustainability Film Series, the college will host a screening of the film “River Blue,” at 6 p.m. on Monday, April 8, in the Multipurpose Room in the Perkins Student Center. This event is free and open to the public.
A team of Penn State Berks students wants to help their fellow students in their job search. Appropriately named Resilient Resumes, the team was one of 20 finalists in the Nittany AI Challenge at Penn State University Park on April 3.
Students from Reading High School will visit Penn State Berks for the 11th annual "Be a Penn Stater for a Day" program from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Wednesday, April 10.
Penn State Berks students will turn Opportunity House into a five-star restaurant on the evening of Wednesday, April 10. The theme will be the Penn State “Loving Lion” and clients will enjoy a three-course meal and an evening to remember.
A group of 18 Berks Criminal Justice students and faculty members recently spent a week visiting Amsterdam and The Hague to learn about how illicit drug policies of the Netherlands differ from those of the United States.
John Affleck, Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society in the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications; Jeremy Blum, associate professor of computer science at Penn State Harrisburg; and Cheryl L. Nicholas, associate professor of communication arts and sciences at Penn State Berks, have received Penn State's Alumni/Student Award for Excellence in Teaching and have been named 2019 Penn State Teaching Fellows.
The eighth annual Losoncy Lecture in Physics and Astronomy will be presented by Robert Forrey, distinguished professor of physics at Penn State Berks. Forrey will present “Short Stories in Theoretical Physics Research,” which will cover topics from the 2019 prize he received from the American Physical Society. The lecture will take place from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 17, in the Perkins Student Center Auditorium.
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.
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.
